Via Micah Zenko, this short excerpt from New York Times reporter David Sanger's new book, Confront and Conceal: Obama's Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power: And the core of the American argument [to Israel] was simple: attack Iran, and you set the program...
Another Honduran was killed this weekend by US Drug Enforcement Agents, according to the New York Times. The DEA claims the man who was killed was a suspected drug dealer and reached for his gun, making the DEA's shots "self-defense." No independent observers were...
Antiwar.com Newsletter | June 24, 2012IN THIS ISSUEWhat’s newTop newsOpinion and analysisEventsThis week’s top news: Citing Potential ‘War Crimes’ UN Official Questions Legality of Drone War: UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions has...
Via Daniel Larison, this Pew survey finds broad Arab support for Syria's Bashar al-Assad to step down and very little support for a Western military intervention: As Larison notes, "the farther removed from Syria’s immediate vicinity they are, respondents tend to be...
This Associated Press article comes from reporters who spent two weeks with opposition fighters in northern Syria. It is notable because almost all of the reporting on the conflict in Syria has been through second or third parties, often from a station in neighboring...
Antiwar.com economic analyst David Henderson appeared on Russia Today's Crosstalk. Peter Lavelle hosts, along with other guests Dan Williams of Reuters, and Sadegh Zibakalam of the University of Tehran. David explains that Iran is not our enemy and that there is no...
Writing in the New York Times, Brian Doherty, author of a recently published book on Ron Paul, asks the question: "For the Ron Paul Wing, Now What?" In the midst of an otherwise insightful and sympathetic piece, we get a disapproving reference to a lawsuit against the...
An odd story is emerging today, revealing that at least some Apple Stores are refusing to sell products to ethnically Persian people and claiming it is because of the US embargo on Iran. The reports begin in Georgia, where a 19-year-old US citizen was barred from...
From Roots Action: Meticulous researchers have documented that U.S. drones are killing many innocent civilians in Pakistan, Yemen and elsewhere. Drones are making the world less stable and creating new enemies. Their remoteness provides those responsible with a sense...
The Washington Times has picked up on some gossip on what a Romney presidential cabinet would look like. Guess who for secretary of state? John R. Bolton, the U.N. ambassador during the George W. Bush administration and specialist on arms control and security issues,...
