All this hoopla over the alleged Iranian plot to use Mexican drug lords to carry out an assassination of a Saudi at a fictitious DC restaurant - I knew there was something very strange about this... And then I read that the linchpin of the case is a paid Drug...
The work of the news media on this so-called "Iranian terrorist plot" has been one of the most abhorrent displays of irresponsible journalism since the lead up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Much of the time, the press acts simply as a bullhorn for state propaganda,...
Abdul Aziz Khan of Urdu VOA News interviews John Glaser on military industrial profiteering during the United States Government's war in Afghanistan.
I wrote today of the UN findings of systemic torture in US-supported Afghan prisons. Below, Antiwar.com contributor Ivan Eland is interviewed by al Jazeera on the potential US reaction to the findings:
In September, I was fortunate enough to be invited to Campaign for Liberty's Liberty Political Action Conference. In attendance were many right learning people who are new to libertarians ideas, particularly anti-intervention. As part of Come Home America, I am...
In one sense, it isn't a surprise that politics attracts the biggest dip-shits around. In another sense, though, it is extremely troubling that American politics - perhaps now more than ever - has become a celebration of stupidity and ignorance (Sarah Palin being an...
The news that the "US government obtained secret court orders to force Google Inc and a small Internet provider to hand over information from email accounts of a WikiLeaks volunteer" is now the latest government attack on peaceful American citizens to be revealed to...
Politicians constantly utter what they know to be falsehoods in order to garner votes and high esteem from an ignorant electorate. The latest and greatest of such sideshows is - and will be - Obama's war in Afghanistan. Military and administration officials have...
A message from former Afghan MP and Parliamentarian in the National Assembly Malalai Joya. She was ousted for denouncing the presence of warlords and war criminals in the Afghan parliament. She is the author of A Woman Among Warlords.
Antiwar.com’s Week in Review | October 8, 2011Congratulations to Kelley B. Vlahos! Her column on Foreign Service officer Peter Van Buren was quoted in this morning's New York Times. IN THIS ISSUETen years in AfghanistanOngoing war in LibyaImmunity for U.S. occupying...
