The anecdote is a useful device in broadcast journalism. To illustrate the ongoing recession and a recent spike in unemployment, NBC Nightly News made the effort, as they've done a million times before, to expose their viewers to the reality of the economic struggle...
Listen to Antiwar.com's Angela Keaton on the radio with Matthew David talking about Antiwar.com, libertarian foreign policy, and the new peace movement!
One tribal sheik, Youseff Ahmad, spoke about the debate about the future role of United States forces here that has dominated Iraqi public life of late. “We want them to leave, even before the end of this year,” Mr. Ahmad said. “They’ve destroyed us. They’ve only...
If you're up for reading a dutifully deceptive article on foreign aid, check what the Washington Post has to say about it. Recognition for the biggest lie in the article goes to this lovely little number: At least since the end of World War II, foreign aid’s explicit...
Antiwar.com's Angela Keaton was on Gadfly Radio last night with Martha Montelongo talking about the antiwar movement, ComeHomeAmerica.us, and the campaign for a left-right-radical coalition united against war and American interventionism. Listen to her segment here or...
Back in May I wrote about the secret war on Iran, which has so far manifested in cyber-terrorism, commercial sabotage, and assassinations of Iranian nuclear scientists. I inferred, critics would charge speculated, cautiously that this last piece of the puzzle...
The trial of Hosni Mubarak began today. A small scale repeat of the "clearing" and beating that took place in Tahrir Square on Monday occurred just outside the courthouse where pro and anti-Mubarak protesters clashed a bit. If he is convicted of the charges of killing...
To some extent, my feeling has lately been that the information age of the internet, Wikileaks, etc. is kicking away the ladder of government secrecy. Reading through this recent ACLU report on secrecy laws has sort of deflated that feeling... According to the...
Also listen in to Angela Keaton's appearance on Alan Colmes's radio show, talking about antiwar libertarians, what happened to the Obama-era antiwar movement, and what's to come for the future.
The United States government has been hyping a supposed link between Iran and al Qaeda operatives, positing in particular that a "safe haven" in Iran exists as "six terrorist operatives form a network that funnels money and personnel from the Gulf to Iraq,...
