Blackwater: When Not-So-Nice Guys Finish First

How's this for a recipe that defies the seeming laws of common sense: First, take Blackwater, otherwise known as "Xe," a private security contractor that has been accused of abusive, hostile and violent behavior against the indigenous population of Iraq -- including...

Antiwar Panel at CPAC: Video

Everyone's talking about the political upset at CPAC (Conservative Political Action Conference) over the weekend, where Ron Paul won the presidential straw poll. A panel that wouldn't have been allowed at CPAC a few years ago was well-attended at this year's...

American Hero at CPAC

Full size photo available at http://www.flickr.com/photos/bovard John Bolton Harvests Young Souls: Ann Coulter's Bodyguard (Tonya Harding wasn't hiring this month)

Neocons Go After ‘Iran Lobby,’ Again

This week saw the publication of a two-part hit piece in Tablet magazine purporting to expose the machinations of the “Iran lobby” in Washington. The author, Lee Smith, is apparently not the great baseball closer, but rather a former reporter for Bill Kristol’s...

Antiwar Panel at CPAC!

This year's Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington, DC will have an unusual event. The panel, "You've Been Lied To: Why Real Conservatives are Against the War on Terror" takes place on Saturday (Feb. 20) at 2pm. Participants are Antiwar.com...

We weren’t on the wrong side in Vietnam – – –

We weren't on the wrong side [in Vietnam], we were the wrong side. --Daniel Ellsberg, The Most Dangerous Man in America, via NewsBusters.org And were we also the wrong side in the Korean "War", Panama (Operation Just Cause), Grenada (Operation Urgent Fury), Iraq - - -...

The Goldstone Report and the Gaza Truce

In a recent interview [PDF] with the Middle East Monitor, Colonel Desmond Travers, retired from the Irish Army — best known as one of the members of the U.N. commission that produced the Goldstone report — attracted attention for his statement that “the number...