Trailer "5 Broken Cameras" from Guy Davidi on Vimeo.
BBC Debate: Jason Ditz vs. Richard Perle
Antiwar.com news editor Jason Ditz debated former assistant secretary of defense Richard Perle on the subject of US drone strikes in Pakistan. The debate was broadcast live on BBC Radio 5 Live yesterday (June 6). Listen to the debate (9:33).
Congress’s Complicity in the Imperial Presidency
The New York Times reports that the "Senate will investigate recent national security leaks to the news media after articles in The New York Times about a 'kill list' for terrorists and the use of cyberweapons against Iran." Recent examples of the Obama...
Former CIA Official: Drone War Kills Innocents, Creates Terrorist Safe Havens
Making the rounds today is a piece up at the Guardian in which a former top CIA terrorism official admits the obvious: that the drone war if overly broad, kills too many civilians, provokes anti-American hatred, and could inadvertently create terrorist safe havens....
Onward, Ray Bradbury 1920-2012
I hate a Roman named Status Quo! Of course Ray Bradbury would have hated such a man, too. When he wrote these words as part of the gripping dialogue in his 1950 would-be classic, Fahrenheit 451, he was railing against the conformity and emptiness, the...
Repeal the “Authorization for the Use of Military Force” (AUMF)
From Today's Downsize DC Newsletter: Do you want to deny your consent for the following Federal actions . . . Undeclared wars Occupations Nation-building Civilian drone-strikes Torture, kidnapping, and murder If so, tell Congress to repeal the...
John Glaser on RT Talking Mega-Drones
Racism, Root Causes and Robert Spencer
While in the midst of pledge drive, I nearly missed one of the few sources of joy in this business: Watching Ali Gharib and Eli Clifton smoke out suit wearing think tankers who would clearly be more comfortable wearing sheets. In a two part series at Think Progress,...
In Syria, A Problem of Intervention
Via Marc Lynch, "a useful addition to the growing body of analysis and argument" in opposition to any direct intervention in Syria from Prof. Eva Bellin and Prof. Peter Krause in the Middle East Brief from Brandeis University (PDF). Here's their takedown of why a...
The New York Times Clarifies, But Misses the Point
Scott Shane from the New York Times has issued a clarification on their blog regarding last week's story about President Obama's role in deciding who to add to his ever-growing "kill list." The clarifications are two-fold, mostly lashing other sites that took the...


