Look. It's no secret most of us at Antiwar.com are libertarians and/or anarchists (a Venn diagram of the two labels would only have a few of us outside the overlapping part...). But it's never enough for some progressives that we are against every war, everywhere....
CNN's top-front story this morning is a disgusting video showing a dead girl from the al-Ranel neighborhood of Latakia. She was shot in the eye, and is sprawled out on the sidewalk. "Her mouth was frozen, slightly ajar. Her vacant face and lifeless head conjured the...
The Associated Press headline pushes the occupation line that the "coalition" is trying to "build" a cadre of leaders, but a perusal of the text makes clear that Kabul and its Western masters are actively demolishing age-old local governance traditions in a probably...
Here's the deal now: in the case of who shot down that Chinook in Afghanistan and if he was indeed killed by US forces yesterday, we have the word of the often-lying Pentagon against that of the often-lying Taliban. What to make of it, I don't know, but given the...
This Huffington Post article on the government seeking to recruit hackers into its ranks to "defend [the] nation in cyberspace" -- their title -- has a creepy, banally approving tone. In it, we see the US government wants to spark another "Manhattan Project"-style...
CNN-watching pays off every day. Every day there is something so utterly insane and unbelievable about the war or the economy that I can't help but stare in disbelief at the screen, or just laugh my ass off. This morning, it was that second thing. Anchor Don Lemon cut...
Imperial cheerleaders have a habit of blaming Iran for everything bad that happens to a US occupation, so I have come to accept they will pull that boogeyman out any chance they get. And yet I was still surprised when CNN contributor and Bush regime mouthpiece Frances...
Many times as editor of my local newspaper, The Bushwick News, I have tried to get our local representative in the House, Nydia Velázquez, to give her opinions on WikiLeaks and whistleblower Bradley Manning. It didn't seem a reach to try to elicit some response on the...
It turns out such activities as overthrowing Ivory Coast's recalcitrant dictator, miring itself in Libya, propping up Chad's leader is a strain on France's military. Africans who seek a liberal society might be forgiven for spying a glimmer of hope in the news. After...
Every time I see these unfortunately ambiguous wire story headlines -- "Key US lawmakers assail Obama on detainees" -- I think some American lawmakers are finally standing up to the executive-run torture-state and its gulags. A closer look is always disappointing....
