At a Holocaust Remembrance Day at the Capitol on Thursday, President Obama called for "fighting the silence that is evil's greatest co-conspirator." On the same day, Obama decided to oppose creation of a truth commission to vigorously investigate and expose U.S....
For all of their gasbaggery about the virtue and necessity of the Fourth Estate, the glittering mainstream media elite (big names, big money, very little gumshoe) is simply allergic to breaking news, and intelligently reporting about anything that implicates the power...
On Tuesday Scott Horton interviewed Congressional Quarterly's Jeff Stein for Antiwar Radio about his explosive new story about Rep. Jane Harman's deal with an agent of the government of Israel to try to put pressure on the Department of Justice and/or the White House...
Congresswoman Jane Harman is indignant. A National Security Agency wiretap reportedly picked up her conversation seeking favors from a suspected Israeli agent in return for Harman lobbying the Justice Department to drop the lawsuit against AIPAC's former top...
I'm always getting emails that go something like this: "Hey Scott, what the heck ever happened to Charles Goyette?! We're sick and tired of you, yada, yada, yada..." Well a blogger named Mark Yannone has outdone all of you: October 11, 2005: A year into his...
Republican senators are threatening to block confirmation of key Obama nominees if the Obama administration makes public the Bush administration Justice Department memos that explicitly authorized torture and other barbaric relics. Human rights/constitutional lawyer...
Rep. Ron Paul on US overreaction to the North Korean rocket launch:
Earlier this week, I wrote about the passing of my old and dear friend, Burt Blumert, who was instrumental in the establishment of Antiwar.com. Yesterday, Rep. Ron Paul read a tribute to Burt into the Congressional Record (with a very kind plug for Antiwar.com). Here...
I am very pleased to announce the latest addition to our stable of columnists: Edouard Husson is Maître de Conférences at the Sorbonne, a historian specializing in the history of Germany and Europe in the 20th century. He is author of “Nous pouvons vivre sans les...
Yesterday, Rep. Ron Paul voted against a resolution praising the 30th anniversary of the Israel-Egypt Camp David treaty. He rose to explain why: Mr. Speaker: I rise in reluctant opposition to this resolution. I do so not because I oppose our recognizing peace as...
