Following a flurry of reports that a Pentagon contractor's foraging robotic platform would be feasting on the corpses of slain soldiers, the company in question Cyclone Power Technologies Inc. has issued a press release hoping to clear up the matter. "We completely...
Will Future US Military Vehicles, Robots Feast on the Flesh of the Slain? The real downside to the Pentagon's planned army of merciless killbots, besides the inevitable robot rebellion (which the Pentagon is spending billions trying to head off) is all that fuel....
Today is the 123rd birthday of Randolph Bourne, the antiwar writer and intellectual for whom the Randolph Bourne Institute, which operates Antiwar.com, is named. Bourne was a major opponent of the First World War, and died during the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic at the...
GulfNews.com has a fantastic interview with Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, in which he discusses (among other things) former Vice President Dick Cheney's secret assassination unit, the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC). Hersh had...
If there's one thing the private sector can't compete with a modern military on, it's the ability to drive millions of people from their homes in a matter of weeks. The situation in the Swat Valley is the largest migration the nation has seen since the 1947 partition...
Monday the Friends Committee on National Legislation is organizing a national call-in day encouraging people to call their senators (1-800-590-6313) and asking them to co-sponsor S. 416, the Cluster Munitions Civilian Protection Act of 2009, a bill sponsored by Sen....
Klaus Madersbacher has set up a really great German language website called Antikrieg.com with German language translations of some of the best English language antiwar articles available - including many from Antiwar.com. So if you know some German speakers looking...
Likud Party leader and well-known soothsayer Binyamin Netanyahu has predicted that if Israel doesn't have total control over Jerusalem then al-Qaeda will blow up the Holy Sepulchre, sparking "an escalation of religious conflict" we can't even envision. It seems to me...
Remember Joe the Plumber? Me either but America (or a subset thereof) was apparently obsessed with this fellow for a week or two there. Unwilling to relinquish the limelight he appears to have lost months ago, Joe donned his reporters cap and went to Israel to cover...
Just hours after the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) in Iraq took effect, we reported that American forces shot a civilian woman in Baghdad. Such a shooting was expected to be a big test for the SOFA, which ostensibly was meant to prevent the US from shooting and...
