Pentagon Papers leaker Daniel Ellsberg is interviewed by Shelia Dean of Beat the Chip. Explaining the parallels between WikiLeaks and the Pentagon Papers, Ellsberg compares himself to Bradley Manning, and Julian Assange to the New York Times.
from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for December 16th, 2010: The Weekly Standard: The Foundation for Defense of Democracies’ Benjamin Weinthal blogs on The Weekly Standard that the detainment of two German journalists in Iran should put call...
Time Magazine has announced that it has named Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg the "Person of the Year," despite the billionaire's decidedly lukewarm showing in the online poll on their website. As of last night the leader by a strong margin was WikiLeaks founder Julian...
In opposition to efforts by the U.S. Attorney General Holder to extradite Julian Assange, Editor in Chief of WikiLeaks, prominent authors, academics, lawyers, whistleblower activists concerned with eroding civil liberties, government accountability, electronic...
from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for December 15th, 2010: The Diplomat: American Enterprise Institute Scholar Michael Rubin is interviewed on The Diplomat blog on “how sanctions can work with Iran.†Rubin says that sanctions are having...
What do zombies and the military industrial complex have in common? Let us count the ways. In fact, let military strategy & policy professor Michael Vlahos (relation, yes!) take you down that thorny path. Michael writes in Dark Lord, Dark Victory: America's Dark...
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...
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 Connectionâ€, that Undersecretary of...
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...
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...
