BANGKOK – A clash at the start of this week between hundreds of Muslim protesters and heavily armed Thai troops in the country's south – which left over 80 dead – has delivered a blow to Bangkok's view that it has the local communities on its side. The...
The Cato Institute and the Objectivist Center on Friday offered a full-scale inter-libertarian debate on war. Topics included "Principles Guiding Military Intervention," "Has the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq Advanced America's Interests in the Middle...
RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's first run-in with the military ended up giving a boost to the movement to gain access to the secret archives dating back to Brazil's 1964-1985 military dictatorship. The Torture Never Again Group...
The tragicomedy of errors currently playing in Iraq took an ominous turn the other day when the ambush of 49 Iraqi National Guards by insurgents was blamed on … the U.S. And, no, the accuser wasn't Michael Moore, or Noam Chomsky, or any of the other demonized...
UNITED NATIONS - The United Nations, which was on the verge of adopting a new international convention against nuclear terrorism, has been forced to shelve the proposed treaty because of opposition from Islamic states. "After six years of protracted negotiations,...
Who was searching for the vast cache of explosives recently revealed to be missing from al-Qaqaa? Not the U.S. military: "The first U.S. military unit to reach the Al-Qaqaa military installation after the invasion of Iraq did not have orders to search for the...
The complete lack of interest of the Bush administration in actually securing dangerous materials connected to the old, abandoned Iraqi nuclear program has long belied Bush's stated concern with Iraq's alleged weapons as a pretext for the war. James Glanz, William J....
Former Rep. Bob Barr (R, Ga.) discusses Bush's assault on civil liberties, the war on Iraq, and the crimes of Bill Clinton. Interview conducted by Scott Horton Oct. 2, 2004. Check out Scott's other interviews with prominent antiwar and libertarian figures. Download...
With the news that members of a U.S. Army Reserve platoon have been arrested in Iraq for refusing a "suicide mission," dissent among veterans of the U.S.-led campaign in that country continues to grow. The recent incident mirrors other stories of troops...
Once again the federal government has reached its "debt ceiling," and once again Congress is poised to authorize an increase in government borrowing. Between its ever-growing bureaucracies, expanding entitlements, and overseas military entanglements, the...
