“Avoid the necessity of those overgrown military establishments, which, under any form of government, are inauspicious to liberty, and which…
Defense & Homeland Security
America’s Absurd Relationship With Drugs
Far from ‘winning’ any any war on drugs (as if such a thing could even be measured), we feast on…
Another take on ISIS (perhaps) being un-stoppable by the West
To understand the progress of ISIS, a rag-tag militant group raging across the Middle East, it’s not a bad idea…
Whose ‘signature’ is on Signature Drone Strikes?
Blame Barack Obama if you like or George Bush (who began the drone program), even technology if you care to.…
The land of the Free and the Brave, now the Land of the Fearful
If FDR was correct and “we have nothing to fear but fear itself,” then America is truly in deep shit.…
Is Big Business another NSA, or is it the other way ‘round?
The Snowden leaks have America’s knickers in a twist on spying by our government and the demise of personal freedoms.…
Disinterested in Diplomacy and Foreign Relations, America never seems to lose its Fascination with War
Do any poll you choose and Diplomacy, that ‘stuff that happens overseas’ comes in dead last. Yet for a nation…
“There is a crack, a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.” Leonard Cohen
Frank Rich’s recent article, When Privacy Jumped the Shark in New York Magazine, carries the opener: Note to Edward Snowden…
The Arms Race
“Take the profit out of war” Bernard M. Baruch If it occurs to you that I am hopelessly out of…
5 Missions, 14 Goals and a Partridge in a Pear Tree
Obama officials present a strategic redefining of Homeland Security’s mission By Spencer S. Hsu Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, February…