The Good and the Bad of Drones
Last month, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) finally released its proposed rules for domestic drones in US airspace. Now comes months of public debate, and still longer before the laws are fully hammered out. This was bound to happen sooner or later. And yes,...
An Intimate Portrait of the Human Cost of War
Losing Tim is a memoir of the deeply personal costs of war, written by a mother about her son, Timothy Eysselinck, that son’s suicide, and an attempt to come to terms with what drove him to such a dark place that he felt that suicide was the only way out. Tim worked...
HRW Details Shi’ite Revenge Attacks; 79 Killed in Iraq
Rand Paul, Revisited
When likely presidential candidate Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) signed on to his Senate colleague Tom Cotton's open letter to the Iranian leadership, a storm broke – among his own supporters. As Dave Weigel of Bloomberg News notes, it's "a decision that has caused...
369 Killed in Iraq Fighting; Kurds Threaten To Leave Parliament
Allies Against Islamism Can Learn From West Africa
The Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram pledging allegiance, at least in theory, to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) should lead to a comparison of efforts in the Middle East and Western Africa regions to fight these threats. Boko Haram and ISIS are some of...
Will the GOP Kick It Away?
With Hillary Clinton scrambling to explain her missing emails, much of America is wailing, "Please don't make us watch this movie again!" Why, then, would the Republican Party, with a chance to sweep it all in 2016, want to return us to the nightmare days of George...
A Green Light for the American Empire
The American Empire has been long in the making. A green light was given in 1990 to finalize that goal. Dramatic events occurred that year that allowed the promoters of the American Empire to cheer. It also ushered in the current 25-year war to solidify the power...


