To listen to Rep. Ron Paul deliver this address, click here. We may never know the whole story behind the recent publication of sensitive U.S. government documents by the WikiLeaks organization, but we certainly can draw some important conclusions from the reaction of...
The dominant theme that emerged in U.S. media coverage of the first round of WikiLeaks diplomatic cables last week was that Arab regimes in the Gulf – led by Saudi Arabia – shared Israel's view that Iran's nuclear program had to be stopped by military force, if...
Last week's release of 900 pages of U.S. government documents dealing with the implementation of the nation's primary surveillance law suggests that the government has been systematically violating the privacy rights of U.S. citizens. How many citizens is unclear,...
The most intensely debated documents released by WikiLeaks last week were about what some of the Arab rulers think of Iran and its nuclear program. According to the documents, many of the Arab leaders have been privately urging the United States to attack Iran while...
Western Civilization no longer upholds the values it proclaims, so what is the basis for its claim to virtue? For example, the U.S. print and TV media and the U.S. government have made it completely clear that they have no regard for the First Amendment. Consider...
A spontaneous movement to boycott Amazon.com, the online retailer, has taken off in response to the company's decision to kick WikiLeaks off its servers. We at Antiwar.com unequivocally endorse this effort. In spite of attempts by some to claim the company was...
Trying to play down the significance of an ongoing WikiLeaks dump of more than 250,000 State Department documents, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates recently offered the following bit of Washington wisdom: “The fact is, governments deal with the United States because...
