Angela Keaton talks libertarianism and Antiwar.com on New Hampshire Capital Access! Topics include the performance of Barack Obama measured against recent past Presidents, the relationship of the Left and Libertarians to the anti-war movement, the efficacy and cost of...
Republicans are berating Obama about the Somali pirate Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame who was caught in the Gulf of Aden two months ago and kept on board a U.S. Navy ship for interrogation instead of being informed of his rights. Indeed, they are criticizing the...
I won't go into too much detail as to exactly where I read The Economist, but a few minutes after my first coffee this morning, I was staring incredulously at a quote in a column about Afghanistan. I re-read it four times to make sure I hadn't missed something. No,...
Last month our own Angela Keaton spoke on a panel in the Live Free or Die state on the future of the antiwar movement. Along with her are Will Hopkins of NH Peace Action, Iraq veteran Alex Peterson and John V. Walsh, MD of Come Home America.us, which has just posted...
Unbelievable news: bombing another country is not war. Over at Foreign Policy, Thomas E. Ricks writes that he's convinced by the Obama administration's justification for use of drones in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen, and now Somalia. That is, they are not a form a war...
As far as the Arab Spring goes, Morocco seems to be a model for how not to needlessly shed blood and inflame unrest as we've seen in many other Arab countries. Morocco's overwhelming approval of a new constitution granting new rights to women and minorities was met...
When the Obama administration last week released their new National Strategy for Counterterrorism I naively expected some honest iteration of policy of the kind that slip through in declassified NSC reports. That wasn't the case. Rather, the report was similar to a...
In an article on news aggregator "The Drudge Report," a story titled "Iran Ridicules July 4th: America is Not Independent" from Israel National News spoke of The left-wing anti-war.com site was sourced as writing that Israel "conducts the most aggressive espionage...
Over eight years, the US troops fighting in Iraq have faced massive local opposition, as well they might as an occupation force overseeing a war which killed a massive number of civilians. This would explain the surprise, then, when the New York Times led with the...
In a must read piece for Al Jazeera, journalist Paul Rosenberg examines the transition of Obama from a figure of revolutionary hope and change to just another run-of-the-mill politician: Things did turn out that way in exactly one case: the repeal of the military's...
