Brave New Foundation, of Rethink Afghanistan, is launching a new campaign to help expose the costs of war and get Congress to cut defense spending. The new website, War Costs, is where you can sign the letter, follow on Facebook and Twitter, and get involved. Robert...
Here's the deal now: in the case of who shot down that Chinook in Afghanistan and if he was indeed killed by US forces yesterday, we have the word of the often-lying Pentagon against that of the often-lying Taliban. What to make of it, I don't know, but given the...
Eli Clifton has an important addendum to his earlier post on the push from almost the entire Senate for Obama to add further sanctions on Iran (which I posted on here). Obviously, the Israel lobby supports these sanctions too, but Clifton says their tactics resemble...
I have read and heard the mission of the U.S. military helicopter that was recently shot down in Afghanistan described as a "rescue mission." This makes it sound like the helicopter was rescuing hikers from off a mountain who had gotten lost. Make no mistake about it,...
Listen to Antiwar.com's Angela Keaton talk about Come Home America and the New Peace Movement on Free Talk Live featured on the Liberty Radio Network! The full interview here!
Army sergeant Joseph Bozicevich was sentenced Wednesday to life in military prison without parole. He was convicted of killing his fellow soldiers, Staff Sgt. Darris Dawson and Sgt. Wesley Durbin, at a small patrol base outside Baghdad in September 2008. An argument...
Last Friday, the ratings agency Standard and Poors (S&P), in an odd episode of semi-sanity, decided to stand firm against the United States government and downgrade American debt from the golden AAA to AA+. The empire, being caught naked yet again, went into a fit...
AP: The Obama administration is expressing concern about what it says is a tide of anti-Americanism in Egypt. The State Department says criticism of U.S. aid and motives as the country transitions to democracy are inaccurate and unfair. Oh, really? So it'd be...
Harry Siegman has a brilliant takedown at the National Interest of U.S.-Israeli objections to a September bid for Palestinian statehood at the U.N. I wrote a bit about the false arguments against Palestinian statehood last month. As I did, Siegman explodes the...
This Huffington Post article on the government seeking to recruit hackers into its ranks to "defend [the] nation in cyberspace" -- their title -- has a creepy, banally approving tone. In it, we see the US government wants to spark another "Manhattan Project"-style...
