Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan has recently been informed that she is the target of an IRS lawsuit. She posted the following on her Facebook page: I just got a notice from the IRS that I owe them 104 grand and they are going to levy my bank accounts and property. I...
Just wanted to quickly draw attention to this WikiLeaks State Department diplomatic cable which details a horrible war crime committed by the US in Iraq in 2006. The cable excerpts a letter written by Philip Alston, Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary, or...
And now for today's extreme war propaganda from the paper of record, the New York Times. It would be premature to call the war in Libya a complete success for United States interests. But the arrival of victorious rebels on the shores of Tripoli last week...
Last week we got a rather explicit perspective on what exactly is the driving ideological and political force driving Israeli policies of territory and statehood with Palestinians through the deputy speaker of the Israeli Knesset who unabashedly rejected the notion...
We've done a good amount here at Antiwar on Guantanamo, the torture, and the legal black hole that has kept people there without charge or trial for years on end. Not to mention the lies and corruption that came with it. But here's Amnesty International, as if we...
Previous posts about US policy towards Colombia illustrate how the drug war has served as a pretext for supporting atrocities and a corrupt government in order to secure strong regional influence and expansions of the empire. The US justifies supporting, training, and...
A new State Department diplomatic cable has been released by WikiLeaks detailing the visit to Libya McCain had in 2009 aimed at fostering a closer relationship with Gadhafi. We've known about this for some time, despite the mainstream media not having mentioned it. I...
McClatchy: U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham on Monday called on the U.S. government to send more money to Middle East countries in turmoil to push them toward democracy. “Foreign aid is a very complicated, controversial topic, particularly when you’re broke. But ... it is...
Ahmad Majidyar blogs at the American Enterprise Institute about US-NATO negotiations with the Taliban, characterizing them as "goodwill gestures" and "appeasement." The British Embassy in Kabul recently hosted an Iftar party on the occasion of the Islamic holy month...
It's not new (McClathcy, for example, reported on it quite well back in May), but it's interesting to read first hand how in US diplomatic cables from 2008, the US embassy in Tripoli sent cables back to Washington describing "a reportedly deliberate GOL [Government of...
