Apparently John Brennan, President Obama's counter-terrorism advisor, told the public last month that zero (that's right, zero) civilian casualties have occurred as a result of U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan. For anyone reading Antiwar.com on anything close to a...
George Washington University Law School professor Dan Solove, author of Nothing to Hide: the False Tradeoff between Privacy and Security is interviewed by the ACLU. On his book: We've all heard the argument that "people shouldn't worry about government surveillance if...
Israeli naval commandos forcefully boarded another Gaza aid boat, diverting it to the Israeli port of Ashod: "Now, the activists are held in a building in the port where they are going through various interviews. Their boat is going to be thoroughly checked for...
Those kooky Afghans, with their crazy Eastern views. Look at them say silly things like: "The Americans will never leave Afghanistan," said Mohammad Ali, a 36-year-old shopkeeper in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif, one of seven areas due to move to Afghan security...
The security situation in northern Nigeria continues to deteriorate as Boko Haram steps up its attacks. Boko Haram is a militant, Islamist group calling for the imposition of Shariah law. The name, Boko Haram, translates into "Western education is a sin." The name...
Listen to Antiwar.com's Development Director Angela Keaton on Ernest Hancock's radio show Declare Your Independence. She will talk about the antiwar movement, ComeHomeAmerica.US, and the open letter to Obama and Congress urging them to "redirect U.S. foreign policy...
Stephen Walt at Foreign Policy has just written a piece on nationalism, which he calls the most important political force in the world. It's a nice read, but focuses too little on the central theme of my recent piece on nationalism. That is, nationalism as an...
There is popular and political resistance in Iraq to an extension of U.S. troop presence. However, some of the leadership, including Prime Minister Maliki, is vying for military and security "trainers" to stay beyond 2012. These people are undoubtedly the ones feeling...
Decorated CIA operative with extensive contacts in the Middle East, Robert Baer, declares: There is almost "near certainty" that Netanyahu is "planning an attack [on Iran] ... and it will probably be in September before the vote on a Palestinian state. And he's also...
George Mason University economist Bryan Caplan (of the blog Econlog, author of the wonderful book The Myth of the Rational Voter) and his colleague in the Mason Law department Ilya Somin (of the Volokh conspiracy blog) debated pacifism and libertarian foreign policy...
