Apparently yesterday's MSNBC show Up with Chris Hayes is getting a lot of attention. And by attention I mean vitriol. His crime? questioning the martial civic religion and the morality of mindless soldier worship on Memorial Day. I can't decide whether or not I'm...
Joshua Landis, Director of the Center for Middle East Studies and Associate Professor at the University of Oklahoma, posted on his blog last week a letter from a friend who witnessed an encounter between an Iranian opposition activist and U.S. State Department...
Taking the "scary Iran story" angle to a new low, a new report today reveals that Iran could theoretically make 5 nuclear bombs if it took all of its civilian uranium and dedicated it exclusively to weapons production. The bulk of Iran's uranium is enriched to 3.5%,...
As I was testing the beer yesterday at a Rockville, Maryland, Memorial weekend event, my eye was caught by a t-shirt with the following bilingual motto: The black t-shirt was worn by a late 20-something with a military-style haircut. He was accompanied by his wife who...
Antiwar.com Newsletter | May 25, 2012IN THIS ISSUEPledge DriveTop NewsOpinion and analysisEventsHelp Keep This Project Going!"War is the motor that runs the turbine of growing government power," our Editorial Director Justin Raimondo wrote last week....
Political consultant and Antiwar.com volunteer Nick Hankoff turned a crash into cash for Antiwar.com. When I crashed my car a couple weeks ago, I learned just how tough Antiwar.com bumper stickers are. Unfortunately for me, the sticker did not absorb enough of the...
The State Department report on human rights says that U.S.-trained security forces in Mexico have "engaged in unlawful killings, forced disappearances, and instances of physical abuse and torture" in the U.S.-led war on drugs. Mike Riggs at Reason contacted the DEA...
Antiwar.com has obtained several more photos of the alleged police infiltrators, known by the aliases "Mo" and "Gloves," both of whom were allegedly tasked with acting as informants in the arrests of the group of NATO Summit activists know popularly known as the "NATO...
Julian Sanchez at the Cato Institute on the renewal of the FISA Amendment Act and the lawless surveillance state: It’s been almost four years since the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 put President Bush’s warrantless wiretap program on legal footing by authorizing broad,...
The long-awaited P5+1 talks with Iran took place today in Baghdad, with disappointing results. While the U.S. and its allies called for Iran to stop enriching uranium at 20 percent levels in exchange for delivery of the medical isotopes Iran is creating with the 20...
