Nobel Laureate Shirin Ebadi, according to a piece by Nazila Fathi at Foreign Policy, has been perpetually harassed by the Iranian regime, which hates her political activism and dissent. She now lives a life in exile, still fighting to expose Tehran's human rights...
A new report from the Stanford and NYU schools of law has found that the US drone war in Pakistan is "counterproductive" and "terrorizes" the civilian population. Read the report here. See this video below accompanying the release of the report. Update: The...
Via Micah Zenko, the Washington Post last week reminded us of official US policy regarding cyber-warfare: Cyberattacks can amount to armed attacks triggering the right of self-defense and are subject to international laws of war, the State Department’s top lawyer said...
The Obama administration's decision to remove the Iranian cult Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) from the State Department's list of officially designated terrorist groups was a long time coming. But no single act by the administration so crystalizes the hypocrisy and...
Economist Robert Higgs famously described the ratchet effect, in which the state uses crises of one kind or another to expand government's power and scope. Often times a crisis will give the state the opportunity to establish measures previously planned for, but...
Antiwar.com Newsletter | September 23, 2012 IN THIS ISSUETop NewsOpinion and analysisThis week’s top news:Judges Skeptical of CIA’s Drone Secrecy Claims: A three-judge panel at the US Circuit Court for the District of Columbia has reacted with skepticism to the CIA’s...
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart On the surface, it seems like conservatives were for spreading democracy in the Middle East if it was a Republican president imposing regime change and continuing to support dictatorship throughout the region, but against it if...
The Obama administration has a good thing going. They get to run a futuristic drone war that operates above the law and allows them to bomb people outside any official theater of conflict, even if they are American citizens with Constitutional rights to due process....
A hidden camera that caught Mitt Romney speaking at a private fundraising dinner has grabbed a lot of media attention today. Network news is focusing primarily on a single portion of the candid-camera speech in which Romney derides "47 percent" of the population who...
The Obama Administration is creating yet more new computer viruses, according to growing evidence collected by major anti-virus makers. Those viruses start out attacking sites in the Middle East but remember, they don't stay that way. The Stuxnet Worm started out...
