The entire U.N. Security Council, representing 14 countries, voted to condemn Israeli settlement expansion as criminal only to have the resolution vetoed by the U.S.. Those 14 members united yesterday to criticize the U.S. position as one that prolongs the stagnated...
Eli Clifton at ThinkProgress directs us to a recent interview with Mitt Romney on Bill O'Reilly's show in which Romney's war rhetoric gets "challenged by an unlikely source": Interesting. Romney doesn't really respond to O'Reilly's estimation of the consequences of...
Washington Post, " Secrecy defines Obama's drone war": Since September, at least 60 people have died in 14 reported CIA drone strikes in Pakistan’s tribal regions. The Obama administration has named only one of the dead, hailing the elimination of Janbaz Zadran, a top...
Congratulations to the New York Times for catching up with what Antiwar.com has been covering since the first days of the Arab Spring and long before. Nicholas Kristoff's Op-Ed on Saturday had the title "Repressing Democracy, With American Arms," referring to U.S....
For those of you who have yet to see the brutality of Egyptian security forces on civilian protesters over the weekend: It obviously cannot go without mention here that these security forces and the military junta which has ordered this latest crackdown are supported...
Way back in June President Obama declared, against the legal advice of his top administration and military lawyers, that the war he decided to wage in Libya was exempt from the War Powers Resolution, which requires him to get permission from Congress for engaging in a...
The Obama administration is in accord with majorities in both chambers of Congress regarding the National Defense Authorization bill's provisions authorizing indefinite detention without charge or trial for terrorism suspects, possibly including American citizens...
I talked to Scott Horton yesterday about whether or not the Iraq war is really over and whether or not America endowed every Iraqi with freedom and independence (as opposed to a creeping dictatorship). But, as Iraqis burned the American flag yesterday during the last...
Remember how the United States has been cozying back up to the dictatorship in Uzbekistan for the sake of alternative supply routes to occupying forces in Afghanistan? And remember how Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visited Uzbekistan in October, largely for the...
