Retired general and former Democratic presidential candidate Wesley Clark on Friday called for World War II-style internment camps to be revived for “disloyal Americans.” In an interview on MSNBC in the wake of the mass shooting in Chattanooga, Clark said that during...
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New Law Says Web Sites Would Have to Inform Law Enforcement about Readers’ ‘Terrorist Activity’
by Peter van Buren | Jul 16, 2015 | Featured Articles
Social media sites such as Twitter and YouTube would be required to report “terrorist” videos and other content posted by users to federal authorities under legislation approved this past week by the Senate Intelligence Committee. The measure, contained in the 2016...
Turkey May Invade Syria, But to Stop the Kurds, Not ISIS
by Peter van Buren | Jun 30, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan may be planning to invade northern Syria to prevent Kurds from forming their own state there. Turkey to Invade Syria In a speech last Friday, Erdogan vowed that Turkey would not accept a move by Syrian Kurds to set up their own...
Five Things That Won’t Work in Iraq
by Peter van Buren | Jun 25, 2015 | Featured Articles
In one form or another, the US has been at war with Iraq since 1990, including a sort-of invasion in 1991 and a full-scale one in 2003. During that quarter-century, Washington imposed several changes of government, spent trillions of dollars, and was involved in the...
Echoes of Vietnam, or Between Iraq and a Hard Place
by Peter van Buren | Jun 22, 2015 | Featured Articles
Words seem to mean different things in the Middle East. “Training” is a new term for escalation, and “Iraq” seems more and more like the Arabic word for Vietnam. But the terms “slippery slope” and “quagmire” still mean what they have always meant. In 2011, making good...
Your Money Flushed Away in Afghanistan…
by Peter van Buren | Jun 17, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Keeping abreast of the waste of U.S. taxpayer money in Afghanistan’s so-called “reconstruction” is a full-time job. Since I already have a full-time job and can’t do it, luckily the Special Inspector General for Afghan Reconstruction (SIGAR) does document the waste as...
US Planning to Send 450 More Military Personnel to Iraq
by Peter van Buren | Jun 11, 2015 | Featured Articles
When at first you don’t succeed, fail, fail again. And with that, we woke up Wednesday to see the Obama administration ready to announce a change of course in Iraq, one that is very much a back to the future kind of event. Following about a year of not defeating,...
Hope for Iraq? Depends on What You’re Hoping For…
by Peter van Buren | Jun 1, 2015 | Featured Articles
Is there hope for Iraq? It depends on what you are hoping for. It is becoming clearer that there is little hope of destroying Islamic State in Iraq. Islamic State has no shortage of new recruits. Its fighters capture heavy weapons with such ease that the United States...
Iraq and Another Memorial Day
by Peter van Buren | May 25, 2015 | Featured Articles
Iraq? On another Memorial Day, we’re still talking about Iraq? Remembering I attended the 2015 commencement ceremonies at Fordham University in New York. The otherwise typical ritual (future, global, passion, do what you love, you’ll never forget this place) began...
Love, Visas, and Marriage in Post-Constitutional America
by Peter van Buren | May 14, 2015 | Featured Articles
The government can block your foreign husband or wife from living with you in America, based on secret information you can’t see or contest. Like with the No-Fly list, in post-Constitutional America the walls are built of secret databases. Taking Visas to the Supreme...
FBI Monitored Peaceful Demos in Baltimore with High-Tech Surveillance
by Peter van Buren | May 13, 2015 | Featured Articles
The FBI surveilled peaceful protests in Baltimore following the police killing of Freddie Gray, protest acts protected by the First Amendment, from the air, using high-tech monitoring aircraft. The surveillance aircraft can be equipped with infrared and other...
State Department Won’t Review Clinton Ethics
by Peter van Buren | May 9, 2015 | Featured Articles
When Hillary Clinton became Secretary of State in 2009, the Obama White House required her to sign an agreement promising to have her family’s charities, under the umbrella of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI; now known as the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton...
US to Widely Export Killer Drones
by Peter van Buren | Apr 17, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Here’s one of those “Now what could possibility go wrong?” stories. Drones for Everyone Reversing years of restricted sales of America’s robot drone killers, the Obama administration announced it will begin allowing sales of armed drones to some friendly and allied...
$416 Million Afghan Program to Empower Women: No ‘Tangible Benefit’
by Peter van Buren | Apr 7, 2015 | Featured Articles
The American reconstruction campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan have, and continue, to spend billions of taxpayer dollars on pointless projects seemingly designed solely to funnel money into the pockets of US government contractors. Empowering Women These projects (Iraq...
White House Email Archiving Office Exempts Self from FOIA Disclosures
by Peter van Buren | Mar 18, 2015 | Featured Articles
Hot on the high heels of the Clinton email atrocity, where one individual determined for her own campaign and indeed for all of history which parts of her work as a taxpayer-paid government official would be forever sent down the Memory Hole, the White House announced...
The Future of Mosul is Kobane
by Peter van Buren | Mar 7, 2015 | Featured Articles
It was necessary to destroy the Syrian town of Kobane (above) in order to save it from ISIS. The rubble and ruin of what was once a place more than 200,000 people lived is now free. Want to know the future of Mosul? Look to Kobane. Destroying Kobane Kobane once...
State Department Gives 87 Percent of Afghan Funds to Only Five Recipients
by Peter van Buren | Feb 27, 2015 | Featured Articles
The Special Inspector General for Afghan Reconstruction (SIGAR) issued a scathing report showing the Department of State gave a staggering 87 percent of all Afghan reconstruction funds to only five recipients. In fact, 69 percent of all taxpayer money spent went to...
Libya: A Perfect Storm of Interventionist Failure
by Peter van Buren | Feb 17, 2015 | Featured Articles
Libya is the perfect storm example of the failure of US interventionist policy in the Middle East. The Obama-Clinton Model In 2011, Libya was to be the centerpiece of Middle East Intervention 2.0, the Obama-Clinton version. Unlike the Bush model, that of Texas-sized...
The Seduction of Brian Williams: Embedded with the Military
by Peter van Buren | Feb 12, 2015 | Featured Articles
Brian Williams was seduced. He is a liar of course, someone who did not tell the truth no matter the reason or excuse, a bad trait for a journalist. Williams lied about being RPG’ed in a helicopter over Iraq; he did not see any variant of what you can see in this...
Supreme Court Rules in Favor of TSA Whistleblower Robert MacLean
by Peter van Buren | Feb 6, 2015 | Featured Articles
Whistleblower laws exist because government officials do not always act in the nation’s best interests. The Obama administration, in its war on whistleblowers, just lost a major battle. Major in its venue — the Supreme Court — and major in its implications for future...
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