Many are excited today about President Obama's reelection. But not everybody. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ain't so happy, according to Haaretz: "The prime minister won’t soon forget the night of November 6. It started with the election of his ex-bureau...
How quickly did the neocons stick the shiv in their candidate's back? Minutes after Fox News called the election for Obama, they hauled out Charles Krauthammer, who opined that Romney "is a northeastern liberal" -- a fact he had withheld from Fox News viewers until...
Grover Norquist in Foreign Affairs railing against the suggestion that taxes be raised: Despite these strict [constitutional] limits, the U.S. federal government has grown enormously in size, cost, and power over the last two centuries, mostly as a result of the...
The election is today. Invariably thrown around at these times are platitudes about our great nation and the people's decision giving divine mandate to the victor. In the fog of this rhetoric it's difficult to remember that the election is really about ushering in...
Frequent Antiwar.com contributor Tom Engelhardt recently spoke to Bill Moyers about the election, drones, and the military-industrial complex.
Joshua Landis - who was consistently against US intervention in Syria before he was for sending in heavy weapons to rebels - writes that the Obama administration's latest effort to set up a new council of Syrian opposition leaders to organize the country towards...
Like Randy Newman, I love LA. Only here, is anything truly possibly and what I mean by anything is yes, the comedic stylings of Russell Brand and Pamela Geller in one studio. Hilarity ensued. From BrandX: Pamela Geller doesn’t much care for Islam (or, after being...
“Don’t treat China as an enemy. Otherwise you end up with an enemy in China.” Those are the words of former Chinese diplomat Jia Xiudong. And they reflect the thinking in the Chinese government, as best we can tell. They don't appreciate Obama's "pivot" to Asia, a...
DC Editor John Glaser appeared on RT's CrossTalk with Thomas Carothers, vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and Charles A. Kupchan, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.
Bringing the September 11 attack on the Benghazi Consulate finally full circle today, a new analysis piece is reporting that the reason the Pentagon didn't respond to a multi-hour attack in a Libyan city is that, shockingly, the US doesn't have a massive military...
