Speaking Thursday at a State Department dinner, Secretary of State John Kerry said of Nigeria that "only the United States is there offering the assistance to help find those young woman," adding "other countries, not only aren't they invited, but they did not even...
A year ago, on May 23, 2013, I was in the audience at the National Defense University when President Barack Obama gave his major foreign policy address. Having worked for years trying to close the Guantanamo prison and stop US drone attacks, I was crushed to realize...
Gabriel Kolko died yesterday (May 19, 2014) peacefully at his home in Amsterdam. He was 82.Kolko was an American historian who wrote about the close connection between the government and big business throughout the Progressive Era and the Cold War. He was considered a...
With an eye on the New Cold War, NATO officials have been examining existing defense plans and are finding, much to the delight of those advocating more spending, a stark reality: the Baltic States of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia are not prepared to fight off a...
The Greg Abbott campaign crafted this birthday card for their supporters to send to Wendy Davis, his Democratic opponent in the race for the U.S. Senate in Texas. I'm not sure that they wish Wendy well. The card could also be sent to Antiwar.com, which is now...
If you think that as a United States citizen you’re entitled to a trial by jury before the government can decide to kill you – you’re wrong. During his stint as a lawyer at the Department of Justice, David Barron was able to manipulate constitutional law so as to...
Loyal Readers: Wednesday was a hectic day. A major hack attack hit much of Antiwar.com, causing Google and other services to identify us as a "malware threat." Thanks to our administrator Michael Ewens and the awesome folks at Sucuri Services, the site is totally...
Glenn Greenwald just published his account of how he came to receive and report on a trove of top secret documents from Edward Snowden, in a new book, No Place to Hide. Read an excerpt on Antiwar.com today: How I Met Edward Snowden. In the first episode of The United...
This morning we posted an excerpt from Glenn Greenwald's new book No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Security State. The book was released this morning, and the excerpt was just posted. Thanks to TomDispatch for the excerpt. Read the excerpt here....
Retired US Army major and Guantanamo JAG attorney Todd Pierce, interviewed on "London Real" on the Gitmo prison, the espionage act, and lawless Global War on Terrorism.
