What Palestinian Unity Is All About – The Real Task Ahead
June 11, 2014
Palestinians are yet to achieve national unity despite the elation over the ‘national unity government’ now in operation in Ramallah. One has to be clear in the distinction between a Hamas-Fatah political arrangement necessitated by regional and international circumstances, and Palestinian unity. What has been agreed upon in the Shati’ (Beach) refugee camp in April, […]
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Antiwar.com talks to Liberty.me about War as the Ultimate Evil
June 10, 2014
Liberty.me publisher Jeffrey Tucker interviewed me today about the history of Antiwar.com, our mission and why we do what we do.
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Militarizing Law Enforcement: Collateral Damage from War on Terror
June 9, 2014
The New York Times has a good story today headlined, “War Gear Flows to Police Departments.” Unfortunately, the Pentagon’s leftovers have been corrupting domestic law enforcement since the 1990s. Following is a piece I wrote for Playboy in 2000 on the militarization of SWAT teams. The article includes a discussion of Waco and the 1999 […]
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Justin Raimondo Talks Bergdahl on the Alan Colmes Show
June 6, 2014
Antiwar.com editorial director Justin Raimondo spoke today with Fox Radio’s Alan Colmes about the Bowe Bergdahl case. Justin was at his best, check it out: Justin Raimondo on Alan Colmes
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D-Day: My First Encounter with Hitler’s Sea Wall, 1977
June 6, 2014
This is the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy. It is a great blessing that western Europe is now at peace – regardless of how much political leaders squabble at the commemoration ceremony. D-Day back in the news reminds me of my first visit to World War Two venues. In 1977, after dropping […]
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Ron Paul: The Strange Case of Bowe Bergdahl
June 6, 2014
After five years of captivity in Afghanistan, has Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl been released only to spend the rest of his life in an American prison? Ron Paul wonders what it would be like if we had non-interventionist foreign policy. We haven’t had a Constitutional declaration of war since World War II. What if we had […]
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Obama’s Syrian Policy Vetoed by Assad Election Victory
June 6, 2014
“Assad’s days are numbered” – President Obama, February 2012 Living in denial is the easiest way to avoid hard truths, but it’s a horrible way for a government to conduct foreign policy. Obama’s Secretary of State John Kerry recently scoffed at the elections in Syria, calling them “meaningless.” The U.S. media obediently agreed, while the […]
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Memo to Potential Whistleblowers: If You See Something, Say Something
June 6, 2014
Blowing the whistle on wrongdoing creates a moral frequency that vast numbers of people are eager to hear. We don’t want our lives, communities, country and world continually damaged by the deadening silences of fear and conformity. I’ve met many whistleblowers over the years, and they’ve been extraordinarily ordinary. None were applying for halos or […]
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US Culpability in the Failure of Israeli-Palestinian Peace Talks
June 5, 2014
The Obama administration deserves much of the blame for the failure of the latest round of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. It had originally been hoped that the United States would present a binding framework along the lines of what moderate Israeli and Palestinian political leaders had agreed to in unofficial talks in Geneva in 2003: Israel […]
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Daniel Ellsberg: New Group to Clear a Path for More Whistleblowers
June 3, 2014
A new organization for whistleblowing will launch on Wednesday morning when the ExposeFacts.org website goes live and the group begins its first day with a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington. NSA whistleblowers William Binney and J. Kirk Wiebe will speak at the news conference along with EPA whistleblower Marsha Coleman-Adebayo and […]
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