Last week China took a small but critical step to end American global dominance. Until now the US and Russia were the only two nations thought capable of making military use of space. But Beijing dramatically crashed this select club by using a ground-based ballistic...
Text of testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 18 January 2007 Good afternoon, Senator Biden, and members of the committee. It is a grave responsibility to testify before you today because the issue, the war in Iraq, is of such monumental importance....
Antiwar.com is pleased to announce the winners of its first-ever Student Essay Contest, held summer 2006. Today we present Madeline Reese of the United States, 1st-place winner in the junior division. Alexia Gilmore Executive director, Antiwar.com Sometimes, in...
Rural America Pays the President's Price in Iraq When we hear about the American dead in Iraq, we normally learn about the circumstances in which they died. Last Saturday, for instance, was, for American troops, the third bloodiest day since the Bush administration...
Asked about a Senate resolution disapproving the "surge" of US troops going into Iraq, Vice President Dick Cheney growled: "It won't stop us." The Senate, the House, the Constitution, the American people voting in an election – nothing and no one in this country...
George W. Bush's State of the Union address appears to confirm other recent indications that the president is not merely sending more troops to Iraq to do more of the same, but has adopted a new strategy of fighting all three major Iraqi Arab political-military forces...
Six months after last summer's war between Israel and Lebanon's Hezbollah, Iran has become the George W. Bush administration's "Public Enemy Number One," against which its Middle East strategy is increasingly focused, according to one of the US's leading experts...
At least 186 antiwar protests in the United States have been monitored by the Pentagon's domestic surveillance program, according to documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which also found that the Defense Department collected more than 2,800...
Updated at 1:05 a.m. EST, Jan. 27, 2007 Although Fridays are the Muslim prayer day and generally quiet, several bombs rocked the capital today. Overall, 84 Iraqis were killed or found dead today and another 130 were injured in various attacks throughout Iraq. Also, a...
United for Peace antiwar demos George Bush's State of the Union speech provided every single US resident that opposes the war in Iraq with a reason to take that opposition into the streets. His argument that ending the US military involvement in that nation would lead...
