This 1965 New Yorker cartoon - from the dawn of the era of Vietnam War protests - captures the danger of leaving peace to the experts. Daniel Ellsberg was inspired by some of those anti-war protests. I did a piece for the Future of Freedom Foundation in 2008 on...
Let's hope that newly minted Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel will live up to some of our expectations and not be afraid to tell it like it is. Let's start with Afghanistan. We just found out today that an alleged data entry glitch in the Pentagon program that spits...
The Cato Institute has posted this graphic putting the impending automatic defense cuts in context: See here and here for more Antiwar.com coverage of sequestration.
Allen Ruff and I have written extensively about Kazakhstan and about the typical hypocrisy at-play in the kleptocratic country. We published an article in the aftermath of the Zhanaozen Massacre about the U.S. imperial Great Game being played in Kazakhstan and Central...
From the beginning of the Obama administration's savage economic sanctions on Iran, Antiwar.com has been highlighting the humanitarian costs of such policies. The sanctions are not only undermining the Iranian economy in the form of high unemployment, inflation, etc....
One unfortunate consequence of the heroic work of WikiLeaks to uncover government crimes was that it prompted the government to be even more radical in their classification procedures and their crackdown on whistleblowers. The good news is that excessive secrecy is...
Senator Rand Paul is not the only one with serious questions about the nomination of John Brennan for CIA Director! Many people are rightly concerned that the CIA Nominee failed to provide a clear answer to Paul's question: "Do you believe that the president has the...
The Obama White House seems to be launching a public relations campaign against China, drumming up hatred and fear about alleged cyber-espionage activities of the Chinese government against the US. The President is reportedly even considering imposing economic...
Over at the Lew Rockwell blog, Michael Rozeff makes a fine point on Washington's skyrocketing hypocrisy: Obama supports a UN treaty on what a US official terms "illicit arms trafficking and proliferation". At the same time, the US and ally Saudi Arabia are sending...
Iran's imaginary nukes and other war-lies: Take 83 - - - It's the sort of bureaucratic lying-by-obfuscation below which caused the U.S. to unnecessarily nuke Japan twice in three days, attack North Vietnam for an incident which Defense Sec. Robert McNamara admits...
