Last week, President Obama publicly grieved for the apparently senseless death of 17 year old Trayvon Martin. It hit home especially hard for the President, he said, because "[i]f I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon." This week, under mounting criticism that the President is politicizing Martin’s death, an Obama spokesperson claimed that the President "spoke …
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I assume most, if not all, readers of Antiwar.com are familiar with drones, aka unmanned aerial vehicles or UAVs. I’ve written previously about drones in two Antiwar.com columns: “Memo to Rep. Ron Paul” and “Commuting to War.” Armed drones have become the weapon of choice for the Obama administration to go after would-be terrorists in …
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Although the impulse to try to end the ongoing repression by the Syrian regime against its own people through foreign military intervention is understandable, it would be a very bad idea. Empirical studies have repeatedly demonstrated that international military interventions in cases of severe repression actually exacerbate violence in the short term and can only reduce …
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At least one Iraqi was killed 31 more were wounded in new violence. Clashes in Nasariya may have left even more wounded. Meanwhile, the Iraqi government is already warning Iraqis of summertime power shortages.
March in the Balkans
Is GOP throwing the election? asks Justin Raimondo
The government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been telling Israelis that Israel can attack Iran with minimal civilian Israeli casualties as a result of retaliation, and that reassuring message appears to have headed off any widespread Israeli fear of war with Iran and other adversaries. But the message that Iran is too weak to …
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The first Arab League summit to take place in Iraq in decades was marred by the poor attendance of Gulf state leaders. At least five Iraqis were killed and five more were wounded in sporadic violence.
It is interesting to note just how well this imperialism thing has worked for the American people. At the end of last year the U.S. was kicked out of Iraq after spending some trillions of dollars and producing the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and Americans. Al-Qaeda, which was not present in Iraq …
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Due to the Arab League summit, a curfew is in effect in some areas of Baghdad. At least four Iraqis were killed and six more were wounded in the few attacks that were reported.
