Jeremy Scahill, despite lacking "mainstream" media credentials, continues to show the best chops of any military reporter out there. This morning on MSNBC's Morning Joe, he thrashed the moron Howard Dean on the issue of, well, everything, really -- from oh no the...
Previous posts about US policy towards Colombia illustrate how the drug war has served as a pretext for supporting atrocities and a corrupt government in order to secure strong regional influence and expansions of the empire. The US justifies supporting, training, and...
A new State Department diplomatic cable has been released by WikiLeaks detailing the visit to Libya McCain had in 2009 aimed at fostering a closer relationship with Gadhafi. We've known about this for some time, despite the mainstream media not having mentioned it. I...
McClatchy: U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham on Monday called on the U.S. government to send more money to Middle East countries in turmoil to push them toward democracy. “Foreign aid is a very complicated, controversial topic, particularly when you’re broke. But ... it is...
"The Libyan Revolution has largely succeeded," Middle East scholar Prof. Juan Cole says in his recent article about Libya, rapturously recommended by "progressive" anti-revolutionary MSNBC Obama shill Rachel Maddow, who had him on her show last night. This was before...
Ahmad Majidyar blogs at the American Enterprise Institute about US-NATO negotiations with the Taliban, characterizing them as "goodwill gestures" and "appeasement." The British Embassy in Kabul recently hosted an Iftar party on the occasion of the Islamic holy month...
Glenn Beck is leading an evangelical delegation to Israel (reports The Washington Post) with letters of commendation from Texas Gov. Rick Perry and evangelist John Hagee, leader of Christians United For Israel. The group was described by my article, The Strangest...
It's not new (McClathcy, for example, reported on it quite well back in May), but it's interesting to read first hand how in US diplomatic cables from 2008, the US embassy in Tripoli sent cables back to Washington describing "a reportedly deliberate GOL [Government of...
The deputy speaker of the Israeli Knesset tells Al Jazeera that he does not believe in a two-state solution. There is of course a spectrum of belief and agendas in the Knesset, but this is unusually explicit. Still, this is largely consistent with actions. And...
Look. It's no secret most of us at Antiwar.com are libertarians and/or anarchists (a Venn diagram of the two labels would only have a few of us outside the overlapping part...). But it's never enough for some progressives that we are against every war, everywhere....
