I am pleased to introduce the latest addition to the Antiwar.com staff, our new Contributing Editor, Lucy Steigerwald. Lucy was previously an Associate Editor at Reason magazine, where she wrote on issues ranging from drones, the drug war, the US justice system,...
As we noted in the news section yesterday, The New York Times reported this week on "bags of cash" that have been continually sent to Afghan President Hamid Karzai "courtesy of the CIA." Despite its unsurprising "revelations," the story has received a lot of attention...
Drones are the weapon of choice for fighting undeclared wars all over the Middle East. Surveillance drones are on the cusp of becoming that for U.S. government and law enforcement officials as they continue their efforts to observe everyone as much as and as often as...
From the beginning, Antiwar.com warned of the inevitable blowback that would result from the US-NATO war in Libya. Eager to prove itself on the side of Arab Spring protests, America chose sides in a civil war on trumped up pretenses of humanitarian intervention....
After months of being reluctant to address it, the White House today announced it now believes the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad has used chemical weapons in its bloody, two-year civil war. "Our intelligence community does asses with varying degrees of confidence...
The path from Monday to today, which has brought the US to believe Syria's chemical weapons use is unusual. This timeline may help us better get a grip on how (though not why) officials got from A to B. Monday: Chuck Hagel is in Israel speaking with Israeli Defense...
In honor of Bush's library dedication today, here are some more epigrams he inspired from my 2003 book, Terrorism & Tyranny: Killing foreigners is no substitute for protecting Americans. Habeas corpus is an insurance policy to prevent governments from going...
Farea al-Muslimi, the Yemeni youth activist and journalist who testified at the Senate Judiciary Hearing this week on the drone war, will be meeting with White House officials to tell them too about how the drone war terrorizes civilians and helps al-Qaeda...
At The Daily Beast, James Kirchick blasts the new Ron Paul Institute for being "comprised of anti-Semites, 9/11 truthers, and dictator lovers." Kirchick goes astray on a number of claims, but at one point he links to a piece by former CIA official Michael Scheuer...
