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Syria’s Disproportionate Conflict and the Pretext to Intervene
The aspect of the Syria issue that is getting the most attention right now has the least to do with calls for intervention. I wouldn't for a second belittle the suffering people there have faced; what I'm saying is that those demanding that America do something about...
John Glaser on RT Talking Drones
‘Aiding and Abetting’ Crimes is Unlawful, Sometimes
The International Criminal Court has sentenced Charles G. Taylor, the former president of Liberia "to 50 years in prison over his role in atrocities committed in Sierra Leone during its civil war in the 1990s," reports the New York Times. As is common for heads of...
The Worst Horror Imaginable
...is to be called an 'Arab.' At least that is my take away from the latest Obama ad to appease bigots. In today's Electronic Intifada, editor Ali Abunimah notes how easily and breezily this slips by the sensible Eastern Establishment censors: But The Hill fails to...
There’s No Such Thing as Civilians in the Drone War
Via Glenn Greenwald, this New York Times report on the Obama administration's drone wars: Mr. Obama embraced a disputed method for counting civilian casualties that did little to box him in. It in effect counts all military-age males in a strike zone as combatants,...
The BBC’s Photo Fib of a Syrian Massacre
A few days have passed since the BBC irresponsibly passed off this 2003 picture of dead Iraqis as depicting dead Syrians in last week's Houla massacre. The original photographer, who works for Getty Images, said “Someone is using someone else's picture for propaganda...
With dignity, respect and friendliness
Last night, CNN re-ran a recent interview of Ted Turner by Piers Morgan. Morgan's secret to success is to never ask difficult or impolite questions but occasionally he surprises his audience and himself by a guest who spews forth frankness regardless of the host's...
Cup of Coffee Should Cover It, Right?
Its Memorial Day and for many Americans this means vacation. Not for Antiwar.com of course, because the war doesn't take a vacation and neither do we. But this sort of "take a trip up north" or "go to a barbecue" holiday comes with the built-in assumption that we...
A Decade of War ‘Not Worth the Effort’
As jingoists condemn critiques that the veterans have not been fighting for our freedoms (much the opposite) on this here Memorial Day, consider this passage surprisingly printed on the front page of today's New York Times: Broadly, the question is what the United...
