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...
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."
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...
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...
Bush's order for 20,000 more troops to be sent into the Iraq quagmire has resulted in some additional calls to end this evil war. But who can stop it? Can anyone stop it? Because there is only serious opposition from a few members of Congress, the war will continue...
Antiwar Radio: Gareth Porter My guest on Antiwar Radio for January 16, 2007 is historian and analyst Gareth Porter from IPS News on why America's policy toward Iran has not really changed despite the Bush administration's recent seemingly more aggressive...
A newly-released Pentagon-funded study entitled “Educing Information†examines the “concerns about recent U.S. interrogation activities, subsequent investigations, and the efficacy of contemporary tactics, techniques, and procedures.†Surprise, surprise: the...
This article, "The Iraq Gamble: At the pundits' table, the losing bet still takes the pot," by Jebadiah Reed, in Radar, is a hoot -- if you like your humor a darker shade of black. Reed discusses the way-off-the-mark predictions and prognostications proffered by...
. Vietnam "War" Defense Sec. Robert McNamara, The Fog of War [youtube]Bl8wpsGooOo[/youtube] 'Mr. McNamara, you must never have read a history book!' . Maj. Gen. John Batiste, retiring head of "The Big Red One" [youtube]LVpGzCVQz4U[/youtube] 'There was no surprise with...
Rod Dreher, author of Crunchy Cons, and a former writer for National Review, recants: As President Bush marched the country to war with Iraq, even some voices on the Right warned that this was a fool's errand. I dismissed them angrily. I thought them unpatriotic. But...
