Nikolas Kozloff writing at al Jazeera had recently brought to light the Obama administration's construction of a new military base in Argentina. Local authorities and official U.S. explanations insist the "Resistencia" base is for civil and humanitarian purposes...
From the New York Times:
The aspect of the Syria issue that is getting the most attention right now has the least to do with calls for intervention. I wouldn't for a second belittle the suffering people there have faced; what I'm saying is that those demanding that America do something about...
The International Criminal Court has sentenced Charles G. Taylor, the former president of Liberia "to 50 years in prison over his role in atrocities committed in Sierra Leone during its civil war in the 1990s," reports the New York Times. As is common for heads of...
...is to be called an 'Arab.' At least that is my take away from the latest Obama ad to appease bigots. In today's Electronic Intifada, editor Ali Abunimah notes how easily and breezily this slips by the sensible Eastern Establishment censors: But The Hill fails to...
Via Glenn Greenwald, this New York Times report on the Obama administration's drone wars: Mr. Obama embraced a disputed method for counting civilian casualties that did little to box him in. It in effect counts all military-age males in a strike zone as combatants,...
A few days have passed since the BBC irresponsibly passed off this 2003 picture of dead Iraqis as depicting dead Syrians in last week's Houla massacre. The original photographer, who works for Getty Images, said “Someone is using someone else's picture for propaganda...
Its Memorial Day and for many Americans this means vacation. Not for Antiwar.com of course, because the war doesn't take a vacation and neither do we. But this sort of "take a trip up north" or "go to a barbecue" holiday comes with the built-in assumption that we...
As jingoists condemn critiques that the veterans have not been fighting for our freedoms (much the opposite) on this here Memorial Day, consider this passage surprisingly printed on the front page of today's New York Times: Broadly, the question is what the United...
