The War Party has been trying to organize a divestment campaign against Iran modeled on the long-running South Africa anti-divestment campaign. AIPAC alerts us to the fact that the California Iran Divestment Bill will be voted on in the next couple days in the State...
The latest Zogby/UPI poll shows that Americans have little confidence in any of the Presidential candidates' ability to handle the war in Iraq. When asked: "Which of the 2008 presidential candidates would best handle the war in Iraq?", No candidate receives more than...
A few weeks ago we announced that Hitwise, the premier ranking company, had ranked Antiwar.com as the #10 political site on the Web. This week, Antiwar.com moved up to #6!
I am not familiar with AZADAR.com and ZULJANA.com, but they are live-blogging the clashes in Karbala, including some short video clips. They say 90 have been killed.
Yesterday, the California State Assembly approved a proposal to allow voters to express their opinion on the "immediate, complete, safe and orderly withdrawal of United States forces" from Iraq. The bill goes back to the State Senate, which had approved a slightly...
An interesting talk by one of today's leading experts on the Middle East. The talk was given Friday at the New America Foundation. Based on Cole's new book, Napoleon's Egypt: Invading the Middle East. PS: Anyone know how they got YouTube to run 71 minutes in a single...
[audio:http://dissentradio.com/radio/07_08_15_bykofsky.mp3] You'd think that someone who wrote this article would be ready if he was going to appear on Antiwar Radio. But Scott Horton kicks his butt when he comes on to defend his position that Americans would benefit...
Last week Hitwise, a leading Internet traffic-rating service, announced their new rankings for political sites. Under the overall category of political websites, Antiwar.com was ranked #10 for the week ending August 4. This morning, Hitwise announced their rankings...
A video has surfaced of Dick Cheney predicting an invasion of Iraq would lead to a "quagmire." In 1994, Cheney explained his reasons for not advocating an invasion of Iraq following the first gulf war: Q: Do you think the U.S., or U.N. forces, should have moved into...
At first I though he was kidding, until I looked at some of his past writings. Stu Bykofsky, columnist for the Philadelphia Daily News, is hoping for another major terror attack on the US. He lists the likely targets for al-Qaeda, hoping they will take him up on his...
