OKLAHOMA CITY – A state lawmaker will lead an anti-war rally on the south steps of the Oklahoma State Capitol at 7 p.m. Friday, July 12. The public is invited.The rally’s theme is “Not Our War!” and will be held to reflect the views of those who...
By now much of the world has learned that Michael Hastings, Rolling Stone reporter, war correspondent and author, has died in a car crash at the age of 33. He will be best known -- and all of the eulogies so far lead with this -- for his breakout story, Runaway...
The New York Times op-ed page has a piece by retired General Wesley Clark headlined: "To Get a Truce, Be Ready to Escalate." The Times summarizes Clark's wisdom: "The threat of force might get talks over Syria moving, as it did in Kosovo." Clark opines as if the...
An appeal from Afghanistan to whistle-blow on warFrom Dr. Hakim and the Afghan Peace VolunteersRecognition that 95 million human beings were killed in World War I and II has helped the people of the world understand that the method of war is not cost-effective. An...
Rep. Betty McCollum (D - MN) has suffered another setback in her efforts to end military waste, as her bill to ban military subsidies for NASCAR and professional wrestling was defeated in a vote of 134-290. Last year, McCollum noted that $26.5 million in funding from...
The NSA's PRISM scheme is already surveilling the entire American public to an enormous level, culling massive amounts of data from the PRISM Nine companies that have been complicit in that policy. So it's no surprise that the International Cyber Security Conference...
President Obama is expected to make an announcement this week on whether his administration will begin arming the Syrian rebels in their suddenly uncertain effort to topple the autocratic regime of Bashar Assad. All signs point to a lifting of the White House...
Sign the petition With all the talk about Edward Snowden and the attempts to persecute/prosecute him as a leaker, it's easy to forget that this battle is already going on with Pfc. Bradley Manning, the source of a large amount of information on US overseas war crimes...
It shouldn’t be easy for a group of Antiwar.com writers and supporters to just walk in and dish about foreign policy at the Left Forum, which claims to be the biggest annual convocation of Leftwing activists in the country. But it was -- easy, that is. In fact, some...
A new petition at the White House's portal is calling for President Obama to immediately an unconditionally pardon Edward Snowden for leaking the truth about the NSA's huge overarching surveillance of everyday Americans. The US hasn't charged Snowden yet, of course,...
