We interrupt this endless WikiLeaks news cycle to report on something else. (It isn't likely to end anyhow, and will probably be the dominant news paradigm here at Antiwar.com for many months, at least.) You may have heard that Argentina and its small, similar...
A Snapshot of Linguistic Cynicism on ‘Terrorism’
A quick but illustrative juxtaposition of news tonight, before I start building tomorrow's page: "Shin Bet chief: Hamas will use terror to thwart talks" and "Likud MKs threaten to withdraw support for budget if settlement freeze extended" Same newspaper, same night....
UN: US Is ‘Rights Violator’ — but Not How You Think
"This is a confusing article on Guantánamo," a friend of mine pointed out when I sent him the link. It's a piece about the Obama Administration allegedly "admitting" its "human rights shortcomings," as reported by the United Nations. As I scanned the article for any...
We Won the Wikipedia ‘War’
We took Wikipedia to task for their parroting of officialdom on Friday; since then, an explosion of comments and edits, some even reversed by other editors, have pushed the consensus away from declaring the Iraq War over. It now lists Operation Iraqi Freedom as having...
Wikipedia: Iraq War ‘Over’
Wikipedia as Democratic mouthpiece? The user-written and -edited site has been accused of left-leaning judgments on the part of its dominant editors, but not necessarily of hewing to any party line. But now, one must wonder: Wikipedia trumpets the White House talking...
‘Hallowed Ground’ and the Scary Scary ‘Mosque’
It's rather shocking that this is really happening, here, in the United States, in 2010. Park51/The Cordoba House, an Islamic community center that, mark my words and those of the mayor, will be built in Lower Manhattan, is being hysterically opposed by all manner of...
Crack It Open for Bradley Manning
I've exposed perhaps too much of what makes me weepy in these pages; here's more. It turns out PFC Bradley Manning, the 22-year-old intel analyst who risked his life to expose the banally recorded daily atrocities committed in service to the imperial project, is...
Uganda’s Detached Outrage
This week in totally f*cking insane Somalia news, Ugandan officials declare their utter shock at the random, unprovoked attacks on Kampala last week which killed over 70 people. As the very first sentence in a long and entertaining piece in AllAfrica.com says,...
Somalia Spin Could Make You Dizzy
Actually, that seems to be the very point of idiotic statements by none other than the President of the United States, shocking I know, referring to the recent Uganda bombings, such as: "On the one hand, you have a vision of an Africa on the move, an Africa that is...
Marina Abramović’s Art versus War and Oppression
The art world has been abuzz the last couple of months over the performance of "The Artist Is Present," by Serbian artist Marina Abramović at New York's MOMA. In the piece, she sits in a chair, nearly motionless, for eight hours a day -- no food, no water, not even a...
