Read this statement by Human Rights Watch that was released late Friday and ask yourself how Washington should react to Netanyahu’s claims that families in Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem should be to entitled to “natural growth.†One...
Flickr Deletes Account of Man Posting Torture Photos
San Francisco Chronicle: Man critical of Obama wiped off the face of Flickr Gawker's Ryan Tate chronicles how Yahoo obliterated the Flickr account of user Shepherd Johnson after he blasted Obama over a policy on torture photos. Johnson, of Virginia man, is none too...
Jeremy Scahill on Obama’s Wars
A very informative interview on Bill Moyers' Journal. Watch it here. or read the transcript here.
Obama’s War Crimes in Pakistan
So far the empire's new war in Pakistan has accomplished, well... nothing good. They aren't even pretending to hunt for bin Laden and Zawahiri as part of the excuse for demanding the Pakistani army invade the North-Western territories of the country, so far they have...
Ron Paul on Tiananmen Resolution: Let’s Tend to Our Own House
Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) delivered this on the House floor this afternoon: I rise to oppose this unnecessary and counter-productive resolution regarding the 20th anniversary of the incident in China’s Tiananmen Square. In addition to my concerns over the content of this...
Grim Milestone: 5,000 GIs Dead in Iraq, Afghanistan Wars
Among the six U.S. servicemember deaths so far reported in June, one soldier has become the 5,000th casualty of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Supreme Court Justice Aids Torture Coverup
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Ginsburg approved an Obama administration request to have an additional 30 days to submit their appeal to justify suppressing the photos of US troops torturing detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan. The administration can now dally until July 9...
Daniel Luban: A Final Word on Amalek
A guest post from Daniel Luban: I have no desire to bore the reader with endless discussion of the Amalek controversy, so I will just weigh in with one final comment on the controversy and Jeffrey Goldberg’s response to it. First, Andrew Sullivan’s post on the...
Happy Birthday Randolph Bourne
Today is the 123rd birthday of Randolph Bourne, the antiwar writer and intellectual for whom the Randolph Bourne Institute, which operates Antiwar.com, is named. Bourne was a major opponent of the First World War, and died during the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic at the...
Obama’s Torture Coverup
Does President Obama have a vested interest in covering up the crimes of the Bush administration? His decision to block the release of photos of U.S. troops abusing detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan is a reminder that the nation may still be running on "Cheney time."...


