Watch Ron Paul deliver this speech to the House of Representatives on video. I rise in strong opposition to HR 418, the REAL ID Act. This bill purports to make us safer from terrorists who may sneak into the United States, and from other illegal immigrants....
The neoconservative Project for the New American Century (PNAC) has signaled its intention to continue shaping the government's national security strategy with a new public letter stating that the "U.S. military is too small for the responsibilities we are asking it...
Unfortunately, it should hardly come as a surprise that it took about a day into what most of the world press called a cease-fire – though the principals were careful not to use the word – for the first fatality to occur by gunshot. According to the Israeli...
Antiwar.com columnist Ivan Eland talks exit strategy with Scott Horton. Interview conducted Feb. 5, 2005. Check out Scott's other interviews with prominent antiwar and libertarian personalities. Listen to Streaming Audio Download MP3 Ivan Eland is senior fellow and...
Despite the Bush administration's insistence that, at least for now, it remains committed to using diplomatic means to halt Iran's alleged nuclear weapons program, war drums against the Islamic Republic appear to be beating more loudly here. Secretary of State...
Remember that Iraq election everyone was hailing last week as a triumph of democracy and a model for the region? A quagmire was transformed almost overnight into a stunning victory: when election day dawned, Iraq turned on a dime and was supposedly rendered relatively...
ARBIL, Iraq - Fresh from their success at the polls, Iraq's two main Kurdish political parties have put forward 72-year-old Jalal Talabani as their candidate for the presidency of Iraq. If he succeeds in winning the post, it will be a fitting coda to one of Iraq's...
Here were a few headlines from yesterday's papers: "Bush Urges Congress Join Him on Budget Cuts" (Reuters); "President Offers Budget Proposal With Broad Cuts" (New York Times); "Bush Spending Plan Hits Social Programs" (Boston Globe); "Bush: Budget Cuts Part of...
Bands played, children sang, millions of Iraqis turned out to vote, and the whole world hailed Iraq's election as an historic epiphany. Success in the voting process means that Iraq will emerge as a peaceful, democratic state. America has won its war. Sorry, but I...
Even some of President George W. Bush's most enthusiastic conservative Republican supporters have expressed a sense of alarm over the grandiose and expansive vision of America's mission in the world – "support[ing] the growth of democratic movements and...
