Mitt Romney says he wants to massively increase US defense spending by $2 trillion over ten years. According to CNN, that looks like this: Interesting then, that the Romney campaign's so-called "Military Advisory Council" is filled with former military men who now...
As far as tonight's presidential debate is concerned, the proceedings are largely predictable, especially since the topic is exclusively foreign policy. In the first two debates, the candidates barely spoke about foreign policy - mindful, probably, that only about 4%...
From the ACLU, a post-9/11 intelligence sharing and surveillance program spied on peace groups, including activists like Cindy Sheehan and the late Howard Zinn: We now have proof of what peace groups and activists have long suspected: Boston Police officers have...
Joshua Keating on the FBI sting that led a 21-year-old Bangladeshi to attempt to blow up the Federal Reserve Bank of New York: The FBI report on the Federal Reserve plot is here. Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis had been in touch with the FBI's undercover...
This week the New York Times published an article confirming what we at Antiwar.com have been warning about for months: "Most of the arms shipped at the behest of Saudi Arabia and Qatar to supply Syrian rebel groups fighting the government of Bashar al-Assad are going...
The tireless Dana Frank has a brand new piece up at Foreign Affairs about the Obama administration's support of the 2009 military coup in Honduras, and how US military funding "has increased every year since" despite a dramatic increase in human rights abuses. "Since...
This is not the first time this has happened: Two US servicemen were arrested Tuesday on suspicion of gang-raping a Japanese woman in Okinawa, reports said, as anti-American feeling runs high on the strategically vital island. The incident comes amid swelling protests...
Here is the exchange: See here for some context.
Those arguing for US intervention in Syria have always had a hard time being consistent, but Jackson Diehl's piece in the Washington Post on Sunday is all over the place. He claims that Obama's decision in 2009 to re-open the US Embassy in Syria (it had been closed by...
A new study from Columbia Law School's Human Rights Institute finds that the number of Pakistani civilians killed in drone strikes are "significantly and consistently underestimated" by tracking organizations which are trying to take the place of government estimates...
