Comparing America’s Failure in Afghanistan to the Soviet’s in 1989
The New Years experience tends to generate perspective and long-term thinking. At least, that's the case with two unlikely opinionators: The New York Times and the Taliban. Both the Times and the Taliban have made strong, end of the year historical comparisons between...
War in Syria Such an Obviously Bad Idea, Even DC Insiders Know It
Why hasn't the Obama administration intervened militarily in Syria? If you read this site with any regularity, you'll know the answer to that. The great irony is that the major factors that make military intervention in Syria's civil war impractical, unworkable, and...
Declassified: US Government Colluded With Big Banks to Monitor, Disrupt Occupy Protesters as ‘Criminal Threats’
According to recently released documents, the federal government monitored the Occupy Wall Street movement from its very inception, internally referring to it as a potential criminal and terrorist threat despite acknowledging the movement's explicit rejection of...
US Bombs Killed At Least 223 People in Yemen in 2012
The US government has killed 223 people in Yemen in more than 40 drone strikes in 2012, according to estimates from the Long War Journal. The Long War Journal is a project of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a neo-conservative think-tank in Washington, DC...
Is US Meddling Making a China-Japan War Inevitable?
A Chinese think-tank (via Zero Hedge) has predicted that military conflict between China and Japan is inevitable now, thanks in part to US meddling in the Asia-Pacific region. With the rise of China as Asia's leading economic power, a Chinese government think tank...
US Support for Dictatorship in Iraq Sowing Future Chaos
The state structures built in Iraq by the US military occupation are now the depraved tools of repression. First among these tools is the US-trained and equipped Iraqi Special Operations Forces (ISOF). By the time Washington was preparing to draw down forces in Iraq,...
Antiwar.com Newsletter | December 29, 2012
This week’s top news stories: Yemen Fears Backlash as Drone Strike Victims Side With al-Qaeda: In early September, Yemeni officials sought to bury stories about a US drone strike killing 14 civilians in an attack on a highway by insisting they were actually their own...
Militarism at its Simplest
“We have to produce security, not consume security." It's a statement beautiful in its simplicity, and straightforwardness. Security is desirable - we all want to be secure, let us produce some security. In context it is also a statement horrifying in its...
Hagel Petition Update
I have gotten so many letters about our campaign to fight the smear campaign against Chuck Hagel that I can’t possibly respond to them individually, and so I’m taking to the Antiwar.com blog to answer and to give our readers and supporters an update. It is now Day...
