Antiwar Radio: Charles Featherstone LewRockwell.com's Charles Featherstone explains that humans are born free and allow governments to exist to protect their natural rights – rather than existing at the pleasure of the state as attorney general Alberto Gonzales...
Edwards Pledges
Allegiance
Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards is out on the stump: "Iran is serious about its threats," former US Senator John Edwards has told an audience in Israel. "The challenges in your own backyard – represent an unprecedented threat to the world and Israel,"...
Marching on Washington this Saturday (1/27)
This Saturday should see the biggest antiwar demonstration in Washington since September 2005. Details here. I will be heading down to the big show. When I go to these events, I tend to saunter more than march, savoring the circus elements of these festivities and...
Choosing headlines
New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson is running for President. While Richardson is not hugely active on the international scene, you may remember him as the man who helped broker a cease-fire in Darfur. But what I'm really interested in here is the media's coverage of...
Frida Berrigan
Antiwar Radio: Frida Berrigan For Monday January 22, 2007, Antiwar Radio features Frida Berrigan, senior research associate at the World Policy Institute and member of the National Committee of the War Resisters League about her great article "Raptors, Robots and Rods...
They’re Not Gonna Win Any Popularity Contests…
But you should read what Arthur Silber and Jonathan Schwarz have to say anyway, because they present two unpopular arguments better than anyone else has.
Student Essay Contest Winners
Antiwar.com is pleased to announce the winners of its first-ever Student Essay Contest, held summer 2006. We had numerous entrants, and we congratulate all who took the time and energy to give us their views. In particular we are happy to report participation from...
Colin Powell Gets It Right
At least this time he does. The former Secretary of State recently said on CBS's "Face the Nation": "I am not persuaded that another surge of troops into Baghdad for the purposes of suppressing this communitarian violence, this civil war, will work."
Bush’s Remote Control Martyrs
In the Tuesday interview for PBS Newshour, host Jim Lehrer asked Bush why he has not asked more Americans.. to sacrifice something†for the war in Iraq. The President replied: “I think a lot of people are in this fight. I mean, they sacrifice peace of mind when...
Chris Floyd
Antiwar Radio: Chris Floyd The guest on Antiwar Radio for January 17, 2007 is Chris Floyd, author of Empire Burlesque: High Crimes and Low Comedy in the Bush Imperium, on the subject of the tension between the Cheney-neocon cabal and the traditional American...


