There's an old adage that says there never was such a thing as a shrinking government program. Things go as projected at first, but an often uncontrollable expansion in every direction soon becomes apparent. In this sense, the defense budget is just like any other...
At Reason, Greg Beato sketches the history of the fallout shelter in Cold War America. Apparently, most people didn't get too carried away with doomsday preparations: "Despite what a 1961 issue of Good Housekeeping derided as 'massive propaganda to induce Americans to...
Every time I see these unfortunately ambiguous wire story headlines -- "Key US lawmakers assail Obama on detainees" -- I think some American lawmakers are finally standing up to the executive-run torture-state and its gulags. A closer look is always disappointing....
As the UN is set to declare Somalia in famine, we are treated to grim descriptions in wire stories of children on the verge of death as their families rot in hot, dry refugee camps both on Mogadishu's outskirts and at the borders of Kenya and Ethiopia. The suffering...
Apparently John Brennan, President Obama's counter-terrorism advisor, told the public last month that zero (that's right, zero) civilian casualties have occurred as a result of U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan. For anyone reading Antiwar.com on anything close to a...
George Washington University Law School professor Dan Solove, author of Nothing to Hide: the False Tradeoff between Privacy and Security is interviewed by the ACLU. On his book: We've all heard the argument that "people shouldn't worry about government surveillance if...
Israeli naval commandos forcefully boarded another Gaza aid boat, diverting it to the Israeli port of Ashod: "Now, the activists are held in a building in the port where they are going through various interviews. Their boat is going to be thoroughly checked for...
Those kooky Afghans, with their crazy Eastern views. Look at them say silly things like: "The Americans will never leave Afghanistan," said Mohammad Ali, a 36-year-old shopkeeper in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif, one of seven areas due to move to Afghan security...
The security situation in northern Nigeria continues to deteriorate as Boko Haram steps up its attacks. Boko Haram is a militant, Islamist group calling for the imposition of Shariah law. The name, Boko Haram, translates into "Western education is a sin." The name...
Listen to Antiwar.com's Development Director Angela Keaton on Ernest Hancock's radio show Declare Your Independence. She will talk about the antiwar movement, ComeHomeAmerica.US, and the open letter to Obama and Congress urging them to "redirect U.S. foreign policy...
