Let's hope that newly minted Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel will live up to some of our expectations and not be afraid to tell it like it is. Let's start with Afghanistan. We just found out today that an alleged data entry glitch in the Pentagon program that spits...
This week Marine Corps General John Allen joined a long and lamentable list of American leaders who have succumbed to the ancient affliction that conventional rhetoric has deemed the "graveyard of empires." He is not the first, but given that the United States seems...
I just found out that my friend and familiar Antiwar.com byline (and radio guest) Gareth Porter, has just won the Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism in London. This honor is for his outstanding research into the military's targeted killing strategy in Afghanistan....
I hate a Roman named Status Quo! Of course Ray Bradbury would have hated such a man, too. When he wrote these words as part of the gripping dialogue in his 1950 would-be classic, Fahrenheit 451, he was railing against the conformity and emptiness, the...
(Reposted from The American Conservative) For years, Pentagon officials have insisted that the open-air burn pits incinerating tons of garbage and other waste on U.S. bases in Iraq and Afghanistan could not be causing long-term health problems for our troops. But an...
The State Department is moving to fire Peter Van Buren, who we have profiled extensively as the man who exposed the fatal weaknesses in our so-called counterinsurgency strategy in Iraq and who has been an ardent critic of the U.S war and diplomatic policies in both...
At dawn, much of what was left of the Occupy Wall Street movement was convened at Foley Square in New York City, after being completely -- and forcibly -- cleared from Zuccotti Park in a 3 a.m. raid on the camp. Reuters has a great live video and Twitter feed here....
Latest Update: When WDAV insisted on keeping Lisa Simeone as a host of "World of Opera," NPR dropped "World of Opera" Friday from the list of shows it distributes nationally. WDAV says it will now distribute the show itself, and that Simeone isn't going anywhere....
Washington is a strange place. It presents one of those rare intense dichotomies in the country where you can occupy the same space with the most powerful people in the world and the most powerless at the very same time. The super rich and the super poor. Those with...
I originally posted this today at The American Conservative blog, @TAC Buried in an amazing poll released by the Pew Research Center today that says 1 in 3 post-9/11 veterans believe the Iraq and Afghanistan wars were ‘not worth fighting,’ is an assertion that 6 in 10...
