Senator John Warner (R-Virginia), chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, fresh from a trip to Iraq, on the war: "I assure you, in two or three months, if this thing hasn't come to fruition and if this level of violence is not under control and this...
A friend alerted me to this terrific site showing political maps in the Middle East. There’s current info re Iraq, for instance, but also a wonderfully informative historical series of middle east maps that shows ALL the various imperial powers who’ve left their...
On Sept. 28, the Cooper Union in NYC hosted a debate on the power of the Israel lobby in America. Panelists: John Mearsheimer, Shlomo Ben-Ami, Martin Indyk, Tony Judt, Rashid Khalidi, and Dennis Ross. A video recording of the debate in 11 segments can be found here.
WorldNetDaily has done it again. First they cut Lew Rockwell and Alan Bock, now Gordon Prather has finally gotten the axe from their list of columnists. He will continue to write his exclusive column for Antiwar.com every weekend. Dr. Prather, a nuclear physicist...
Sorry Bush, the mistake is yours. God doesn't make spelling errors.
[UPDATE: Apparently, the Judt speech will go on, but on Oct. 16. But see this from the New York Sun.] Historian Tony Judt, a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books and director of the Remarque Institute at NYU, writes, I was due to speak this evening, in...
ABC News revealed this afternoon that Foley was engaging in “Internet sex†with a teenage boy while Foley was voting for the Bush administration’s Emergency Wartime Supplemental Appropriation in 2003.  ABC reports: This message was dated April 2003, at...
We've been pretty critical of the Cato Institute around here, frequently warning our antiwar peeps that money sent to Brink Lindsey and co. is wasted, at best. But now, in the interest of fairness, I must issue a consumer alert for pro-war Cato donors: you aren't...
* Anthology Film Archives in NYC announces the October premieres of two films on the late Edward Said: "EDWARD SAID: THE LAST INTERVIEW is the record of a wide-ranging and engaging conversation with Said, conducted within a year of his death in 2003, while OUT OF...
"All day long today the story we've been chasing has to do with major new charges about the handling of the Iraq war - evidence that the reality is far worse than we've been led to believe." Quoth Brian Williams - Tom Brokaw's replacement as the "news anchor" on the...
