Cuba … at long, long last … maybe …
It’s a tough decision to normalize relations with a country whose police murder its own civilians and that kills even more abroad, but Cuba needs to do it.
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American Exceptionalism and American Torture
Do Americans and the world need yet another reminder that the United States is a leading practitioner of torture? Yes.
Read MoreThe United States Punishing Cuba
Here is how the annual vote in the UN General Assembly calling for an end to the US’s embargo against Cuba has gone.
Read MoreRussia invades Ukraine. Again. And again. And yet again … using Saddam’s WMD
The Ukrainian and US governments have been feeding us these scare stories for eight months now, without clear visual or other evidence.
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Al Franken, the Liberal’s Darling
As his de facto support for the Iraq war illustrates, Al Franken’s is the mind of an American liberal in all its beautiful mushiness.
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The Berlin Wall – Another Cold War Myth
Nov. 9 will mark the 25th anniversary of the tearing down of the Berlin Wall, and we can expect all the Cold War clichés about how the wall came to be.
Read MoreThe Islamist State
ISIS is a product of US policy. You cannot destroy modern, relatively developed and educated societies and expect civilization and human decency to survive.
Read MoreAmerican Exceptionalism and US Foreign Policy
Many deeply believe that no matter what it does abroad, no matter how bad it may look, no matter what horror may result, the US government means well.
Read MoreHas the United States Ever Set a Bad Example?
Anti-American terrorists have made it explicitly clear that their actions were in retaliation for Washington’s decades of international abominations.
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Ukraine and Neo-Nazis
Since major protests erupted in Ukraine, the mainstream media has downplayed the fact that the usual suspects have been on the same side as the neo-Nazis.
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