* Anthology Film Archives in NYC announces the October premieres of two films on the late Edward Said: "EDWARD SAID: THE LAST INTERVIEW is the record of a wide-ranging and engaging conversation with Said, conducted within a year of his death in 2003, while OUT OF...
"All day long today the story we've been chasing has to do with major new charges about the handling of the Iraq war - evidence that the reality is far worse than we've been led to believe." Quoth Brian Williams - Tom Brokaw's replacement as the "news anchor" on the...
The poll numbers are in, and it looks like the War Party has its work cut out: "A majority of Americans want the United States to increase diplomatic efforts over Iran's nuclear ambitions, while 70 percent oppose the use of U.S. troops to thwart Iran, according to a...
If you want to know what we are doing in Iraq, at least a partial answer to your question is provided by Editor & Publisher, a recent edition of which reports: "U.S. Army officials are taking a close look at whether women in a Kentucky National Guard unit posed nude...
The London Review of Books put on a panel last Thursday, held at Cooper Union's Great Hall in New York City, with the provocative title "The Israel Lobby: Does it have too much influence on U.S. foreign policy?" Speaking for the affirmative: John J. Mearsheimer, a...
Sorry to distract from all the Dictatorship Day celebrations this weekend, but nuclear physicist and Antiwar.com regular contributor, Gordon Prather, reminds us that none of the Middle Eastern countries being targeted (Iraq, Iran, Syria) in this Phony "Global War on...
The prize for the headline of the year goes to today’s Washington Post for the following gem: “Many Rights in U.S. Legal System Absent in New Bill†The Post article on the military tribunal bill the Senates passed yesterday details some of the legal and...
The following Republican members of the House of Representatives voted against the Torture-"Terrorist" Tribunal bill (HR 6166) today. Ron Paul, Roscoe Bartlett, Wayne Gilchrest, Walter Jones, Steven LaTourette, James Leach, Jerry Moran. These folks deserve hearty...
When plans to produce My Name Is Rachel Corrie, a play based on the journal entries of an American girl murdered by the IDF for her pro-Palestinian activism, were canceled in New York City this year, in the U.S. we only read about it in The Nation. When plans to put...
In case you missed it, here's Cato Institute scholar Arnold Kling writing at TCS Daily last month: I believe that what we need going forward is a policy of disarming Muslims. I believe that we must keep devout Muslims away from weapons, and keep weapons away from...
