"We're leaving behind a sovereign, stable and self-reliant Iraq, with a representative government that was elected by its people." - President Barack Obama, Fort Bragg, N.C., December 2011 “You will leave with great pride – lasting pride.” - Secretary of Defense Leon...
Despite the legal burdens in keeping it secret, the Obama administration is doubling down on the drone war. In procedures for FOIA requests on "targeted lethal operations" conducted by the CIA - that is, the drone war - government lawyers asked the court to allow...
Obama's new initiative to sanction private companies that help undemocratic regimes repress their people should not be construed as an act against repression per se. Just the kind Washington isn't complicit in. The Washington Post explains "[t]he new steps are...
Antiwar.com Newsletter | April 20, 2012IN THIS ISSUEAntiwar.com featured at Nullify NDAATop NewsOpinion and analysisEventsNullify NDAA Speaking Event:Antiwar.com will have a featured speaking slot, along with Come Home America, at Nullify the NDAA in Los Angeles, May...
"...it was a direct violation of the constitutional rights of everybody in the country..."
People who actually work for the military empire and aren't running for office tend to be very honest about America's monstrous foreign policy. The fact that America has helped prop up barbarous dictatorships throughout the Middle East for decades isn't really allowed...
The Los Angeles Times has released just two of 18 photographs depicting U.S. soldiers posing happily next to Afghan corpses, or pieces of bodies. As with previous such incidents, the dehumanization of the "enemy" - a virtual necessity in war - runs deep. Other...
James Harkin argues at Foreign Policy that the internationalization of the conflict in Syria has exacerbated the civil strife there. Part of the problem lies with the Syrian National Council - the exile group allying itself with the opposition fighters - and their...
From ACLU's Blog of Rights: Today the ACLU and the Center for Constitutional Rights filed a Freedom of Information Act request seeking information about a horrific U.S. missile strike that killed dozens of civilians in Yemen. This was the Obama administration's first...
There is a fixation in elite foreign policy circles these days to speculate on the impending decline of America's global economic and military hegemony and to lament that decline as the dangerous end to international order. Without global American dominance, goes the...
