I should have read Daniel Ellsberg’s excellent memoirs - SECRETS: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers - long ago. But better late than never. Here is the lead of a piece I did on the book for the new issue of Freedom Daily : Daniel Ellsberg is the kind of...
Antiwar Conference in Reston, VA: June 6-8
Come to the wonderful Future of Freedom Foundation conference this June, 6-8, at the Hyatt in Reston Virginia. Here's my article today discussing why I'm excited. Antiwar.com readers will find the slate of 20 speakers rather impressive, including such Antiwar.com...
Dan Senor Demolishes (Gently) Feith and Wolfowitz
Paul Wolfowitz's admission that he and others were "clueless on counterinsurgency" at the Hudson Institute's symposium on Douglas Feith's "War and Decision" last week was certainly the lede as Eli Lake reported it in the New York Sun reported last...
Antiwar Republican Walter Jones (NC) Wins Primary Challenge
Walter Jones, the Republican who changed the House cafeteria menu to replace French Fries with "Freedom Fries," but later became one of the war's staunchest critics, has been renominated to Congress. He faced a strong primary challenger supported by the White House....
What would that be like . . .
Marc Garlasco helped target laser-guided bombs during the Iraq invasion, and he claims in an NPR interview entitled "Assessing the Human Cost of Air Strikes in Iraq," that the military does a careful calculation of how many innocent civilians will be killed for each...
London Trades Antiwar Leftist for Antiwar Rightist
London voters just voted out Ken Livingstone, the iconoclast left-wing antiwar mayor and replaced him with the iconoclast right-wing antiwar Boris Johnson. Livingstone was a strong opponent of the Iraq War, and has spoken the connection between an imperialist foreign...
Scott Horton’s Speech at the University of Texas
Scott Horton's speech to the Libertarian Longhorns at University of Texas last Monday about war with Iran.
Union Shuts West Coast Ports in Antiwar Protest
The International Longshore and Warehouse Union brought all ports on the US west coast in a one-day protest against the US occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan. The Union said some 10,000 workers joined the antiwar protest, spurred in part by its belief that big...
Scalia: ‘Torture Is Not Punishment’
In an interview on last Sunday's 60 Minutes, Leslie Stahl asked if the term "cruel and unusual punishment" applies to someone "being brutalized by a law enforcement person," Scalia replied: "To the contrary, has anybody ever referred to torture as punishment? I don't...
Long WWII Tours Not an Issue?
I think highly of Ivan Eland as a person and as a foreign policy analyst. His piece on today's site on the danger of recruiting into the military people with bad records of behavior is on target. On the way to making his points, though, Ivan writes the following: One...
