Douglas Bloomfield at The Jewish Week informs us that 13,000 lobbyists from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) will descend upon Capitol Hill this weekend for their annual conference to order members of Congress not to cut $3 billion-plus in aid to...
The pressure for Washington to add more heft to their support for the Syrian rebels is heating up again. Secretary of State John Kerry announced today that the US will, in what Reuters describes as "for the first time" send "non-lethal aid" directly to Syrian rebels...
At the Daily Beast's Open Zion blog, Yousef Munayyer responds to the recent gossip about another impending Palestinian uprising, or intifada. Any single incident of abuse could be the spark, he writes. Just to name a few off the top of his head: There was the killing...
There are at least two ways to evaluate the US's policy of sweeping economic sanctions on Iran. The first is to take the stated aim of the sanctions - what US officials claim is their purpose - and assess their efficacy. In this case, US officials claim the purpose of...
The Cato Institute has posted this graphic putting the impending automatic defense cuts in context: See here and here for more Antiwar.com coverage of sequestration.
From the beginning of the Obama administration's savage economic sanctions on Iran, Antiwar.com has been highlighting the humanitarian costs of such policies. The sanctions are not only undermining the Iranian economy in the form of high unemployment, inflation, etc....
One unfortunate consequence of the heroic work of WikiLeaks to uncover government crimes was that it prompted the government to be even more radical in their classification procedures and their crackdown on whistleblowers. The good news is that excessive secrecy is...
The Obama White House seems to be launching a public relations campaign against China, drumming up hatred and fear about alleged cyber-espionage activities of the Chinese government against the US. The President is reportedly even considering imposing economic...
Over at the Lew Rockwell blog, Michael Rozeff makes a fine point on Washington's skyrocketing hypocrisy: Obama supports a UN treaty on what a US official terms "illicit arms trafficking and proliferation". At the same time, the US and ally Saudi Arabia are sending...
I was going to resist posting this aggravating video-gone-viral today, but I've decided to spread the aggravation around. If I got stuck hearing Ann Coulter speak as if she knows about libertarians and war, then you must too. John Stossel hosts a show once a year at...
