Freedom on the Web

World War II Spending Did Not End the Great Depression

by Sheldon Richman, Project to Restore America

The Force: How Much Military Is Enough?

by Jill Lepore, New Yorker

US Military Says Martin Luther King would Be Proud of Its Weapons

by Glenn Greenwald, Guardian

Can the DEA Hide a Surveillance Camera on Your Land?

by Clarence Walker, StoptheDrugWAr.org

Guatemala’s President: ‘My Country Bears the Scars from the War on Drugs’

by John Mulholland, Guardian

Mali: The Fastest Blowback Yet in this Disastrous War on Terror

by Seumas Milne, Guardian

The Killing Drones On

by Michael Kinsley, Los Angeles Times

Obama Should Reconsider US Approach to Bahrain

by Toby C. Jones, Lobe Log

Drone Misuse

by Kevin Kallaugher, GoComics.com

From My Cold Dead Hand

by Matt Bors, GoComics.com

Inauguration a Triumph of Hope over Experience

by Jonathan Turley, USA Today

Obama’s Inaugural Speech Misleadingly Suggests End to Perpetual War

by Kevin Gosztola, Fire Dog Lake

MLK’s Vehement Condemnations of US Militarism Are More Relevant Than Ever

by Glenn Greenwald, Guardian

“National Insecurity”: Ex-CIA Analyst Melvin Goodman Measures Cost of Militarization

by Catherine Lutz, Monterey County Herald

Do Gun Control Laws Control Guns?

by Thomas Sowell, Washington Examiner

Inaugurating Leviathan

by Editorial, Washington Times

The Overzealous Prosecution of Aaron Swartz

by Stephen L. Carter, Bloomberg

Zero Dark Thirty: Torturing the Facts

by Marjorie Cohn, MarjorieCohn.com

Cut Off

by Robert Ariail, GoComics.com

Saving One Life

by Gary Varvel, GoComics.com

Invasion of the Body Searchers: The Loss of Bodily Integrity in an Emerging Police State

by John W. Whitehead, Rutherford Institute

Mali: Fragile Democracy and Clumsy US policy

by Simon Tisdall, Guardian

An Operation, Not an Aberration

by Nick Turse, Truthdig.com

Truthdigger of the Week: Nick Turse

by Tracy Bloom, Truthdig.com

Hate Drugs? You Should Want to End the Drug War

by Tony Newman, Counterpunch.org