...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...
“The American Combat Mission in Iraq Has Ended …”
And if you believe that, I've got a bridge you might be interested in buying. It connects my oceanfront properties in Kansas (also for sale) to the magical island where I keep my leprechaun-sourced gold hoard. From the Washington Post's account of an attack on an...
Why Are People Grudgeful?
Timothy P. Carney weighs in on the "Cato purge": [Brink] Lindsey will be portrayed as a martyr, excommunicated for his heresies from the Right's dogma. In this role, he joins neoconservative writer David Frum, who was driven from the American Enterprise Institute...
Now Comes the Deadly ‘Peace’ for Iraq
One soldier, the first since the symbolic withdrawal, lost his or her life during a rocket attack today in Basra.
YouTube of Iran Debate
Below is the 2 1/2 hour entirety of that Iran debate at UCR on April 1, 2010. Featured speaker was Reese Erlich. Panelists were Erlich, Larry Greenfield, Christopher Records and myself. The host was Louis Vandenberg. Thanks to Joe Briggs for putting this on his...
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"...
Eric Garris on Russia Today
Antiwar.com founder Eric Garris spoke to Russia Today on the extent of the U.S. government's intervention overseas, the effect of endless war on the economy, the lack of probing mainstream coverage on Afghanistan and the reality of life in Gaza....
He NAILS it!
Regular antiwar.com contributor Tom Engelhardt NAILS it - - - on Democracy Now! too. Tom Engelhardt on "The American Way of War: How Bush’s Wars Became Obama’s" Here: http://www.democracynow.org/2010/6/18/afghan
IVAW/LOLA Peace Mission to Iraq
Representatives of the Iraq Veterans Against the War and the Ladies of Liberty Alliance, including conscientious objector Tracey Harmon (pictured below), are spreading the message of freedom to Iraq - not with war, but with peace. Tracey writes via Freedom'sPhoenix:...
Ominous in Afghanistan
The most ominous thing about Obama in Afghanistan is that Bush at least did us the courtesy of lying about Iraq as if "we the people" actually mattered. --Serious Soundbytes


