Brendan O'Neill has an Antiwar.com exclusive on today's page, "Hooked on a Failing," about the West's War on Drugs, that will be of interest to folks of many foreign-policy stripes.

If someone makes a practical argument for torture, are you under any intellectual obligation to respond with a practical argument against? There are plenty of those, but as Lindsay Beyerstein puts it: It's sort of like writing rape-prevention posts about how you...

Good Lord, Hugo Chavez calls Bush the devil in his speech at the UN, and CNN's chattering doofuses are near tears. "He lifts himself up to the level of President Bush when he can talk about him in an insulting manner," according to one "analyst." (A TV "analyst" is...

Mickey Kaus: Andrew Sullivan has decided to give out a Nancy Grace Award. Criteria (suggested by Sullivan's readers) include "a nauseating level of absolutist self-righteousness," an "unflappable self-assurance that [the nominee's] outrage represents the true moral...

Chuck Peña will be discussing his latest book, Winning the Un-War: A New Strategy for the War on Terrorism, Friday afternoon in Washington, D.C. The Independent Institute-sponsored event will also feature Roger W. Cressey and Joseph Cirincione. Details here.

Dr. David Beito reports that Historians Against the War has taken a refreshingly focused antiwar stance, welcoming those who don't subscribe to a larger progressive/leftist platform. Details here.

Antiwar.com contributor Jonathan Cook speaks to Electric Politics about all things Israel: download the MP3.

That's the oh-so-maverick Bill Maher on George W. Bush. Maher went on to say that the reason W. takes the correct – i.e., 100-percent Likud – positions on Israel is "because he’s a crazy evangelical Christian."

Just how obnoxiously self-righteous is the U.S. government? From retired ambassador John R. Hamilton: Attempts to explain the vehemence of anti-U.S. feeling abroad correctly home in on Iraq and other unpopular policies of the current administration. But over the past...

Antiwar.com contributor Leon Hadar discusses his book Sandstorm: Policy Failure in the Middle East on C-SPAN.