Our longtime friend and columnist Charley Reese has died at the age of 76. Charley's columns were a regular feature in the early days of Antiwar.com. Charley was a journalist for over 50 years, reporting on everything from sports to politics. From 1969—71, he worked...
You know when Chuck Todd is upset, the Obama administration has crossed some sort of line...
In the aftermath of public revelations that the Obama Justice Department snooped on scores of AP journalists and accused Fox News reporter James Rosen of criminal acts for seeking out statements from a State Department official, there is a lot of much-needed talk...
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President Obama is scheduled to give a speech tomorrow at the National Defense University on national security and counterterrorism policy. Many are eagerly awaiting an unprecedented moment of candor, expecting the president at least to clarify certain 'ambiguities'...
The historic conviction of former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt of genocide and crimes against humanity was annulled late last night by the country's high court. BBC: The three-to-two ruling by a panel of constitutional judges annuls everything that has...
This may ultimately come as no surprise, but yet another party connected to the torture and abuse of detainees at Abu Ghraib circa 2004 may get off with little more than a slight taint on their reputation. At this point it is part of the record in at least two...
The New York Times' Disunion series has an excellent essay on Nathaniel Hawthorne by Cynthia Wachtell, author of “War No More: The Antiwar Impulse in American Literature, 1861-1914.” In 1863, Hawthorne wrote to an English friend: "The war-party here do not look upon...
The Atlantic's Conor Friedersdorf has written a good post on an unfortunately seldom-made argument against so-called "humanitarian intervention" - namely that there are huge opportunity costs. "Almost every time someone calls for a war to be entered on humanitarian...
According to Peter Scheer, a lawyer and executive director of the First Amendment Coalition (FAC), "the real outrage about the Justice Department's use of secret subpoenas for the phone records of Associated Press journalists is that...it was probably legal." Although...
