We at the Afghan Women’s Mission (AWM) often ask ourselves, why aren’t the major newspapers showing the American people what's really happening in Afghanistan? AWM co-directors James Ingalls and I recently returned from a trip to Revolutionary Association...
Daniel Ellsberg: Free Mordechai Vanunu
Editor's note: The following is a statement by Daniel Ellsberg on the recent indictment of Mordechai Vanunu in Israel for his violation of restrictions banning him from speaking to foreigners or giving interviews to foreign journalists. Ellsberg has just returned from...
Rachel Corrie Rebuilding Campaign in Gaza nominated in GlobalGiving.com competition
Redwood City, CA – The Rachel Corrie Rebuilding Campaign in Gaza has been nominated for a GlobalGiving.com competition. Through January 27th, at www.globalgiving.com/cb/gpf/pr/1000/proj929a.html, people throughout the world can vote online and rate the entries...
The Power of Nightmares
In the past our politicians offered us dreams of a better world. Now they promise to protect us from nightmares. The most frightening of these is the threat of an international terror network. But just as the dreams were not true, neither are these nightmares. - from...
Rep. Paul Denounces National ID
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Congressman Ron Paul today denounced the national ID card provisions contained in the intelligence bill being voted on in the U.S. House of Representatives, while urging his colleagues to reject the bill and its new layers of needless bureaucracy....
Ron Paul Denounces National ID Card
Congressman Ron Paul today denounced the national ID card provisions contained in the intelligence bill being voted on in the U.S. House of Representatives, while urging his colleagues to reject the bill and its new layers of needless bureaucracy. Visit Rep....
The Final Secret of Pearl Harbor
On Wednesday, August 29, 1945, President Truman gave out the reports of the Army and Navy Boards directed by Congress to investigate the responsibility for the great disaster of December 7, 1941, at Pearl Harbor. These Boards had filed their reports nine months ago....
Unembedded: An Interview With Dahr Jamail
Newtopia: Give us a little background on yourself. Where did you grow up, go to school? Where have you lived? What's been your professional background? What were your main social, political, and cultural influences? Dahr Jamail's article archive on Antiwar.com ...
Gitmo Trials Continue Despite Ruling
In spite of a court ruling that halted the military trial of a Guantanamo detainee last week, the military is continuing to conduct another kind of controversial hearing for prisoners held at the U.S. base in Cuba. On Monday, a prisoner accused of delivering money to...
With Troop Cuts, US-South Korea Relations Uncertain
The planned reduction of U.S. troops in South Korea is an opportunity for Washington-Seoul ties to mature or decline, depending on whether ties can go beyond the narrow security issues that have driven the relationship for decades. This transition, experts say, is the...