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...
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."...
I stopped by the Visitors Center at Manassas Battlefield Park last month and was struck by a quote capturing Georgia private B. M. Zettler’s reaction to being enmeshed in the battle of Bull Run: “I felt that I was in the presence of death. My first thought was,...
Originally Posted @TAC I had always revered Rolling Thunder -- the romantic vision of a Band of Brothers, refugees from a South Asian hellhole whose common experience, really, was the only thing separating them from a certain reckless breed of motorcycle gang. Their...
Former U.S. soldier Steven Dale Green was just sentenced to life in prison for his war crimes while "serving" in Iraq. It seems that Pfc. Green and three of his soldier friends went to the home of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl, killed her family, gang raped her, shot...
Radio host "Mancow" has apparently been defending the water torture. Perhaps those days are now over.
Watch Christopher Preble (Cato) and Jacob Hornberger (Future of Freedom of Foundation) stand up for morality and truth in the face of Max "(Your) Blood and Guts" Boot and some other loser. Heroic. And overdue.
I have to label this "humor" for people who either don't get it or find it in bad taste. I have no taste, so here is a "news report" from The Onion: Army Holds Annual 'Bring Your Daughter To War' Day
From Jeremy Scahill at The Nation today, a synopsis of explosive testimony before the Senate Democratic Policy Committee regarding contractor Kellogg, Brown and Root (former Halliburton subsidiary and by far the largest beneficiary of federal wartime funding, ever)....
Does finding out that a top military intelligence official was sending Donald Rumsfeld briefings emblazoned with religious crusader talk about the invasion of Iraq, like "open the gates so that the righteous may enter" fit "the left’s narrative that the Iraq war...
