In the latest issue of Foreign Affairs, Kenneth N. Waltz argues "Why Iran Should Get the Bomb." The article is a welcome example of calm and sobriety in what is mostly a sea of irrational pro-war hysterics. Waltz argues that the apocalyptic rhetoric railing against...
The National Security Archive has obtained through a FOIA request newly released CIA documents pertaining to 9/11. There do not appear to be any great revelations in the release, although one of them further illustrates what a liar former Vice President Dick Cheney...
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee just released a report [PDF] on US policy in the Middle East. Much of the study describes how Washington will maintain key military bases and troop presence throughout the entire region and how to overcome challenges to...
Via Ali Gharib, what the Obama administration is providing the Syrian rebels: LOGISTICS AND COMMUNICATIONS ASSISTANCE – U.S. officials told the Wall Street Journal on Thursday that “U.S. intelligence operatives and diplomats have stepped up their contacts with Syrian...
Making the rounds is this clip of a Face the Nation interview with Mitt Romney. In it, he declares the Constitution irrelevant and argues he alone can make the decision to use military force against Iran. Putting aside for a moment the fact that Iran has no nuclear...
Chris Woods of the Bureau of Investigative Journalism reports that the Obama administration seems to have officials notified Congress of the hostilities they've undertaken in Yemen and Somalia, which seems to hint of some law-abiding principles pursuant to the War...
Yale University Press will soon be releasing Orderly and Humane: The Expulsion of the Germans After the Second World War. The author, R. M. Douglas, had an excerpt essay in last week's Chronicles of Higher Education that is stunning: Between 1945 and 1950, Europe...
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....
