Libertarian author and podcaster Tom Woods hosted Antiwar.com editorial director Scott Horton on his show all week this week as a fundraiser to support the writing of Scott's upcoming book on the terror wars. Listen to the interviews here: Day One: Current War on...
Obama’s Hiroshima Speech Was Lovely, Frustrating, and Infuriating
President Obama's #apology tour keeps a-rollin' on, am I right? No, hang on. As unforgivable as Obama has been on foreign policy in myriad ways -- and how much worse, perhaps, a Clinton or any Republican ever might be with the help of Obama's drone precedents -- there...
NSA Surveillance and Our “Almost Orwellian” State
Directly lifted from the Electronic Frontier Foundation blog: January 23, 2014 - 7:30pm Berkeley, CA Join us for "NSA Surveillance and Our ‘Almost Orwellian’ State," hosted by St. John’s Presbyterian Church on Thursday, January 23, 2014. Address: St. John's...
New UN Report Highlights How US Drone Policy Violates International Law
The United Nations General Assembly just released the latest Report of the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions. The report is necessary, in part, because “There is... a notable lack of consensus on how to apply the rules of...
Obama Might Unwittingly Lead U.S. to a Decade of Peace
President Obama might have already achieved more for peace and stability in the Middle East than he is actually aware. The public debate on the Syrian Civil War and a possible U.S. strike on the Assad regime has shown that public opinion strongly favors...
Why “we” REALLY nuked both Hiroshima & Nagasaki. In just 3 days.
OLIVER STONE: ... Every school kid -- still, my daughter in her school, in private school, in good school, is still learning this: We dropped the bomb because we had to, because the Japanese resistance was fanatic, and we would have lost many American lives taking...
Michael Hastings Calls Shenanigans on Obama’s Drone Speech
“…Turns out it was 11”
Photographer and antiwar activist Jayel Aharem quipped on twitter, "'Yesterday in San Diego, we chanted "B.A.R.A.C.K. how many kids did you kill today?' Turns out it was 11 http://is.gd/9pCMZA." Antiwar.com's Jason Ditz delivers the punch line.
Obama, Hagel and the Asian Pivot
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...
