The Onion succeeds with humor where a serious analysis couldn't: highlighting the US's absurd foreign policy regime and the information problem suffered by those who promote and enact foreign interventions. Nation Of Andorra Not In Africa, Shocked U.S. State Dept....
It took more than six years, but at least one Democrat enlisted after 9/11 by the hard-line neo-conservative Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD) seems finally to have caught on to the fact that its agenda is something other than what its name suggests. In...
Barack Obama reportedly said something very important and long overdue to a group of some 100 Cleveland Jewish leaders on Sunday — that being pro-Likud and being “pro-Israel†are two different things. “I think there is a strain within the pro-Israel community...
I've expressed my disappointment that the Democratic primaries haven't thrown up a more demographically electable antiwar candidate (here and here). I've been accused of over-emphasizing demographics but, judging by Michael Medved's "The Blue-Eyed Rule," the opposite...
Amongst all the media teeth-gnashing over the question of whether McCain did special favors for his blondie lobbyist, his wife’s sweetheart deal for massive narcotics theft in the 1990s has been forgotten. If a poor black woman from Anacostia had committed the...
The Minneapolis Post interviews Dan Ellsberg: "MP: What are your reading habits? "DE: I start the day by looking at Antiwar.com and then Commondreams.org. And I also read the New York Times and the San Francisco Chronicle every morning. But the newspapers can be very...
I've got the scoop on Ron Paul -- he's back!
David D. Friedman & his readers suggest some things Obama can do get libertarian Republicans to vote for him ("Thoughts for Obama"): "[A] possibility that occurs to me is to take advantage of the budgetary implications of Obama's opposition to the Iraq War. If the...
AEI’s Reuel Marc Gerecht now believes that Washington should offer to engage in unconditional, high-level talks and even normalize diplomatic relations with Iran…apparently in order to rally support for war. In a New York Times op-ed misleadingly entitled...
It must be nice to be able to take a vacation -- or to tell your readers that "postings will resume when I feel better." So la-dee-dah! Unfortunately, here at Antiwar.com, the word "vacation" is missing from our lexicon. Not only that, but there ain't no sick leave...
