by John Glaser | Jun 28, 2012 | News
The five permanent members of the UN Security Council will meet on Saturday with several other regional players (excluding Iran?) to hash out a plan to end the violence in Syria. UN envoy Kofi Annan seems to have persuaded* Syria’s biggest ally, Russia, to...
by John Glaser | Jun 15, 2012 | News
There is a society-wide civic dogma which props up the warfare state, and its conspicuous dishonesty is on full, naked display. Last week, the Los Angeles Times reported that US soldiers home from the war in Afghanistan are killing themselves at a rate of one per day....
by Kelley Beaucar Vlahos | Jun 15, 2012 | News
I just found out that my friend and familiar Antiwar.com byline (and radio guest) Gareth Porter, has just won the Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism in London. This honor is for his outstanding research into the military’s targeted killing strategy in...
by Angela Keaton | Jun 4, 2012 | Bill Kristol, Culture, Hollywood, Intervention, John McCain, Media, Military-industrial complex, News, War party
It’s no Kony 2012! I’m enough of a cynic to know that no one learns anything from the past, at least Eugene Jarecki can sleep well knowing he was right. While Jarecki’s documentary “Why We Fight” was released in 2005, it (sadly) seems...
by John Glaser | Jun 4, 2012 | News
At this point in the international negotiations with Iran, people seem to be reading into it whatever is beneficial for their own arguments. They’re either bound for resolution in the third round in Moscow later this month, or they’re doomed to failure...
