Daily Beast: After months of internal debate, the Obama administration is planning to reveal publicly the legal reasoning behind its decision to kill the American-born leader of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, Anwar al-Awlaki. Marcy Wheeler: The problem–the problem...
Giving Refuge to Our Criminal Tyrant, Ali Saleh
Longtime U.S. ally and embattled Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh is on his way to America, reportedly to seek medical treatment. This decision to come to the U.S. was made after Saleh apparently gave up trying to muscle his way back into the power structure in...
The Futility of Peace Talks in Afghanistan
James Dobbins of the RAND Corp. has written a piece which basically says the Obama administration's recent attempts to negotiate with the Taliban is not a sign that the war is coming to an end. He compares it with peace talks between the U.S. and the North Vietnamese,...
Progressives Cover Themselves With Shame in NH Primary
For the Left, the big news of the New Hampsire primary has been greeted with an embarrassed silence. For there the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, for example “Progressive” Democrats of America, failed completely to put forward a candidate for peace. This...
What is War Good For?
Antiwar.com columnist, Econlog blogger, and economics professor David Henderson appeared on John Stossel's show on the Fox Business channel last night. Henderson debated regular Fox contributor Colonel David Hunt on "war, Ron Paul's foreign policy views, Israel, 9/11,...
WikiLeaks and ‘the glory days of American radicalism’
Rolling Stone has published a new interview with Julian Assange of WikiLeaks, conducted by Michael Hastings. Here are some notable excerpts: "From the glory days of American radicalism, which was the American Revolution, I think that Madison's view on government is...
Department of Defense’s Operational Access: We Own the World
One of the primary concerns of the U.S. Department of Defense is that America's military is permitted to span the entire globe. In a DoD paper released yesterday, the Joint Operational Access Concept was introduced as a strategy to deal with what the military calls...
Even the Establishment Doesn’t Want War With Iran
Leslie Gelb, President Emeritus and Board Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, has a piece at the Daily Beast which warns not just against starting a war with Iran, but against "letting a bunch of ignorant, sloppy-thinking politicians and politicized...
SOPA, and Why We’re Not Blacked Out
Today is the day digital activists protest the Internet-censorship bill known as SOPA by symbolically blacking out their websites. SOPA, or the Stop Online Piracy Act, is a megacorporate-written scheme to "protect" entertainment and media conglomerates' intellectual...


