Francis Fukuyama's famous essay "The End of History?" contains a phrase that aptly describes the common conception of Europe today: positing that the ideological battle for liberal democracy has already been won, Fukuyama describes what he calls the...
Like everything this administration does, President Obama's proposed draft for the authorization of military force (AUMF) is a purely political document, starting with its conception. After all, US forces are already in Iraq – 3,000 of them – "advising"...
The Western media narrative on Ukraine runs as follows: The heroic Ukrainians, in a bid to embrace democracy and "European values," are heroically resisting a Russian "invasion" against overwhelming odds. Meanwhile, the evil Hitlerian Vladimir...
When Ukrainian army officers came to the Ukrainian village of Velikaya Znamenka to tell the men to prepare to be drafted, they weren't prepared for what happened next. As the commanding officer was speaking, a woman seized the microphone and proceeded to tell him off:...
NBC anchor Brian Williams just makes stuff up, and the world is shocked – but, then again, if you've been a regular reader of Antiwar.com, you already knew what a liar he is. The Twitteratti are in a tizzy over Williams' blatant fibbery: he's been telling the same...
The fake debate over the misnamed "defense" budget underscores everything that's wrong with our foreign policy, our political system, and the crooks who rule the roost in Washington. This Washington Post piece on the politics surrounding the issue tells us...
What's happening in Libya today is a crime: murder, rape, looting, chaos, a war of all against all. The perpetrator, the one key person who made all this possible, is a well known personage in American politics, a former Secretary of State and the frontrunner for the...
Sneaking around behind the President's back to invite a foreign leader to address Congress – specifically for the purpose of undermining how the chief executive conducts US foreign policy – would normally be regarded by patriotic conservatives with unmitigated horror....
Progressives have saddled themselves with a theory of history that sees the "march of progress" as an ever upwardly-bound journey to political perfection: thus the appellation "progressive," as in "things are getting progressively...
In the midst of his polemic against Ron Paul and the concept of "blowback" as the progenitor of Islamist terrorism, Kevin D. Williamson, writing in National Review Online, avers I'm "an intelligent man" – but after reading his jeremiad, I'm not...
