Antiwar.com’s Week in Review | December 23, 2011IN THIS ISSUEVying for justice in the U.S. empireMaliki’s turn toward dictatorshipGovernment vs. military in PakistanAfghanistan is worseAssorted news from the empireWhat’s new at the blog?ColumnsAntiwar...
Catch a Glimpse of the Human Costs of the Drone War in Pakistan
As the presidential campaign drifts into its most petty and superficial, here is a reminder of what is important, of what Washington is all about and is likely to continue being all about unless Americans wake up and understand what U.S. terrorism around the world...
Is Hamas Going Non-Violent?
The entire U.N. Security Council, representing 14 countries, voted to condemn Israeli settlement expansion as criminal only to have the resolution vetoed by the U.S.. Those 14 members united yesterday to criticize the U.S. position as one that prolongs the stagnated...
Ethiopia: America’s Model for Civil Liberty?
Remember how the US contracted Ethiopia to "restore order" in Somalia? The East African dictatorship was to help install a UN-backed government of warlords and former communist apparatchiks in order to "free" Somalia. They ended up obliterating the delicate gains the...
Cenk Ugyur Has It Right
Progressive Cenk Ugyar, lefty blogger and sometime MSNBC host (purged for defecting from the Obama cult), has it right about Sean Hannity, Ron Paul, and Fox News.
The Madness of Adam Yoshida
Amid an avalanche of attacks on antiwar Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul, the latest (as of midnight on Tuesday) is one in the comically-named "American Thinker," a neocon web site for the intellectually challenged, which runs a piece by Adam Yoshida on "The...
Ron Paul’s “Loyal Aides”?
A Washington Post piece on Ron Paul's rise in the polls comes with the usual "but he can't win" caveat, and there's also this nugget: "Yet, while the libertarian-leaning Texas congressman is earning support for his tight-fisted fiscal positions, he’s so out of step...
Romney & Obama Agree on Iran: Keep Up Aggression, Impede Peace
Eli Clifton at ThinkProgress directs us to a recent interview with Mitt Romney on Bill O'Reilly's show in which Romney's war rhetoric gets "challenged by an unlikely source": Interesting. Romney doesn't really respond to O'Reilly's estimation of the consequences of...
Secrecy Obstructs Accountability: How the Drone War Will Help Get Obama Reelected
Washington Post, " Secrecy defines Obama's drone war": Since September, at least 60 people have died in 14 reported CIA drone strikes in Pakistan’s tribal regions. The Obama administration has named only one of the dead, hailing the elimination of Janbaz Zadran, a top...
I End the Iraq War Whenever I Feel Blue
Have the Republican debates this year caught up with the number of times Obama has declared the Iraq war over yet? Just wondering. Oh we love to kid the president about endlessly ending the war in Iraq, which killed possibly over a million, ruined a society, and...
