At CNN.com, Jennifer Fenton interviews a former guard at Guantanamo Bay detention center. He tells a number of anecdotes of abuse, here is one: The IRF team opened the cell door and the one team member carrying a riot shield threw it off to the side. "And whatever...
Plan Afghanistan, or How the War Party Defines Success
Paul Wolfowitz and Michael O'Hanlon write in Foreign Policy that the Obama administration should apply "the Colombia model" to the strategy in Afghanistan in order to be "successful." The US's well known Plan Colombia policy, they write, "is rightly considered a...
Obama Believes in Transparent Government
Washington Examiner: Obama's Justice Department has proposed a regulatory change that would weaken the Freedom of Information Act. Under the new rules, the government could falsely respond to those who file FOIA requests that a document does not exist if it pertains...
Propaganda, Theirs and Ours: Assad’s Lies Ought to be as Transparent as Obama’s
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad recently appeared on Russian television to discuss the current crisis in his country. He reiterated what he has held for months as the primary impetus behind his harsh crackdown on protesters: outside interference is fomenting the...
Antiwar.com’s Week in Review | October 28, 2011
Antiwar.com's Week in Review | October 28, 2011IN THIS ISSUEMission accomplished in Libya?Surge in Af-Pak isn’t workingThe continuing role, post-IraqThe empire turns to AfricaAssorted news from the empireWhat's new at the blog?ColumnsAntiwar RadioSupport...
Bosnian Gunman Attacks US Embassy
Breaking news -- A Bosnian gunman reportedly attacked the US embassy in Sarajevo: he has been shot by police and arrested. I guess this is a "thank you" note for Bill Clinton's efforts on their behalf.
A Nuke Too Far?
When you're shilling for a war in Iran as regularly as the Washington Times does, you're constantly making up allegations centering around what anonymous officials totally bet is the case. That and hiring artists to make caricatures of an Ayatollah made of nukes. The...
The Seen and the Unseen: The Productive Vs. Destructive Economy
It's a sad day when those on the left end of the political spectrum understand Frédéric Bastiat's simple economic lesson of the seen and the unseen better than billionaire businessmen. But something tells me they know better. Fear-mongering estimates about the...
The Overt Withdrawal and the Covert Surge
So there is talk of Obama ending the Iraq War? And planning to draw down in Afghanistan sometime soon? Well, yes and no, on a number of levels. As we know, the decision to not keep thousands of US troops in Iraq was forced upon the Obama administration by the Iraqis,...
Damn You, Ralph Nader and Katherine Harris!
Of all the daily affirmations liberals tell themselves, none soothes me more than the one about how an Al Gore presidency would have spared us the Iraq War. Why, wasn't Al suitably smug about Dubya's "cowboy" act in 2002? Didn't Michael Moore open Fahrenheit 9/11 with...


