Month: July 2014

In Afghanistan and Iraq we shoot to kill those pesky Al Jazeera reporters, in Egypt coup-president Sisi imprisons local Al Jazeera reporters 7-10 years for mingling with Islamists in Sinai and Msulim Brotherhood leaders, in the...

Whether or not Israel occasionally makes targeting mistakes, they have a policy in Gaza of blowing up homes and apartment buildings where known Hamas operatives or officials live. They take some precautions to minimize the loss...

I’m tired of cops killing people for no good damn reason. Chokeholds, tasers, billyclubs, bad shootings. The NYPD ought to have better things to do than to worry about people selling untaxed cigarettes in a state were a...

Probably the single most productive thing our military is doing in the world today is systematically debunking every Republican talking point about climate change. I wonder if this would continue under a Republican...

This one is just low-hanging fruit and I can’t help myself. New York Times June 18, 2001 Senator Biden, who met President Bush at the White House just before he left for Europe, questioned whether trust was the right word...