The late Chalmers Johnson, the great analyst of the American empire, warned that if Americans didn’t give up the empire, they would come to live under it.We’ve had many reasons to take his warning seriously; indeed, several important thinkers have furnished sound...
Obama loves to preen as if he is spreading peace, freedom, and democracy with his bombs. But there is no reason to presume that bombing Syria is not as idiotic as it appears. Thus far, the Establishment media is largely playing a lapdog role. A Washington Post...
Antiwar.com founder Eric Garris spoke yesterday with Alan Colmes on Fox News Radio about the US attacks on Syria. Check it out: Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com
As the new war on ISIS widens, and the media war drums pick up the tempo, some nice breaks in the rhythm have been the few peeps made about the role of the U.S. and its allies (especially Saudi Arabia) in feeding the beast, by arming and training ISIS’s fellow...
With the United States on the verge of another war in the Middle East – or is it merely the continuation of a decades-long war? – we libertarians need to reacquaint ourselves with our intellectual heritage of peace, antimilitarism, and anti-imperialism. This...
From the Minneapolis Peace Action Coalition: Back to Iraq? We say NO! Saturday, Sept. 20, 2014 4:00 – 5:00 pm Lake Street and Hiawatha Ave Minneapolis For more information, call 612-275-2720 or 612-827-5364 Stop the U.S. War in Iraq No U.S. War in Syria Be part of a...
Since the cataclysmic events that took place on the morning of September 11th 2001, an extended series of consequences have unfolded with an alarming rapidity. Between vast escalations of military activity abroad, the passing of draconian laws, like the Patriot Act...
Bruce Fein and John Woo debated War and the Constitution at the National Press Club. Consitutional lawyer Bruce Fein was senior policy advisor to the Ron Paul 2012 Presidential Campaign. John Yoo was Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel at...
The story is nominally "embargoed" until Thursday morning, but the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) is preparing to release letters from the State and Defense Departments detailing a $7.2 million waste on communications towers built in...
In what may well be the single most tactless comments he's made yet, Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey, in open testimony to the Senate Armed Services Committee, said he believed the parents of slain US hostages James Foley and Steven Sotloff should...
