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Pick a week, any week, and you can now be guaranteed that yet more gruesome news will seep out about the global torture regime the Bush administration has set up around the world. Soon the leakage may reach tsunami levels in the press. Of course, last week was a special case because White House legal … Continue reading “Interrogating Rumsfeld”

NEW YORK – A leading civil rights group says that government records pertaining to an investigation of prisoner abuses at the Guantanamo Bay detention center in Cuba are still being withheld, and those it has received under a court order are so heavily censored that they "raise more questions than they answer." Still, correspondence handed … Continue reading “Fresh Horrors at Guantanamo”

The usual spiral descent in the airplane landed me into a gray day in Baghdad … the weather the same as when I left a few weeks ago. The usual hordes of global mercenaries crowded the airport … where a person isn’t allowed to take their carry-on into the bathroom with them for fear of … Continue reading “Iraq Disintegrating, as Usual”

Human rights groups and other observers remain worried about the continuing violence in the western region of Darfur, despite the signing yesterday of a final peace accord between the government of Sudan and southern rebels. They are also concerned that both major parties to the accord, the National Islamic Front (NIF) government and the Sudan … Continue reading “Roots of Sudan Bloodshed Run Deep, Experts Warn”

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Ron Paul today denounced the national ID card provisions contained in the intelligence bill being voted on in the U.S. House of Representatives, while urging his colleagues to reject the bill and its new layers of needless bureaucracy. “National ID cards are not proper in a free society,” Paul stated. “This … Continue reading “Rep. Paul Denounces National ID”

When Saddam was first captured, the accolades bestowed upon Mr. Bush were empirical proof enough for me that there would be a permanent presence of U.S. troops in Iraq. The successful snatching of Saddam was enough to validate the entire unconstitutional war in the minds of many Americans. Critics of the war were told to … Continue reading “Saddam’s Gone – Why Aren’t We?”

Six months in jail – for a wanton murder. That’s fair, now isn’t it? It is if the victim is Iraqi, and the murderers are four American soldiers – that’s what a military court recently decided, and it’s a verdict that tells us everything we need to know about the “liberation” of Iraq. Jan. 3, … Continue reading “America’s Death Squads”

NEW YORK – For the first time, many more civilians are being killed and maimed in Afghanistan by dud munitions than by landmines, which were more or less outlawed in 1999 but linger around the world as the wreckage of earlier wars. A study published in Friday’s British Medical Journal [.pdf] says that the biggest … Continue reading “Waste of War Still Killing in Afghanistan”

Mohamed ElBaradei will serve a third term as director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Since abject failure appears to be among the criteria for being awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, look for John Bolton – currently undersecretary of state – to be the next recipient. You see, Bolton has been "point … Continue reading “ElBaradei 1, Bolton 0”

This timeless article first appeared on June 12, 2000 The sheer amount of writing done by the late Murray N. Rothbard (1926-1995) continues to astound. The quality of his work accounts for the impact it has had, and the attention it now draws, but its volume cannot have hurt, either. Rothbard spread the word about … Continue reading “Murray N. Rothbard on States, War, and Peace: Part I”