According to veteran journalist Greg Mitchell, The Washington Post yanked a story of his that he was commissioned to write about failures in the news media in the lead up to the Iraq War. His piece made the obviously true argument that the media not only failed to...
Tomas Young quickly became one of the most prominent Iraq veterans to oppose the war after he was shot in the spine and paralyzed in 2004 outside Sadr City. With years of antiwar activism behind him, and a body that continues to deteriorate, Young has decided...
Over at the indispensable LobeLog, James A. Russell writes on this reflective tenth anniversary of the Iraq War that it isn't just the fault of the Bush administration and the obedient Congress. Americans are to blame too. While it is true that we got led down the...
According to an exclusive report from Daniel Klaidman at The Daily Beast, President Obama "is poised to sign off on a plan to shift the CIA’s lethal targeting program to the Defense Department." Officials anticipate a phased-in transition in which the CIA’s drone...
Charles Duelfer, who led the CIA's Iraq Survey Group in 2004, argues a stunning yet popularly held belief in Foreign Policy magazine, that the Bush administration did not lie about Iraq's alleged WMD program; they were just wrong about it. "The intelligence wasn't...
The Bush administration's primary justification for launching the Iraq War is thought, probably correctly, to be an alleged WMD program that did not exist. The coterie of delusional neoconservatives surrounding Bush and Cheney contributed to a systematic process of...
This month is chock-full of mournful anniversaries. Most prominent today is the initiation of the Bush administration's bombing campaign and invasion of Iraq in 2003, observed today by Antiwar.com's very own Justin Raimondo. The anniversary has also been commemorated...
A federal appeals court has just ruled that the CIA cannot continue to "neither confirm nor deny" the existence of the drone war, in a court case prompted by a Freedom of Information Act request by the American Civil Liberties Union. ACLU press statement: "This is an...
Robert Dreyfuss thinks Obama's recently revealed policy of supporting Iraqi security forces through the CIA so they can fight al-Qaeda affiliates there and cut off the flow of fighters pouring into Syria is nonsensical. "We’re backing the same guys in Syria that we’re...
An American airman at the US military base in Okinawa, Japan has been suspended for one year after pleading guilty to breaking into a Japanese home, ransacking the place, and punching a teenage girl in the face while she was sleeping. He had been drinking heavily,...
