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Europe's Migrant Crisis

How the Italians are dealing with it

Philip Giraldi • November 3, 2015

• 1,600 Words • 232 Comments • Reply

I recently spent a few days in Rome and Venice. I won’t lie and say it was a business trip, but I did talk to some local people as well as cops and officials about the migrant/refugee/asylum seeker crisis that is overwhelming much of Europe. Italy is particularly vulnerable as islands in its territorial waters... Read More

The Curse of Col. Gadhafi

Ilana Mercer • April 24, 2015

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When theydestabilizedLibya andoverthrewstrongman Muammar Gadhafi in 2011 the U.S. and its Canadian and European allies unleashed a series of events that accounts for the steady flood into Europe of migrants from North Africa. There are, purportedly,"up to 1 million"poor, uneducated, possibly illiterate, predominantly male, and by necessity violence-prone individuals, poised to board rickety freighters in... Read More

Camp of the Stupids

John Derbyshire • April 23, 2015

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The mass drowning of eight or nine hundred—nobody knows precisely—illegal immigrants in the Mediterranean last Sunday triggered a lot of commentary about these boat people, most of it stupid. Here are some of the grosser stupidities. They’re just seeking a better life. Who isn’t? I guess there are some Lotus eaters among us who are... Read More

Illegal Immigration Comes Home

Taxpayers get the bill for an Obama policy

Philip Giraldi • February 24, 2015

• 1,500 Words • 44 Comments • Reply

One might well argue that providing a safe and nurturing refuge for the more than 60,000 young illegal immigrants who crossed the border into the United States in 2014 is the humane and honorable thing to do. Unless, of course, if one regards the flood of youngsters as little more than a cynical exploitation of... Read More

Gaza in Arizona

How Israeli High-Tech Firms Will Up-Armor the U.S.-Mexican Border

Todd Miller and Gabriel Schivone • January 25, 2015

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It was October 2012. Roei Elkabetz, a brigadier general for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), was explaining his country’s border policing strategies. In his PowerPoint presentation, a photo of the enclosure wall that isolates the Gaza Strip from Israel clicked onscreen. “We have learned lots from Gaza,” he told the audience. “It’s a great laboratory.”... Read More

Miller and Schivone: Bringing the Battlefield to the Border

Tom Engelhardt • January 25, 2015

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Predator drones, tested out in this country’s distant war zones, have played an increasingly prominent role in the up-armoring of the U.S.-Mexican border. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) launched its first Predator in 2004, but only really ramped up drone use in March 2013. There have been approximately 10,000 Predator flights along that border since.... Read More

America’s Continuing Border Crisis

The Real Story Behind the “Invasion” of the Children

Aviva Chomsky • August 24, 2014

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Call it irony or call it a nightmare, but the “crisis” of Central American children crossing the U.S.-Mexican border, which lasted for months amid fervent and angry debate, is now fading from the news. The media stories have been legion, the words expended many. And yet, as the “crisis” leaves town, as the sound and... Read More

Aviva Chomsky: What's at Stake in the Border Debate

Tom Engelhardt • August 24, 2014

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The militarization of the police has been underway since 9/11, but only in the aftermath of the six-shot killing of an unarmed teenager in Ferguson, Missouri, with photos of streets in a St. Louis suburb that looked like occupied Iraq or Afghanistan, has the fact of it, the shock of it, seemed to hit home... Read More

The Endless Invasion of America

Pat Buchanan • June 10, 2014

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For 10 days, Americans have argued over the wisdom of trading five Taliban senior commanders for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl. President Obama handed the Taliban a victory, critics contend, and imperiled U.S. troops in Afghanistan when the five return to the battlefield. Moreover, he has inspired the Haqqani network and other Islamists to capture more Americans... Read More

Todd Miller: the Creation of a Border Security State

Tom Engelhardt • April 22, 2014

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Sometimes you really do need a map if you want to know where you are. In 2008, the ACLU issued just such a map of this country and it’s like nothing ever seen before. Titled “the Constitution-Free Zone of the United States,” it traces our country’s borders. Maybe you’re already tuning out. After all, you... Read More

They Are Watching You

The National Security State and the U.S.-Mexican Border

Todd Miller • April 22, 2014

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With the agility of a seasoned Border Patrol veteran, the woman rushed after the students. She caught up with them just before they entered the exhibition hall of the eighth annual Border Security Expo, reaching out and grabbing the nearest of them by the shoulder. Slightly out of breath, she said, “You can’t go in... Read More

Foreign Aid?

It's Being Flushed Down the Toilet Faster Than You Think

Peter Gemma • February 11, 2014

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The economy of Mexico is the 13th largest in the world and the 11th in buying power. British economist Jim O'Neill, former head of asset management for Goldman Sachs, said recently that, “Mexico has a unique opportunity to steal the thunder of no less a giant than China.” Remember Ross Perot’s warning about that giant... Read More

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Category Classics

9/11 Was an Israeli Job

How America was neoconned into World War IV

Laurent Guyénot

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John McCain and the POW Cover-Up

The “war hero” candidate buried information about POWs left behind in Vietnam.

Sydney Schanberg

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America's Jews Are Driving America's Wars

Shouldn't they recuse themselves when dealing with the Middle East?