Nothing “Purist”—Just Everything Hypocritical About Awarding Nobel “Peace” Prize to Promote Western Militarization
During the last 4 years the dispute over the implementation of Nobel´s prize for the "champions of peace" has come to a head. The Norwegian awarders seem to reinterpret Nobel´s wishes and award the prize for whatever in their judgment is good and valuable, based on "a...
VIPS Memo to Obama: Avoid Another Long War
Obama's re-election campaign may be focusing almost exclusively on domestic economic issues but there are strong forces pushing him and the U.S to war again, this time with Iran. The dangerous brinkmanship with Iran could be alleviated if facts were not being...
All I Want for Christmas Is My Civil Liberties!
Sad, isn't it, that just two days before Christmas, we have to stand out in the cold and worry about getting another big lump of coal from our politicians?! But unfortunately it's expected that Obama will sign the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) into law...
Obama Should Veto NDAA to Save the Republic
The political, military industrial, corporate class in Washington DC continues to re-make our constitutional republic into a powerful, unaccountable military empire. On Thursday, the US Senate voted 93 to 7 to pass the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for...
What Changed? Nothing.
Justin Elliott had a good piece in Salon yesterday, which we featured here. But when I went to read it, the subtitle made me laugh out loud. "The president promised early on to withdraw all U.S. troops from Iraq by the end of 2011. What changed?" What changed? LOL....
Jeremy Scahill Trashes Juvenile Howard Dean on Obama ‘Successes’
Jeremy Scahill, despite lacking "mainstream" media credentials, continues to show the best chops of any military reporter out there. This morning on MSNBC's Morning Joe, he thrashed the moron Howard Dean on the issue of, well, everything, really -- from oh no the...
Why you MUST be shielded from Wikileaks!
You will know you have spoken the truth when you are angrily denounced; and you will know you have spoken both truly and well when you are visited by the police. --J. B. R. YantApparently the folks from Wikileaks.org have spoken both truly and well. Which is why you...
Dubya was right??
From film-maker Oliver Stone's interview with former Argentine President Nestor Kirchner, we discover: Oliver Stone: "Were there any eye-to-eye moments with President Bush that day, that night?" Nestor Kirchner: "...I said that a solution to the...
Antiwar.com’s Kelley Vlahos on Fox News’ ‘Freedom Watch’
Judge Andrew Napolitano interviews Kelley Vlahos on Barack Obama's order to assassinate American-born Islamic cleric Anwar al-Awlaki.