From a new Congressional Research Service report, American casualties soar in Afghanistan since Obama took over: Afghan civilian casualties, although the numbers are less solid than DoD's tracking of Americans killed, have also skyrocketed under Obama's surge. See...
In Israel, “apartheid” criticism is an accepted part of the debate lexicon
Robert Wright talks with Mikhael Manekin of Breaking the Silence:
Why Iran and North Korea Are Different
U.S. policy in the last couple of presidential eras has demonstrated complete acceptance of North Korea's megalomaniacal leadership attaining nuclear weapons. In 2003 though, make-believe weapons of mass destruction in Saddam Hussein's Iraq were enough of a threat to...
The Limits of Debate on War With Iran
As prominent voices in the U.S. pontificate about a looming nuclear bomb in Iran, as fleets of U.S. navy warships demonstrate provocative militarism in the Persian Gulf, and as Israel uses its committed constituency in America to push for a preemptive military strike,...
Obama to ‘Explain’ Legal Reasoning Behind Awlaki Killing
Daily Beast: After months of internal debate, the Obama administration is planning to reveal publicly the legal reasoning behind its decision to kill the American-born leader of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, Anwar al-Awlaki. Marcy Wheeler: The problem–the problem...
Giving Refuge to Our Criminal Tyrant, Ali Saleh
Longtime U.S. ally and embattled Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh is on his way to America, reportedly to seek medical treatment. This decision to come to the U.S. was made after Saleh apparently gave up trying to muscle his way back into the power structure in...
The Futility of Peace Talks in Afghanistan
James Dobbins of the RAND Corp. has written a piece which basically says the Obama administration's recent attempts to negotiate with the Taliban is not a sign that the war is coming to an end. He compares it with peace talks between the U.S. and the North Vietnamese,...
Progressives Cover Themselves With Shame in NH Primary
For the Left, the big news of the New Hampsire primary has been greeted with an embarrassed silence. For there the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, for example “Progressive” Democrats of America, failed completely to put forward a candidate for peace. This...
What is War Good For?
Antiwar.com columnist, Econlog blogger, and economics professor David Henderson appeared on John Stossel's show on the Fox Business channel last night. Henderson debated regular Fox contributor Colonel David Hunt on "war, Ron Paul's foreign policy views, Israel, 9/11,...
WikiLeaks and ‘the glory days of American radicalism’
Rolling Stone has published a new interview with Julian Assange of WikiLeaks, conducted by Michael Hastings. Here are some notable excerpts: "From the glory days of American radicalism, which was the American Revolution, I think that Madison's view on government is...

