The poll numbers are in, and it looks like the War Party has its work cut out: "A majority of Americans want the United States to increase diplomatic efforts over Iran's nuclear ambitions, while 70 percent oppose the use of U.S. troops to thwart Iran, according to a...
Why Are We in Iraq?
If you want to know what we are doing in Iraq, at least a partial answer to your question is provided by Editor & Publisher, a recent edition of which reports: "U.S. Army officials are taking a close look at whether women in a Kentucky National Guard unit posed nude...
Debating the Lobby
The London Review of Books put on a panel last Thursday, held at Cooper Union's Great Hall in New York City, with the provocative title "The Israel Lobby: Does it have too much influence on U.S. foreign policy?" Speaking for the affirmative: John J. Mearsheimer, a...
Islamic Bomb
Sorry to distract from all the Dictatorship Day celebrations this weekend, but nuclear physicist and Antiwar.com regular contributor, Gordon Prather, reminds us that none of the Middle Eastern countries being targeted (Iraq, Iran, Syria) in this Phony "Global War on...
Happy Dictatorship Day
The prize for the headline of the year goes to today’s Washington Post for the following gem: “Many Rights in U.S. Legal System Absent in New Bill†The Post article on the military tribunal bill the Senates passed yesterday details some of the legal and...
Republican Honor Roll on Terror/Tribunal Bill
The following Republican members of the House of Representatives voted against the Torture-"Terrorist" Tribunal bill (HR 6166) today. Ron Paul, Roscoe Bartlett, Wayne Gilchrest, Walter Jones, Steven LaTourette, James Leach, Jerry Moran. These folks deserve hearty...
I Wonder Why That Is …
When plans to produce My Name Is Rachel Corrie, a play based on the journal entries of an American girl murdered by the IDF for her pro-Palestinian activism, were canceled in New York City this year, in the U.S. we only read about it in The Nation. When plans to put...
Et Tu, Cato? Pt. 2
In case you missed it, here's Cato Institute scholar Arnold Kling writing at TCS Daily last month: I believe that what we need going forward is a policy of disarming Muslims. I believe that we must keep devout Muslims away from weapons, and keep weapons away from...
Et tu, Cato?
Philip Weiss, over at the New York Observer, is always a good source of information, and here is his take on the thinktank situation and how it relates to U.S. policy toward Israel: "As we are frequently told, universities belong to the left. The academy is like an...
A Divine Torture Cartoon
The Washington Post’s Tom Toles has a cartoon on Congress and torture that is worth its weight in thumbscrews. The cartoon perfectly captures how Congress is partnering with the Bush administration in sanctioning U.S. barbarity. The cartoon is here - at least for...
