I see that the Pentagon has reversed its old policy of refusing to allow photographs of those flag-draped coffins as our dead soldiers return from the battlefield. One wonders, however, how much interest there will be in taking and publishing such photos now that...
RAMALLAH - "They started smashing down doors at 2am last Wednesday before moving through homes and destroying property," says the mayor of Jayyus, Muhammed Taher Shamasni. "Residents were assaulted, money was stolen, computers confiscated, over 60 young...
In a stunning reversal, Britain's government admitted Wednesday that it participated in the "extraordinary rendition" to Afghanistan of two terror suspects captured in Iraq. British Defense Secretary John Hutton told Britain's House of Commons that the two...
The appointment of Dennis Ross as a special advisor to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has found a cool reaction in Tehran and some U.S. policy circles. "The appointment of Ross is an apparent contradiction with [President Barack] Obama's announced policy...
"Real men go to Tehran!" brayed the neoconservatives, after the success of their propaganda campaign to have America march on Baghdad and into an unnecessary war that has forfeited all the fruits of our Cold War victory. Now they are back, in pursuit of what...
Updated at 4:01 p.m. EST, Feb. 27, 2009The official plans for a U.S. drawdown in Iraq were announced this morning, just as the military revealed that enemy fire brought down two U.S. helicopters last month, and President Obama announced his new ambassador to the...
Former Antiwar.com columnist Doug Bandow writes this week in The National Interest After a rough start with the EP-3 spy plane confrontation, the Bush administration forged a good relationship between the United States and China. Washington realized that it needed...
I'm still shocked, even though I shouldn't be, when people call me a pacifist. They look at the facts that I write regularly for Antiwar.com and that I oppose every war the U.S. government is involved in, as well as virtually every war the U.S. has been in since the...
Hours after President Obama's speech to a joint session of Congress, the New York Times printed the news that he plans to gradually withdraw "American combat forces" from Iraq during the next 18 months. The newspaper reported that the advantages of the...
While human rights and legal advocacy groups applauded President Barack Obama's decision to close the military prison at Guantánamo Bay within a year, many immediately raised another thorny question: "What about Bagram?" The answer came as a shock. In a...
