No Escape From Guantánamo: The Latest Habeas Rulings
Federal Prosecutors Say Blackwater ‘Specifically Intended to Kill’ Civilians
A month ago, most major, corporate media outlets ignored the sworn statements of two former Blackwater employees, one of whom -- identified in court papers as John Doe #2 -- alleged that the company's owner Erik Prince "views himself as a Christian crusader...
Wednesday: 44 Iraqis Killed, 61 Wounded
Updated at 11:01 p.m. EDT, Sept. 9, 2009
At least 44 Iraqis were killed and 61 more wounded in attacks, including a significant bombing in a Kurdish village. Meanwhile, two Saddam-era officials were acquitted of war crimes involving the deaths of two British soldiers during the U.S.-led invasion, even as yesterday’s U.S. servicemember deaths have left planners wondering about the feasibility of the U.S. drawdown. Also, Iraqi and Syrian diplomats met behind closed doors in Cairo but failed to resolve tensions over Syria allowing foreign fighters entry into Iraq.
read moreThinking Outside the Herd
You'd like to think that some buffalo at the back of the herd, following all those thundering bulls with balls, Jonathan Livingston Buffalo maybe, is thinking, in response to the shrieking of crazed humans: "Wait a minute…" OK, so we're having...
Measuring a War Gone to Hell
Here may be the single strangest fact of our American world: that at least three administrations – Ronald Reagan's, George W. Bush's, and now Barack Obama's – drew the U.S. "defense" perimeter at the Hindu Kush; that is, in the rugged, mountainous lands of...
Men With Guns, in Kabul and Washington
For those who believe in making war, Kabul is a notable work product. After 30 years, the results are in: a devastated city. A stale witticism calls Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai "the mayor of Kabul." Now, not even. On block after block in the Afghan...
To Escalate the Escalation?
The debate rages among experts on whether to escalate the escalation of Barack Obama's "war of necessity" in Afghanistan – seemingly oblivious to American public opinion at home that has turned against waging the conflict at all. During even the best of...
When Satire Becomes Reality
Google News has lately taken to labeling Antiwar.com's news articles, including this column, as "satire." To take one particularly unfortunate example, an article by Fred Reed on the furor over the photo of Lance Corporal Joshua Bernard's tragic death in...
The General Who Would Be King
Forgive the smug self-congratulation, but you heard it here first, folks. I've been hinting since February that "King David" Petraeus, the "genius" of the surge in Iraq who is now in charge of all our woebegone Middle East wars as head of Central...
