The first response to Dave Swanson's "Drones for Christ" report in Sojourners magazine this month is to rub your eyes. This can't be real, it's too satirical -- a Christian university, sitting on $1 billion of assets in the conservative belt of old Virginia, run by a...
By now much of the world has learned that Michael Hastings, Rolling Stone reporter, war correspondent and author, has died in a car crash at the age of 33. He will be best known -- and all of the eulogies so far lead with this -- for his breakout story, Runaway...
President Obama is expected to make an announcement this week on whether his administration will begin arming the Syrian rebels in their suddenly uncertain effort to topple the autocratic regime of Bashar Assad. All signs point to a lifting of the White House...
It shouldn’t be easy for a group of Antiwar.com writers and supporters to just walk in and dish about foreign policy at the Left Forum, which claims to be the biggest annual convocation of Leftwing activists in the country. But it was -- easy, that is. In fact, some...
Just because the whole world seems to be talking about closing Guantanamo Bay prison -- not to mention the President of the United States -- doesn't mean it's going to happen any time soon. Not if congressional Republicans have anything to do with it. Distracted by...
UPDATE: 'What's next?' Less than 24 hours later and we can answer that question. It's called total content awareness, or PRISM, reported tonight by The Washington Post. "I'm just an average man, with an average life. I work from nine to five; hey hell, I pay the...
I received a sad missive from a friend who has been working in Kabul as a civilian teacher on behalf of the U.S aid effort on and off for the last 11 years. A staunch believer in the inevitable triumph of democracy over the Taliban and Afghanistan's brutal warlordism,...
The court martial of Pfc. Bradley Manning on charges that could land the celebrated Army whistleblower in prison for life, enters Day Two at the Fort Meade courtroom in Maryland on Tuesday. Check in with Kevin Gosztola and Alexa O'Brien, who are both covering the...
It's always amusing when one hears talk about The Washington Post being part of the liberal mainstream media conspiracy. The 136-year-old newspaper, known for its breaking of "Watergate" and subsequent downfall of President Richard N. Nixon in the 1970's, is hardly...
This may ultimately come as no surprise, but yet another party connected to the torture and abuse of detainees at Abu Ghraib circa 2004 may get off with little more than a slight taint on their reputation. At this point it is part of the record in at least two...
