One of the most vocal opponents of the US invasion and occupation of Iraq, William Rivers Pitt of Truthout, has fallen into the trap set by the War Party. Pitt declares: If we haul stakes and leave, we risk having the country collapse permanently into a Balkanized...
Last night, Brian Williams released a breaking story on NBC: that the presiding judge on the Saddam tribunal had been assassinated. It turned out it was an error: one of the lower judges and a lawyer were killed. Not a major error in the news report, except.... NBC...
I want to welcome two new additions to the Antiwar.com Blog:Scott Horton has already started blogging. Scott is the host of Weekend Interview Show, which has frequently been featured on Antiwar.com, and a new author here as well.Anthony Gregory is also joining the...
CNN reports:Saddam Hussein's half-brother, who was a personal adviser during his presidency, was captured in a joint Iraqi and coalition forces operation, Iraqi government officials said Sunday.Associated Press explains:Iraqi security forces captured Saddam Hussein's...
After a year-end holiday slump, Antiwar.com is back on Alexa/Amazon's Top 50 News Site list. Combining reach and rank, Antiwar.com ranks #37 among the Top 50 News Sites on the Web. We are just behind Los Angeles Times, CBS News, and the Chicago Tribune, and just ahead...
From Juan Cole: Az-Zaman reports that the "Cadres and Chosen Party" of 180 members of the Sadr Movement is coming in third in the early election returns [in the south], after the mainstream Shiite United Iraqi Alliance and the Iraqiyah list of interim Prime Minister...
There have been a lot of turnout estimates thrown around fast and loose -- hopefully we will have a better indication of the truth soon. But the International Organization for Migration (IOM) seems to have learned some propaganda techniques from the previous Iraqi...
A fascinating Zogby poll of Iraqis was released yesterday. Some key results:Only 9% of Sunnis says they will definitely vote, 76% say they will definitely not vote.Majorities of both Sunni Arabs (82%) and Shiites (69%) favor U.S. forces withdrawing either immediately...
Investor's Business Daily wants the US to invade Syria:Regime change in Syria should be the ultimate goal of the civilized world.And they seem to have no illusions about it:A move against Syria would no doubt have given critics even more reason to make the Vietnam...
The end of the (tax) year is just a week away. Did you know that donations to Antiwar.com are tax-deductible? As a division of the 501(C)3 Randolph Bourne Institute, Americans may deduct the full amount of their yearly donations to Antiwar.com from their federal and...
