Jason Ditz Turns 5,000!

5,000 articles, that is. Our news editor, Jason Ditz, who started writing news updates at news.antiwar.com in August 2008, hit 5,000 articles today. He is one of the most prolific writers I have ever met, often writing as many as 15 articles a day, plus a few op-eds a...

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Tuesday Iran Talking Points

from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for December 14th, 2010: The Weekly Standard: Stephen F. Hayes and Foundation for Defense of Democracies fellow Thomas Joscelyn write, in an article called “The Iran Connection”, that Undersecretary of...

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Careless Words and Callous Deeds

It has lately become usual for right-wing columnists, bloggers, and jingo lawmakers to call for the assassination of people abroad whom we don't like, or people who carry out functions that we don't want to see performed. There was nothing like this in our popular...

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Monday Iran Talking Points

from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for December 13th, 2010: The Wall Street Journal: Ronen Bergman, a military analyst for the Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth, opines that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has barely been able to...

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UK Govt Moves Against 12-Year-Old Dissident

Pointing to the Cameron government's growing impatience over student protests, British officials have reportedly moved against 12-year-old Nicky Wishart, henceforth known as the Notorious Nicky of Oxfordshire, threatening him with arrest for threatening the public...

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Friday Iran Talking Points

from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for December 10th, 2010: The Journal of International Security Affairs: Senior Heritage Foundation fellow Peter Brookes writes in the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA) journal that Arab...

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Interpol WikiLeaks PSA

Title: "When More than the Wiki Leaks" This artwork is from Tom Blanton, the mastermind of The Project for a New American Revolution. Tom has other top notch libertarian-themed political art work at his Flickr page here.

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Antiwar.com Launches WikiLeaks Mirror Finder

The following release was sent out this morning: On Thursday, Antiwar.com launched wikileaks.antiwar.com, a new site designed to direct any user to the best WikiLeaks mirror site in his or her area. “Since the shutdown of the main site WikiLeaks.org, thousands of...

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Naomi Wolf Writes to Interpol

Julian Assange Captured by World's Dating Police Dear Interpol: As a longtime feminist activist, I have been overjoyed to discover your new commitment to engaging in global manhunts to arrest and prosecute men who behave like narcissistic jerks to women they are...

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Thursday Iran Talking Points

from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for December 9th, 2010: The Washington Post: The Post’s editorial board opines that the P5+1 talks in Geneva benefited Iran by introducing Turkey into the negotiations, where negotiations will continue...

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