Doug Bandow, in an astute piece over at the National Interest, asks a simple question: If America is not in Afghanistan to stop terrorism, then what are roughly 100,000 U.S. military personnel, along with tens of thousands of allied troops, military contractors, and...
NATO commanders are demanding that the intervention in Libya, initially limited to the aim of protecting civilians, be expanded to destroy the civilian infrastructure of the country and remove Qaddafi from power. Civil institutions – not military – are now being...
This Friday is a deadline for the Obama administration in the war in Libya. The sixty day limit on the use of military force without Congressional approval imposed by the War Powers Resolution will be reached on May 20th. Not only does the Obama administration have,...
"He [Theodore Roosevelt] knew perfectly well that to pen six hundred helpless and weaponless savages in a hole like rats in a trap and massacre them in detail during a stretch of a day and a half, from a safe position on the heights above, was no brilliant feat of...
Russia Today interviewed Antiwar.com researcher John Glaser about the extension of the PATRIOT Act. The White House and GOP leadership are struggling to get the votes for a longer-term extenions of the PATRIOT Act.
Russia Today's Crosstalk features a very interesting panel on the future of the antiwar movement. On the panel were Antiwar.com development director Angela Keaton, historian Thaddeus Russell, and Michael Heaney, a researcher at the University of Michigan.
Sunday is Mother's Day, which has often-forgotten antiwar roots. One of the earliest calls to celebrate Mother's day in the US came from Julia Ward Howe, a prominent American abolitionist, social activist, and poet, most famous as the author of "The Battle Hymn of the...
Found this over at CopBlock.org, one of the most fearless law enforcement watchdog sites I've ever come across. This "standoff" was staged recently by the South Suburban Emergency Response Team (SSERT) in Oak Forest, Illinois in response to a call from a "concerned...
Even before we knew the details surrounding the death of Osama bin Laden, his demise was being hailed as the “end of an era.” The Global War on Terrorism, which we’ve been fighting for the last decade in several theaters simultaneously, has been defined in terms of...
