Cyber-Attacking Wikileaks
After publishing tens of thousands of additional diplomatic cables since last week, the WikiLeaks website is apparently under attack. The twitter account announced it tonight a number of times (and asked for help from supporters). Raw Story: The online assault came...
Angela Keaton is awesome at The Daily Caller!
A wonderful presentation by Angela Keaton on The Daily Caller TV. Antiwar.com director of operations appeared on The Daily Caller's series for the anniversary of 9/11. Check it out:
Cindy Sheehan Under IRS Investigation For Not Funding Gov’t Terrorism and Waste
Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan has recently been informed that she is the target of an IRS lawsuit. She posted the following on her Facebook page: I just got a notice from the IRS that I owe them 104 grand and they are going to levy my bank accounts and property. I...
Night Raids and War Crimes
Just wanted to quickly draw attention to this WikiLeaks State Department diplomatic cable which details a horrible war crime committed by the US in Iraq in 2006. The cable excerpts a letter written by Philip Alston, Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary, or...
The NYT Applauds Obama Doctrine, Regurgitates Propaganda
And now for today's extreme war propaganda from the paper of record, the New York Times. It would be premature to call the war in Libya a complete success for United States interests. But the arrival of victorious rebels on the shores of Tripoli last week...
Are Segregation and Loyalty to the State Solutions to Conflict?
Last week we got a rather explicit perspective on what exactly is the driving ideological and political force driving Israeli policies of territory and statehood with Palestinians through the deputy speaker of the Israeli Knesset who unabashedly rejected the notion...
The Maintainence Costs of Gitmo
We've done a good amount here at Antiwar on Guantanamo, the torture, and the legal black hole that has kept people there without charge or trial for years on end. Not to mention the lies and corruption that came with it. But here's Amnesty International, as if we...
Libya’s Future: Much Less Certain than Death and Taxes
Moammar Gaddafi, the Libyan leader desperate to maintain the little power he has left, was said to have arrived in Algeria in a convoy of Mercedes. He must have done so after finding the personal jet of Robert Mugabe and Zimbabwe to not be luxurious enough for his...
WikiLeaks: UN query into never-prosecuted civilian deaths in Iraq
Amid the release of 35,000 new cables by WikiLeaks this week comes new and tragic, but perhaps not so surprising news about the five deaths of Iraqi civilians, reportedly at the hands of U.S forces in the early to mid-2000's. In each case the military investigated,...
