Time Magazine has announced that it has named Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg the "Person of the Year," despite the billionaire's decidedly lukewarm showing in the online poll on their website. As of last night the leader by a strong margin was WikiLeaks founder Julian...
Prominent Americans Oppose Prosecution and Extradition of Assange
In opposition to efforts by the U.S. Attorney General Holder to extradite Julian Assange, Editor in Chief of WikiLeaks, prominent authors, academics, lawyers, whistleblower activists concerned with eroding civil liberties, government accountability, electronic...
Wednesday Iran Talking Points
from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for December 15th, 2010: The Diplomat: American Enterprise Institute Scholar Michael Rubin is interviewed on The Diplomat blog on “how sanctions can work with Iran.†Rubin says that sanctions are having...
Are We Not Zombies?
What do zombies and the military industrial complex have in common? Let us count the ways. In fact, let military strategy & policy professor Michael Vlahos (relation, yes!) take you down that thorny path. Michael writes in Dark Lord, Dark Victory: America's Dark...
Jason Ditz Turns 5,000!
5,000 articles, that is. Our news editor, Jason Ditz, who started writing news updates at news.antiwar.com in August 2008, hit 5,000 articles today. He is one of the most prolific writers I have ever met, often writing as many as 15 articles a day, plus a few op-eds a...
Tuesday Iran Talking Points
from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for December 14th, 2010: The Weekly Standard: Stephen F. Hayes and Foundation for Defense of Democracies fellow Thomas Joscelyn write, in an article called “The Iran Connectionâ€, that Undersecretary of...
Careless Words and Callous Deeds
It has lately become usual for right-wing columnists, bloggers, and jingo lawmakers to call for the assassination of people abroad whom we don't like, or people who carry out functions that we don't want to see performed. There was nothing like this in our popular...
Monday Iran Talking Points
from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for December 13th, 2010: The Wall Street Journal: Ronen Bergman, a military analyst for the Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth, opines that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has barely been able to...
UK Govt Moves Against 12-Year-Old Dissident
Pointing to the Cameron government's growing impatience over student protests, British officials have reportedly moved against 12-year-old Nicky Wishart, henceforth known as the Notorious Nicky of Oxfordshire, threatening him with arrest for threatening the public...
Friday Iran Talking Points
from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for December 10th, 2010: The Journal of International Security Affairs: Senior Heritage Foundation fellow Peter Brookes writes in the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA) journal that Arab...
