This may illuminate, for those who have been confused, what the true role of DC's major think tanks is: Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, concerned by his portrayal in U.S. media as an autocratic leader intent on consolidating power, has invited several influential...
Obama Suggests Regime Change in Syria, Cites Yemen as Model
"President Barack Obama told G8 leaders meeting at Camp David that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad must leave power, and pointed to Yemen as a model of how political transition could work there," Reuters reported on Saturday. Just to remind people, after about a year...
Israeli Settlers Set Fire to West Bank Village, Shoot Guns at Unarmed Palestinians
B'Tselem: On Saturday, 19.5.2012, around four thirty in the afternoon, a large group of settlers descended on the eastern outskirts of the village 'Asira al-Qibliya, from the settlement Yitzhar. B'Tselem volunteer photographers filmed the events from two angles. The...
NDAA Amendment Would Legalize War Propaganda
Via Mike Riggs at Reason, Michael Hastings reports at BuzzFeed that an amendment has been inserted into the latest version of the NDAA that would nullify the Smith-Mundt Act of 1948 and Foreign Relations Authorization Act in 1987, both of which ban domestic...
…Fear Based on Fact?
While I work on pledge drive, I torment myself by playing CNNMSNBCFOX in the background. Today's tortured viewing included a rerun of A Nuclear Iran: The Expert Intel. It wasn't as bad as one might expect --the calm measured Hillary Mann Leverett was given a...
Three Weeks Later, Obama’s 2024 Pact Already Forgotten in Media
On May 1, President Obama arrived in Kabul, Afghanistan like a thief in the night. Embassy officials and the White House initially claimed the reports of his visit were "untrue" and by the time they copped to it, the president had signed a pact with Hamid Karzai...
Three Chicago NATO Summit Activists Charged With Conspiracy to Commit Terrorism, Providing Material Support for Terrorism
Robert (left) and Daniel (right), the two activists released Friday night (Photo by Steve Horn) Two more antiwar activists, in from out of town to protest the NATO Summit, were released from a police station on the south side of Chicago late tonight at roughly 10:00...
NATO Summit Protesters Faced Police Raid and Arrests in Chicago On Wednesday
(Photo: Zach D. Roberts / GregPalast.com) TruthOut Assistant Editor Yana Kunichoff has just filed an alarming report titled, "NATO Protesters Held Without Charge After Raid as Chicago Steps Up Police Activities," showing that in the lead-up to the NATO Summit protests...
On Imperial Crimes in Honduras, Don’t Believe the State Department
The State Department is almost certainly deceiving the American public regarding U.S. involvement in the murder of several Honduran civilians. As I've written, the government kept this information from the American people for almost an entire week (the incident is...
Antiwar.com Newsletter | May 17, 2012
Antiwar.com Newsletter | May 17, 2012IN THIS ISSUEPledge DriveTop NewsOpinion and analysisEventsDear Peace-Mongers:This is a very a special pledge drive. In the midst of some of the most critical developing issues so far this year, we’re asking for your support as...
