Congresswoman Jane Harman is indignant. A National Security Agency wiretap reportedly picked up her conversation seeking favors from a suspected Israeli agent in return for Harman lobbying the Justice Department to drop the lawsuit against AIPAC's former top...
I'm always getting emails that go something like this: "Hey Scott, what the heck ever happened to Charles Goyette?! We're sick and tired of you, yada, yada, yada..." Well a blogger named Mark Yannone has outdone all of you: October 11, 2005: A year into his...
Republican senators are threatening to block confirmation of key Obama nominees if the Obama administration makes public the Bush administration Justice Department memos that explicitly authorized torture and other barbaric relics. Human rights/constitutional lawyer...
Rep. Ron Paul on US overreaction to the North Korean rocket launch:
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...
