Listen to Rep. Paul deliver this address. Earlier this year, strong public opposition led by several prominent websites forced congressional leaders to cancel votes on two bills known in Washington as SOPA and PIPA. Both of these bills threatened search engines and...
Kurds And Turks Uneasy About Maliki; 12 Iraqis Killed in Attacks
Is America a Free Country?
The “war on terrorism” has inaugurated a new era in the American polity, a sea-change that has not only threatened to overturn traditional limits on government power but also corrupted the political culture – and opened the way to the terminal crisis of the...
Stupid and Mean and Brutal
“In blood and sweat / A race will arise to us / Proud and generous and brutal….” Thus wrote Vladimir (Ze’ev) Jabotinsky, the founder of extreme right-wing Zionism, who was also a writer and a poet. Present-day Likud leaders see him as their forefather, much as Stalin...
13 Iraqis Killed, 40 Wounded in Random Violence
Between Hope and Despair
An Election That Might Matter In two weeks, Serbia will head to the polls to elect a president and a parliament. According to the most recent reports, the current government has no intention of organizing the vote in the occupied province of Kosovo (declared...
Afghan Screams Aren’t Heard
Last weekend, in Kabul, Afghan Peace Volunteer friends huddled in the back room of their simple home. With a digital camera, glimpses and sounds of their experiences were captured, as warfare erupted three blocks away. The fighting has subdued, but the video gives us...
USA PATRIOT Act Kept Somalia Starving
When war-torn Somalia was also ravaged by a drought-induced famine last year, which killed tens of thousands and displaced over a million people, international media was quick to blame the Islamist al-Shabaab for blocking humanitarian assistance from reaching its zone...