Who said this?: "I'm not saying that they're at the highest levels, but I believe that somewhere in this government are people who know where Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda is, where Mullah Omar and the leadership of the Afghan Taliban is, and we expect more cooperation...
Yemen’s War Is Redrawing the Middle East’s Fault Lines
Yemen is the poorest country in the Arab world, bereft of resources, fractured by tribal divisions and religious sectarianism, and plagued by civil war. And yet this small country tucked into the bottom of the Arabian Peninsula is shattering old alliances and spurring...
Bombers Target Shi’ite Pilgrims; 137 Killed across Iraq
Benghazi Is a Dead End for Republicans
In the new book, The Great War of Our Time, Michael J. Morell, former Deputy Director of the CIA, exonerates former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations (now National Security Adviser) Susan Rice of skullduggery in...
Are We a Nation of Wimps?
We now live in a society where safety and security are to be sought at all costs. The sacrifice of liberty is not a concern for most Americans today. This is not something new and it has been characteristic of most people throughout history but it has gotten...
Preventive War and Avengers: Age of Ultron
Avengers: Age of Ultron is not susceptible to the full libertarian/anti-war “allegory essay” treatment. Thanks to the fallout from Captain America: Winter Soldier (which I allegorized last year), the State (as represented by the global security agency SHIELD) does not...
Sunni Leaders Complain of Lack of Power as 55 Are Killed across Iraq
NSA Spying Ruled Illegal, But Will Congress Save the Program Anyway?
This week the Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the NSAs metadata collection program was not authorized in US law. The PATRIOT Act, under which the program began, was too vague, the court found. But the truth is the Act was intended to be vague so that...
A Day and Night-mare
Binyamin Netanyahu seems to be detested now by everyone. Almost as much as his meddling wife, Sarah'le. Six weeks ago, Netanyahu was the great victor. Contrary to all opinion polls, he achieved a surprise victory at the last moment, winning 30 seats in the 120-member...
Follow the Money
The brouhaha over an alleged 1994 Iranian plot to bomb a Jewish community center in Argentina, of all places, has been in and out of the news for years. Hysterical headlines, fantastic allegations, simmering intrigue, a mysterious suicide that some are claiming was a...


