Antiwar.com Newsletter | August 24, 2012IN THIS ISSUETop NewsOpinion and analysisThis week’s top news:Western Sanctions Causing Medicine Shortages in Iran: US and international sanctions against Iran don’t include sanctions on food or medication, but the lack of...
Grover Norquist: Budget Hawks or Military Hawks?
Grover Norquist continues to gently unwrap the fiscal hypocrisy of the hawks in this interview with the Cato Institute. More on cutting the military budget here.
From Obama’s Syria ‘Red Line’ to the Covert Ops We Don’t Know About
President Obama this week defined his "red line" for the Syria conflict, warning that if the Syrian government's chemical and biological weapons are moved around or utilized, this would "change" his "calculus," which has so far been to abstain from any direct military...
White Supremacists Infiltrating US Military
In the wake of the Sikh temple massacre by a US Army soldier earlier this month, news that warrior racists are infiltrating America's armed forces: They call it 'rahowa' - short for racial holy war - and they are preparing for it by joining the ranks of the world's...
Antiwar.com Newsletter | August 17, 2012
Antiwar.com Newsletter | August 17, 2012IN THIS ISSUETop NewsOpinion and analysisThis week’s top news:Israeli DM Declares Public Opposition to War on Iran Doesn’t Matter: In response to a flurry of protests opposing an Israeli war on Iran, Defense Minister Ehud Barak...
Inventing the Chinese Threat
"Since the disappearance of the Soviet Union," writes James Dobbins at RAND Corp., "China has become America's default adversary, the power against which the United States measures itself militarily, at least when there is no more proximate enemy in sight." I know...
Embassy Asylum: A Historical Perspective
Julian Assange's successful bid for asylum in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London and the British threats to raid the embassy bring about some interesting questions about the history of being granted asylum inside an embassy. The 1961 Vienna Convention theoretically...
The Rise of Settler Terrorism in the West Bank
From Foreign Affairs: According to UN investigations, in 2011, extremist settlers launched almost 300 attacks on Palestinian property, causing over 100 Palestinian casualties and destroying or damaging about 10,000 trees of Palestinian farmers. The UN has also...
‘Ya Know Who’s Messianic? Netanyahu.’
With the drum beat for war on Iran intensifying in recent weeks, the question seems to come down to whether or not Israel is bluffing about their implied military strike on Iran before the November presidential elections in the US. Al-Monitor yesterday interviewed...
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Weakness
90 Days, 90 Reasons is a project conceived by author Dave Eggers to rekindle young(ish) America's romance with Barack Obama. Each day features a post by someone you might have seen in movies or heard on NPR. Today's post is by Reza Aslan, "an internationally acclaimed...