Antiwar.com contributor Steve Horn and historian Allen Ruff on Obama's imperial strategy to control the energy resources of Eurasia.
Judge, jury & executioner?
Could he [Mr. Obama] order the targeted killing of an American citizen [cleric Anwar al-Awlaki], in a country with which the United States was not at war [Yemen], in secret and without the benefit of a trial? The Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel prepared a...
Rand Paul’s Half Right Pander on Pakistan
U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) wants to end U.S. aid to Pakistan. A sound stance by any peace measure even if one doesn't share the libertarian bent of Antiwar.com's editors. Foreign aid, a combination of bribes, blood money and welfare, is a fuel of the war machine,...
Ban Weaponized Drones from the World
From Roots Action: Meticulous researchers have documented that U.S. drones are killing many innocent civilians in Pakistan, Yemen and elsewhere. Drones are making the world less stable and creating new enemies. Their remoteness provides those responsible with a sense...
Action Item: Civics 101 — Cutting Defense Means? Not Voting for $642.5 Billion for the Military
Carolyn Eisenberg and Gael Murphy sent this late last night. Please share. Eisenberg and Murphy are co-conveners of the United for Peace and Justice Legislative Working Group. By Carolyn Eisenberg and Gael Murphy Some readers probably heard on the news how the...
Old man with long beard apparently murdered in Abbottabad, Pakistan
OK, this is the first anniversary of the U.S. apparently killing someone with a long beard in Abbottabad, Pakistan. The new spin is that Mr. Obama, making a "gutsy call," took the high-risk course of sending in "boots on the ground" rather than...
John Glaser on the Fallout of the Afghanistan Massacre
Antiwar.com's D.C. editor John Glaser looks at the latest atrocity with RT's Kristine Frazao.
Jason Ditz on RT: UN Syria Resolution Veto
Duh, Winning! (Hearts and Minds Edition)
From Three Against Hitler, by Rudi Wobbe and Jerry Borrowman: Near our home was a shoe store, owned and run by a Jew. Even before 1933 his store windows and swastikas had been painted on the walls and door. But, after the "takeover," the Nazis demolished his store in...
To Mark This Solemn Day, I’m Having a Luau
Today's hardest-hitting news story: "You'll Never Guess What The Obama Kids' School Is Serving For Lunch Today." Don't care? Well, you should. It's a "heavily Japanese-inspired menu, which includes Asian mushroom and oriental noodle soup, garlic roasted edamame,...
