Dear friends: I just learned, late this New Year's Eve, of my friend Mordechai Vanunu's outrageous arrest, facing further imprisonment, for "meeting with foreigners" (of which I have quite openly been one, on several occasions). I plan to do whatever I can to bring...
Wednesday’s Washington Post contains a rundown of the Obama administration’s current thinking on Iran sanctions. The bottom line: administration officials are increasingly open to sanctions, but want to find ways to target the Revolutionary Guard and other...
On Larry King, Ben Stein said that Ron Paul calling the US "occupiers" was "using the same antisemitic argument we've heard over and over." Former game show host and economist Ben Stein first came into prominence when he worked for notorious antisemite Richard...
We give great thanks to our generous benefactor who pledged $5000 to match end-of-the-year donations. In a last rush of donations, we actually reached over $7000, giving us $12,000 to help upgrade equipment. We hope everyone will consider an additional end-of-the-year...
There are so many substantive reasons why Thursday's op-ed in the New York Times by Alan Kuperman was just awful that one hardly knows where to begin. Fortunately, Marc Lynch and Helena Cobban, among others, have covered most of the ground (except, for example, the...
Another year has come and gone, and Norad has once again spent what it assures us is "practically no taxpayer dollars" tracking Santa Claus in his travels and indeed, travails. Last year Santa was conspicuously absent from Iran, with his only stop off briefly reported...
Back on February 13, 2009, I wrote a "Letter to a Christian Young Man Regarding Joining the Military." At the end of the letter I included this appeal: If any readers are veterans, consider themselves to be Christians, agree with the sentiments expressed in this...
Are you behind on your holiday gift shopping? Are you worried you didn't remember everyone? The perfect answer also helps Antiwar.com. Amazon gift cards can be purchased online, and you don't even have to wait for shipping. You can print out the gift card as soon as...
We are halfway to our end-of-year matching fund goal. A generous benefactor has offered $5,000 in matching funds to match all contributions of $100 or more made by December 31. As of this morning, we have reached $2,500. Don't let us lose the other $2,500! Tired of...
This is the 65th anniversary of the start of the Battle of the Bulge. While most Americans who are aware of the battle learned of it through Hollywood movies that portrayed valiant U.S. resistance to the German Wehrmacht, the truth is far more embarrassing to the U.S....
