Somehow America's most prominent chest-beating war-hawks feel legitimate in fear-mongering about Gaddafi's most recent charades, real or percieved, in a desperate attempt to retroactively justify U.S.-NATO intervention. First, as Dan Larison reported upon, we have...
Angela Keaton talks libertarianism and Antiwar.com on New Hampshire Capital Access! Topics include the performance of Barack Obama measured against recent past Presidents, the relationship of the Left and Libertarians to the anti-war movement, the efficacy and cost of...
Republicans are berating Obama about the Somali pirate Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame who was caught in the Gulf of Aden two months ago and kept on board a U.S. Navy ship for interrogation instead of being informed of his rights. Indeed, they are criticizing the...
Last month our own Angela Keaton spoke on a panel in the Live Free or Die state on the future of the antiwar movement. Along with her are Will Hopkins of NH Peace Action, Iraq veteran Alex Peterson and John V. Walsh, MD of Come Home America.us, which has just posted...
Unbelievable news: bombing another country is not war. Over at Foreign Policy, Thomas E. Ricks writes that he's convinced by the Obama administration's justification for use of drones in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen, and now Somalia. That is, they are not a form a war...
As far as the Arab Spring goes, Morocco seems to be a model for how not to needlessly shed blood and inflame unrest as we've seen in many other Arab countries. Morocco's overwhelming approval of a new constitution granting new rights to women and minorities was met...
When the Obama administration last week released their new National Strategy for Counterterrorism I naively expected some honest iteration of policy of the kind that slip through in declassified NSC reports. That wasn't the case. Rather, the report was similar to a...
Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies conducted research on the costs of the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan: The final bill will run up to at least $3.7 trillion and could reach as high as $4.4 trillion, according to the research...
State Department legal advisor Harold Koh is turning out to be the Obama administration's John Yoo. He spoke at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Tuesday to explain his ridiculous interpretation of the War Power Resolution which Obama favored over the...
Republican Presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty is performing a political move to make a name for himself by giving a speech deriding Obama's response to the Arab Spring. The speech is "being billed as a major foreign policy address" from the very guy who has trouble...
