Collateral Damage: The Equations

ALLAN NAIRN: Well, now, as the U.S. is losing its edge economically, it has one clear comparative advantage. And that's in killing. And it's using it. Obama has increased the attacks on Afghanistan, Pakistan. Brookings Institution last year estimated that for every...

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Dubya was right??

From film-maker Oliver Stone's interview with former Argentine President Nestor Kirchner, we discover: Oliver Stone: "Were there any eye-to-eye moments with President Bush that day, that night?" Nestor Kirchner: "...I said that a solution to the...

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Blackout?

Can YOUR card do this? AMY GOODMAN: Let me ask you how war fits into this. I mean, you co-wrote the book with Linda Bilmes, The Three Trillion Dollar War. How does war fit into our problems with the economy? JOSEPH STIGLITZ: Well, war fits in because you're creating a...

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OOPS! Again.

...allegedly "hacked" software, in the case of the CIA, is now being used to guide killer drones to their targets, according to IISI's legal pleadings, despite the fact that the modified software doesn't function properly... --CIA Drone-Code Scandal Now Has...

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Droning On. And On & On & On

Unfortunately, that's not just Mr. Obama's speeches - - - AMY GOODMAN: "...the Obama administration's drone war in northwest Pakistan is continuing. There have been at least nine drone attacks this month, the latest killing five people in North Waziristan Sunday....

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ANOTHER U.S. washout?

The Obama Administration has been catching choreographed flack -- from the militaryindustrialcongressional complex -- ever since it announced a now wimped down withdraw from Afghanistan beginning no later than July, 2011: Gen. James Conway: "In terms of the July...

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Justin Raimondo on Fox Business Channel

Update: A video of the full show has been posted here. The first segment is Julian Assange, with Justin Raimondo (and his opponent) in the second segment. We will be posting the stand-alone segments in the next day or so. Antiwar.com's Editorial Director Justin...

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Weigel vs. WikiLeaks

On his Twitter feed Monday, Dave Weigel, journalist, posted the following (emphasis mine): The WikiLeaks Afghan dump is depressing. Very tired of our effort there being subjected to this kind of crap. When Glenn Greenwald pressed Weigel to clarify what "kind of crap"...

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Antiwar Radio on Pacifica

Antiwar Radio's Scott Horton will be interviewing Gareth Porter and Michael Hastings for KPFK 90.7 FM Los Angeles/98.7 Santa Barbara, Friday, July 16 at 5:00 PM Pacific. Listen live here.

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