Quite tragic. CNN was ready to help lead the march to attack Iran with its special "We Were Warned – Iran Goes Nuclear." The two-hour show was to air December 12. Rather than deal with facts, the show was set in a future where Iran has become a nuclear threat. That...
The November 21 Iraq Weekly Status Report, published by the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs of the US Department of State: Senior military commanders now portray the intransigence of Iraq's Shiite dominated government as the key threat facing the U.S. effort in Iraq,...
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....
