You're a liar and murderer, say protesters in Britain. More details here also. Although I often criticize soldiers for participating in the war in Iraq, I believe Blair and Bush are the chief war criminals.
Jane WAS Right!
After all these years, Jane WAS Right! British political news has been consumed for the last several weeks by a formal inquiry into the illegality and deceit behind Tony Blair's decision to join the U.S. in invading Iraq.... A major focus of the investigation is the...
Why Obama Whistled Past Afghanistan Last Night
The number of words that President Obama expended on the war in Afghanistan during the much anticipated State of the Union address last night:Â exactly 92. Considering that the President's entire speech was 7,308 words, you could have missed his fleeting reference to...
A Memory of Howard Zinn
I just learned that my friend Howard Zinn died today. Earlier this morning, I was being interviewed by the Boston Phoenix, in connection with the release in Boston in February of a documentary in which he is featured prominently. The interviewer asked me who my own...
A Farewell Column from Joe Galloway
War correspondent Joe Galloway is retiring today. Galloway has been covering wars around the world for close to a half-century. The more wars he covered, the more anti-war be became. Antiwar.com has been honored to carry his columns over the last few years. Read his...
CIA Torture Success Claim Cast Overboard, Drowns
Jeff Stein has a great piece on how the most prominent CIA apologist for waterboarding has finally 'fessed up that he didn't know what he was talking about. Much of the news media treated this CIA "expert" like a hero back in 2007. I assume they will ignore his...
American Conservative Website Attacked
Late last night the website for The American Conservative magazine was attacked by unknown hackers. They wiped out the content and replaced it with spyware. The site is currently offline and will hopefully be restored this morning. Our spotlight of the day ("Add Yemen...
Dump Bernanke and Audit the Fed
How much damage can one man inflict and still be treated like a saint and savior in Washington? Ben Bernanke's career answers that question. The Establishment media has rallied around the current Fed chairman as if his reign was the triumph of wisdom and goodness -...
Islamophobia: Bad For The Jews
Continuing on the subject of Eli’s last post, it might be worthwhile to examine in more depth the burgeoning alliance between right-wing supporters of Israel and the European far right. The importance of this topic was driven home by the publication of a new Gallup...
Media Falling Down on Gitmo ‘Suicides’
I hope that anyone who has not already done so will read Scott Horton’s important piece in Harper’s investigating the cover-up of the 2006 deaths of three Guantanamo detainees, deaths which were publicly reported as suicides. (Or, in the Strangelovian language of...


