Jay-Z and Beyoncé are with the terrorists. Actually they're with Barack Obama, which allows them the privilege of going on vacation in "enemy country" - something ordinary Americans are forbidden to do by Uncle Sam. Ed Krayewski: Jay-Z and Beyoncé visited Cuba for...
Photographer and antiwar activist Jayel Aharem quipped on twitter, "'Yesterday in San Diego, we chanted "B.A.R.A.C.K. how many kids did you kill today?' Turns out it was 11 http://is.gd/9pCMZA." Antiwar.com's Jason Ditz delivers the punch line.
In an Op-Ed at The Boston Globe, Thanassis Cambanis argues one reason the Obama administration hasn't directly intervened militarily in Syria is because the long, drawn out conflict hurts America's geo-political competitors. The war is also becoming a sinkhole for...
In an article at Der Speigel entitled "Leaving Corruptistan," Susanne Koelbl reflects on what we're left with after eleven years of war in Afghanistan: A state with a security apparatus that might be strong enough to at best hold the Taliban halfway in check. A...
During his confirmation process to become Secretary of Defense, Chuck Hagel delivered a slip of the tongue when describing his support for the Obama administration's policy of "containment" of Iran. With cameras rolling and Senators ready to pounce, somebody passed...
Over the weekend, The New York Times reported that the first ever CIA drone strike in Pakistan was not aimed at an al-Qaeda operative plotting to attack the US or US forces in Afghanistan, but rather targeted a man the Pakistani government didn't like. Mr. [Nek]...
IN THIS ISSUEEvents and ActivismAntiwar.com in the mediaTop NewsOpinion and analysisUpcoming Events and Activism: (1) Hollywood premiere of Silver Circle, an independent animated action film, which pits a group of underground rebels against the oppressive Federal...
A press release from the UN's Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights: The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Friday urged all branches of the United States Government to work together to close the Guantanamo detention centre, saying “the...
In response to increasing cross-border collaboration between al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) and Jabhat al-Nursa, AQI's offshoot in the Syrian rebel opposition, the Iraqi government informally requested the US conduct drone strikes against the militants, The Associated Press...
U.S. Cooption of the Human Rights Movement Continues. "When political people have finished with repression and violence PEN can indeed be forgotten. Until then, with all its flounderings and failings and mistaken acts, it is still, I think, a fellowship moved by...
