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...
Non-profit regulations make discussing elements of electoral politics difficult. But we have to acknowledge what might be the most hard-core antiwar ad ever in a major party campaign. Check it out.
Washington is a strange place. It presents one of those rare intense dichotomies in the country where you can occupy the same space with the most powerful people in the world and the most powerless at the very same time. The super rich and the super poor. Those with...
Actually, ten years in Afghanistan is way too much. A video from the Cato Institute:
Reena, a member of the Revolutionary Association of the women of Afghanistan (RAWA), will address American audiences via live video stream from Afghanistan. AWM Co-Director Sonali Kolhatkar will lead the conversation with Reena via video streaming in front of a live...
The Friends Committee on Legislation has established a toll-free number: 1-877-429-0678. Urge your Rep. and/or Senators to press the Supercommittee to end the wars and cut the military budget. In talking to your Rep., urge support for the Lee-Campbell bipartisan...
Sarah Palin will not run for president in 2012. Though Andrew Sullivan can be expected to persist in his quest to deploy U.N. inspectors to Palin's uterus, the nation's less-cracked Obamatons will have to build a new uber-bogeyman to juxtapose with the Lightworker....
From the Guardian, a video of a Gitmo interrogation: At the time of this interrogation in Guantánamo Bay, February 2003, the boy, Omar Khadr, a Canadian national, was barely 16, yet he had already been in military custody for seven months. Now 25, he remains in the US...
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta's visit to Egyptian military rulers on Tuesday was yet another illustration of the close military ties between the two countries, and the leverage the US is still exercising over the ruling council. His stated reasons for going were to...
I originally posted this today at The American Conservative blog, @TAC Buried in an amazing poll released by the Pew Research Center today that says 1 in 3 post-9/11 veterans believe the Iraq and Afghanistan wars were ‘not worth fighting,’ is an assertion that 6 in 10...
