Lesson one from Cato's Julian Sanchez is that "Government surveillance is now almost entirely off the books." The old way of tallying how many times the national security state attempts to spy on citizens is not taking into account the digital internet age. He...
There are two doomsday scenarios Washington and their welfare recipients in the war industry are predicting if defense budgets get cut. The first is that the defense corporations will have to lay off workers and unemployment will increase massively, sending the...
I've been writing here for over eight years, and every time I get into a comfortable little zone where I think I've heard every piece of nonsense the war loons can throw at us they manage to surprise with both their unending thirst for blood and treasure and the sheer...
We are deeply disappointed to announce that Scott Horton is no longer part of the Antiwar.com staff. Antiwar Radio has consistently been the best foreign policy show on the airwaves, always featuring the biggest names in foreign policy and noninterventionistism....
At the Aspen Ideas Festival last week, retired/fired General Stanley McChrystal gave a ringing endorsement of drone warfare, only to subsequently mention, footnote-style, that the so-called precision bombing of drones don't always spare civilians. "We should be using...
Richard Silverstein sent this update last night to Antiwar.com regarding Sunday's article Shin Bet Arrests Israeli Druze at Syrian Border, Slaps Gag on Media Reporting: Yesterday, the Shin Bet lifted the gag order prohibiting reporting on the case of the 38 year-old...
Dexter Filkin's writes in the New Yorker about the potential for civil war to break out in Afghanistan once the US "leaves" in 2014. He interviews Abdul Nasir, who was present in Afghanistan when the Soviets invaded and witnessed what happened when they left. What...
In Foreign Affairs, Christopher Swift attempts to debunk what he calls the "drone blowback fallacy." After visiting Yemen and investigating the issue himself, he argues that US drone attacks aren't a significant motivator of al-Qaeda recruits. Last month, I traveled...
Human Rights Watch is again calling on President Aquino of the Philippines to prosecute and put a stop to the rampant torture, extra-judicial killings, and disappearances of "leftist activists, journalists, and clergy." The Aquino government has only been in power for...
