by John Glaser | Jun 21, 2011 | News
In a rather surprising article over at Reason, Shikha Dalmia writes not only that oil is not a driving force in the U.S. intervention in Libya, but that it doesn’t even drive our broader Middle East policy. Indeed, it is a “tired saw invoked by U.S....
by Jason Ditz | Apr 29, 2011 | News
Its never really been clear to me why comic book storylines have such an ability to rile up political factions, but after the bizarre row over the French Muslim ally of Batman it should have come as no surprise when Action Comics #900 included a story about Superman,...
by Kelley Beaucar Vlahos | Dec 14, 2010 | Culture, Empire, Military-industrial complex, News, US Military
What do zombies and the military industrial complex have in common? Let us count the ways. In fact, let military strategy & policy professor Michael Vlahos (relation, yes!) take you down that thorny path. Michael writes in Dark Lord, Dark Victory: America’s...
by Wendy Honett | Nov 4, 2010 | News
Recently, the Washington Post’s David Broder resurrected the tired and long debunked case for wartime prosperity, claiming that “a showdown with the mullahs†in Iran would be a boon to the economy. As political economist and historian Robert Higgs has shown time...
by Eric Garris | Sep 19, 2009 | News
Last month we got a record $1700 from readers who bought stuff on Amazon.com by clicking on the Antiwar.com Amazon link on the front page (or by bookmarking our auto-link to Amazon). When you click on the Antiwar.com link to Amazon, everything you buy on that visit...