Last week the U.S. House of Representatives, on a party-line vote, passed an innocuous-sounding resolution that "expects the cooperation of all news media organizations in protecting the lives of Americans and the capability of the government to identify, disrupt, and...
LA PAZ - Bolivia's leftist government scored a victory in elections for a Constituent Assembly, but failed to win two-thirds of the seats, so it will have to negotiate the terms of the new constitution with its opponents. Four departments (provinces) also made clear...
After years of U.S. and Israeli attempts to refer Iran's nuclear program to the UN Security Council, and after two and a half years of European efforts to find a solution to the problem through negotiations, the Iranian file was finally reported to the Security...
Americans who get their propaganda from Fox "News" or are told what to think by right-wing talk radio hosts are outraged at news reports that U.S. troops planned and carried out the rape and murder of a young Iraqi woman. They are not outraged that the...
GOOD NEWS! The deadline for the essay contest has been extended to October 31. Antiwar.com is committed to promoting a vigorous and informed worldview on the part of young people, particularly in the areas of international relations, U.S. domestic policy, and...
July 1 was the 46th anniversary of Somalia's "independence," and it was celebrated in a rather desultory fashion with a ceremony held at the "Peace Hotel" in war-torn Mogadishu. Former army general Mohamed Nor Galal gave a speech in which he...
The folks at the Weakly Substandard have joined the ranks of "conservatives" calling for a crackdown on journalists who "leak" national security "secrets." In an essay entitled "Leaks and the Law," Gabriel Schoenfeld tries to make "the case for prosecuting the New...
Bit by bit, the meaning of July 4th has been lost. It now involves far too much celebration of the U.S. military and far too much deference to governments. I am a big fan, in many ways, of the U.S. military. As a professor at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey,...
The Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons involves three principal undertakings on the part of the signatories: to prevent further proliferation of nuclear weapons to pursue negotiations on a treaty of general and complete disarmament to facilitate the...
Recently, the international media has begun to report opinions about Karzai that are at odds with past flattering articles published in Western media. It appears that Karzai has lost the beauteous Teflon coating that was applied to him by his foreign backers, when he...
