At 8:16 on the morning of August 6, 1945, the world got a glimpse of its own mortality. At that moment, the city of Hiroshima was obliterated by a fireball that sent waves of searing heat, then a deafening concussion, across the landscape. Three days later, a second...
Antiwar Radio’s Scott Horton will be interviewing investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill. Mr. Scahill, the author of Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Army, will take a critical look at the Washington Post's Top Secret America. KPFK 90.7 FM Los...
"The entire COIN strategy [the COunterINsurgency strategy engineered by Petraeus and McCrystal et.al.] is a fraud perpetuated on the American people," says Douglas Macgregor, a retired colonel and leading critic of counterinsurgency who attended West Point with...
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
Antiwar.com's Editorial Director Justin Raimondo will be interviewed on the Bill Meyer Show Friday, June 18th at 8:10am Pacific/11:10am Eastern, for KMED, Medford, OR. The topic will be Mr. Raimondo's recent column, Afghan Bling, regarding the curiously timed...
Although several news outlets spent the day barking about the Afghanistan death toll crossing the 1,000 mark, the truth is that casualty counting is a little more complicated. Icasualties.org is where the media are grabbing that 1,000 figure. The Web site does report...
How's this for a recipe that defies the seeming laws of common sense: First, take Blackwater, otherwise known as "Xe," a private security contractor that has been accused of abusive, hostile and violent behavior against the indigenous population of Iraq -- including...
If things run on schedule, Mr. Obama will announce tomorrow that he and his organization will be sending approximately 34,000 more U.S. troops to harass and sometimes kill men, women and children (as "collateral damage") in Afghanistan. And then he has to sell...
ORZALA ASHRAF: What would you expect from those children who lost their feet or their arm or their mother or their father during that kind of bombing? What would you expect from them? Do you expect them to join the peace process? Do you expect them to say, “I have...
At 8:16 on the morning of August 6, 1945, the world got a glimpse of its own mortality. At that moment, the city of Hiroshima was obliterated by a fireball that sent waves of searing heat, then a deafening concussion, across the landscape. Three days later, a second...
