When I was in Afghanistan, I often heard a Pashtun saying attributed to the Afghan Taliban strategy for war with the United States: “They have the watches, but we have the time”. I do not know the provenance of this saying and I do not know if the saying exists in...
Repeal the Patriot Act
I have been writing for years about the dangers to human freedom that come from government mass surveillance. The United States was born in a defiant reaction to government surveillance. In the decade preceding the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the...
Iraq Daily Roundup: Six Killed; Mass Grave Found
Assange Extradition: The Armored Glass Box Is an Instrument of Torture
In last Thursday’s separate hearing on allowing Assange out of the armored box to sit with his legal team, I witnessed directly that Baraitser’s ruling against Assange was brought by her into court BEFORE she heard defense counsel put the arguments, and...
Erdogan’s Dance of Death With NATO
In order to understand why the war in Syria’s northwest Idlib province is likely to spread, it may be helpful to think back to the dark days of early World War II. Britain was alone and on the ropes. Plenty of countries wished it well. But with France, Denmark, the...
Iraq Daily Roundup: Six Killed
Threat of a US and Russian Nuclear War Is Now at Its Greatest Since 1983
When the Commander of NATO says he is a fan of flexible first strike at the same time that NATO is flexing its military muscle on Russia’s border, the risk of inadvertent nuclear war is real. US Air Force Gen. Tod D. Wolters told the Senate this week he “is a fan of...
The New Cold War With Russia Is All America’s Fault
The following is the text of a speech Scott gave to the King County, Washington Libertarian Party, February 29, 2020. According to Rep. Jason Crow, Russian President “Vladimir Putin wakes up every morning and goes to bed every night trying to figure out how to...
Iraq Monthly Roundup: 187 Killed in February
MIT Study Finds No Evidence of Fraud in Bolivian Election That Resulted in a Coup
Back in November 2019, former Bolivian President Evo Morales was ousted in a coup after claims of election fraud from the Organization for American States (OAS). A new MIT study into the October 20th presidential election does not support the conclusions of the OAS...


