Via As'ad AbuKhalil, this picture evidently represents the views of many Egyptians: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton just returned from a visit to Egypt to meet with the new Islamist President Mohamed Mursi. Her armored motorcade...
"Two Named in Iran Uranium Export Scheme" That was the headline at the Washington Times, leading the person who didn't read any further to believe Iran was involved in an export scheme for uranium. Others termed it a "nuclear smuggling case," or a "nuclear export...
Antiwar.com Newsletter | July 13, 2012IN THIS ISSUELetterTop NewsOpinion and analysisAn Important Note to Our Supporters About Antiwar Radio:In order to continue being the leading source for non-interventionist news and analysis, Antiwar.com has had to make some...
Following up on yesterday's news that prisoners were injected with "mind altering drugs" before interrogation at Guantanamo Bay, the US is denying the report, kind of. See, it wasn't drugs, it was "medication." All the rest of the stuff appears to have been true....
In an interview with a top Taliban commander, the safe haven myth is dealt another blow (via: ThinkProgress). New York Times: “At least 70 percent of the Taliban are angry at Al Qaeda,” Maulvi said. “Originally, the Taliban were naïve and ignorant of politics and...
Former CIA case officer Reuel Marc Gerecht writes today in the Wall Street Journal that Obama should "unleash the CIA" on Syria and topple the Assad regime. He argues for "a muscular CIA operation launched from Turkey, Jordan and even Iraqi Kurdistan" and to deploy...
Thomas Ricks argues in the New York Times that we should reinstate military conscription (via Chris Preble). He quotes Gen. Stanley McChrystal, who thinks risk of death ought to be thrust on all Americans if the criminals in government decide they want to make war. "I...
Mohammad Ali Shabani, based in Tehran, has written an important piece at al Jazeera on the effect of the US-led international sanctions on Iran. He opens by describing a man named Hassan who is suffering from cancer but cannot get the medicine needed to fight it. His...
One of Mitt Romney's top campaign advisors (and potential Secretary of State if Obama loses) has such inadequate understanding of the Iranian issue, and is so belligerently wrong on the fundamentals, that it should frighten any observer of the 2012 race. In his latest...
