William Buckley Vs Gore Vidal
Buckley was good on some questions but horrific on foreign policy.
Requiem for The American Empire
Gore Vidal’s classic 1986 essay from The Nation On September 16, 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died. The empire was seventy-one years old and had been in ill health since 1968. Like most modern empires, ours […]
Zionism vs Judaism
Netanyahu Tells Panetta US Threats Toward Iran Not Enough
Netanyahu: Another guy who just needs to go fuck himself. By John Glaser Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday said US threats of military options against Iran are not enough, suggesting the Obama administration ought to prepare for war against Iran’s imaginary nuclear weapons program. “Right now the […]
Beautiful!
On Patriotism: Examining the Firmware of War
By Fred Reed Patriotism is everywhere thought to be a virtue rather than a mental disorder. I don’t get it. If I told the Rotarians or an American Legion hall that “John is a patriot,” all would approve greatly of John. If I told them that patriotism was […]
R.I.P. Gore Vidal, Enemy of the Empire
By Elaine Woo Gore Vidal was impossible to categorize, which was exactly the way he liked it. The reading public knew him as a literary juggernaut who wrote 25 novels —from the historical “Lincoln” to the satirical “Myra Breckinridge” — and volumes of essays critics consider among the most […]
Morpheus: AGAINST Zion, this time…
Asshole-in-Chief
Progressives sure got taken for a ride by this guy. On his first day in office, Obama vowed to shut down Guantanamo within a year. 3 years later, he’s overseeing a $40 million renovation of the facility. Oops.
The Real FARC
Support the troops…or those whom they slaughter?
Enough of your hypocrisy, neocons and Obama supporters.
Useful Idiots for the Mass Murderer-in-Chief
The Essence of the State
Geert Wilders’ “Marked for Death”: A Critical Review
From Quisling’s Quest I am currently reading Geert Wilders book “Marked for Death”. It is an interesting book with much useful information in it. I find it most interesting because some of his points I agree with and some I strongly oppose. In my way of defining points […]
Syria: Washington’s Latest War Crime
By Paul Craig Roberts One wonders what Syrians are thinking as “rebels” vowing to “free Syria” take the country down the same road to destruction as “rebels” in Libya. Libya, under Gaddafi a well run country whose oil revenues were shared with the Libyan people instead of monopolized […]
Chutzpah, anyone?
I couldn’t help but laugh at the incongruity.
War on Terror/War on Drugs
Alexander Cockburn, RIP
By Justin Raimondo The death of Alexander Cockburn, columnist for the Nation and author of many books, is an irreplaceable loss not only personally, for those who knew him, but for the broad “progressive” movement, where his populist brand of anarcho-syndicalism — the leftist equivalent of “crunchy conservatism” — set him apart […]
Murderous Psychos
Bringing back the military draft is a terrible idea
By Jason Pye Perhaps one of my favorite Milton Friedman stories is when he was served on a presidential commission to look at military conscription. The Nobel Prize winning economist listened to General William Westmoreland, who was givening testimony before the commission. Here’s how it played out: In his […]
Here Come the Draft-Nappers
By William Norman Grigg Gen. Stanley McChrystal, former commander of NATO troops in Afghanistan, demands the re-instatement of conscription so that next time Washington commits itself to a needless foreign war “every town, every city [will be] at risk.” “I think we ought to have a draft. I […]
War On All Fronts: Russia and China Back in Washington’s Crosshairs
By Paul Craig Roberts The Russian government has finally caught on that its political opposition is being financed by the US taxpayer-funded National Endowment for Democracy and other CIA/State Department fronts in an attempt to subvert the Russian government and install an American puppet state in the geographically largest country […]
Egyptians pelted Hillary Clinton motorcade with tomatoes, chanted ‘Monica, Monica’
Way to go, Egyptians!! From YNetNews.Com US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton landed at Ben-Gurion Airport Sunday night for a two day visit. During her stay, Clinton is expected to meet with top level officials. Clinton arrived on a flight from Egypt shortly along with US Middle East […]
Benevolent Hegemony in Action
In Its Mad and Hopeless War on Cocaine, the US Has Destroyed the Lives of Millions of Innocent Farmers in Colombia
By Tessie Castillo What the U.S. government is doing in Colombia has not slowed drug trafficking, but rather, created millions more victims through fumigation and displacement. July 9, 2012 | Imagine for a moment that China, in an effort to reduce cigarette smoking and associated health costs among its […]
Would You Dodge the Draft in Afghanistan?
By Alexander Cockburn Two years after he was sacked by President Obama as the top commander in Afghanistan for suggesting to Rolling Stone magazine that the real enemy were ”the wimps in the White House”, General Stanley A McChrystal has recycled a perennial chestnut: Bring back the draft – i.e. a conscripted army, not the volunteer army of today. […]
The Lethal Presidency of Barack Obama
By Tom Junod Sure, we as a nation have always killed people. A lot of people. But no president has ever waged war by killing enemies one by one, targeting them individually for execution, wherever they are. The Obama administration has taken pains to tell us, over and […]
If You Love Your Freedom, Thank a Dirty Effing Hippie
By Kevin Carson We’ve seen another “patriotic” holiday come and go, and with it the same obligatory maudlin comments from local TV news anchors about troops overseas “defending our freedom.” Just like we saw on Memorial Day, and just like we’ll see again on Veterans’ Day. Grade AAA, […]
Never Forget
Libya elections: Muslim Brotherhood set to lead government
By Jamie Dettmer Supporters of the Justice and Construction Party, the political arm of the Libyan Muslim Brotherhood, celebrate the end of the election campaign in Tripoli Photo: Reuters While the elections for a 200-member National Congress is unlikely to grant a majority to any one faction, the Muslim […]
The Canadian Holocaust: The Untold Story of the Genocide of Aboriginal Peoples in Canada
From Hiddenfromhistory.Org Preamble: Who are We and What Can We Become? The time has come to end our complicity in mass murder. Our exposure of the Canadian genocide has simultaneously indicted the social order that gave rise to it. Euro-Canadian Christian society as a whole stands condemned in the […]
President O-bomb-ya
The Price of Screwing With America
By William Blum I’m sure most Americans are mighty proud of the fact that Julian Assange is so frightened of falling into the custody of the United States that he had to seek sanctuary in the embassy of Ecuador, a tiny and poor Third World country, without any […]
Sheldon Adelson and the End of American Anti-Semitism
By Eric Alterman Las Vegas Sands Chief Executive Officer Sheldon Adelson speaks during a media briefing in Singapore December 21, 2009. REUTERS/Vivek Prakash If a Jew-hater somewhere, inspired perhaps by The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, sought to invent an individual who symbolizes almost all the anti-Semitic clichés […]
Israeli troops filmed kicking Palestinian child (VIDEO)
rt.com An Israeli Border Police officer has been caught on video kicking a Palestinian child in the southern West Bank. The police have launched a probe into the incident, documented by an Israeli human rights organization. The footage shows a 9-year-old boy walking down the road when a […]
A Libertarian Perspective
Has the Day of the Islamist Arrived?
By Pat Buchanan Sixteen months after the United States abandoned its loyal satrap of 30 years, President Hosni Mubarak, to champion democracy in Egypt, the returns are in. Mohammed Morsi, candidate of the Muslim Brotherhood, is president of Egypt, while the military has dissolved the elected parliament that […]
Obama Nobel Peace Prize Appeal Sought By Bolivian President And Russian Lawmaker
From the Huffington Post The Bolivian president and a Russian political leader have launched a joint effort to have President Barack Obama stripped of the Nobel Peace Prize. As Forbes is reporting, Russian Liberal Party leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky released a statement Monday saying that the prize, awarded to […]
Nigerian Govt Gives U.S. the Right to Pursue Terrorists in Nigeria
“Screw Uganda, guys: Nigeria’s a better backdoor!” From Atlanta Blackstar. ______________ In an effort to help it deal with the brutal violence of the Nigerian terrorist group Boko Haram, the Nigerian government has given the U.S. the authority to conduct strikes against the group on Nigerian soil with […]
Behind the Crack-up of the Right
By Pat Buchanan In introducing his new book, Leo Strauss and the Conservative Movement in America, Paul Gottfried identifies a fundamental divide between neoconservatives and the traditional right. The divide is over the question: What is this nation, America? Straussians, writes Gottfried, “wish to present the construction of government […]
Perish the Euro
By Paul Gottfried The latest bestseller by German economist Thilo Sarrazin, a former member of the Bundesbank executive board, is a rambling critique of the eurozone. His book Deutschland braucht den Euro nicht (Germany does not need the euro) tells you everything you might want to know about why the […]
Syria, Iran, Russia and China plan joint war games, Iranian news agency says
By Gabe Fisher Iran, Syria, Russia and China are planning the “biggest-ever wargames in the Middle East,” according to an unconfirmed report on the semi-official Iranian news site Fars News. A Syrian official denied the claims. According to the article, the four countries are preparing 90,000 troops, 400 aircraft […]
Jimmy Carr is morally right
From The UK Libertarian. Davy, the UK Libertarian, hoists moralistic tax-happy statists on their own petard. Logical, potent, and apt, if emotionally-oversaturated at times. _________________ [WARNING: The following article contains images that some people may (and should) find disturbing. If you don’t want to see fairly graphic images […]
Invisible Children Not Amused by NYU Kids’ Parody
From the Atlantic Wire. Personally, I find Kickstriker’s campaign parody fucking hilarious, not to mention potentially more effective than Jason Russell’s imperialist-enabling personality cult. Here’s an excerpt from the Kickstriker bid… PLEDGE $50,000 OR MORE 3 BACKERS · Limited Reward (29 of 32 remaining) If Kony is killed […]
Bruce Schneier: We’re in the early years of a cyberwar arms race
schneier.com Bruce Schneier We’re in the early years of a cyberwar arms race. It’s expensive, it’s destabilizing, and it threatens the very fabric of the Internet we use every day. Cyberwar treaties, as imperfect as they might be, are the only way to contain the threat. If you […]
Future of Freedom Foundation June 17, 2012
MIGRATION Are Immigration Laws Like Jim Crow? by David Bier Foundation for Economic Education WELFARE STATE Big Lies in Politics by Thomas Sowell LewRockwell.com MONETARY POLICY How the Euro Will End by Gerald P. O’Driscoll Jr. Cato Institute ECONOMICS Hayek on Individualism by Sheldon Richman Foundation for Economic […]
Antiwar.com Newsletter | June 16, 2012
IN THIS ISSUE What’s new Top news Opinion and analysis Events What’s new with Antiwar.com staff and contributors? Congratulations to Gareth Porter, reporter for InterPress Service and frequent Antiwar.com contributor, for winning the Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism in London. This honor is for his outstanding research into the military’s […]
The 51st State
IRAQ – Divided into Provinces
Ex-Israeli soldier wants to join Palestinian resistance
From Press.TV Andre Pshenichnikov, a 23-year-old Jewish immigrant from Tajikistan, wants to renounce his Israeli citizenship and move to a Palestinian refugee camp in the occupied West Bank. (file photo)
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