In a report in today's Daily Mail, A Chinese submarine surfaced in the middle of a recent Pacific naval exercise and close to the vast U.S.S. Kitty Hawk - a 1,000ft supercarrier with 4,500 personnel on board. By the time it surfaced the 160ft Song Class...
IraqSlogger reports: A pro-US Sunni paramilitary force has been announced in a notoriously rough area of Eastern Baghdad, local sources tell IraqSlogger. In the Sulaikh area, a "Sulaikh Awakening" (Sahwat al-Sulaikh) group has been formed, locals report, which is...
At the Independent Institute in Oakland, California, on Tuesday, November 6: For more than a century U.S. foreign policy—whether conducted by Democrats or Republicans—has been based on the assumption that Americans’ interests are served best by intervening...
Paul Jacob, political reformer, libertarian and prominent term-limit activist, is in major legal trouble again. As some readers may know, in the early 1980s Jacob spent five and a half months in prison for resisting draft registration and thus violating the Selective...
In an upset, Polish voters elected a pro-business opposition party pledged to pull Polish troops out of Iraq this year.
This week Ron Paul introduced the 'American Freedom Agenda Act of 2007' to roll back the power of the federal government by restoring support for the US Constitution. The bill would, among other things, repeal the Military Commissions Act of 2006, prohibits...
According to a Houston Chronicle analysis of the third-quarter finance reports, Ron Paul once again leads in donations from those who list the military as their employer. He is followed by Barack Obama, and then by John McCain. Paul also led among military...
Our own Scott Horton has won the Austin Chronicle's "Best of Austin 2007" award for "Best Iraq War Insight and Play-by-Play." Scott won the "Critic's Choice" award for Antiwar Radio (a division of Antiwar.com), which is based in Austin and broadcast live on KAOS-FM....
A very interesting interview with Scott Horton. Yes, Scott Horton of Antiwar.com and Antiwar Radio, not Scott Horton of Harper's (who has an article linked on our site today). Check it out.
Today the Senate passed Bush's war funding request by an overwhelming vote of 92-3. Quite a coincidence about the five who didn't vote: they are all running for President. That's right: the five absentions were Biden (D-DE), Clinton (D-NY), Dodd (D-CT), McCain (R-AZ),...
