Antiwar.com’s Week in Review | September 30, 2011

Antiwar.com’s Week in Review | September 30, 2011 Watch Justin Raimondo talk with Judge Andrew Napolitano about Obama’s secret wars and the FBI investigation of Antiwar.com at the Antiwar.com blog. Don’t miss Scott Horton interview Glenn Greenwald for Antiwar Radio live tonight 6:30pm PT/9:30pm PT at Pacifica’s KPFK 90.7FM Los Angeles. IN THIS ISSUE The [...]

Angela Keaton Talks Antiwar Outreach at LPAC

While spreading the message of the New Peace Movement, I was interviewed by Sam Antonio of the Liberty News Network at the Liberty Political Action Conference.

The Specs of US Weapons Welfare

I’ve written extensively about US aid to tyrannies in the Middle East as a method to keep governments in place that will obey US demands and that will prevent the populations from interfering with policymaking. And a government ain’t a government without that essential ingredient: weapons. This CRS report details how the US ranks first [...]

Documents Reveal that FBI Openly Targets the Innocent

Charlie Savage at the New York Times has a piece up from yesterday citing declassified documents revealing that the Federal Bureau of Investigation often keeps suspects on their terrorist watch list even if they have been found not guilty in a court of law. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is permitted to include people on the government’s terrorist watch list even [...]

Get Ready for the Next Great Human Rights Crusade

A mere day after the forces of light and progress ensured that no American can be deprived of his or her God-given right to kill foreigners, a new crisis of conscience emerged. A Chicago Sun-Times editorial from Sept. 21 has the details: Give military women equal abortion rights Every woman who gets health insurance though [...]

Cognitive Dissonance in Somalia

As in many other places around the globe, the United States has a bad track record of propping up leaders and groups in Somalia, only to watch them crumble months or years later. Siad Barre, the ruthless military dictator of Somalia, was kept in power by the US until the Somali people rebelled in 1991. [...]