The Senate Intelligence Committee's report on how the US government tortured detainees at Guantanamo and at secret "black sites" all over the world has focused on how they did it: rectal feeding, hanging detainees by their arms, "stress positions,"...
To My Readers
I’ve been at the doctor all day, which means I’ll miss my deadline – so, unfortunately, no column today. Which I very much regret since I had a hot topic in the pipeline: but it’ll just have to wait until Friday’s column. So please tune in then: it’s going to be a...
The Constitution’s Pearl Harbor
It was a sneak attack. As the stream of borrowed money that funds the Regime was threatened with a (temporary yet embarrassing) cutoff, Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Oceania), inserted what Rep. Justin Amash (R-Michigan) calls a "novel" provision into H.R. 4681, the...
The United States of Torture
Justin Raimondo is in the middle of a major storm, without power, so he will have no Friday column. His column will return Monday, rain or shine. His most recent column is below. Dianne Feinstein was the canary in the coalmine. If even the senior Senator from...
Pearl Harbor and the Engineers of War
What gets me are the lies. Iraq's "weapons of mass destruction" – Iran's (nonexistent) nuclear weapons program – the Vietnamese "attack" in the Gulf of Tonkin – Germans bayoneting Belgium babies – the sinking of the USS Maine: over the long and...
War and Peace Scorecard
So are things getting better – or are they getting worse? Every once in a while it's necessary to step back and ask ourselves this question. otherwise, we have no clue as to what effect our efforts are having on the public policy debate – and no sense of where we are....
The War Against the ‘Trolls’
Poor Anne Applebaum. Every time she writes one of her interchangeable neocon screeds on how Putin is responsible for all the world's evils or why we need to invade this or that country, her mortal enemies – the commenters! – launch an attack. They wonder why we should...
‘Common Core’ for Jihadists
So you worry that the Islamist fanatics we're funding in Syria will be no different from the Islamist fanatics we supported during the 1980s in Afghanistan who morphed into Al Qaeda? There's no need to fret, my friend – because science is coming to the rescue! The US...
Rand Paul Sorta Goes to War
Justin's column will return Monday.I was always made a little bit nervous every time I heard Ron Paul – and other libertarians – inveigh against the modern practice of going to war without a formal declaration of war. Well, yes, it’s unconstitutional, and, yes,...
Israel – America’s Biggest Frenemy
Today [November 24, 2014] is the deadline for the closing of a deal with Iran regarding their nuclear program. No one should be surprised that Israel is marking this deadline with a threat to attack Iran regardless of the outcome of the negotiations. As the Jerusalem...