The Obama Administration has been catching choreographed flack -- from the militaryindustrialcongressional complex -- ever since it announced a now wimped down withdraw from Afghanistan beginning no later than July, 2011: Gen. James Conway: "In terms of the July...
Now Comes the Deadly ‘Peace’ for Iraq
One soldier, the first since the symbolic withdrawal, lost his or her life during a rocket attack today in Basra.
Nixon’s Vietnam Scapegoat Finally Gets Justice
One wonders how long it will really take to get to the truth about Abu Ghraib. If a story in today's Washington Post offers any indication, it will be about 40 years before we find out who authorized the torture and abuse of Iraqi prisoners in the early days of the...
Justin Raimondo on Fox Business Channel
Update: A video of the full show has been posted here. The first segment is Julian Assange, with Justin Raimondo (and his opponent) in the second segment. We will be posting the stand-alone segments in the next day or so. Antiwar.com's Editorial Director Justin...
Antiwar Radio on Pacifica
Antiwar Radio’s Scott Horton will be interviewing investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill. Mr. Scahill, the author of Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Army, will take a critical look at the Washington Post's Top Secret America. KPFK 90.7 FM Los...
John Bolton’s “Armed Social Workers”
As part of the continuing discussion of Michael Steele, Judge Andrew Napolitano and Rep. Ron Paul bravely take on former UN Ambassador and AEI senior fellow John Bolton with passion but the winning zinger goes to Christopher Preble, Director of Foreign Policy Studies...
Eric Garris on Russia Today
Antiwar.com founder Eric Garris spoke to Russia Today on the extent of the U.S. government's intervention overseas, the effect of endless war on the economy, the lack of probing mainstream coverage on Afghanistan and the reality of life in Gaza....
Counting Afghanistan Casualties…Through 15 Other Countries
Although several news outlets spent the day barking about the Afghanistan death toll crossing the 1,000 mark, the truth is that casualty counting is a little more complicated. Icasualties.org is where the media are grabbing that 1,000 figure. The Web site does report...
CNN, Shocked: There Are No US Troops in Haiti!
It wasn't 15 minutes into the coverage of this afternoon's massive and certainly disastrous earthquake just 10 miles from Port-au-Prince on CNN, when Wolf Blitzer cut off the weeping Haitian ambassador to the US to go to a CNN staffer who spent another 2-3 minutes...
“‘Nuff Said?” You Bet.
(Cross posted at @TAC) I know it is a tired trope, but it's helpful to look at the ultimate success of Counterinsurgency, or the vaunted COIN doctrine dominating the popular ethos of the American military establishment, as a three-legged stool. As it is conceived, or...


