Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta responds to a question about the legality of assassinating Anwar al-Awlaki: This individual was clearly a terrorist. And yes, he was a citizen, but if you’re a terrorist, you’re a terrorist. And that means that we have the ability to go after those who would threaten to attack the United [...]
Kelley B. Vlahos along with military veterans Daniel Lakemacher and Students for Liberty’s Peter Neiger will be appearing at an Antiwar Break Out Session at the 2011 Students for Liberty Philadelphia Regional Conference. The conference will be held Saturday, October 8th. Register here. Vlahos is a contributing editor for The American Conservative magazine, a Washington [...]
By Coleen Rowley (with editing assistance from Hugh Iglarsh, writer/editor/citizen based in Chicago) These two words sum up well the op-ed I co-wrote with Bogdan Dzakovic before the ninth anniversary of the 2001 terrorist attacks last year, a shortened version of which was published later in the Los Angeles Times under the title: “WikiLeaks and [...]
Don’t forget to sign the open letter to Obama and Congress to end the wars: ComeHomeAmerica.us IN THIS ISSUE Mission accomplished in Iraq? Libyan civil war is far from over The expensive deterioration of Afghanistan Ten years since 9/11 Israel’s struggles with Turkey and Palestine Assorted news from the empire What’s new at the blog? [...]
On Monday, September 12, 2011 at 12:30pm at Busboys & Poets, 2021 14th St NW; (14th and V St NW), Washington, D.C. Free and open to the public. Ralph Nader and Busboys & Poets will host a thought-provoking roundtable discussion on Monday, September 12, 2011. Looking at the tenth anniversary of 9/11 in a forthright [...]
The Des Moines news reporter who noted our anti-war message at the entrance of yesterday’s Republican Straw Poll in Ames, Iowa, was not present with us long enough to see the real story. Our banners actually got an amazingly good reception! Our group of sign holders were all surprised how many of the thousands of [...]
