We want no Gestapo or secret police. The FBI is tending in that direction. They are dabbling in sex-life scandals and plain blackmail. J. Edgar Hoover would give his right eye to take over, and all congressmen and senators are afraid of him....
The U.S., via the State Department, is spending considerable effort and money producing anti-ISIS videos and other media (actual example, left), the goal of which is to convince American and other would-be jihadis not to join ISIS. The efforts won’t work, almost...
I rarely agree with Henry Kissinger, our latter day Metternich, but his recent Washington Post Op Ed was on the mark: Western “demonization of Vladimir Putin is not a policy; it is an alibi for the absence of one.” He suggested instead that the U.S. goal should be to...
Originally posted at TomDispatch. Let me tell you my modest post-9/11 dream. One morning, I'll wake up and see a newspaper article that begins something like this: "The FBI is attempting to persuade an obscure regulatory body in Washington to change its rules of...
After making the case for political activism on behalf of anti-interventionism in Wednesday’s column, the results of all too many people not heeding my advice showed up on Thursday as the War Party made big gains in the midterm elections. There’s just one thing wrong...
The midterms are over, but the lingering distraction as to their great meaning will last a few more weeks. Ebola and the Islamic State (ISIS) were put on the backburner while everyone wrung their hands over the importance of the political process at home. Once again,...
Sometimes it seemed that only two issues mattered in the midterm election campaigns just ended. No, I’m not talking about Obamacare, or the inequality gap, or the country’s sagging infrastructure, or education, or energy policy. I mean two issues that...
