Despite the declining threat that international terrorism poses to the U.S. homeland, the U.S. government continues to pour countless billions of dollars into counter-terrorism while impinging on constitutional liberties and misleading the public, as the Independent Institute’s Ivan Eland notes.
Is Hillary Clinton a Neocon-Lite?
France Stresses Accord with Obama
AIPAC’s Lost Invincibility
Neocons have remained a powerful force inside Official Washington despite their prominent role in the disastrous Iraq War. But the invincibility that they and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee once held has been shattered by recent defeats, says Trita…
A Half Century of the Beatles
The Beatles — introduced to Americans a half century ago — became a marker for Baby Boomers as they emerged from the shock of JFK’s death, faced the Vietnam War, grieved over the murder of prophets, including John Lennon, and confronted life’s endless complexities, as Michael…
Iran Extends a Hand to Israel
Putin Takes an Olympics Pounding
Playing Roulette with Doomsday
Israeli Rabbis Warn Kerry of God’s Wrath
Obama Ignores Key Afghan Warning
From the Archive: As the 12-year Afghan War grinds to what many Americans see as failure, ex-Defense Secretary Robert Gates and other hawks won’t admit their counterinsurgency “surge” in 2009 was a waste of lives and money or that U.S. Ambassador Karl Eikenberry…
Shameful History of Jeff Davis Highway
Should NATO Protect the Palestinians?
Israeli hardliners have long rejected the idea of a foreign peacekeeping force on the West Bank because it might restrict Israel’s freedom to attack Palestinians. But such a proposal is now on the table and has put Prime Minister Netanyahu…
When the CIA’s Empire Struck Back
A Rare Indictment of US Atrocities
Ronald Reagan: Worst President Ever?
How Misread Cables Fed Iran Hysteria
Where the Real ‘Iran Threat’ Lies
Big Media Again Pumps for Mideast Wars
Fear Itself: Democrats Duck FDR’s Lessons
Hugo Chavez’s Legacy at Risk
Exclusive: Over the past generation, Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez changed the political dynamics of Latin America with a socialist experiment that spread the wealth and improved the lives of the poor. But nearly a year after Chávez’s death, his movement is…