If you think that as a United States citizen you’re entitled to a trial by jury before the government can decide to kill you – you’re wrong. During his stint as a lawyer at the Department of Justice, David Barron was able to manipulate constitutional law so as to...

Loyal Readers: Wednesday was a hectic day. A major hack attack hit much of Antiwar.com, causing Google and other services to identify us as a "malware threat." Thanks to our administrator Michael Ewens and the awesome folks at Sucuri Services, the site is totally...

Glenn Greenwald just published his account of how he came to receive and report on a trove of top secret documents from Edward Snowden, in a new book, No Place to Hide. Read an excerpt on Antiwar.com today: How I Met Edward Snowden. In the first episode of The United...

This morning we posted an excerpt from Glenn Greenwald's new book No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Security State. The book was released this morning, and the excerpt was just posted. Thanks to TomDispatch for the excerpt. Read the excerpt here....

Retired US Army major and Guantanamo JAG attorney Todd Pierce, interviewed on "London Real" on the Gitmo prison, the espionage act, and lawless Global War on Terrorism.

A political sideshow to the escalating focus on the Nigerian militant group Boko Haram is what it means for Hillary Clinton's presidential prospects. Boko Haram was not officially designated a terrorist group until Clinton stepped down and John Kerry became Secretary...

The Cato Institute's Doug Bandow argues for the U.S. to pull out of South Korea: Washington needs to reflect first on why the North is such a problem for America.  A small, impoverished, and distant state, even with a handful of nuclear weapons (but no delivery...

Originally posted at TomDispatch.Ignorance can be dangerous, as shown in a recent poll asking Americans what to do about the Ukraine crisis.  It turned out that the less those polled were capable of identifying where in the world Ukraine is, the more likely they...

The hysteria that has erupted over the Nigerian militant group Boko Haram over the last few days has been remarkable. The terrorist group abducted hundreds of girls and, thanks to a viral awareness campaign and threats from Washington to intervene, Boko Haram suddenly...