Separating families through border prisons or African drones — how US policies can make parts of the world unsafe for children

The 16-year old son of a suspected terrorist who made the US government’s assassination target list was killed by a US drone strike one evening — two weeks subsequent to an American missile tearing apart his father’s body. The boy — up to the the point where he was enjoying a outdoor, roadside meal by […]

THE ALMOST LAUGHABLY IMPOTENT BENGHAZI REPORT

Frequent visitors to mentalunrest would not be surprised by my thoughts on the House Select Committee’s report on the 2012 Benghazi, Libya attacks that left US ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans dead. For you newbies, I think the report’s findings are a joke. Check the following links to get a sense of where I’m coming from: Benghazi […]

ETHNIC CLEANSING, TERRORISM AND GUN RUNNING — HOW HILLARY RUNS STATE DEPARTMENT

(Note: the story about how Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s emails pointed out ethnic cleansing in Libya has been circulating for over a month. I decided to repeat some of it here since the press, for the most part, has ignored it.) “Libyan people don’t like people with dark skins, though some of them may be […]

DON’T CALL THEM MIGRANTS

Some of you are aware of my editorial policy of not burning electrons and time debating over trivial things like the isms and schisms of labels — unless even the most subtle of nominal permutations can mean the difference between framing an important truth and maintaining a social or political falsehood. But calling the ramped-up […]

THE US HELPED TO CREATE THE ‘REFUGEE’

Since Americans want to debate whether or not the country should accept refugees from the current Middle East wars, let’s bring up a topic which is astonishingly missing from these discussions … … Like how America helped to create this refugee crisis! In America’s attempt to reshape the Middle East through proxy wars or outright […]

11+ QUESTIONS MICHAEL ERIC DYSON WOULD NEVER ASK OBAMA

With Dr. Michael Eric Dyson’s long-winded attack on Dr. Cornel West via New Republic still fresh on my mind, I kept saying to myself this evening that hundreds of Libyan migrants recently drowned at sea because they tried to escape the country they deemed home—until President Obama’s policies turned Libya into a bloodied, failed state. I then asked […]

ISLAMIC STATE BRINGS HIGH DEFINITION BEHEADINGS TO LIBYA

I just watched the latest Islamic State video where they simultaneously beheaded 21 Egyptian Christians on the Libyan coast, and while horrifying to watch, I am struck by the way these made-for-social media productions eerily resemble something which director Michael Mann would construct: beautiful, vacation-like scenery wihich is paired with bloody violence. As typical with […]

A BETTER WAY TO DESTROY ISIL

My previous post about why I think President Obama’s ISIL strategy is lame will make most Obama defenders ask “Well, what’s YOUR strategy? ” This post serves as my answer. No matter how Team Obama markets its four-point plan to destroy ISIL, bombs take center stage here—as if America can offer nothing else to the […]

ISIL – COMING TO AN AMERICAN CITY NEAR YOU

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), could deliver the next terrorist attack in America, Heavens forbid, and the potential event can arguably wear a stamp that says “Made in America.” It didn’t take long for the video electrons to dry after President Barack Obama announced that he will help Iraq “Prevent an […]

BENGHAZI BLUES, OR RUSSIAN ROULETTE – PART 2

You can gather from my previous Benghazi post that I think a cover-up by Team Obama likely happened – albeit the kind of cover-up that extends beyond the imaginations of some Congressmen currently sniffing around the issue – and why calls for additional security for the US Consulate appeared to be ignored: the “consulate” was […]