America’s Best Political Philosopher?

Dilbert today is worth triple its weight in Harvard political philosophers. Scott Adams is no boot-burnisher. This cartoon cuts to the heart of the fraud of contemporary democracy. I am amused to hear talk of politicians having mandates when voters had a choice of...

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Antiwar.com Is 11 Years Old Today

On December 21, 1995, Antiwar.com was born. On that day, I made the first posting to the site. Since then, we have continued to upgrade, adding daily news updates starting in 1998, going to round-the-clock coverage during the Kosovo War in 1999. Today, Antiwar.com is...

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US Out Now

David Beito of Liberty & Power sends along this petition urging an immediate withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq. Though the big names at the top skew very left, the statement strikes this libertarian as admirably focused and unobjectionable in its particulars....

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Obama a Peace Candidate? No way

In response to today's column, a reader writes: Wow... I was just saying that I liked the fact that Obama is anti-war. Guess I was wrong. I believe of all the people who have been mentioned in the news as possible '08 candidates... that he is the least pro war next to...

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Israel: Western! Progressive! Or Not.

At first glance, I figured I'd be amused, but I was quickly sickened by what I read in Ha'aretz today. A female American tourist was riding a bus to pray at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, and when a gang of Haredi men ordered her to the back of the bus, she refused....

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Yeah, We’re the Ones Who Got It Wrong

We like to publicize the sunny prewar forecasts of big-shot warbots, and rightly so. Most of these fools have yet to shut up, and despite their staggering record of entrails illiteracy, many are now assuring us of further "victories" to be had. Of course, the...

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Iraqi Justice coming to USA?

The New York Times has a great piece today on sham justice in Iraq.  The US military now holds almost twice as many Iraqi detainees as it did when the Abu Ghraib scandal broke.  The U.S. set up a Central Criminal Court in Baghdad that usually has a Soviet-like...

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