Glenn Beck is leading an evangelical delegation to Israel (reports The Washington Post) with letters of commendation from Texas Gov. Rick Perry and evangelist John Hagee, leader of Christians United For Israel. The group was described by my article, The Strangest...
It's not new (McClathcy, for example, reported on it quite well back in May), but it's interesting to read first hand how in US diplomatic cables from 2008, the US embassy in Tripoli sent cables back to Washington describing "a reportedly deliberate GOL [Government of...
The deputy speaker of the Israeli Knesset tells Al Jazeera that he does not believe in a two-state solution. There is of course a spectrum of belief and agendas in the Knesset, but this is unusually explicit. Still, this is largely consistent with actions. And...
Look. It's no secret most of us at Antiwar.com are libertarians and/or anarchists (a Venn diagram of the two labels would only have a few of us outside the overlapping part...). But it's never enough for some progressives that we are against every war, everywhere....
This New York Times piece notes several parallels between Muammar Gadhafi in Libya and Saddam Hussein in Iraq vis-à-vis US foreign policy. Somewhat trivial comparisons like vying to be the "West's principle nemesis in the Arab world," "vow[ing] to defeat the enemy at...
As you can see, the John Boehner-Minnesota Golfing Fundraiser in Minnesota enjoyed beautiful weather on Wednesday August 17, 2011. So did our Come Home America group as we traveled to Wayzata, Minnesota to banner outside the event. We had read that House Speaker John...
Again the media has drawn attention to massive atrocities which the US was directly responsible for and completely leaves out the operative fact of US involvement. A BBC article late last week reported that the "Chilean commission investigating human rights abuses...
The Washington Post catches up with reality: The Obama administration often cites Colombia’s thriving democracy as proof that U.S. assistance, know-how and commitment can turn around a potentially failed state under terrorist siege. The country’s U.S.-funded...
The Libyan rebels have apparently achieved control of almost all of Gadhafi's last stronghold in the capital Tripoli, although some scattered fighting is still sporadically cropping up. While the whereabouts of Gadhafi are still unknown, the consensus seems to be that...
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