At CNN.com, Jennifer Fenton interviews a former guard at Guantanamo Bay detention center. He tells a number of anecdotes of abuse, here is one: The IRF team opened the cell door and the one team member carrying a riot shield threw it off to the side. "And whatever...
Paul Wolfowitz and Michael O'Hanlon write in Foreign Policy that the Obama administration should apply "the Colombia model" to the strategy in Afghanistan in order to be "successful." The US's well known Plan Colombia policy, they write, "is rightly considered a...
Washington Examiner: Obama's Justice Department has proposed a regulatory change that would weaken the Freedom of Information Act. Under the new rules, the government could falsely respond to those who file FOIA requests that a document does not exist if it pertains...
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad recently appeared on Russian television to discuss the current crisis in his country. He reiterated what he has held for months as the primary impetus behind his harsh crackdown on protesters: outside interference is fomenting the...
Breaking news -- A Bosnian gunman reportedly attacked the US embassy in Sarajevo: he has been shot by police and arrested. I guess this is a "thank you" note for Bill Clinton's efforts on their behalf.
When you're shilling for a war in Iran as regularly as the Washington Times does, you're constantly making up allegations centering around what anonymous officials totally bet is the case. That and hiring artists to make caricatures of an Ayatollah made of nukes. The...
It's a sad day when those on the left end of the political spectrum understand Frédéric Bastiat's simple economic lesson of the seen and the unseen better than billionaire businessmen. But something tells me they know better. Fear-mongering estimates about the...
So there is talk of Obama ending the Iraq War? And planning to draw down in Afghanistan sometime soon? Well, yes and no, on a number of levels. As we know, the decision to not keep thousands of US troops in Iraq was forced upon the Obama administration by the Iraqis,...
Journalist Lizzy Phelan on Her Experience in Libya Regular readers of Antiwar.com will not be surprised by Ms. Phelan's account of what she saw in Libya. Just like the war in Iraq, the bombing of Libya was based on a whole lot of nonsense: inflated death tolls and...
It's amazing to see the roundabout justifications in the media regarding the Obama administration's increasingly close relationship with Uzbekistan and its monstrous dictator Islam Karimov. As I've written previously, the Uzbek government is one of the worst human...
