Most of what I think needs to be said on the Iran nuclear weapons issue I've already written, or has already been written elsewhere. Namely, U.S. policy influences Iran strongly towards attaining a nuclear deterrent, so the notion that Iranians have intent here should...
I won't comment on the content of Angela Davis' speech at "Occupy Philadelphia": I just want to note the bizarre practice at these gatherings of repeating back the words of the speakers. The echo chamber effect is like something out of a horror movie, perhaps a remake...
The Nation's Robert Dreyfuss with one take on the potential for a US-Israeli attack on Iran: Needless to say, an Israeli attack on Iran would unleash catastrophic consequences, completely apart from whether or not Israel could actually do the job effectively. Whereas...
Antiwar.com columnist David Henderson will be speaking Saturday, November 5 at UC Berkeley: The Case for a Non-Interventionist Foreign Policy 3:00 p.m. to 3:50 p.m. East Pauley Ballroom of the Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union Building, sponsored by the Students...
Antiwar.com’s Week in Review | November 4, 2011IN THIS ISSUEAggressive postures toward IranPunishing Palestine for UNESCOIraq and the new "security architecture"Recognizing failure in Afghanistan?Libya in flux Assorted news from the empireWhat’s new at the...
The psycho dictator of Uzbekistan, Islam Karimov, became notorious for boiling his detainees alive after torturing them brutally. Well, no it seems he's gone in the other direction. And just in time, too, for the Obama administration to fully embrace them with aid and...
Back in May I wrote about the coordinated US campaign of cyber-terrorism, commercial sabotage, targeted assassinations, and proxy wars against the Iranian regime. In other words, the list of acts of international aggression the US has more or less openly unleashed...
This Politico piece made me chuckle yesterday. After years of calling Iran the top supporter of terrorism around, the Ayatollah swung back saying "he had 100 'undeniable' documents connecting the US to terror acts in Iran and the Middle East." He then called the the...
Tom Hayden: On Saturday, the day after Obama’s statement, my heart felt good as I introduced Representative Barbara Lee at a Los Angeles fundraiser. In the lightness of her mood I sensed a burden had been lifted from her heart as well. Some of the hundred people in...
Back in September I wrote about a State Department cable released by WikiLeaks in which a meeting with Israeli officials revealed that one of the primary reasons the Israeli government wants to block Palestinian statehood is to keep the occupied territories outside...
