Regular antiwar.com contributor Tom Engelhardt NAILS it - - - on Democracy Now! too. Tom Engelhardt on "The American Way of War: How Bush’s Wars Became Obama’s" Here: http://www.democracynow.org/2010/6/18/afghan
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Justin Raimondo on Bill Meyer Show
Antiwar.com's Editorial Director Justin Raimondo will be interviewed on the Bill Meyer Show Friday, June 18th at 8:10am Pacific/11:10am Eastern, for KMED, Medford, OR. The topic will be Mr. Raimondo's recent column, Afghan Bling, regarding the curiously timed...
Obama Admin: Don’t Question Torturers’ Sincerity
The Supreme Court disgraced itself on Monday by torpedoing the appeal of Maher Arar, the Canadian who was kidnapped at John F. Kennedy International Airport and sent by the U.S. government to Syria for torturing. The Canadian government has publicly apologized to Arar...
Wall Street Journal Writes Green Movement’s Obituary
Bret Stephens, the neoconservative foreign policy editor for the Wall Street Journal op-ed page, proclaims in his column today that “the Iranian Green Movement is deadâ€. The column is a revealing one, although not for the actual argument, which is shoddy even by...
Twenty-Four Anti-Torture Activists Acquitted
Breaking: Twenty-Four Anti-Torture Activists Acquitted in Trial for Protest at the US Capitol Calling for Guantanamo's Closure and the Investigation of Deaths at the Prison. From WitnessTorture.org: On Monday, June 14, twenty-four activists with Witness Against...
Victor Davis Hanson Is Very Confused
Victor Davis Hanson: With Obama and his moral equivalence, Israel is hardly any better than Hamas or Hezbollah or the Palestinian Authority. I wonder, though, if they really believe that. What if a Jew says he wants to live in Ramallah because it’s a nice place?...
If Only He’d Tortured People…
...the heroic leaker Bradley Manning would be a free man today. Via the FaceBook group SaveBradley:
Flotilla Footage Mirrors
Apparently Vimeo and other sources hosting the hour-long newly released Gaza Flotilla Attack footage, blogged below by Antiwar.com Managing News Editor Jason Ditz, have been hard pressed to manage all the bandwidth demanded by people who prefer truth to what Benyamin...
Schumer: It Makes Sense To Strangle Gaza
Via ThinkProgress: This past Wednesday, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) delivered a wide-ranging speech at an Orthodox Union event in Washington, D.C. The senator’s lecture touched on areas such as Iran’s nuclear program, the Israel-Palestinian conflict, and several...
New Footage of the Aid Ship Attack
While Israel's military confiscated the vast majority of the video footage and photographic evidence of last week's attack on the Mavi Marmara, Iara Lee managed to smuggle roughly 15 minutes of never before seen footage out, which was released today. The video shows a...
