Perhaps the most encouraging thing about the terrorist alert first issued on Sunday was the relatively extensive debate it engendered in much of the country, even though the alert was in some ways calculated to be responsive to criticisms of previous alerts. Instead...
An Open Letter to the 9/11 PanelThere is no greater proof of Antiwar.com's standing as the country's (e-)Paper of Record than this: The equivalent of Daniel Ellsberg's Pentagon Papers have just been published. Who broke the story? You. Who else has it? So far,...
Why did the Bush administration invade Iraq? Most left-wing critics – epitomized perhaps by Michael Moore's blockbuster documentary, Fahrenheit 9/11– have rather reflexively argued that the economic factor, particularly the interests of Big Oil or "the...
Nebojsa Malic is traveling and we have had trouble receiving his column via cyberspace. We hope to have his next column soon. William Shakespeare's Richard III opens with the memorable lines of earl Gloucester (later the eponymous king), "Now is the winter of our...
MONTREAL - The failure of the UK/U.S.-led coalition to implant democracy in Iraq has prompted deep soul-searching in the British civil service and opened the door for progressive organizations to influence its policy, says one long-time activist. Whereas three years...
The appointed Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi faces vehement opposition to his move to deploy troops from other Muslim countries. Allawai's push follows a rash of suicide attacks that have rocked an increasingly unstable Iraq. He called on Arab military assistance in...
Hey, how about those Pakistanis! They've captured more Al Qaeda operatives than all agencies of the U.S. government combined, and, in doing so, have probably done more to prevent new terrorist attacks in the U.S. than Tom Ridge ever dreamed of. Their latest coup: the...
UNITED NATIONS - The United States and Britain are being accused of undermining the work of international humanitarian organizations in Afghanistan by misusing aid to advance their military interests. "There are times when aid agencies need the support of the...
A sound bite from President Bush on Monday strikes me as emblematic of the country's current crisis. He said, "It is a ridiculous notion to assert that, because the United States is on the offensive, more people want to hurt us," he said. "We're on the...
Pledge WeekI just made a donation to Antiwar.com and did so with a full heart, even though Justin really got my goat over his tribute to Ronald Reagan. Raimondo is one of the best writers I've read online and even though I don't always agree with him, he's a damn fine...
