New Blog Software

We have installed a new blogging software. While I work out the bugs and move it back to the old format, please be patient. Thanks! UPDATE: All the old posts should redirect to the new ones. If you find one that doesn't, please email me at mike at this domain dot com...

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Tale of Two War Trophies

Saddam's Mercedes Federal agents seized a Mercedes-Benz from an Army reservist who said the armor-plated, bulletproof luxury car probably belonged to Saddam Hussein. First Sgt. William von Zehle said he bought the car while serving in Iraq. U.S. Immigration and...

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Doug Bandow Joins Antiwar.com

Our newest columnist, Doug Bandow, a trenchant critic of interventionism, was formerly a senior fellow at the Cato Institute. He worked as special assistant to President Reagan and editor of the political magazine Inquiry. He is the author of The Politics of Envy:...

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Bombing Iran in 4 Easy Steps

Retired Col. Sam Gardiner lays it out for Steve Soto at the Left Coaster:"I. Period of Building Pressure: This could be 60 days or even six months in which the US and European leaders continue to talk to their publics on the failure of the Iranians to comply with "the...

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Six Months to Life

Thirty months ago, the NYT's Tom Friedman wrote,The next six months in Iraq—which will determine the prospects for democracy-building there—are the most important six months in U.S. foreign policy in a long, long time.He likes that six-month time frame. A lot....

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Empire’s Workshop

Another new book that may be of interest to AWC readers is Greg Grandin's Empire's Workshop: Latin America, The United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism, which examines the roots of that "Salvador Option" the neocons have been so keen to employ in Iraq.

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Look Homeward, America

Bill Kauffman's new book, Look Homeward, America: In Search of Reactionary Radicals and Front-Porch Anarchists, looks mighty interesting. From the Introduction:Look Homeward, America—and yes, the echoes of Thomas Wolfe and George McGovern are intentional—offers an...

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Soldiers’ Rights

The wife of a U.S. soldier who is a conscientious objector has informed me of a website to help soldiers know their rights: soldiersrights.com.

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It’s Time to Remove Bush and Cheney

They have lied us into war for the benefit of Israel and Iran (and have since lied about and plotted against the latter), killing who knows how many hundreds of thousands of people, turned the two-bit rapist nobody, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, into a new bin Laden, tortured...

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