Reading through, as I sometimes do, the great collection of essays in We Who Dared to Say No to War: American Antiwar Writing From 1812 to Now, edited by Murray Polner and Thomas E. Woods, I came across a piece by William Jennings Bryan. Resigning as Wilson's...
U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) wants to end U.S. aid to Pakistan. A sound stance by any peace measure even if one doesn't share the libertarian bent of Antiwar.com's editors. Foreign aid, a combination of bribes, blood money and welfare, is a fuel of the war machine,...
According to this article from the Telegraph, at least one pro-Syrian-opposition lobbyist in Washington thinks the Obama administration's decision not to intervene any further in the Syrian conflict is made primarily due to the demands of the electoral cycle, and that...
While MSNBC and Fox News bicker over how many of Mitt Romney's tax returns have been released, there is a giant gaping void where they could be talking about substance. To remind those talking heads and their producers trying their best to imitate ESPN, the US is at...
Via As'ad AbuKhalil, this picture evidently represents the views of many Egyptians: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton just returned from a visit to Egypt to meet with the new Islamist President Mohamed Mursi. Her armored motorcade...
"Two Named in Iran Uranium Export Scheme" That was the headline at the Washington Times, leading the person who didn't read any further to believe Iran was involved in an export scheme for uranium. Others termed it a "nuclear smuggling case," or a "nuclear export...
Antiwar.com Newsletter | July 13, 2012IN THIS ISSUELetterTop NewsOpinion and analysisAn Important Note to Our Supporters About Antiwar Radio:In order to continue being the leading source for non-interventionist news and analysis, Antiwar.com has had to make some...
Following up on yesterday's news that prisoners were injected with "mind altering drugs" before interrogation at Guantanamo Bay, the US is denying the report, kind of. See, it wasn't drugs, it was "medication." All the rest of the stuff appears to have been true....
In an interview with a top Taliban commander, the safe haven myth is dealt another blow (via: ThinkProgress). New York Times: “At least 70 percent of the Taliban are angry at Al Qaeda,” Maulvi said. “Originally, the Taliban were naïve and ignorant of politics and...
