On Thursday, US ambassador Susan Rice announced that Libyan government troops were being issued Viagra and told to rape as a terror weapon. She made the comment as part of a debate with another envoy to highlight that "the coalition is confronting an adversary doing...
Its never really been clear to me why comic book storylines have such an ability to rile up political factions, but after the bizarre row over the French Muslim ally of Batman it should have come as no surprise when Action Comics #900 included a story about Superman,...
From Veterans for Peace: Obama Declares Manning Guilty Before Trial Can Military Officers Judge Him Impartially and Contradict Their Commander-In-Chief? President Barack Obama said on April 21 that PFC Bradley Manning “broke the law.” This statement casts serious...
Ambassador Gene Cretz's estimate for a death toll in Libya today was 30,000 which, if I'm remembering correctly, is about as much as the US was willing to cop to for the entire Iraq War until the WikiLeaks documents showed that to be a deliberate (and dramatic)...
Yesterday, consistent with the long U.S. tradition of mission creeps, the Obama Administration authorized the use of killer Predator drones in Libya. Forget the collateral damage, we can't even solve a closed room crime like the Jonbenet Ramsey murder. And, after the...
Released today by Veterans for Peace: VFP Statement on Military Intervention in Libya April 21, 2011 “The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or...
Chris Hondros, the award-winning photojournalist from Getty Images who was killed yesterday from brain injuries he sustained in a mortar attack in Libya, left his Iraq embed with a unit in the 25th Infantry Division in 2005 after publishing this photo. The image, of a...
Reason TV features an interview with Brian Doherty about the forgotten history of the antiwar right. The interview is conducted by Zach Weissmueller. Tracing its roots back to the American Anti-Imperialist League of the late 1890s, Doherty discusses the evolution of...
Rethinking Afghanistan asks, "How Much Did You Pay for the War this Year?" One can find the answer here. On Thursday April 14th, a bipartisan coalition of members of Congress including Walter Jones (R-N.C.), Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.), John Conyers (D-Mich.), Raul...
Spencer Ackerman of Wired has an excellent piece today on the Pentagon's Joint Special Operations Command’s secret jails in Afghanistan. Ackerman notes: Human rights groups have been sounding the alarm about these detention centers since 2009. Detainees who claim to...
