Two recent congressional reports highlight the violent, unintended (?) consequences of America's drug war in Central and South America. The Senate report Halting U.S. Firearms Trafficking to Mexico finds that up to 70 percent of guns seized in Mexico from 2009-2010...
Antiwar activists beware: the government is watching you. The Washington Post yesterday reported that a widespread FBI investigation has been invading the privacy of various groups of political activists, prompting objections from many civil libertarians on First...
Former director of both the NSA and CIA Michael Hayden has been out of public "service" for over two years now. Sadly, though, his mouth hasn't, and for quite the worse. Hayden ran the NSA, and after 9/11 followed many Americans into the fever swamps of terror...
The U.S. Army is drafting a manual on preventing civilian casualties. Spencer Ackerman: an official with the Army’s Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute, Dwight Raymond, is drafting a manual on preventing civilian casualties. The manual, formally known as...
This piece up at NPR.org manages to focus on the fact that the U.S. supports dictatorship and torture throughout the world, while still lending almost no criticism to such longstanding policies at all. Like his predecessors, President Obama sometimes has to shake...
Russia Today's Aloyna interviewed Antiwar.com assistant editor John Glaser about Wikileaks cables revealing friction between major US oil companies and Muammar Gadhafi. The US House of Representatives passed the Sherman Amendment yesterday evening which bars money...
Violence is rising in Iraq: Eight people, including four policemen, and 27 wounded Tuesday when insurgents burst into the offices of the Diyala provincial council north of Baghdad, police said. The attack was similar to the assault in March on the officials of the...
Qaddafi forces shelled an oil refinery in the rebel stronghold of Misrata yesterday. It's likely this was an intentional target, hit in order to undermine an important American interest in the country. On another note, here's an interesting read from Foreign Policy on...
From the WSJ: A U.S. plan to fund the democratic transition in Egypt has led to a confrontation with the country's new rulers, who are suspicious of American aims and what they see as political interference in the aftermath of President Hosni Mubarak's downfall....
Katrina vanden Heuvel at The Nation: As we debate an exit from Afghanistan, it’s critical that we focus not only on the costs of deploying the current force of more than 100,000 troops, but also on the costs of maintaining permanent bases long after those troops...
