The Guardian reported on Sunday that "senior British officials believe that a 'last push' in 2012 is likely to definitively destroy al-Qaida's remaining senior leadership in Pakistan." The vicious drone war, wildly accelerated under Obama, has managed to kill a...
Sad, isn't it, that just two days before Christmas, we have to stand out in the cold and worry about getting another big lump of coal from our politicians?! But unfortunately it's expected that Obama will sign the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) into law...
The war in Afghanistan is costing hundreds of billions of dollars. The military occupation is party to severe human rights violations and outright atrocities. Conditions are not only not improving, they are getting worse. If you're a regular reader of this site, you...
Back during the initial swing of protests in Bahrain, and when the Khalifa regime's crackdown was at its harshest, dozens of medical professionals were arrested for the crime of treating as patients those protesters who had been injured by violent Bahraini security...
Antiwar.com’s Week in Review | December 23, 2011IN THIS ISSUEVying for justice in the U.S. empireMaliki’s turn toward dictatorshipGovernment vs. military in PakistanAfghanistan is worseAssorted news from the empireWhat’s new at the blog?ColumnsAntiwar...
As the presidential campaign drifts into its most petty and superficial, here is a reminder of what is important, of what Washington is all about and is likely to continue being all about unless Americans wake up and understand what U.S. terrorism around the world...
The entire U.N. Security Council, representing 14 countries, voted to condemn Israeli settlement expansion as criminal only to have the resolution vetoed by the U.S.. Those 14 members united yesterday to criticize the U.S. position as one that prolongs the stagnated...
Remember how the US contracted Ethiopia to "restore order" in Somalia? The East African dictatorship was to help install a UN-backed government of warlords and former communist apparatchiks in order to "free" Somalia. They ended up obliterating the delicate gains the...
Progressive Cenk Ugyar, lefty blogger and sometime MSNBC host (purged for defecting from the Obama cult), has it right about Sean Hannity, Ron Paul, and Fox News.
Amid an avalanche of attacks on antiwar Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul, the latest (as of midnight on Tuesday) is one in the comically-named "American Thinker," a neocon web site for the intellectually challenged, which runs a piece by Adam Yoshida on "The...
