Our devoted Managing Editor Eric Garris is featured in a new book called Making it in the Political Blogosphere: The World's Top Political Bloggers Share the Secrets to Success by Tanni Haas. It's a brilliant insider's look at the political blogosphere and the minds...
The staff of the Antiwar.com Los Angeles office will be taking part in an antiwar demonstration at Dizdar Park, 20 S Glenn Dr, Camarillo, CA on Saturday December 3 at 12:00pm Pacific. Please visit the Ventura County Meet Up for more information.
More U.S.-made tear gas used against protesters in Egypt: More at The Real News As I've written about many times before, "the close military relationship between the U.S. and Egypt/SCAF is" continuing and is serving as an impediment to prospects for democratic...
I know it's bad form to follow up on my own post so quickly, but I fear that I may have shortchanged the enormity of the assertion that "For an Iraqi, there was no price too high to pay to rid the country of Saddam Hussein." Allow me to riff a bit, with a nod to some...
Last week, David Frum, of "Unpatriotic Conservatives" and "axis of evil" fame, wrote the following as part of a foreign policy Q&A: Iraq: Knowing everything you know now, if you had been in Congress in 2002, would you have voted to authorize force against Saddam...
Remember that old children's game Telephone? Where one kid invents a sentence and whispers it to another kid and so on until the last kid has no clue what was said, and where the kid who sits next to the kid with the really bad speech impediment always either loses or...
I don’t want to alarm you or anything — well, actually, I do want to alarm you, albeit not unduly. I want to share something with you, a little news item that just came over the wires: An Israeli strike on Iran's nuclear sites may become likelier in 2012 if Israel...
I forced myself to tune in to CBS early this morning because of Ron Paul's "Face the Nation" interview. Establishment tool Bob Schieffer previews the interview by announcing that "this morning, we've got an interview with Ron Paul, who, of all people, is rising to...
Via Juan Carlos Hidalgo at the blog for the Cato Institute, this graph illustrates how Mexican President Felipe Calderón's militarized approach to the drug war not only didn't quell the violence, but reversed the downward trend that had been going on for over a...
Electronic Intifada: “The closure of these and other Palestinian institutions are part of a broader policy through which the Israeli authorities seek to stifle Palestinian development in Jerusalem and increase the strength of Israel’s occupation over East Jerusalem,”...
