Like Randy Newman, I love LA. Only here, is anything truly possibly and what I mean by anything is yes, the comedic stylings of Russell Brand and Pamela Geller in one studio. Hilarity ensued. From BrandX: Pamela Geller doesn’t much care for Islam (or, after being...
New Documentary: War, Peace, and Politics in the Streets
THE ACTIVISTS: War, Peace, and Politics in the Streets from Melofilms on Vimeo. Created by Melody Weinstein, Michael T. Heaney, and Marco Roldán, The Activists: War, Peace, and Politics in the Streets describes, "...activism in the anti-war movement in the United...
VERIFIED: Where Wars Do — and Don’t Come From
Where wars DO come from: "It is not civilizations that promote clashes. They occur when old-fashioned leaders look for old-fashioned ways to solve problems by rousing their people to armed confrontation." --Kenichi Ohmae, The End Of The Nation State, (New York: The...
Why We Fight
It's no Kony 2012! I'm enough of a cynic to know that no one learns anything from the past, at least Eugene Jarecki can sleep well knowing he was right. While Jarecki's documentary "Why We Fight" was released in 2005, it (sadly) seems just as fresh as it did seven...
To Mark This Solemn Day, I’m Having a Luau
Today's hardest-hitting news story: "You'll Never Guess What The Obama Kids' School Is Serving For Lunch Today." Don't care? Well, you should. It's a "heavily Japanese-inspired menu, which includes Asian mushroom and oriental noodle soup, garlic roasted edamame,...
Join Peacemongers at Ventura County Antiwar Protest December 3rd
The staff of the Antiwar.com Los Angeles office will be taking part in an antiwar demonstration at Dizdar Park, 20 S Glenn Dr, Camarillo, CA on Saturday December 3 at 12:00pm Pacific. Please visit the Ventura County Meet Up for more information.
Join Ralph Nader and Lawrence Wilkerson on US Government Reactions to 9/11
On Monday, September 12, 2011 at 12:30pm at Busboys & Poets, 2021 14th St NW; (14th and V St NW), Washington, D.C. Free and open to the public. Ralph Nader and Busboys & Poets will host a thought-provoking roundtable discussion on Monday, September 12, 2011. Looking...
You Can Be My Wingman Any Time
Here's David Sirota on the Hollywood-Pentagon bromance: In June, the Army negotiated a first-of-its-kind sponsorship deal with the producers of “X-Men: First Class,” backing it up with ads telling potential recruits that they could live out superhero fantasies on...
Cold War Americans Not as Fainthearted as You Might Think
At Reason, Greg Beato sketches the history of the fallout shelter in Cold War America. Apparently, most people didn't get too carried away with doomsday preparations: "Despite what a 1961 issue of Good Housekeeping derided as 'massive propaganda to induce Americans to...
Are We Not Zombies?
What do zombies and the military industrial complex have in common? Let us count the ways. In fact, let military strategy & policy professor Michael Vlahos (relation, yes!) take you down that thorny path. Michael writes in Dark Lord, Dark Victory: America's Dark...
