Where wars DO come from: "It is not civilizations that promote clashes. They occur when old-fashioned leaders look for old-fashioned ways to solve problems by rousing their people to armed confrontation." --Kenichi Ohmae, The End Of The Nation State, (New York: The...
According to reports, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) is claiming that more than 300 people - 98 soldiers, 139 civilians and 65 rebels - were killed in Syria on Thursday. This would make it the highest death toll in a single day for the whole of the...
For several months now, Foreign Affairs magazine has featured something of a back-and-forth debate about Iran, its nuclear program, and war. In the January/February edition, Matthew Kroenig, Georgetown professor and fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations wrote a...
Via Laura Rozen, this video was released by Bulgarian authorities and allegedly shows the man suspected of blowing up the bus full of Israelis yesterday. Bulgarian authorities on Thursday released a video of the man suspected of being the bus bomber, and said that he...
Micah Zenko on Op-Ed militarism: There is no body of civilians that more consistently makes unrealistic demands for the use of military force than editorial boards and opinion-page writers of major American news outlets. These appeals range from full-blown cockamamie...
Esam Al-Amin describes US policy towards Egypt: In this high stakes of international power play the U.S. strategy in the region is to prefer a managed transition to civilian rule and democratic governance as long as the American major strategic objectives are not...
Reading through, as I sometimes do, the great collection of essays in We Who Dared to Say No to War: American Antiwar Writing From 1812 to Now, edited by Murray Polner and Thomas E. Woods, I came across a piece by William Jennings Bryan. Resigning as Wilson's...
U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) wants to end U.S. aid to Pakistan. A sound stance by any peace measure even if one doesn't share the libertarian bent of Antiwar.com's editors. Foreign aid, a combination of bribes, blood money and welfare, is a fuel of the war machine,...
According to this article from the Telegraph, at least one pro-Syrian-opposition lobbyist in Washington thinks the Obama administration's decision not to intervene any further in the Syrian conflict is made primarily due to the demands of the electoral cycle, and that...
While MSNBC and Fox News bicker over how many of Mitt Romney's tax returns have been released, there is a giant gaping void where they could be talking about substance. To remind those talking heads and their producers trying their best to imitate ESPN, the US is at...
