Breaking: US Military Strikes Syrian Forces, Allowing ISIS To Advance
September 17, 2016
The Associated Press is reporting that the US military has struck Syrian government positions in the eastern province of Deir el-Zour today, as the Syrian military was involved in a battle with ISIS forces. According to the report, the US attack on Syrian troops “enabled an [ISIS] advance on the hill overlooking the air base.” […]
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US Military Strategy: DDT, Bug Zappers, Lawyers, Guns, and Money
September 16, 2016
Today, the essence of U.S. military “strategy” is targeting. The enemy is treated as vermin to be exterminated with the right bug bomb. As if those bombs had no negative consequences; as if we learned nothing from the overuse of DDT, for example. You might recall DDT, the miracle insecticide of the 1950s and 1960s. […]
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Philip Giraldi on Israel Getting the Biggest US Aid Package In History
September 15, 2016
US National Security Advisor Susan Rice met with her Israeli counterparts yesterday to sign an historic aid deal that will see $38 billion dollars shipped from US taxpayers to the Israeli military. In a press conference, Rice claimed that, “[t]his MOU is not just good for Israel—it’s good for the United States. Our security is […]
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Lucy Steigerwald on the Horrors of War: Video
September 14, 2016
Antiwar.com contributing editor Lucy Steigerwald spoke at Liberty Fest in New York last weekend on The Horrors of War. Part 1: Part 2:
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Ron Paul asks: Can New Syria Ceasefire Hold?
September 14, 2016
The “new” ceasefire in Syria seems a lot like the one from earlier this year. This time, according to John Kerry, the Syrian government has to ask permission from the US before it bombs rebels in the country. In exchange the US has agreed (or not, depending on which official you listen to) to finally […]
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Oliver Stone’s New Movie Snowden Tackles the Myth
September 14, 2016
Snowden is a helluva movie, kicking an audience’s ass on a number of levels. I had a chance to see the film last night at a preview event; it opens everywhere on September 16. Go see it. On one level the film presents Snowden’s story as a political thriller. A brave but frightened man, certain […]
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Forever War: A Peculiar Form of American Zen
September 14, 2016
As a teenager, I read Joe Haldeman’s book, The Forever War. The title intrigued, as did the interstellar setting. Haldeman’s soldiers are caught up in a conflict whose rules keep changing, in part due to time dilation as predicted by Einstein’s theory of relativity. But there’s one thing the soldiers know for certain: no matter […]
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Why This FBI Whistleblower Seconds Jill Stein’s Call For A New 9/11 Investigation
September 13, 2016
After the events of September 11, 2001, as a longtime FBI agent and division legal counsel, I blew the whistle on the FBI’s failure to act on information provided by the Minneapolis field office that could have prevented the attacks. On this sad 15th anniversary of 9/11, I am encouraged to see that Green Party […]
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Peter Van Buren Says Happy 9/11 Day!
September 11, 2016
Happy 9/11 Day, our fifteenth anniversary together. If it was a child, she’d be almost ready to drive. They do grow up so fast, don’t they? We’re instituted full background checks, body scanners and cavity searches at my home for all guests and pets (can’t be too careful!), which keeps me pretty busy, so this […]
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William Astore asks: What Did 9/11 Inaugurate?
September 11, 2016
On this 15th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks in 2001, we should ask ourselves what those attacks inaugurated. In a word, calamity. The wildly successful actions of Al Qaeda, combined with the wild overreactions of the Bush/Cheney administration, marked the 21st century as one that will likely become known to future historians as calamitous. In […]
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