Moqatda al-Sadr, the Shia, anti-imperialism cleric, just announced that American "trainers" will be targeted if they stay in Iraq behind the 2011 withdrawal deadline. Barring a 180 degree shift in Barack Obama's foreign policy, American troops will stay in Iraq for...
Listen to Antiwar.com's Angela Keaton on the radio with Matthew David talking about Antiwar.com, libertarian foreign policy, and the new peace movement!
Spc. Charles Graner, the sick low-level bully and ringleader in the scandal that rocked the already shaky U.S war effort to its deepest, darkest core in 2004, has been released from jail, three and a half years ahead of schedule. Recall with revulsion the many now...
One tribal sheik, Youseff Ahmad, spoke about the debate about the future role of United States forces here that has dominated Iraqi public life of late. “We want them to leave, even before the end of this year,” Mr. Ahmad said. “They’ve destroyed us. They’ve only...
So what could really go wrong with an Air Force class that says nuclear war is moral and righteous -- because the bible tells us so? Well for 20 years no one had said a peep. But after a number of complaints by Air Force officers and a Truthout article last week by...
Many times as editor of my local newspaper, The Bushwick News, I have tried to get our local representative in the House, Nydia Velázquez, to give her opinions on WikiLeaks and whistleblower Bradley Manning. It didn't seem a reach to try to elicit some response on the...
If you're up for reading a dutifully deceptive article on foreign aid, check what the Washington Post has to say about it. Recognition for the biggest lie in the article goes to this lovely little number: At least since the end of World War II, foreign aid’s explicit...
Antiwar.com's Angela Keaton was on Gadfly Radio last night with Martha Montelongo talking about the antiwar movement, ComeHomeAmerica.us, and the campaign for a left-right-radical coalition united against war and American interventionism. Listen to her segment here or...
Just like the debt ceiling "debate" was a melodrama worthy of a daytime Emmy, so too is the "debate" over whether or not to keep American troops in Iraq. Keen observers of both American politics and foreign policy knew the inevitable outcomes of both from the start:...
Back in May I wrote about the secret war on Iran, which has so far manifested in cyber-terrorism, commercial sabotage, and assassinations of Iranian nuclear scientists. I inferred, critics would charge speculated, cautiously that this last piece of the puzzle...
