While the world is busy fighting COVID-19, Israeli political parties have reached a government coalition agreement. Benjamin Netanyahu has succeeded in bringing annexation of occupied Palestinian territory to the table, setting a provisional timeframe—less than two...
We live in dangerous times -- and not just medically and economically. Government executives all over the world -- with a few honorable exceptions -- are exercising autocratic power, that is, power without legislative or constitutional authority, in the name of...
Over at Reason, Elizabeth Nolan Brown and the gang, including LP chairman Nick Sarwark and libertarian-leaning independent congressman Justin Amash, are of course opposing the government's massive bailout of their corrupt cronies: After a day of performative fussing...
Scott talks to Philip Weiss about the latest in Israeli politics, where Benjamin Netanyahu still has neither been removed from power in a decisive election, nor tried for his corruption charges. His main opponent, Benny Gantz, may now be offered the chance to form a...
Dick Cheney's man: Iraq Needs Regime Change Again The United States faces an increasingly urgent set of first-order policy questions in Iraq. Spoiler alert: The answer is not Mohammed Tawfiq Allawi, Iraq’s newly designated prime minister. A popular uprising might be....
Jim Bovard talks about the federal pressure for states to comply with their "REAL ID" laws, which place higher standards on proving one's identity and may require the submission of fingerprints or even DNA samples. Bovard reminds us that even if the requirements...
Breaking in the New York Times. Note that this is the same as Trump's case against Julian Assange: The recipient and publisher of a leak is a co-conspirator with whoever did the leaking. It's a war against honesty in language first and foremost, and it's a threat to...
The New York Times has published a letter from former war crime prosecutor Benjamin Ferencz. Ferencz was a prosecutor at the Nuremberg war trials. His website is here. From his Bio. The U.S. had decided to prosecute a broad cross section of Nazi criminals once the...
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