It can often be difficult being a Jew and a proponent of individual rights for all when that clashes with the actions of the Jewish state that claims to represent and defend you. For years I have fought to just educate my family members on some basic facts on the...

Washington Times columnist and former editor Tony Blankley is calling for bringing back the military draft. He says a draft would have prevented so many American deaths in Iraq, and would allow us to escalate in Afghanistan and possibly invade Pakistan. Blankley is...

You never know who you might run into at the local mall--perhaps even an Army recruiter. At the Franklin Mills shopping mall in Philadelphia the U.S. Army Experience Center has 60 computers with military videogames to ensnare young people. Prospective soldiers can...

Remember Joe the Plumber? Me either but America (or a subset thereof) was apparently obsessed with this fellow for a week or two there. Unwilling to relinquish the limelight he appears to have lost months ago, Joe donned his reporters cap and went to Israel to cover...

Both houses of Congress lined up in near-unanimous support of Israel's war on Gaza. Yesterday, the Senate passed their version of the resolution without a single dissenting vote. Today's vote in the House produced only 5 "No" votes: Ron Paul (R-TX), Dennis Kuchinich...

Ron Paul's statement opposing the US House resolution supporting Israel's war in Gaza:

Back in July, I wrote a post on this blog with the title, “Is Petraeus Preparing to Betray the Neo-Cons?” in which I suggested that, given his expanded geographical jurisdiction as CentCom commander, Gen. David Petraeus, like the Joint Chiefs (and candidate Barack...

So the U.S. Senate on Thursday passed by voice vote a resolution blindly supporting Israeli attacks on Gaza and heaping derision on Hamas. This craven display should awaken anyone who sanguinely assumed that "everything changed" on November 4. The resolution contained...

Last night's PBS NewsHour featured a debate on the nomination of Leon Panetta to be CIA Director. The participants were two Antiwar.com contributors: former CIA analyst Ray McGovern and former CIA official Michael Scheuer. Judy Woodruff was the interviewer. I found...

Want to see first-hand reporting from Gaza? Al-Jazeera's team was there before journalists were banned. Want to watch English-language TV news from Pakistan, India, Iran, Russia, Korea? Want to watch Hezbollah TV without your provider going to prison? Want to watch...