Following a flurry of reports that a Pentagon contractor's foraging robotic platform would be feasting on the corpses of slain soldiers, the company in question Cyclone Power Technologies Inc. has issued a press release hoping to clear up the matter. "We completely...
The number of U.S. troops who have died while serving in Operation Iraqi Freedom since President Obama’s inauguration has now reached 100. This figure includes both combat and non-combat deaths that occurred since January 20. A few of the deaths were of...
So, more British soldiers have now been killed in Afghanistan than in Iraq. Why are British troops in Afghanistan? We know why American forces are in Afghanistan--to fight the Taliban terrorists "over there" so we don't have to fight them "over here,"Â to find Osama...
Will Future US Military Vehicles, Robots Feast on the Flesh of the Slain? The real downside to the Pentagon's planned army of merciless killbots, besides the inevitable robot rebellion (which the Pentagon is spending billions trying to head off) is all that fuel....
Revisionist historian William Marina died this morning of a heart attack. Bill was a great libertarian and friend of the late Murray Rothbard. I encountered Bill several times in the 1970s and always enjoyed his wit and wonderful conversation. Thanks to Gary North for...
In its obituary article on Robert McNamara today, the Washington Post mentions that McNamara was a director of the Washington Post company. Was that honor bestowed because of McNamara's lies or because of his war crimes? Or maybe he was just a really really great...
Antiwar.com columnist Alan Bock will be taking a break from his weekly column while he finishes writing a book. Be sure to check out today's installment, "Independence, Empire Don’t Mesh."
President Obama issued his statement on the United Nations International Day in Support of Torture Victims. I wonder if Obama's ghostwriter was wearing hip boots when this statement was put together. The opening of his statement could have been recycled from the...
Looking at Margaret and Jason's close monitoring of the continued bloodshed in Iraq-- something like 300 Iraqis dead in bombings since last Monday -- it's becoming clear that nothing short of a nuclear bomb dropped on the Green Zone will get administration...
National Review’s Rich Lowry: A major irony in Bush’s policy is that Iran appears to be much better primed than Iraq for a transition to democratic government (although Iraq is managing it anyway). It hasn’t been devastated by sanctions and war the way Iraq was;...
