From Just Foreign Policy: Congress is expected to vote in the next few days on a controversial proposal to arm and train Syrian rebels. Both Democratic and Republican lawmakers have expressed opposition. With recent reports that some so-called “moderate” Syrian rebels...
Jeremy Scahill: What ISIS Campaign Will Look Like on the Ground
Jeremy Scahill talked with MSNBC's Ari Melber on Thursday to discuss Obama's plan to escalate the U.S. military campaign against ISIS and offered a damning assessment of the administration's "strategy."
September 11th and the Missing 28 Pages of the 9/11 Report
Chris Hayes spoke with Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC) and Stephen Lynch (D-MA) on the secret 28 pages of the 911 Commission Report. That section of the report implicates foreign government involvement in the 9/11 attacks. Read more on them at 28pages.org.
Glenn Greenwald Speaks at Young Americans for Liberty Convention
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Antiwar GOP Congressman Justin Amash Wins Primary Challenge
Antiwar Republican Congressman Justin Amash won a very contentious primary challenge from Brian Ellis, who was supported by the GOP establishment for Michigan's 3rd district. Amash, who was significantly outspent, won with 57% of the vote. Amash has been a leader of...
Times of Israel Pulls Op-Ed: ‘When Genocide Is Permissible’
Updated Below: The Times of Israel has deleted an article from their website titled "When Genocide is Permissible." The article contends that the nature of war has changed and that "nothing, then, can be considered disproportionate when we are fighting for our very...
Justin Raimondo Talks to Alan Colmes About Gaza and the Politics of Israel
Wednesday on “The Alan Colmes Show,” Alan spoke to Justin Raimondo, Editorial Director of Antiwar.com to get an alternate take of the Israel/Palestine conflict. Raimondo told Alan that he felt that the far right wing has taken over Israel and that American media has...
Daniel Ellsberg: Snowden Kept His Oath Better Than Anyone in the NSA
At a conference earlier this month, Daniel Ellsberg, the hero who revealed the Pentagon Papers, spoke about another hero, Edward Snowden. Conor Friedersdorf writes about Ellsberg's talk and introduces the talk at his Atlantic column. Watch the video below (83...
CNN: US Never Apologized or Admitted Shooting Down Iranian Airliner in 1988
I was amazed to see this on CNN last night. Erin Burnett reported on other passenger airliners that have been shot down, focusing on the 1988 shooting down of an Iranian passenger airliner by the US Navy, killing all 274 on board. The US government worked hard to...
Ellsberg Billboards Urge Whistleblowing in DC: ‘Tell the Truth with Documents’
From the Institute for Public Accuracy: In an unprecedented push for whistleblowing in the nation’s capital, the new organization ExposeFacts announced today that 13 billboards have gone up near Capitol Hill, the Justice Department, the White House, the Government...


