Is Wesley Clark Antiwar?

Is Jerry Falwell Muslim? FAIR has a decent review of Clark's actual statements on the Iraq war, concluding that "to label a candidate with such views 'anti-war' is to render the term meaningless." Of course, the Clintonoids at FAIR cast no aspersion on Gen. Clark's...

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“Collateral Damage”

Today's article reviews the book What Every Person Should Know About War by Chris Hedges. I just came across an interesting interview with the author about the book. Click here to read it.

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Resources on War and Culture

If you're interested in the interplay of war and culture from Euripides to Stanley Kubrick, check out Prof. David Hart's website. It's more or less a collection of syllabi from his courses at the University of Adelaide (Australia), with pages on visual art, film,...

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One Way to Recoup That $87 Billion

Charge wounded soldiers for their hospital meals. From Stars & Stripes: Troops wounded in combat in the nation’s war on terrorism are being handed more than just discharge papers when they leave military hospitals — some also are getting a bill. At a daily rate of...

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Feds Fed Up with Being Shown Up

So they're taking it out on ABC: In a clash between security and the First Amendment, federal authorities are threatening criminal charges against ABC News reporters who smuggled harmless depleted uranium into the country for a second time during an investigation of...

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Attention Bloggers!

I am planning to put a link to the Blog on the front page within the next few days. Please prepare for it going live by Monday of next week, and hopefully we will have at least a couple of entries a day. Please write me back at egarris2@antiwar.com with any...

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Only the Smokers Shall Survive

If Al Qaeda executes this nefarious plot (according to D.C., anyway): "References to nicotine and solanine [found in potatoes] appear in numerous terrorist training manuals and documents seized in Afghanistan," the FBI said in its weekly bulletin to law enforcement...

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Iraq – or Kosovo?

Chris Floyd of the Moscow Times had a column last week about the occupation forces' use of Saddam's secret police to govern the "new" Iraq. Floyd's style is so cutting edge, I would hardly be surprised if Imperial officials actually bled after reading this stuff....

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