There is news today that Libya's interim authorities have declared portions of western Libya a "militarized zone," with what they have for a military ordered to use force against any scuffles in that area. In addition, As'ad AbuKhalil reports that "In libya, new law...
There is a society-wide civic dogma which props up the warfare state, and its conspicuous dishonesty is on full, naked display. Last week, the Los Angeles Times reported that US soldiers home from the war in Afghanistan are killing themselves at a rate of one per day....
I just found out that my friend and familiar Antiwar.com byline (and radio guest) Gareth Porter, has just won the Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism in London. This honor is for his outstanding research into the military's targeted killing strategy in Afghanistan....
According to Amnesty International, "arms and military equipment from the United States, France, China, Russia and others are contributing to grave human rights abuses in the Democratic Republic of Congo, including killings, rape, looting and abductions." The...
The status quo in Syria is that the rebel insurgency and the Assad regime continue to clash, neither budging, while foreign powers are engaged in an indirect proxy war because the split at the UN Security Council has ruled out any internationally mandated military...
The humble one rupee coin, worth around the same as a US one cent coin, isn't exactly big money in Pakistan. But a mania has spread across the country, apparently originating in Makran last week, which has everyone, including the nation's central bank, taking notice....
The 2008 Supreme Court case Boumediene v. Bush ruled that Gitmo detainees - who had been caged indefinitely without charge or trial - could challenge their detentions in U.S. courts. Briefly thereafter, we saw a great number of Gitmo detainees released on the grounds...
Nicolas Pelham in the New York Review of Books reports from post-NATO-anointed Libya. The bungling interim government and the incessant ethnic conflict are not bringing the democracy heralded by the war's advocates: Yet for Libya’s new governors, the turbulent...
A surprising testimony from Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-CA) when pit up against the right-wing jingo Rep. Peter King (R-NY) on CNN. Woolsey says the drone war is creating more enemies than it is eliminating and that America is setting itself up for blowback. She also threw...
From Secrecy News: “Large number of UASs now deployed overseas may be returned to the United States as the conflict in Afghanistan and operations elsewhere wind down in coming years, and new UASs are under development.” “Without the ability to operate freely and...
