If only people were chaining themselves to the White House fence to protest our outrageously extravagant military budget instead of demanding the right to join the armed forces of a country that spends more on “defense” than all other nations of the world...
NATO Summit Unlikely to Answer the Most Important Questions
To adapt to secular use a phrase from medieval mysticism, "the cloud of unknowing" deepens as the war-waging countries of North America and Western Europe approach their NATO "summit," beginning Friday in Lisbon. The phrase is appropriate because in the past it spoke...
Off-Base America
Last year, it was Kuwait, Qatar, and Iraq. This year, it's Germany, Italy, Greece, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. Next year, it could easily be Afghanistan, Pakistan, Diego Garcia, Bahrain, and Turkey. Or of course they could choose to play in Japan (with a...
Tuesday: 5 Iraqis Killed, 2 Wounded
Mubarak’s Critics See Hypocrisy in US Support
The Egyptian government's crackdown on political opponents continues unabated in advance of parliamentary elections Nov. 28, even as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton last week hailed the "partnership" between the two countries as "a cornerstone of stability and...
How Veterans Day Became a Farce
US Institute of Peace Corrects ‘Iran Primer’ Errors… Sort Of
The United States Institute of Peace (USIP) has now corrected some of the errors I pointed out in my Oct. 24 article, "U.S.-Funded 'Iran Primer' Needs Editing." More can be done. For one thing, they had an impossibly wrong date for an Ahmadinejad speech in their Iran...
Monday: 12 Iraqis Killed, 46 Wounded
The Stimulus Package in Kabul
You must have had a moment when you thought to yourself: It really isn't going to end, is it? Not ever. Rationally, you know perfectly well that whatever your “it” might be will indeed end, because everything does, but your gut tells you something different. I had...
Getting Beyond ‘Left’ and ‘Right,’ Part Two
Editorial note: What follows is the transcript of a speech given in Danbury, Conn., and Boston, Mass., under the auspices of the Ridgefield Liberty Forum and the Boston chapter of ComeHomeAmerica.org, respectively. Part One dealt with the capitulation of the...


