Click here to listen to this speech. Congress, with its insatiable appetite for spending, is set to pass yet another “supplemental” appropriations bill in the next two weeks. So-called supplemental bills allow Congress to spend beyond even the 13 annual appropriations...
As counterinsurgency (COIN) marches into the expanding ranks of failed U.S. military doctrines, the military-industrial-congressional complex casts about for a new raison d'être. Since manpower-centric, generational occupations of broken countries we can't fix...
"When it is said that nothing, including a nuclear strike, is off the table on Iran, are those who say it not also threatening genocide?" - Rep. Ron Paul, May 22, 2007 “I don't think you take [nuclear weapons] off the table.” - Rand Paul on Iran, The O'Reilly Factor,...
President Obama's hopes of closing Guantánamo, which were already gravely wounded by his inability to meet his self-imposed deadline of a year for the prison's closure, now appear to have been killed off by lawmakers in Congress. Although the House Armed...
How convenient that there are Muslims in America. How much harder it would be for the government to increase its power, while abridging more general liberties, if they didn't exist. A radical Islamic preacher, who also happens to be an American citizen, is now hiding...
Ambushed by Rachel “Tail-gunner Jane” Maddow, Rand Paul – son of Ron – is at the center of a ever-escalating controversy, one that underscores the complete emptiness of political discourse in this country. It was a “gotcha” moment that will go down in the history...
After more than 19 years of war, including seven years of occupation, the U.S. Congress still does not grasp domestic politics in Iraq. This week, the House passed a resolution asking the State Department to establish U.S. consulates in the Kurdistan region of Iraq,...
To borrow from Elizabeth Barrett Browning… let me count the ways. First and foremost, we don't have enough troops. (Yes, yes, I know I'm a broken record to regular Antiwar.com readers.) The accepted standard for successful counterinsurgency operations is 20 soldiers...
