The Three Faces of Jon Huntsman
Someone is playing games on Youtube, and they’ve managed to fool an awful lot of people – mostly “reporters” and bloggers who hate Ron Paul – into falling for one of the more transparent hoaxes of this election season. It all started with an incredibly stupid video...
Antiwar.com’s Week in Review | January 6, 2011
IN THIS ISSUENavy warships and sanctions provoke IranWar and peace at the Iowa caucusesU.S. approves Maliki’s purgesAf-Pak standing up to the U.S.?Assorted news from the empireWhat’s new at the blog?ColumnsAntiwar RadioEventsU.S. Provocations Destabilizing Persian...
Abusing and Impoverishing Afghans
This Frontline documentary is well worth a watch. It covers opium eradication policies in Afghanistan and all of the pain and suffering that ends up causing ordinary, peaceful Afghans. Watch, in particular, for Afghan government authorities, watched after by NATO...
Iran: The Case Against the Next War
The Case Against the Next War is "a concise package on foreign policy with Iran and Israel because [young activists] desired a resource to show parents and family something with integrity," says Nick Hankoff. The 26 year old media consultant created the presentation...
Correction
Due to a negligent misreading of an AP news report, I posted a story which incorrectly reported that Israel did not follow up on its promise to swap an additional 550 Palestinian prisoners after its first phase of 477. The full swap already took place. We want our...
The Real Legacy of the War in Iraq: Impunity
In 2005, eight U.S. Marines massacred 24 Iraqi men, women, and children in Haditha, Iraq, most of them civilians. Investigations and press reports found that, contrary to the statements of the Marines, they deliberately killed civilians. Nevertheless, not one of the...
The Scope of U.S. Defense Spending
Yesterday I wrote about the lies coming out of Washington on defense spending, misrepresenting the minuscule cuts being proposed as slashing the budget and compromising "national security." The truth is that what is being proposed are minor reductions in the rate of...
VIPS Memo to Obama: Avoid Another Long War
Obama's re-election campaign may be focusing almost exclusively on domestic economic issues but there are strong forces pushing him and the U.S to war again, this time with Iran. The dangerous brinkmanship with Iran could be alleviated if facts were not being...
The Incredible Push for Intervention in Syria
Marwa Daoudy has a piece at Al Jazeera titled "The Case Against Military Intervention in Syria" and it is an important read throughout. But the segment I found most instructive was the part describing the incredible pressure towards a U.S. intervention coming from...
