NORAD officials are adamant that their annual Santa-tracking exercise does not interfere with their ordinary operations, and officials have made on-again, off-again claims that the operation costs either nothing or very, very little (which in Pentagon terms could be...
I have a friend who sends a note every year in December, pleading with me to pen one upbeat, hopeful piece before the next year rolls around. Mind you, I consider myself an upbeat guy in a downbeat world and, for me, when it comes to pure upbeatness, you couldn't have...
David House, a friend of Bradley Manning, was allowed to visit him at the brig where he is currently imprisoned. He basically confirmed the mistreatment that has been outlined by Glenn Greenwald and others: -- Solitary confinement in a small cell 23 hours a day -- No...
In an example of how quickly many members of the public have become not only comfortable with by comforted by the harsh and seemingly arbitrary treatment received by others at the airport, 56-year-old rape victim Claire Hirschkind was hurled to the ground and dragged...
Dear Peace Lovers, December is a very special month for Antiwar.com. With pride, we celebrate both the founding of Antiwar.com and the birthday of our founder, Eric Garris this Friday, December 24th. From Kosovo to Kandahar, Antiwar.com has given you the best in...
This has to be one of the best interviews I have seen with Julian Assange. Assange was interviewed today by MSNBC's Cenk Uygur. Here is a rush transcript. Watch the interview below.
from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for December 22nd, 2010: Commentary: Jonathan Tobin writes on Commentary’s Contentions blog that the Obama administration has fallen for the Iranian’s ploy of practicing “Fabian diplomacy in which they...
from the Ottawa Citizen
from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for December 21st, 2010: Washington Post: The Post’s neoconservative blogger Jennifer Rubin picks up on a Wall Street Journal story where anonymous U.S. officials comment that the United States may soon...
A few bits on the Assange "smear" leak: 1) Getting into even more (quite boring) alleged details of the incidents does not negate the accepted fact that these women continued to gushingly pal around with Assange quite a bit after the "rapes." As pointed out by...
