In late 2009, President Obama brought US troop levels in Afghanistan up to 100,000. This "surge" was modeled after the "successful" US surge in Iraq. Ultimately both failed, but the surge planners like General Petraeus are still being listened to as "serious" figures....
Last week, the Liberty movement lost one of its most eloquent and courageous voices when William Grigg passed away at the far too young age of 54. William worked as a writer for The New American from 1993-2005, and was a contributor to LewRockwell.com and Antiwar.com....
John Kiriakou remains the only CIA officer to be jailed over the Agency's illegal torture program -- and he was the whistleblower who exposed it! But the story of how the FBI was able to send Kiriakou to prison on a 30 month sentence is fascinating, shocking,...
When someone gives you lemons, you make lemonade, right?And so it goes in Freedom Land of Iraq, where for many, now out from under the heels of Islamic State, the Iraqi people have only to clear out all the bombs, IEDs, and unexploded ordnance left everywhere they...
After a four-year court battle, the FBI has agreed to turn over records it created when it spied on Antiwar.com and pay $299,000 to settle our attorneys’ fees. The action only settles a portion of the lawsuit. ACLU attorney Julia Mass said “We will continue to...
The news is rife with President Trump’s threatened and actual military misadventures: in Syria, Yemen, and North Korea. But these military actions take on a new gravity considering the vast and secret powers Trump inherited.Former President Obama escalated the use of...
The U.S. Military, apparently eager to test a huge out-dated bomb - anacronym "MOAB" for "Mother Of All Bombs" - dropped one for the first time in the sparsely populated mountains of Afghanistan this week. The goal was apparently to fulfill Trump's earlier campaign...
One of the greatest joys of my life was being able to work right next to William Norman Grigg at The New American magazine from 1994-2001 in Appleton, Wisconsin. I had been one of the staffers who had moved out from Belmont, Massachusetts to Appleton in 1989, and he...
After steadily-increasing tension under the Obama Administration, candidate Trump wondered why it was a bad thing to get along with Russia. Hillary Clinton promised more of the confrontational Obama approach. More conflict. The people chose Trump. What happened?...
Antiwar.com editorial director Justin Raimondo on NPR's "Here and Now" this morning about Trump supporters abandoning him over last week's US missile attack on Syria. Listen here: http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2017/04/13/far-right-trump-syria
