Just wanted to quickly draw attention to this WikiLeaks State Department diplomatic cable which details a horrible war crime committed by the US in Iraq in 2006. The cable excerpts a letter written by Philip Alston, Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary, or...
And now for today's extreme war propaganda from the paper of record, the New York Times. It would be premature to call the war in Libya a complete success for United States interests. But the arrival of victorious rebels on the shores of Tripoli last week...
Last week we got a rather explicit perspective on what exactly is the driving ideological and political force driving Israeli policies of territory and statehood with Palestinians through the deputy speaker of the Israeli Knesset who unabashedly rejected the notion...
We've done a good amount here at Antiwar on Guantanamo, the torture, and the legal black hole that has kept people there without charge or trial for years on end. Not to mention the lies and corruption that came with it. But here's Amnesty International, as if we...
Moammar Gaddafi, the Libyan leader desperate to maintain the little power he has left, was said to have arrived in Algeria in a convoy of Mercedes. He must have done so after finding the personal jet of Robert Mugabe and Zimbabwe to not be luxurious enough for his...
Amid the release of 35,000 new cables by WikiLeaks this week comes new and tragic, but perhaps not so surprising news about the five deaths of Iraqi civilians, reportedly at the hands of U.S forces in the early to mid-2000's. In each case the military investigated,...
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Julian Assange and Team Wikileaks are at it again. Using Twitter and their own website, the organization released some 35,000 cables after months of only a handful being released each day. Perhaps one of the most amusing and telling cables comes from way back in 1987....
This was written two weeks ago and sent to hundreds of American newspapers -- only one of which said they'd run it. We never herd back from them after embargoing this piece for days. It's not quite timely anymore, but these were my views on the "J14" protest movement...
At a speech that Defense Secretary Leon Panetta gave at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey yesterday, I posed the following question: Good morning, Mr. Secretary. I'm David Henderson, an economics professor here in the Graduate School of Business and Public...
