General James Mattis was just nominated to fill the post of CentCom commander, has his own history of speaking out to the media. In 2005, Marine Corps General Mattis spoke of the fun he experienced in Afghanistan: "Actually it's quite fun to fight them, you know. It's...
Antiwar.com founder Eric Garris spoke to Russia Today on the extent of the U.S. government's intervention overseas, the effect of endless war on the economy, the lack of probing mainstream coverage on Afghanistan and the reality of life in Gaza....
Antiwar.com founder and webmaster Eric Garris will be interviewed on the Bill Meyer Show Wednesday, July 7th at 7:05am Pacific/10:05am Eastern. The topic will be the recent comments by Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele on Afghanistan. Listeners can...
Ron Paul is interviewed on CNN by a rude and hostile newsreader.
Defend Michael Steele? I never thought I'd be writing that! But the neocons, led by Bill Kristol, are demanding his resignation as national chairman of the Republican Party. Why? At a fundraising event Steele was caught on video in a "gaffe" (a technical term...
Col. Douglas MacGregor appeared on Judge Napolitano's Freedom Watch show over the weekend. Judge Napolitano asked him if we should be spending a trillion dollars to import democracy to the Muslim world: "Absolutely not, it's a hopeless endeavor. This is a bottomless...
"The entire COIN strategy [the COunterINsurgency strategy engineered by Petraeus and McCrystal et.al.] is a fraud perpetuated on the American people," says Douglas Macgregor, a retired colonel and leading critic of counterinsurgency who attended West Point with...
Good riddance to McChrystal. His role in the coverup of the killing of Pat Tillman alone was enough to qualify him for the Pentagon Rogues Gallery of the new Millennium. Petreaus is better than McChrystal because at least we get to sometimes watch him get overwhelmed...
UPDATE: So President Obama has decided the only way to resolve the Rolling Stone fiasco — which is really a COIN fiasco – is to put Big Daddy COIN in command. Anyone else feel like we’re on Ozzy’s Crazy Train? There were two major themes that I took away from...
Last week I wrote about GIYUS — the “online public diplomacy platform of Israel†as the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Word document) describes it—and the powerful role it can play in shaping the results of online polls and changing the direction of...
