Speaking of Battle Droids

We've already mentioned Israel's quest to build an army of vicious robotic animals destined to go all Matrix and put all of humanity into pods to fuel their cold, sterile robotic society. Turns out the United States is way ahead of them. Its no secret that the United...

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Medvedev’s ‘Tough Guy Act’

According to CBS, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's first six months in office have contradicted the "liberal" reputation he (apparently) had when he was first elected. Maybe it's a shock to some that one can be "soft spoken" and never have been a KGB spook and yet...

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An Avatar for Peace

Dear Friends of Antiwar.com: A donor left this message in my Facebook Account, Here's an idea. We ask all our friends to switch their Facebook and Myspace profile images to the Anti-War.com logo on some upcoming anti-war day. Let's say Thanksgiving day, so we can be...

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No Means No

A US patrol attempts to enter an Iraqi university campus, but is stopped at the gates by campus officials. Six months ago if we saw this as a lead in to a story, there was a good bet the rest of it would involve the university president being marched out into the...

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Update: Citing Promises, AP Lifts Military Photo Ban

After yet another incident of the Department of Defense issuing a digitally altered photo to the media, it was announced that the Associated Press would be suspending the use of all photos provided by the Pentagon until further notice. Today, citing a promise from the...

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Prescience

When I first saw Sony's adorable little AIBO, I remember mentioning to a friend that one day these robots would bare their slavering teeth at us, form an army and become truly a scourge unto all of mankind. What I didn't realize at the time is that the Israeli...

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How Many Troops will Obama Withdraw from Iraq?

The InTrade prediction markets allows individuals to bet on the winner of the presidential elections and US recession timings.  They can also be used to bet on US foreign policy.  The graph below shows the contract price for the outcome "Number of US Troops in Iraq...

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Tell Obama: Dump Gates

Dear Antiwar.com Supporter, Please let the incoming presidential administration know that you demand real change in our interventionist foreign policy. Ask President Elect Barack Obama to make a stand for peace by dumping Bush appointee Secretary of Defense Robert...

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703

Yay. Since 2003, I have done more than 700 interviews in the interest of opposing the state and its wars. 705 to be exact, though two have been lost to computer glitches: an interview of Ivan Eland back in 2003 and one of Glenn Greenwald earlier this year. Thanks to...

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Glad to be Wrong about the Election

I'm not about to give up my Pundit Guild card yet but I'm here to own up to some bad prognosticatin'. Early this year I wrote a series of blog posts arguing that the Democratic Party (which I've viewed as the lesser evil, in this era of "Red State Fascism") was...

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