When someone from Mother Jones wrote me a few weeks ago with a minor question about one of my LewRockwell.com articles on overseas U.S. troops I had no idea what the magazine was up to. You must check out interactive map that Mother Jones has prepared on U.S. military presence worldwide. This is the most [...]
Charley Reese’s columns have been a staple at Antiwar.com since the early days. Back in the 90′s, we carried Charley’s columns from the Orlando Sentinel where he wrote and edited for 30 years. Since 2001, we have featured his insightful columns regularly. Charley has had some medical problems and has decided to go into full [...]
One would think that a coast guard vessel has a fairly straight forward task: patrol the littoral waters surrounding the country. However, it appears that the US coast guard, like the national guard, has a history of being used in imperial warfare. For instance, the USCGC Dallas, the largest coast guard ship currently in commission, [...]
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Listen to the great Lew Rockwell, president of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, interview John V. Denson, author of A Century of War: Lincoln, Wilson and Roosevelt, about the sort of World War revisionism that I would hope you’d have a chance to hear. MP3 here. (10:00)
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I was really surprised by the news, first reported by Laura Rozen on her blog on Mother Jones, that Michael Ledeen, who had been under Richard Perle’s wing at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) for some 20 years, has moved to the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy (FDD) and taken his “Freedom†chair with [...]
Something made me perk up this morning, going through the weekend’s news. After two weeks of reading about South Ossetia’s irregulars, the militiamen blamed for everything from looting to attempted genocide, in the periphery of news stories, this morning I read this in the Washington Post: In Khetagurovo, housewife Ofelia Dzhanyeva said she had lost [...]
