Common Dreams: Former US President George W Bush, his Vice-President Dick Cheney and six other members of his administration have been found guilty of war crimes by a tribunal in Malaysia. ...Transcripts of the five-day trial will be sent to the chief prosecutor at...
Antiwar.com Newsletter | May 11, 2012
Antiwar.com Newsletter | May 11, 2012IN THIS ISSUEWhat we’ve been up toTop newsOpinion and analysisEventsAntiwar.com reader Mark Seiler races a Mazda Miata with Sports Car Club of America.What we’ve been up to:Our continued participation with Come Home America has...
Dempsey Rejects GOP Push for East Coast Missile Defense
Via Ben Armbruster at ThinkProgress, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey says there is no need for the recent GOP push to build a missile defense system on the East coast of the United States. Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH,) who supported the East Coast...
Making a Mockery of the 9/11 Trials
The government has demanded that any discussion of torture and detainee mistreatment be prohibited by the judge in the military trial of five men accused of facilitating the 9/11 attacks. The government has even gone so far as to demand that there must be “a 40-second...
The Politics of Intervention Prevent Resolution in Syria
Stephen Walt is "thinking outside the box," suggesting "a bit of a hail Mary" for mitigating the conflict in Syria: Is there anyway to convince Assad and his closest associates to leave? I don't have a surefire way to do it, but one big step in the right direction...
US Soldier Convicted of Rape in Imperial Installation in South Korea
News from the Empire in South Korea: A three-judge panel on Wednesday sentenced a U.S. soldier to six years in prison for raping a South Korean teenager in September. Pvt. Kevin Robinson was found guilty of raping the 17-year-old at her residence in Seoul after a...
Less Antman’s Antiwar Speech at the LP Convention
This is Less Antman speaking at the Libertarian Party's National Convention. Of course, we at Antiwar.com do not support political candidates or parties. But this speech hits on the type of message we have tried to put forth for so long. The state has an interest in...
What Protests in Bahrain Are Really About
Joost Hiltermann writes in the New York Review of Books blog about his recent trip to Bahrain: Talking to dozens of people both in Manama and in smaller communities outside the capital, I was told again and again that the situation was becoming worse, not better:...
Starving the Syrians for Human Rights -Physicians for Human Rights Supports Tougher U.S. Sanctions on Syria.
The wing of the U.S. human rights movement which targets foreign countries can wind up as a cruel business, aiding the ruthless and violent actions of the U.S. Empire, wittingly or not. For the U.S. all too often uses human rights as a cover for taking action...
‘Promoting Stability’ in Honduras With ‘Insidious Parallels’ to Terrorism
More than 600 U.S. troops are stationed across Honduras, engaged in an aggressive campaign in the so-called drug war. This piece from the New York Times yesterday explains that the strategy Washington is employing there draws from the "hard lessons learned from a...


