From yesterday's Washington Post, in an article entitled "Under Obama, an emerging global apparatus for drone killing": But the administration has allowed only a handful of strikes, out of concern that a broader campaign could turn al-Shabab from a regional menace...
The War on Boko Haram, and the Hubris of Unwarranted Intervention
The Nigerian terror group Boko Haram detonated explosives early this week in Christian churches during Christmas mass, killing about 40 people. The attacks are just the latest in a series of an increasingly frequent actions by the group, which has renewed vigor as of...
‘Kill, Occupy, Kill’ is a Losing Strategy
The Guardian reported on Sunday that "senior British officials believe that a 'last push' in 2012 is likely to definitively destroy al-Qaida's remaining senior leadership in Pakistan." The vicious drone war, wildly accelerated under Obama, has managed to kill a...
All I Want for Christmas Is My Civil Liberties!
Sad, isn't it, that just two days before Christmas, we have to stand out in the cold and worry about getting another big lump of coal from our politicians?! But unfortunately it's expected that Obama will sign the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) into law...
Nobody Cares About Afghanistan
The war in Afghanistan is costing hundreds of billions of dollars. The military occupation is party to severe human rights violations and outright atrocities. Conditions are not only not improving, they are getting worse. If you're a regular reader of this site, you...
Why US Support for Sadistic Tyranny in Bahrain Continues
Back during the initial swing of protests in Bahrain, and when the Khalifa regime's crackdown was at its harshest, dozens of medical professionals were arrested for the crime of treating as patients those protesters who had been injured by violent Bahraini security...
Antiwar.com’s Week in Review | December 23, 2011
Antiwar.com’s Week in Review | December 23, 2011IN THIS ISSUEVying for justice in the U.S. empireMaliki’s turn toward dictatorshipGovernment vs. military in PakistanAfghanistan is worseAssorted news from the empireWhat’s new at the blog?ColumnsAntiwar...
Catch a Glimpse of the Human Costs of the Drone War in Pakistan
As the presidential campaign drifts into its most petty and superficial, here is a reminder of what is important, of what Washington is all about and is likely to continue being all about unless Americans wake up and understand what U.S. terrorism around the world...
Is Hamas Going Non-Violent?
The entire U.N. Security Council, representing 14 countries, voted to condemn Israeli settlement expansion as criminal only to have the resolution vetoed by the U.S.. Those 14 members united yesterday to criticize the U.S. position as one that prolongs the stagnated...
Ethiopia: America’s Model for Civil Liberty?
Remember how the US contracted Ethiopia to "restore order" in Somalia? The East African dictatorship was to help install a UN-backed government of warlords and former communist apparatchiks in order to "free" Somalia. They ended up obliterating the delicate gains the...

