Liberty, Not Government, Is Key to Containing Ebola
According to Forbes magazine, at least 5,000 Americans contacted healthcare providers fearful they had contracted Ebola after the media reported that someone with Ebola had entered the United States. All 5,000 cases turned out to be false alarms. In fact, despite all...
Ebola, ‘Scaremongering,’ and the Epidemiology of Interventionism
The U.S. government is good at doing what it’s not supposed to be doing – invading other countries without provocation, utilizing "soft power" in order to pull off regime change, enriching politically favored economic interests under the guise of promoting...
Foreign Suicide Bombers Stike in Kurdish Town; 138 Killed, 153 Wounded Across Iraq
214 Killed, 182 Wounded; Bombers Take Toll on Baghdad, Again
Bombers struck in Baghdad and nearby Meshahda, leaving scores in their wake. Half of the 214 killed on Saturday were civilians and security personnel. Another 182 were wounded, almost all over them civilians. In Baghdad, a suicide bomber killed 13 people and wounded...
Crusaders and Zionists
Lately, the words "Crusaders" and "Zionists" have been appearing more and more often as twins. In a documentary about ISIS I just saw, they appeared together in almost every sentence uttered by the Islamist fighters, including teenagers. Some sixty...
The Grim and the Funny of Bosnian Elections
The coming general elections in Bosnia-Herzegovina (October 12) won't solve anything. This is the earth-shattering conclusion of the analysis by Antonio Cortiñas, from the Elcano Royal Institute in Spain. Cortiñas, a former Spanish officer "with...
Airstrikes and Executions Across Iraq Leave 197 Dead
Better Isn’t Good Enough When it Comes to War
Barack Obama could have been worse in terms of foreign policy. Now, worse is a silly word to use when you’re talking about life and death. It’s not going to comfort survivors to know that more people died in the last war or Hellfire missile strike than in this one...
Why This War?
Glenn Greenwald has a fascinating piece in The Intercept making the case that the "war on terrorism" is going to be "endless," as he puts it. From a decade to twenty years to Leon Panetta’s recent pronouncement that "I think we’re looking at...


