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...
Apparently yesterday's MSNBC show Up with Chris Hayes is getting a lot of attention. And by attention I mean vitriol. His crime? questioning the martial civic religion and the morality of mindless soldier worship on Memorial Day. I can't decide whether or not I'm...
Joshua Landis, Director of the Center for Middle East Studies and Associate Professor at the University of Oklahoma, posted on his blog last week a letter from a friend who witnessed an encounter between an Iranian opposition activist and U.S. State Department...
Taking the "scary Iran story" angle to a new low, a new report today reveals that Iran could theoretically make 5 nuclear bombs if it took all of its civilian uranium and dedicated it exclusively to weapons production. The bulk of Iran's uranium is enriched to 3.5%,...
As I was testing the beer yesterday at a Rockville, Maryland, Memorial weekend event, my eye was caught by a t-shirt with the following bilingual motto: The black t-shirt was worn by a late 20-something with a military-style haircut. He was accompanied by his wife who...
Antiwar.com Newsletter | May 25, 2012IN THIS ISSUEPledge DriveTop NewsOpinion and analysisEventsHelp Keep This Project Going!"War is the motor that runs the turbine of growing government power," our Editorial Director Justin Raimondo wrote last week....
Political consultant and Antiwar.com volunteer Nick Hankoff turned a crash into cash for Antiwar.com. When I crashed my car a couple weeks ago, I learned just how tough Antiwar.com bumper stickers are. Unfortunately for me, the sticker did not absorb enough of the...
