Hillary Joins Neocon War in Iraq

Bruce Gagnon is reporting, on his blog "Organizing Notes", that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has come out in favour of a long-term occupation of Iraq; Hillary Clinton, who hopes to become president, is on the Sunday morning talk shows saying that our troops might be in...

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Horton interviews Horton

Saturday, between 4 and 6 pm EST, Scott Horton will interview the tastefully named Scott Horton (they're not the same person ... at least I don't think they are.) about the rotten apples who run the "Special Access Program", a black ops torture and humiliation scheme...

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How Manadel al-Jamadi was killed in Abu Ghraib

Manadel al-Jamadi Today, we have a new term to add to our ever-growing torture vocabulary list along with strappado and waterboarding. It's a technique called "Palestinian hanging," not because Palestinians do it, but because Palestinians are hung that way by...

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Long Live Sir Thatcher!

Antiwar.com isn't even supposed to have a position on Mark Thatcher and his merrie band of overthrowers, since it's not a US foreign policy issue and it's not really a war issue. But I have a position on the subject, and it is this: if I had known they were planning...

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Porter Goss Hates America

James Bovard points out that Porter Goss Hates America:"The Iraq conflict, while not a cause of extremism, has become a cause for extremists," CIA director Porter Goss told a congressional committee yesterday. “ Goss warned: “Islamic extremists are exploiting the...

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Serbian President in Kosovo

Serbian president Boris Tadic visited Kosovo this week, touring besieged Serbian enclaves and opposing the occupied province's independence. The visit was met with mixed sentiments by the Imperial press, largely depending on the degree of their Albanian favoritism....

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We’re Number 37!

After a year-end holiday slump, Antiwar.com is back on Alexa/Amazon's Top 50 News Site list. Combining reach and rank, Antiwar.com ranks #37 among the Top 50 News Sites on the Web. We are just behind Los Angeles Times, CBS News, and the Chicago Tribune, and just ahead...

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Iraqi PM speculation premature

There's much speculation going on about the selection of the Prime Minister of the Shiite and Kurdish National Assembly. A couple of items to remember. Parties have three days after election ballots are released to challenge the results. Al Jazeera reports today that...

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Recent Letters

In Backtalk: Monica Benderman announces the establishment of the Kevin Benderman Defense Committee’s Web site: BendermanDefense.org. John Mayew suggests that we write to our elected representatives in support of Sibel Edmonds, while T. Tunney says that letter-writing...

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