If you want to know why our "war on terrorism" has failed so miserably – if you want to understand how and why the harder we fight the more enemies we have to face – then read this recent piece in the Wall Street Journal on the evolution of the Syrian civil war, which...
The War Party is a veritable propaganda machine, churning out product 24/7. Armed with nearly unlimited resources, both from government(s) and the private sector, they carpet-bomb the public with an endless stream of lies in order to soften them up when it's time to...
A brouhaha erupted when Diane Rehm, of National Public Radio, confronted Bernie Sanders during an interview with an allegation that's been making the rounds on the Internet for years: "Now, you're a dual citizen of Israel," she averred. Startled, he replied: "Well, no...
Jeb Bush – at barely over 10 percent in the polls – is acting as if he's already putting his preppy $500 loafers up on the Oval Office desk. Forget Iowa, and to heck with New Hampshire – he's off on a trip to Europe, where he'll reportedly echo the real President's...
Suddenly the news of a Saudi-Israeli-Gulf states alliance is all over the news, and we're shocked – shocked! – that such strange bedfellows have been found in bed together. Readers of Antiwar.com, however, are neither shocked nor surprised, since that breaking news...
Remember that "imminent" Russian invasion of Ukraine that was supposed to take place over a year ago? Well, it's still "imminent"! President Poroshenko has just announced that the Russians are about to undertake a "full-scale" invasion of his country and that...
A lot of the criticism of Rand Paul's anti-interventionist foreign policy pronouncements, as well as his high profile opposition to the NSA's spying on Americans, is couched in terms of "that was then, this is now." The argument goes something like this: with ISIS on...
If one of the very worst provisions of the Patriot Act – which the government has erroneously and illegally interpreted to gather the phone records of each and every American – expires, we'll have Senator Rand Paul to thank. And the truth is, we can't thank him...
The entry of Bernie Sanders into the presidential sweepstakes is of interest to opponents of American militarism for two reasons: 1) He has a reputation as an "antiwar" figure, and 2) His primary opponent for the Democratic party nomination, Hillary Rodham Clinton, is...
When Ivy Ziedrich, a nineteen-year-old college student, approached Jeb Bush on the campaign trail and zinged him with "Your brother created ISIS!" the media ate it up and the video went viral. Ms. Ziedrich, a member of the College Democrats, talks very fast, and she...
