The State Department’s Collective Madness

Then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton prepares to testify before the House Foreign Affairs Committee in 2012. Over the past several decades, the U.S. State Department has deteriorated from a reasonably professional home for diplomacy and realism into a den of armchair warriors possessed of imperial delusions, a dangerous phenomenon underscored by the recent mass Some 51 State Department "diplomats" signed a memo distributed through the official "dissent channel," seeking military strikes against the Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad whose forces have been leading the pushback against Islamist extremists who are seeking control of this important Mideast nation.

The Difficulties with Lone Wolves

Much of Britain is recoiling in the wake of the death of Labour MP Jo Cox, who was shot and stabbed on Thursday in broad daylight outside the public library in Birstall to the shouts of "Britain first!" It was the first killing of a serving MP since Ian Gow, whose life was taken by Irish Republicans in 1990. The suspect, Thomas Mair, was said to have carried what was an "old-fashioned" possibly homemade gun, and also brandished a knife in the attack.

Protesting ‘Shameful’ Refugee Policies, Doctors Without Borders Rejects EU Funds

"Faces of those the EU countries have decided not to see," Doctors Without Borders wrote on Twitter. The international humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/MA decins Sans FrontiA res announced Friday that it will no longer accept funds from the European Union and its member states, in protest against the region's "shameful" response to the refugee crisis.

Caving to Post-Orlando Fear, House Betrays Civil Liberties

Late Thursday, the U.S. House of Representatives blocked an amendment that would have prohibited warrantless surveillance of Americans' electronic communications and banned the government from forcing technology companies to install backdoors to encrypted devices. The amendment to the House's annual military spending bill, introduced by Reps.

Building Bridges of Peace instead of Fear-Citizen Diplomacy with Russia

Russian President Vladimir Putin said he and his Ukrainian counterpart Petro Poroshenko want world peace. Russia is the largest country in the world , covering more than one-eighth of the Earth's inhabited land area, nearly twice as large as the United States and has extensive mineral and energy resources, the largest reserves in the world.

British Journalist, 81, Denied Bail in Bangladesh

Reprieve's London office can be contacted on: communications [at] reprieve.org.uk / +44 207 553 8140. Reprieve US , based in New York City, can be contacted on Katherine [dot] oshea [at] reprieve.org WASHINGTON - An elderly British-Bangladeshi journalist who faces a potential death sentence in Bangladesh has been denied bail, sparking fears for his wellbeing in detention.

ISIL Can’t Kill Us

America is a wonderful melting pot, where lunatics, miscreants, and sadists of all religions & creeds can all come together at the gun store [B]efore we start talking about banning anyone from a Muslim country, or even before we wring our hands again about how easy it is to get your hands on an AR-15, a weapon that is built for, and exists only, to kill people in this country, we should all accept that, for all the advancements that have been made in ensuring equal rights for our fellow citizens who are gay, there is still a kind of virulent hate that we can see in its more polite forms in our legislatures and some of our courtrooms, and now we can see it in its most raw and unreconstructed form in our nightclubs.

Saratoga Springs Erupts In Protest After Local Government Outlaws Sitting Down

In Saratoga Springs, New York, some people felt uncomfortable with the idea that, while they sleep nice and cozy in their homes, other people are struggling just to obtain the bare necessities of life. So, in response, what did the privileged class in Saratoga Springs do? Did they decide to allocate funds to help people struggling with poverty? No.

Fox News Expert: If Take We Take Terrorists’ Gun Permits They Will Kill Us With Ford Trucks

In the wake of a mass shooting in Orlando on Sunday, counterterrorism expert Sebastian Gorka opined to Fox News that it was pointless to try to prevent terrorists from obtaining gun permits because they could use Ford F-150 trucks as weapons. Fox News host Bret Baier noted during his coverage of the shooting at a gay nightclub that left at least 50 dead that the alleged shooter, Omar Mateen, possessed a Class G statewide firearms license even though he had been placed on a watch list by the FBI.