Scott Shane from the New York Times has issued a clarification on their blog regarding last week's story about President Obama's role in deciding who to add to his ever-growing "kill list." The clarifications are two-fold, mostly lashing other sites that took the...
Its Memorial Day and for many Americans this means vacation. Not for Antiwar.com of course, because the war doesn't take a vacation and neither do we. But this sort of "take a trip up north" or "go to a barbecue" holiday comes with the built-in assumption that we...
Taking the "scary Iran story" angle to a new low, a new report today reveals that Iran could theoretically make 5 nuclear bombs if it took all of its civilian uranium and dedicated it exclusively to weapons production. The bulk of Iran's uranium is enriched to 3.5%,...
RT: Lawmakers in New York State are proposing new legislation that involves the Web, and no, it’s not SOPA-esque or another CISPA-like spy-bill. Politicians in the Empire State want to outlaw anonymous speech on the Internet. Republican Assemblyman Jim Conte says that...
A lot of people are puzzling over the Obama Adminstration's stance on the P5+1 talks going on in Baghdad right now. In particular, the administration has said that even if a deal is reached with Iran at the summit, they aren't going to remove any sanctions from them...
In an interview today on CNN, Afghan President Hamid Karzai was asked about reports that Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R - CA) is banned from entering Afghanistan. Karzai confirmed the ban, and went on to say that: “A democratically elected congressman of the United States...
On May 1, President Obama arrived in Kabul, Afghanistan like a thief in the night. Embassy officials and the White House initially claimed the reports of his visit were "untrue" and by the time they copped to it, the president had signed a pact with Hamid Karzai...
Justin has already written about this in great detail, but I thought I'd put up an image comparison between the AP's "drawing" and a detonation nanodiamond explosion chamber. Given that Iran is known to have a perfectly legal, 100% non-nuclear, 100% civilian...
Once again exemplifying the ridiculous amount of sway the US wields over nominally independent countries, a new report on Georgia's upcoming elections has Bidzina Ivanishvili, a billionaire and would-be prime minister of Georgia, spending large amounts of money on US...
Hey Michigan State University, paranoid much? New evidence shows that MSU's decision to close virtually its entire Dubai campus in 2010, nominally for financial reasons, was actually the result of paranoia about "Iranian spies" that they never knew for sure actually...
