The government has demanded that any discussion of torture and detainee mistreatment be prohibited by the judge in the military trial of five men accused of facilitating the 9/11 attacks. The government has even gone so far as to demand that there must be “a 40-second...
Stephen Walt is "thinking outside the box," suggesting "a bit of a hail Mary" for mitigating the conflict in Syria: Is there anyway to convince Assad and his closest associates to leave? I don't have a surefire way to do it, but one big step in the right direction...
News from the Empire in South Korea: A three-judge panel on Wednesday sentenced a U.S. soldier to six years in prison for raping a South Korean teenager in September. Pvt. Kevin Robinson was found guilty of raping the 17-year-old at her residence in Seoul after a...
This is Less Antman speaking at the Libertarian Party's National Convention. Of course, we at Antiwar.com do not support political candidates or parties. But this speech hits on the type of message we have tried to put forth for so long. The state has an interest in...
Joost Hiltermann writes in the New York Review of Books blog about his recent trip to Bahrain: Talking to dozens of people both in Manama and in smaller communities outside the capital, I was told again and again that the situation was becoming worse, not better:...
The wing of the U.S. human rights movement which targets foreign countries can wind up as a cruel business, aiding the ruthless and violent actions of the U.S. Empire, wittingly or not. For the U.S. all too often uses human rights as a cover for taking action...
More than 600 U.S. troops are stationed across Honduras, engaged in an aggressive campaign in the so-called drug war. This piece from the New York Times yesterday explains that the strategy Washington is employing there draws from the "hard lessons learned from a...
Former NSA technical director William Binney: "...the real problem I see is that the DoJ is covering up for all the crimes that this administration and the previous administration has been committing against every one in the public." (h/t Kevin Gosztola)
The deal Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his right-wing Likud party struck last night may be the slickest politicking in recent memory. After threatening to hold early elections, Netanyahu formed a unity government with the main opposition party, Kadima,...
The Washington Post reported today that the U.S. has for years operated a secret program of releasing "high-level detainees from a military prison in Afghanistan as part of negotiations with insurgent groups." “We look at detainees who have influence over other...
