Russia Today's Crosstalk features a very interesting panel on the future of the antiwar movement. On the panel were Antiwar.com development director Angela Keaton, historian Thaddeus Russell, and Michael Heaney, a researcher at the University of Michigan.
Sunday is Mother's Day, which has often-forgotten antiwar roots. One of the earliest calls to celebrate Mother's day in the US came from Julia Ward Howe, a prominent American abolitionist, social activist, and poet, most famous as the author of "The Battle Hymn of the...
Found this over at CopBlock.org, one of the most fearless law enforcement watchdog sites I've ever come across. This "standoff" was staged recently by the South Suburban Emergency Response Team (SSERT) in Oak Forest, Illinois in response to a call from a "concerned...
Even before we knew the details surrounding the death of Osama bin Laden, his demise was being hailed as the “end of an era.” The Global War on Terrorism, which we’ve been fighting for the last decade in several theaters simultaneously, has been defined in terms of...
On Thursday, US ambassador Susan Rice announced that Libyan government troops were being issued Viagra and told to rape as a terror weapon. She made the comment as part of a debate with another envoy to highlight that "the coalition is confronting an adversary doing...
Its never really been clear to me why comic book storylines have such an ability to rile up political factions, but after the bizarre row over the French Muslim ally of Batman it should have come as no surprise when Action Comics #900 included a story about Superman,...
From Veterans for Peace: Obama Declares Manning Guilty Before Trial Can Military Officers Judge Him Impartially and Contradict Their Commander-In-Chief? President Barack Obama said on April 21 that PFC Bradley Manning “broke the law.” This statement casts serious...
Ambassador Gene Cretz's estimate for a death toll in Libya today was 30,000 which, if I'm remembering correctly, is about as much as the US was willing to cop to for the entire Iraq War until the WikiLeaks documents showed that to be a deliberate (and dramatic)...
Yesterday, consistent with the long U.S. tradition of mission creeps, the Obama Administration authorized the use of killer Predator drones in Libya. Forget the collateral damage, we can't even solve a closed room crime like the Jonbenet Ramsey murder. And, after the...
Released today by Veterans for Peace: VFP Statement on Military Intervention in Libya April 21, 2011 “The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or...
