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),...
The UK Daily Mail on Sunday reports that British MPs were surprised to hear a visiting Pentagon official declare: "I hate all Iranians." Debra Cagan, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Coalition Affairs to US Defense Secretary Robert Gates, made the comments this month to...
As we move closer to confronting Iran for all sorts of reasons, including their President's slight stature, members of Congress from both parties couldn't wait to pile more sanctions on the people of Iran and anyone who wants to trade with them. Today the US House...
Georgie Anne Geyer writes today about Jon Basil Utley's journey to find the fate of his father who disappeared into the Soviet gulag. Jon's mother, Freda Utley, was a prominent American Communist in the 1920s. She fell in love with a brilliant Russian Jewish...
