Antiwar.com's Week in Review | August 26, 2011 Help us meet our fund-raising goal! Help keep the War Party at bay and make a tax-deductible donation today! Don't forget to sign the open letter to Obama and Congress to end the wars: ComeHomeAmerica.us IN THIS ISSUE...
Julian Assange and Team Wikileaks are at it again. Using Twitter and their own website, the organization released some 35,000 cables after months of only a handful being released each day. Perhaps one of the most amusing and telling cables comes from way back in 1987....
This was written two weeks ago and sent to hundreds of American newspapers -- only one of which said they'd run it. We never herd back from them after embargoing this piece for days. It's not quite timely anymore, but these were my views on the "J14" protest movement...
At a speech that Defense Secretary Leon Panetta gave at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey yesterday, I posed the following question: Good morning, Mr. Secretary. I'm David Henderson, an economics professor here in the Graduate School of Business and Public...
Jeremy Scahill, despite lacking "mainstream" media credentials, continues to show the best chops of any military reporter out there. This morning on MSNBC's Morning Joe, he thrashed the moron Howard Dean on the issue of, well, everything, really -- from oh no the...
Previous posts about US policy towards Colombia illustrate how the drug war has served as a pretext for supporting atrocities and a corrupt government in order to secure strong regional influence and expansions of the empire. The US justifies supporting, training, and...
A new State Department diplomatic cable has been released by WikiLeaks detailing the visit to Libya McCain had in 2009 aimed at fostering a closer relationship with Gadhafi. We've known about this for some time, despite the mainstream media not having mentioned it. I...
McClatchy: U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham on Monday called on the U.S. government to send more money to Middle East countries in turmoil to push them toward democracy. “Foreign aid is a very complicated, controversial topic, particularly when you’re broke. But ... it is...
"The Libyan Revolution has largely succeeded," Middle East scholar Prof. Juan Cole says in his recent article about Libya, rapturously recommended by "progressive" anti-revolutionary MSNBC Obama shill Rachel Maddow, who had him on her show last night. This was before...
Ahmad Majidyar blogs at the American Enterprise Institute about US-NATO negotiations with the Taliban, characterizing them as "goodwill gestures" and "appeasement." The British Embassy in Kabul recently hosted an Iftar party on the occasion of the Islamic holy month...
