President Obama this week defended the US's policy of force feeding detainees in Guantanamo Bay who are protesting their due process-free indefinite detention by going on a hunger strike. On Wednesday, UN human rights officials declared that force feeding amounts to...
The hoopla over President Obama's statements on the Guantanamo Bay prison yesterday have obscured the reality of the situation. Sometimes broad talk of policy questions get in the way of the truly revealing details. But now we have an opportunity to get really...
When the news about chemical weapons use in Syria hit the headlines again last week, I wrote that the whole debate on the issue was bogus. I argued that the alleged use of chemical weapons didn't change the fact that the administration sees war in Syria as too costly...
I am pleased to introduce the latest addition to the Antiwar.com staff, our new Contributing Editor, Lucy Steigerwald. Lucy was previously an Associate Editor at Reason magazine, where she wrote on issues ranging from drones, the drug war, the US justice system,...
As we noted in the news section yesterday, The New York Times reported this week on "bags of cash" that have been continually sent to Afghan President Hamid Karzai "courtesy of the CIA." Despite its unsurprising "revelations," the story has received a lot of attention...
From the beginning, Antiwar.com warned of the inevitable blowback that would result from the US-NATO war in Libya. Eager to prove itself on the side of Arab Spring protests, America chose sides in a civil war on trumped up pretenses of humanitarian intervention....
After months of being reluctant to address it, the White House today announced it now believes the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad has used chemical weapons in its bloody, two-year civil war. "Our intelligence community does asses with varying degrees of confidence...
Farea al-Muslimi, the Yemeni youth activist and journalist who testified at the Senate Judiciary Hearing this week on the drone war, will be meeting with White House officials to tell them too about how the drone war terrorizes civilians and helps al-Qaeda...
At The Daily Beast, James Kirchick blasts the new Ron Paul Institute for being "comprised of anti-Semites, 9/11 truthers, and dictator lovers." Kirchick goes astray on a number of claims, but at one point he links to a piece by former CIA official Michael Scheuer...
Victor Davis Hanson's latest piece at The National Review can only be described as delusional. Hanson makes the argument that Obama's foreign policy is "neo-isolationist" - whatever that means. Most Republicans are still unable to restrain from hurling the...
