The Dead, the Dollars, the Drones: 9/11 Era by the Numbers | Wired.com

Leona Groeger reveals some inconvenient truths about the post-9/11 decade.

Bollywood vs. Jihad | Reason magazine

Shikha Dalmia says bellydancers from India, not bombs from Nevada, will win the Global War on Terrorism.

Graveyard of Empires | LewRockwell.com

As a result of its occupation of the Middle East, the U.S. is destined the same fate as Rome, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union says Eric Margolis.

New Israel: A win-win-win proposal | LewRockwell.com

Stephan Kinsella makes an unusual, but practical case for Middle East peace.

Let’s Call It ‘VO Day’ and Get Out | The Independent Institute

Like with VE and VJ days during World War II, Ivan Eland says President Obama should begin withdrawing troops from the Middle East following the vanquishing of the enemy.

The New Colonialism | Counterpunch

Libya is the new outpost of the American empire says Paul Craig Roberts.

Costliest government 'program' of all? Undeclared wars | The Christian Science Monitor

Walter Rodgers dares to discuss the elephant in the room Congress won't.

Buy Two Wars, Get Another for Half Price | The Beacon

President Obama's logic for intervention in Libya has a low-brow quality to it says Ivan Eland.

Instead of Bombing Dictators, Stop Selling Them Bombs | Truthout.org

The best way to kill a Frankenstein monster, say Medea Benjamin and Charles Davis, is to stop it before it grows.

George Santayana with swagger

Gerald Celente, president of Kingston, N.Y-based Trends Research Institute, and a 1969 U.C. graduate, makes reference to his 1995 book "Trends 2000" about events he predicted then that are unfolding today during a candid, yet lively lecture this evening at the Emma Byrd Gallery on political and economic trends. The Bronx native said "the first great war of the 21st century has begun" by drawing parallels between the Stock Market Crash of 1929, the Great Depression, international price and trade wars that culminated with World War II to the Finanical Collapse of 2008, the current recession and U.S. military intervention, and occupation in the Middle East. Aside from taking stock in the "Three G's" - gold, guns and a getaway plan - the self-described "political atheist" said things won't change "until we regain our morality" by focusing on values, such as quality, that once made America great.

Paul Hardcastle 19 - Remix 2008 (HD)

Peter King’s Radical Ignorance | The American Conservative

Is not bliss given how the New York Republican's McCarthyite hearings on home-grown Islamic terrorism are a result of the U.S. Global War on Terror says Jack Hunter.

A Middle East Warning: American-Style Democracy Isn't the Answer | The Daily Bell

True freedom will not be achieved through mob rule says Ron Holland.

The Essence of Just War Theory | The Partial Observer

Wars should be about survival, not principles says James Leroy Wilson.

The solution in Afghanistan: Get out | The Washington Post

Now! say Reps. James P. McGovern (D-Mass.) and Walter B. Jones (R-N.C.).

Let It Cut Both Ways: US Foreign Aid & State Sponsored Terrorism | BoilingFrogsPost.com

Strictly construed, a 2010 U.S. Supreme Court decision means foreign aid to dictatorships like Egypt is "material support" for terrorism says Sibel Edmonds.

“Losing” Egypt | The Freeman

It was never "ours" to begin with says William L. Anderson.

Facebook Nation | LewRockwell.com

The revolution in Egypt, and elsewhere, will be tweeted says Ron Holland.

UC speaker series on Middle East to continue | The Charleston Gazette

Israeli counsel general to present second installment of "Finding Middle Ground in the Middle East" series at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday.

The Unraveling of U.S. Mideast Policy | The Future of Freedom Foundation

The Arab people have grown weary of the Washington, D.C.-backed puppets who rule over them says Sheldon Richman.