With apologies to Don McLean: A new video from LiveLeaks shows an AH64 Apache attack helicopter targeting farmers in the Wardak Province, Afghanistan while they were planting poppy seeds. The pilot cheerfully sings a little tune after firing a Hellfire missile at...
Following news that Israel is refusing to cooperate with UN investigations into illegal settlement building in the West Bank, this illustrative exchange between State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland and AP reporter Matt Lee (via Mondoweiss) VICTORIA NULAND:...
Senator John McCain might have been the first one in Washington to argue for direct US military intervention in Syria. And the most pro-war person in Congress is still lobbying for such action, making headlines all the way. "I’ve always stressed the need to arm the...
Former CIA officer John Kiriakou was one of the first government officials to publicly acknowledge the use of waterboarding during interrogations and to call it what it was - torture. The Obama administration, in its unprecedented war on whistleblowers is trying to...
Lesson one from Cato's Julian Sanchez is that "Government surveillance is now almost entirely off the books." The old way of tallying how many times the national security state attempts to spy on citizens is not taking into account the digital internet age. He...
There are two doomsday scenarios Washington and their welfare recipients in the war industry are predicting if defense budgets get cut. The first is that the defense corporations will have to lay off workers and unemployment will increase massively, sending the...
I've been writing here for over eight years, and every time I get into a comfortable little zone where I think I've heard every piece of nonsense the war loons can throw at us they manage to surprise with both their unending thirst for blood and treasure and the sheer...
We are deeply disappointed to announce that Scott Horton is no longer part of the Antiwar.com staff. Antiwar Radio has consistently been the best foreign policy show on the airwaves, always featuring the biggest names in foreign policy and noninterventionistism....
At the Aspen Ideas Festival last week, retired/fired General Stanley McChrystal gave a ringing endorsement of drone warfare, only to subsequently mention, footnote-style, that the so-called precision bombing of drones don't always spare civilians. "We should be using...
