Says Israeli historian Benny Morris, who also concedes that the volume of Israeli atrocities against Palestinians in 1948 surprised even him. A lot of gems in this Ha'aretz interview. Check it out. UPDATE 1/25: I fixed the broken link to the interview. (Hat tip to...
The rise of the movable type printing press – "the tyrant's foe and the people's friend" – curiously coincided with the fall of slavery, and technological progress continues to change politics, from Antiwar.com to Move On's national video parties. The cutting edge now...
Citing the high cost of maintaining their contingent of peacekeepers, Nicaragua warns it may have to pull out of the Iraq coalition. Nicaragua, one of the poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere, has 115 troops in Iraq. Most are medical personnel and landmine...
The lunatic irony of intervention: How the U.S. government encouraged Iranian mujahedeen to "liberate" Bosnia. We won't (haven't) live(d) to regret such policies, I'm sure. What blowback?
Steve Reed sends along the following observations about selective reading at the Ayn Rand Institute: I saw your Antiwar.com Blog entries from about two weeks back about the Ayn Rand Institute. The slice you've captured doesn't include, however, a particular subtle...
Who the hell is Baroness Emma Nicholson, and who made her queen of Romania? This bullying busybody is the archetypal progressive imperialist, a preview of President Hillary (minus the nuclear weapons). After throttling the Romanians into Roma marriage counseling this...
The Senate Governmental Affairs Committee has asked the General Accounting Office to expand its probe of falsified credentials to include Pentagon employees after a surprising find at Homeland Security: The probe began after Linda Callahan, a senior director in the...
Believe it or not, Antiwar.com is now nine years old. An important component of our news collection has always been provided by volunteer researchers. Half of all our links and articles have been provided by such volunteers.In recent weeks, some of our most productive...
One might think that Louisianans would be less inclined than other Americans to indulge in the France-bashing that so amuses hooligans like Emmett Tyrrell. Sadly, though, that's not the case, as shown by the statements of elected boors and an op-ed in Wednesday's...
We were apparently so busy looking for Saddam's "WMD-related program activities," that we didn't even bother to secure his real nuclear waste stockpile back in April, creating a health and environmental disaster for the people of this small rural village in Iraq. Back...
