The Eternal Recurrence of Interventionism

In response to each terrorist attack or foreign provocation, the depressingly familiar tone of the loudest voices in government and media has noninterventionist activists in despair, wondering just what they are doing wrong when making their case against the rush to...

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The Great Iran Debate

The stage is set, the actors have committed their lines to memory, and the curtain is now rising: the Great Iran Debate is on! It's a war story, as so many of our national narratives are these days, one pitting the President of the United States – and the overwhelming...

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Against Terrorism – But for What?

Following the Charlie Hebdo massacre, Prime Minister Manuel Valls said that France "is at war with terrorism, jihadism and radical Islamism." This tells us what France is fighting against. But what is France fighting for in this war on terror? For terrorism is simply...

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Washington’s Walking Dead

Originally posted at TomDispatch. When it comes to the national security state, our capital has become a thought-free zone. The airlessness of the place, the unwillingness of leading players in the corridors of power to explore new ways of approaching crucial problems...

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Who Will Keep Our Freedoms Safe?

While the Western world was watching and grieving over the slaughter in Paris last week, and my colleagues in the media were fomenting a meaningless debate about whether President Obama should have gone to Paris to participate in a televised parade, the feds took...

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