Some thoughts on the Gitmo 9/11 suspects that are supposedly behind 9/11 and are due to come to New York for a civilian trial: 1. Why haven't they been brought to trial years before now? We didn't just discover that they were behind the attacks. 2. Why are we...
Satirist and entertainer Harry Shearer makes a good point today on HuffingtonPost.com: When the Fox network staged a special Veterans' Day version of its NFL pregame show at Bagram AF Base last Sunday, two hours was apparently not long enough to mention one...
Andy Worthington is wrapping up a speaking tour in the US introducing the new film: Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo. Here is his talk in Fairfax, Virginia, sponsored by the Future of Freedom Foundation.
Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut may be the most destructive politician in the United States. Combining the worst ideas of the right, the left, and the religious, he essentially seeks to punitively tax the world in order to bomb it for the sake of Israel. Despite...
An outrageous thing has happened today in Germany: the Defense Minister has used the word "war" to describe the, uh, war in Afghanistan. As Justin Raimondo might say: Germans are shocked -- shocked! You see, these people burdened by national collective memories of...
CNN headline: Karzai calls for unity, end to corruption in Afghanistan It is astounding to see the western media treat Karzai like a legitimate winner and someone who has any credibility to fight corruption. This is akin to how the Soviet media treated the election...
My whole life it seems "gays in the military" has been an issue. Liberal democrats and gay activists have been arguing for years with right-wingers and the military establishment over the issues surrounding the right of homosexuals to fight in the armed forces -- from...
After the Goldstone Gaza war crimes report was released on September 15, Israel immediately asked for the U.S.'s help in "curbing the international fallout."  Its message was don't let a bad precedent be set, you want to be able to pursue "the war on terror"...
Matthew Hoh, who resigned his diplomatic post in Afghanistan to protest US policies there, explains why US occupation is doomed to fail. He appeared on Fareed Zakaria's CNN show Sunday:
It was a very hard choice, but Peter Bergen has given our killing by remote control a grudging thumbs up (Pakistan drone war takes a toll on militants -- and civilians, CNN, Oct. 29, 2009).  Not only do the drone attacks "consistently" kill civilians, they...
