Earlier this week, I wrote about the passing of my old and dear friend, Burt Blumert, who was instrumental in the establishment of Antiwar.com. Yesterday, Rep. Ron Paul read a tribute to Burt into the Congressional Record (with a very kind plug for Antiwar.com). Here...
I am very pleased to announce the latest addition to our stable of columnists: Edouard Husson is Maître de Conférences at the Sorbonne, a historian specializing in the history of Germany and Europe in the 20th century. He is author of “Nous pouvons vivre sans les...
Yesterday, Rep. Ron Paul voted against a resolution praising the 30th anniversary of the Israel-Egypt Camp David treaty. He rose to explain why: Mr. Speaker: I rise in reluctant opposition to this resolution. I do so not because I oppose our recognizing peace as...
It was 70 years ago on March 31 when Great Britain committed the fatal blunder that led to World War II: issuing a war guarantee to Poland. This was the war, as Pat Buchanan says in his recent book, Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War, that “led to the...
A dear friend died this morning. Burt Blumert was not only an old and close personal friend, he was an important friend to Antiwar.com. In 1999, when Antiwar.com started really taking off, Burt took us under his wing by making us a part of the nonprofit Center for...
I never heard the speech before, it is awesome and timeless. The actor does a great job, he even looks like Butler. During his 34 years of Marine Corps service, Smedley Butler was awarded numerous medals for heroism including the Marine Corps Brevet Medal (the highest...
Monday the Friends Committee on National Legislation is organizing a national call-in day encouraging people to call their senators (1-800-590-6313) and asking them to co-sponsor S. 416, the Cluster Munitions Civilian Protection Act of 2009, a bill sponsored by Sen....
Klaus Madersbacher has set up a really great German language website called Antikrieg.com with German language translations of some of the best English language antiwar articles available - including many from Antiwar.com. So if you know some German speakers looking...
Not all terrorists are equally damndable, apparently. The Washington Post has an article today on the Iraqi government's plan to shut down the camp of the Mujaheddin-e Khalq, or MEK. This is a violent Marxist organization that was designated by the State Department as...
The London Police department is launching a new ad campaign to keep people frightened and submissive. The campaign includes a bizarre poster which encourages people to view as a terrorist suspect anyone who looks closely at government surveillance cameras. Here is the...
