America’s Perpetual War
This Memorial Day, before we further decorate the earth with more graves of more young Americans, let us pause to consider who really "supports the troops." Is it the architects of...
Foreign Policy
Outrage Grows After U.S. Drug War Kills More Honduran Women, Children
The U.S. government’s so-called “War on Drugs” in Central America is under heavy fire again after a barrage of negative publicity surrounding a controversial and deadly operation in Honduras earlier this...
Clinton Urges Passage of Law of Sea Treaty
Ronald Reagan did not support the Law of the Sea Treaty over concerns that our nation would be surrendering sovereignty to the United Nations and Senator Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma thinks the former President...
Despite Change to Drone Policy, Drones Still Controversial
The use of drones by the United States is so controversial that even mainstream media outlets cannot ignore it. Earlier this week, CBS News asked who would be targeted by U.S. drones, and...
NATO Chicago Summit: Protests, Bomb Plots … And Expanded NATO Missions
While most media accounts of the Chicago NATO Summit have focused on the revolutionary activities of street protesters and alleged bomb plotters, the real revolutionary activity was being carried out by...
U.S. Ambassador to Israel Says U.S. Ready for Attack on Iran
According to U.S. Ambassador to Israel Daniel Shapiro, America is now fully prepared for a military strike on Iran. Unbeknownst to Shapiro, his remarks were recorded and aired on Israeli television...
U.S. Special Forces Being Deployed to Protect “Security” of Yemen
Despite Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta's assurances to the contrary, U.S. troops will be sent back to Yemen to help the Yemeni government track and kill militants associated with al-Qaeda in...
Obama Administration Tries To Justify Proliferating Drone Strikes
White House senior counterterrorism adviser John Brennan has tried to justify proliferating drone strikes in Islamic countries this week as a legitimate reaction to the threat posed by the September 11...
Obama Gives Green Light to Expanded Drone Campaign in Yemen
Just weeks ago the CIA requested expanded authority to deploy drones to target and kill suspected militants hiding in Yemen. To no one’s surprise, President Obama has given them that authority....
Russian Troops Coming to U.S. for Terror Drills, DoD Confirms
Russian "Airborne Assault Forces" will be arriving in Colorado this May for joint terror-war exercises with U.S. soldiers, according to U.S. officials and Russian military personnel cited in media reports. The...
New Executive Order Gives President Power Over “Human Rights Abuses”
Over the weekend, President Barack Obama signed an executive order granting himself power to impose sanctions against companies that are suspected of assisting the Syrian and Iranian regimes of employing information...
CIA Wants to Deploy More Drones in Yemen
The CIA wants permission to deploy drones to seek and destroy suspected terrorists regardless of the potential for collateral damage (read: innocent people who might be in the kill zone). ...
Despite Mounting Regional Pressure, Obama Vows More Drug War
Across the political spectrum, amid growing violence and destruction, Latin American leaders assembled in Colombia for the "Summit of the Americas" urged President Obama to reconsider the U.S. government’s decades-old “war...
Idaho Governor Goes Back to China: Selling Groceries or Green Cards?
Disregarding the concerns of many in his party and many of the citizens who elected him, Idaho Governor Butch Otter is headed back to China to continue courting the world’s largest...
U.S., U.K. Selling Surveillance Equipment to Syria, Iran, and Others
The governments of the United States and the United Kingdom are permitting the sale of state of the art surveillance equipment to some of the world’s most notorious regimes. Concerned citizens...