The Army Times reports: The Center for American Progress proposed Wednesday to have a diplomatic rather than military surge in Iraq, and urged the new Democrat-controlled Congress to demand another vote authorizing military operations in Iraq if the number of U.S....
The Empire is in such dire need of new centurions that, as the Boston Globe reports, the Pentagon may go international in its recruiting methods [hat tip: Lew Rockwell]: The armed forces, already struggling to meet recruiting goals, are considering expanding the...
Reading this little news item is the equivalent of getting a Christmas card from the War Party. Read it, and weep.: A man who authorities believe was an Army Reservist just called up to serve in Iraq was fatally shot by police today after a standoff that began...
A conservative blogger comments on my recent column on the Litvinenko affair: It has become a very strange time indeed when I find myself in complete agreement with an anti-war liberal. In this case it is on the Litvinenko incident, and the argument laid out is an...
Worth reading -- Juan Cole on Gerald Ford's foreign policy. An excerpt: All presidents make errors, and some abuses occurred on Ford's watch, though they often were initiated by Kissinger. But Ford faced with no illusions the challenges of his era, of detente with the...
Clifford May, of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies -- a neocon nest explored in an excellent 2003 piece by Dan McCarthy in The American Conservative -- opines that the Ethiopians, currently fighting and supposedly beating "Islamist" militias in...
Dilbert today is worth triple its weight in Harvard political philosophers. Scott Adams is no boot-burnisher. This cartoon cuts to the heart of the fraud of contemporary democracy. I am amused to hear talk of politicians having mandates when voters had a choice of...
It was all over the media yesterday: "Soldiers Tell Gates They Back Surge" CNN TV reported that "a small but representative sample" of troops met with Gates and unanimously urged him to send more troops, presenting this view as a contrast to the views of US commanders...
On December 21, 1995, Antiwar.com was born. On that day, I made the first posting to the site. Since then, we have continued to upgrade, adding daily news updates starting in 1998, going to round-the-clock coverage during the Kosovo War in 1999. Today, Antiwar.com is...
David Beito of Liberty & Power sends along this petition urging an immediate withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq. Though the big names at the top skew very left, the statement strikes this libertarian as admirably focused and unobjectionable in its particulars....
