Sometimes top military warriors tell US war presidents the painful truth.That happened yesterday when retired admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under George W. Bush and Barack Obama, urged President Biden to begin negotiations to end...
James Kirchick’s essay How the Anti-war Camp Went Intellectually Bankrupt in The Atlantic is a defense of U.S. involvement in the war in Ukraine. The essay mostly consists of name-calling and ridicule of cherry-picked arguments made by antiwar commentators from...
Has ‘partial mobilization’ breathed full-blooded democracy into Russia’s parliamentary government structure and broader society?It is normal to think of wartime as a period of tightened censorship and imposition of ever greater controls on society at large. ...
Awaiting discharge from a hospital in Cairo, Adel Al Manthari, a Yemeni civilian, faces months of physical therapy and mounting medical bills following three surgeries since 2018, when a U.S. weaponized drone killed four of his cousins and left him mangled, burnt and...
Have the Germans learned anything since 1933? We are about to find out, now that they face a choice they have bent over backwards to avoid.Will the Germans dutifully obey U.S. diktat on sanctions (and suffer economic-collapse-mit-frostbite this winter)? Or will they...
On COI #334, Kyle Anzalone and Connor Freeman cover the latest escalations in the war in Ukraine as well as some recent news about the protests in Iran and the JCPOA. Kyle discusses President Joe Biden’s statement that we are closer today to nuclear “Armageddon” than...
On Saturday, protests supporting freedom for Julian Assange erupted around the world. In London, 7,000 protesters linked hands to surround the Parliament building, demanding that the United Kingdom not extradite Assange to the United States for a show trial. Protests...
Dear Antiwar.com Reader, In times of universal deceit, said George Orwell, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. Antiwar.com is a voice of truth and sanity in a world where lies are so abundant finding the truth is nearly impossible. Antiwar.com is the antidote to...
Most hawkish warnings about China emphasize both Beijing’s ambitions and its growing power, but some analysts have come up with a different interpretation and concluded that China is on the verge of decline and that this is what will cause the Chinese government to...
The death on Monday of a 12-year-old boy wounded by Israeli gunfire last month brought the number of Palestinian teens and children who have died at the hands of Israeli occupation forces since Friday to five.Middle East Eye reports Mahmoud Mohammad Samoudi, 12,...
