At Scott Horton's suggestion, I wrote Robert Stinnett, author of Day of Deceit: The Truth about FDR and Pearl Harbor, and asked "about the new story [1,2] that the NSA has debunked the Pearl Harbor foreknowledge narrative." His response is as follows: Memo for Anthony...
The Problem with the Blackwater Indictments
So, five Blackwater guards have been indicted on charges related to a 2007 shooting in which 17 Iraqis were killed. Blackwater hired guns should be held accountable for their actions—actions that Iraqis call premeditated murder. However, I see a major problem with...
Dreyfuss on Obama on India
Barack H. Obama: Like George W. Bush, but half again more eloquent.
The Wild and Wooly World of NATO Air Strikes
According to sources inside the office of the governor of Afghanistan's Laghman Province, NATO forces launched an air strike on what they claimed were Taliban warriors last night near the town of Mehtar Lam. When the helicopters finished firing, 200 were dead. Not...
The Apparent War Crimes of Robert Gates
One of the joys of my life is the correspondence I receive from the great minds drawn to peace. George Phillies, Ph.D., teaches physics and game design at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Earlier this year, the Libertarian Party of New Hampshire made him their...
Speaking of Battle Droids
We've already mentioned Israel's quest to build an army of vicious robotic animals destined to go all Matrix and put all of humanity into pods to fuel their cold, sterile robotic society. Turns out the United States is way ahead of them. Its no secret that the United...
An Avatar for Peace
Dear Friends of Antiwar.com: A donor left this message in my Facebook Account, Here's an idea. We ask all our friends to switch their Facebook and Myspace profile images to the Anti-War.com logo on some upcoming anti-war day. Let's say Thanksgiving day, so we can be...
No Means No
A US patrol attempts to enter an Iraqi university campus, but is stopped at the gates by campus officials. Six months ago if we saw this as a lead in to a story, there was a good bet the rest of it would involve the university president being marched out into the...
Update: Citing Promises, AP Lifts Military Photo Ban
After yet another incident of the Department of Defense issuing a digitally altered photo to the media, it was announced that the Associated Press would be suspending the use of all photos provided by the Pentagon until further notice. Today, citing a promise from the...
Prescience
When I first saw Sony's adorable little AIBO, I remember mentioning to a friend that one day these robots would bare their slavering teeth at us, form an army and become truly a scourge unto all of mankind. What I didn't realize at the time is that the Israeli...


