It was a great video. It shows the young boy, about 8 years old, weave his way down a dusty street, dodging bullets to reach a terrified girl cowering behind a car. The boy even plays dead at one point to deceive the sharpshooters, who miss hitting both children as...
Maggie Thatcher may have been a staunch Cold Warrior, but she wasn't too thrilled about Ronald Reagan's invasion of the tiny Caribbean island of Grenada, where ultra-leftists had assassinated the pro-Cuban leader, Maurice Bishop. After all, Grenada, in spite of its...
Antiwar.com editorial director Justin Raimondo spoke with Rare’s Kurt Wallace about Rand Paul and the prospects for war and peace in electoral politics. The 11-minute audio interview and transcript are available here.
In a modern era of global military empire, mass indiscriminate NSA data-grabbing, and unaccountable killer cops, an age-old issue vital to liberty is often overlooked or forgotten: that of conscription. On this Veterans’ Day, while most solemnly reflect on the valiant...
UPDATE: It was too good to be true. A Norwegian director has come forward and the story of how the video was promoted have come out: it was staged and shot in Malta. The original post follows: The video shows the youngster, about 8 years old, weave his way down a...
Recent Palestinian attacks against Israel suggest a new uprising (intifada) of the loners is on the making to which Israel may have no sufficient response.The stabbing of several Israeli youth near the Alon Shvut colony in the Occupied West Bank by a Palestinian man,...
Iraq war veteran and outspoken Iraq war critic Tomas Young has died at the age of 34. Democracy Now! reported his death Monday, the eve of Veterans Day. Young enlisted in the Army following the September 11 attacks, volunteering to go to Afghanistan. He was sent to...
Why, I asked myself, would the New York City police arrest me and put me in The Tombs overnight, simply because a security officer at the 92nd Street Y told them I was “not welcome” and should be denied entry to a talk by retired General David Petraeus? In my hand was...
Did you know the U.S. war in Afghanistan is still going on?While the American war(s) in Iraq and Syria are the Kardashian’s of geopolitics– can’t get them out of the news, don’t want to look but you do anyway– America’s longest war...
I was stunned that Maryland voters gave the heave-ho to Democratic gubernatorial candidate Anthony Brown yesterday. Obama's "Mini-Me" never recovered from his role as the mastermind of perhaps the most disastrous ObamaCare Internet site rollout in the country. I...
