Let’s See Them Enforce It

Charlie Savage at the Boston Globe says this ain't far from dictatorship as Bush chooses which laws to enforce and which to ignore (more than 750 so far). It seems to me that the president does have the authority to refuse to enforce laws he believes are unconstitutional. Which of us wouldn't pardon all the drug and gun possession charges and threaten any federal prosecutor who files them in the future with prosecution for violating people's rights on our first day in office? The problem is...

Argue the Point

My friend Jeff Frazee, former staffer to Congressman Ron Paul and graduate student at Texas A&M, has written a great op-ed piece in defense of the right of academic types like John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt to write articles critical of American foreign policy toward Israel without being called a couple of Nazis. I tend to agree with him on this one.

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American Dead in Iraq. No one knows how many Iraqis. Did anyone ever answer Cindy's question?

Social Psycology Experiment – Your Life in the Balance

Two weeks ago I wrote up a little diddy called "Indict the Department of Justice" about the criminal nature of every single one of America's post-9/11 terrorism cases, and ending with the question of whether the State could get a conviction of the father and son in Lodi, California (later updated, answer "Yes" for the latter) based on the bought and paid for ($350,000) testimony of a single witness who also claimed on the stand that Ayman al-Zawahiri was in town in 1999 - a lie so perposterous...

Dead Soldier Posts Farewell Note on MySpace

Before committing suicide. Before signing off his webpage on MySpace.com Monday, Army Pvt. Dylan Meyer typed a farewell note to the world."Jesus, I don't know if any of you have heard what has happened to me yet, but I just want to remind you not to be sad. Laugh, that's what lifes about," Meyer wrote. "When it is all said and done, and all the b------t is cleared away, it is the ones you love who you will remember." The next morning, Meyer was found dead in the Army barracks at Fort Gordon in...

Depose and Conquer

Check out this NYT review of the new book Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change From Hawaii to Iraq by Stephen Kinzer. "What's most depressing about Kinzer's book, however, is not the drastic clash it describes between professed American morality and actual American behavior. For, after all, the historical record of other democratic imperial powers, like Britain and France, has been even worse than that of the United States. Operating in the real world as a great power is not a...

US Should Butt Out of China-Taiwan Conflict

Says the great Alan Bock in his review of Ted Galen Carpenter's new book America's Coming War With China. Wow, did you guys realize that, like Israel, Taiwan is not a state in the Union? That makes them none of our government's business.

Amy Goodman Hosts Peak Oil Debate

Here AMY GOODMAN: And what makes you think it's happening now? JULIAN DARLEY: Well, history has shown -- the most dramatic example being that of the U.S., which its own oil production peaked in 1970 -- history shows that this happens to all nations. Now, when it happened to the U.S., it was able to import yet more oil. It was already an oil importer in 1970. It was able to yet import yet more oil. Now it imports approximately 60% and rising. So when this happens to a nation, it turns to other...

Peak Oil?

There has been some discussion over the past few years on the matter of the future of oil production and whether we're already past the peak. It always sounded like a bunch of propaganda to me, and by my reading of the new article "Peak Oil Panic" by Ronald Bailey in Reason my guess was about right. The problem is not a lack of oil, but government intervention in the market which poses the threat

Ellsberg on Democracy Now!

About the firing of Mary McArthy, Carter's nuclear threat to Iran, Truman's over Azerbaijan, Hersh's anonymous sources, official lies, wiretaps, detention camps etc., etc. Click here to watch.