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...
Richard Silverstein sent this update last night to Antiwar.com regarding Sunday's article Shin Bet Arrests Israeli Druze at Syrian Border, Slaps Gag on Media Reporting: Yesterday, the Shin Bet lifted the gag order prohibiting reporting on the case of the 38 year-old...
Dexter Filkin's writes in the New Yorker about the potential for civil war to break out in Afghanistan once the US "leaves" in 2014. He interviews Abdul Nasir, who was present in Afghanistan when the Soviets invaded and witnessed what happened when they left. What...
In Foreign Affairs, Christopher Swift attempts to debunk what he calls the "drone blowback fallacy." After visiting Yemen and investigating the issue himself, he argues that US drone attacks aren't a significant motivator of al-Qaeda recruits. Last month, I traveled...
Human Rights Watch is again calling on President Aquino of the Philippines to prosecute and put a stop to the rampant torture, extra-judicial killings, and disappearances of "leftist activists, journalists, and clergy." The Aquino government has only been in power for...
The Daily Bell's Sunday interview is with Angela Keaton, Antiwar.com's Development Director. Find out more about what makes Angela tick.
Gideon Rose, editor of Foreign Affairs spoke about Egypt yesterday on the Brian Lehrer Show. Here is an segment of his response to the question of why the US has continued to support the military rulers (listen here): The US has a relationship with the Egyptian...
The five permanent members of the UN Security Council will meet on Saturday with several other regional players (excluding Iran?) to hash out a plan to end the violence in Syria. UN envoy Kofi Annan seems to have persuaded* Syria's biggest ally, Russia, to support an...
Via Ben Armbruster, it is revealed that lawyers for alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed have written to the UN special rapporteur on torture asking for an investigation into his torture at Guantanamo Bay, which included being water boarded 183 plus 7.5...
Rep. Ron Paul spoke this morning on the House floor against US intervention in Syria.
