Last Straw: Israel is No Ally, We Must Cut All Aid to Israel

I have never before supported cutting ALL aid to Israel. However, I do now. Israel is no ally of the U.S. Rather, it is a petulant, spoiled client state that seems to delight in treating it’s superpower benefactor like little more than a useful idiot that screams “how high” when Israeli leaders scream “jump.” The […]

Government Wastes Billions of Taxpayer Dollars in the Post-9/11 Security Feeding Frenzy

This is a disgrace. But hey, so long as the word “security” can be applied, who cares about billions of dollars going down the drain with nothing to show for it? That has NOTHING to do with so-called “out of control government spending.” No, the real problem is poor people who milk the system with […]

Call Senator Leahy to Thank Him for Taking a Stand on the IDF’s Human Rights Abuses

Finally, someone in Congress who is willing to take a stand: U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy is promoting a bill to suspend U.S. assistance to three elite Israel Defense Forces units, alleging they are involved in human rights violations in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Leahy, a Democrat and senior member of the U.S. Senate, […]

Where is the Honest Debate on Afghanistan?

I know that the MSM can’t walk and chew gum at the same time despite having a 24/7 news cycle and I know that most Americans really don’t know or care all that much about foreign policy, but given that on Saturday the deadliest attack against U.S. forces in the history of the Afghan War […]

The Rich are Getting Richer, the Middle Class is Disappearing But Hey, the Military Industrial Complex is Doing Well!

We are a nation in decline. Defense spending continues to increase, labor unions and public employees are being scapegoated for our economic problems, the tax code favors the rich and on and on. Some millionaires in the U.S. paid zero income tax as did many of the largest U.S. corporations. And no, those defense “cuts” […]

The National Security State: If We Keep This Up The Terrorists Win

The events of 9/11 have spawned an understandable focus on security, however, the extent of fear-mongering, Islamophobia and ongoing curtailment of civil liberties, along with the meteoric rise of an unwieldy national security state which operates like a secret government within a government, is at odds with the principles and values of representative democracy. The […]

State Department Blocks Oversight of Its Private Mercenary Army in Iraq

So much for transparency. This is from Spencer Ackerman over at Wired. This is just an excerpt but go read the whole article here. Excerpt: By January 2012, the State Department will do something it’s never done before: command a mercenary army the size of a heavy combat brigade. That’s the plan to provide security […]

Obama Administration Desperate to Keep Troops in Iraq

Iraq was never about weapons of mass destruction, it was about oil, re-making the map of the Middle East in the West’s image and securing military bases of operation in the region to fight other wars- like with Iran: But in recent months, the U.S. has let it be known that it is willing to […]

Time for Responsible Cuts to Defense Spending

Anyone who is serious about dealing with the deficit but who takes all defense spending off the table, isn’t really serious about deficit reduction. Instead, they are simply interested in using the debt debate as a pretext to cut social programs they never liked to begin with, all the while watching out for their corporate […]