The year is 1939, and the Soviet Union has just signed a non-aggression pact called the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact with Nazi Germany. While the effects of this pact were myriad and far-reaching, what interests us here is the secret portion of the document dividing up the...
Truman, Johnson, Bush: Addict presidents and their disastrous wars of choice
for women. Not only are military sexual assaults on the rise (there were about 3,000 assaults reported last year--up 24%), at the Department of Veteran's Affairs woman's trauma recovery program in Palo Alto, Calif., 78 percent of women being treated for PTSD were...
Rep. Wayne Gilchrest (R-Md.) is no stranger to war. He signed up with the Marines in 1964 and went to Vietnam in the grimmest, bloodiest days of the war. He survived a shot to the chest, and spent the decades afterward studying foreign policy, history, and why nations...
Remember how I dreamt of more national dialogue on the war from a sane perspective? It seems the Washington Post has the precise opposite hope: They want the antiwar candidates, Ron Paul and Mike Gravel, out of the debates. These debates are "cluttered," apparently,...
Over the last few years, I've come to understand that the only meaningful difference between the New York Times and the New York Post is that the latter is occasionally good for a chuckle. The two rags take equally insouciant approaches to reality. Witness Patricia...
Paul Wolfowitz is now almost certain to get booted from the World Bank. Unfortunately, the World Bank itself will probably survive. (The Washington Post frets today that the Wolfowitz scandal could “jeopardizeâ€Â efforts to squeeze more bucks out of foreign...
I can't even think of any modern antiwar pop music, actually, I just know of a few songs that have lamely hurled juvenile denunciations at Bush like little wet boogers. Pink has continued the tradition of crappy lyrics that try to hit home and fail. It's not all bad...
As Antiwar.com holds our quarterly fundraising drive, the US military announces its plans for the upcoming quarter as well. Major General Rick Lynch promises us an increase in US soldiers being killed in Iraq, primarily a result of the latest troop surge. Major...
On my radio show May 7th, I spoke with former Alaska Senator Mike Gravel, who made a big splash April 26th at the first debate among Democrats seeking the nomination for president when he said that the "top tier" candidates all "frighten" him with their "all options...
