As noted in the news section today, Israeli intelligence is now hyping IAEA findings from back in August that say Iran has on several recent occasions used the 20 percent enriched uranium – the highest it has and the portion of the program which most riled hawks in...
For several months now it has been known that the US is cooperating with its allies in Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar to provide aid and weapons to the rebel fighters in Syria. While the US has sent "non-lethal" aid to the rebels - like money, communications gear,...
It's Monday and no one's attacked Iran yet, so that means its time for hysterical headlines. Today's comes courtesy of the Associated Press and the redoubtable George Jahn, who never met a non-story with the word Iran in it that he couldn't turn into a countdown to...
John Glaser, AntiWar.com speaks at Duke University from CineFilm Media on Vimeo.
Mitt Romney "won" the debate the other night by doing what he has always done: altering his views to fit whatever situation he is in. Much of the media and the public were apparently drawn to Romney's slick rhetoric that made him appear ready to make deep cuts in...
Hey, did you know Afghans are killing US soldiers because they so desperately want us to continue occupying their country? That is the rather absurd argument in a piece run by Foreign Policy by Felisa "Farzana" Dyrud, a former US Air Force officer. Dyrud says that,...
There is something of a consensus forming around the conclusion that a preventive US and/or Israeli attack on Iran (for a nuclear weapons program it doesn't have) is the wrong thing to do. Last night former Defense Secretary Robert Gates spoke at an event warning "the...
George Farah, founder and executive director of Open Debates, tells Democracy Now that the two parties impose rules on the debates "to control various components of the debates to eliminate both third party candidates, unpredictable questions, and any threat to their...
In a press briefing yesterday with State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland, an unusual question was asked about the morality of the US-led sanctions regime on Iran, which is primarily hurting the population. QUESTION: Do you have any concern about the effects –...
President Obama’s personal involvement in selecting the targets of covert drone strikes means he risks effectively handing a ‘loaded gun’ to Mitt Romney come November, says the co-author of a new report aimed at US policymakers. ‘If Obama leaves, he’s leaving a loaded...
