Posts in "Antiwar.com"

Misson Accomplished...again.

Jeremy Davis — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 22:23:45 +0000

Yesterday, just about every major news network held special coverage of the last American combat brigade leaving Iraq, apparently signifying the end of the war there. But as this article from Antiwar.com notes, it's simply just an elaborate farce meant to dupe the people into believing an end to only one of America's war has finally come.

It was another of those great TV moments. Embedded reports filming as the “last” brigade of American troops in Iraq cross the border into Kuwait bringing over seven years of unhappy conflict to its final, conclusive end. America was, at last, at peace.But like so many other great TV moments, this one was a scripted fantasy, a fake exit done purely for political gain by an increasingly unpopular president trying to look like he is keeping at least one campaign promise.

Read the rest here.

Iran Propaganda Debunked in Under 7 Minutes

Mark Anthony — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 21:05:45 +0000

(h/t Tom Woods)

House Passes More Afghan War Funding

Joseph Brown — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 02:35:04 +0000

From a new post on Antiwar.com:

Though one would have expected that the massive release of some 92,000 classified documents Sunday underscoring just how poorly the war is going would have changed some minds, the Obama Administration has gotten its way once again, with the House of Representatives approving the $59 billion emergency funding bill to keep the war going by a 308-114 vote.
There was, at the very least, some vigorous debate in the House today, with Reps. Dennis Kucinich (D – OH) and Ron Paul (R – TX) at the center of the opposition to continuing the war. At the end of the day, however, all the new evidence about the disastrous war was ignored in favor of pumping tens of billions of dollars into the conflict...
But pro-war Congressmen were quick to disregard the logs, insisting that the 92,000 documents detailing the war’s enormous shortcomings and massive civilian toll were “outdated” because they were from late 2009 and before. Though all of the evidence is that the situation has only worsened in the last seven months, it seems officials were able to shrug off the embarrassment with relatively little effort, and secure the funds to continue their ill-conceived conflict.

Antiwar's Scott Horton Interviews Michael Hastings

Jihan Huq — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 16:36:54 +0000

Following this week's unexpected resignation of General McChrystal, Scott Horton interviews Michael Hastings -- author of this weeks explosive Rolling Stone article, "The Runaway General."

Hastings (author of I lost My Love in Bangdad: A Modern War Story) talks about the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan, counter-insurgency, the controversy surrounding McChrystal, his article and much more. Although this is a short interview, it is worth lsitening to and does answer some questions. Please listen and enjoy.

Antiwar.com on Young Americans for Liberty

Rachel Kania — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:27:49 +0000

Antiwar.com reports on Obama's next step in Afghanistan. To close the article gives hope by stating...

The premier libertarian youth organization, Young Americans for Liberty (YAL), is the fastest-growing political group on campus, these days, and no task would suit them better than assuming the leadership of the moribund, leftist-dominated antiwar movement. As Obama’s zombie-like cult follows him down the road to war – a war on a scale the much-reviled Bush administration never dared attempt – YAL can fill the vacuum, swell its own ranks, and, more importantly, dramatize the moral and political bankruptcy of the current administration, while drawing a clear and very dramatic line of demarcation between libertarians and Sean Hannity-type conservatives..

War elevates the state, so of course the state supports war.

Bonnie Kristian — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:18:32 +0000

On Tuesday, as you have all no doubt heard, the GOP made something of a comeback with gubernatorial wins in New Jersey and Virginia. However, experience shows that where many issues are concerned, which party is in power makes no difference: it's going to suck either way. Foreign policy seems to be one of those issues. Justin Raimondo of AntiWar.com writes:

Why is it that the War Party invariably wins? Although the majority of Americans are rebelling against the idea that the US must endlessly police the world, and are souring on the crusade to "liberate" Afghanistan, how is it that the only voices heard on the national political scene are those in favor of intervention?

Why, indeed? Perhaps the simplest answer comes from Randolph Bourne (though don't forget to finish the rest of Raimondo's piece on the disenfranchisement of antiwar voters at the bloody hands of both major parties): "War is the health of the state." That's the famous quote, which most YAL readers have probably heard before, but Bourne continues:

War is the health of the State. It automatically sets in motion throughout society those irresistible forces for uniformity, for passionate cooperation with the Government in coercing into obedience the minority groups and individuals which lack the larger herd sense. The machinery of government sets and enforces the drastic penalties; ....in general, the nation in wartime attains a uniformity of feeling, a hierarchy of values culminating at the undisputed apex of the State ideal, which could not possibly be produced through any other agency than war. Loyalty - or mystic devotion to the State - becomes the major imagined human value....
The rulers soon learn to capitalize the reverence which the State produces in the majority, and turn it into a general resistance toward a lessening of their privileges. The sanctity of the State becomes identified with the sanctity of the ruling class, and the latter are permitted to remain in power under the impression that in obeying and serving them, we are obeying and serving society, the nation, the great collectivity of all of us....

US Airstrike Kills 10 Civilians

Elliot Engstrom — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:37:24 +0000

According to a June 11 article from AntiWar.com, 10 civilians are dead from an American air strike in Afghanistan's Ghor province.

Dr. Rand Paul talks with Antiwar.com

Zaid Abuhouran — Thu, 21 May 2009 07:08:45 +0000

Rand Paul, son of Rep.

The Case of the Wrong Teleprompter, Continued

contributor — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 02:08:12 +0000

Taking a page from the Bush Administration's foreign policy book, Obama asked Congress last night in a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for $83.4 billion in "supplemental" spending to cover fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan for the remainder of this year.

What will the war propaganda be next?

Bonnie Kristian — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 21:42:31 +0000

Jeff Huber's article on AntiWar.com addresses the possible excuses which might be given for the new tactics in Afghanistan:

The aspect of the new [strategy in Afghanistan] I find hardest to believe is that none of the goals involve keeping the Islamofabulists from getting control of Pakistan’s nukes or the oil pipeline that runs through Afghanistan.

Flawed Foreign Policy

Bonnie Kristian — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 08:47:49 +0000

In a brief article on AntiWar.com today, Ron Paul argues that a draft or mandatory service requirement is not inconceivable in the United States today, but ought to be out of the question in a free society. Moreover, he continues, any apparent "need" for a draft is all too often created by none other than flawed foreign policy:

I am convinced that there are more threats to American liberty within the 10-mile radius of my office on Capitol Hill than there are on the rest of the globe.

False Dawn

Bonnie Kristian — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 05:27:42 +0000

Justin Raimondo's piece on AntiWar.com yesterday discusses the likelihood of real foreign policy change resulting from the new administration and finds it anemic at best. Despite Obama's peaceful campaign promises, Raimondo writes, "the idea that Obama is going to get us out of Iraq at all, never mind in 16 months, is going to die a hard death, but die it will – unless, of course, the antiwar movement, so-called, gets up off its fat ass and starts making demands of the candidate so many of them supported." On the contrary, Obama has come off as unfri

New Year's Predictions

Bonnie Kristian — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 05:36:50 +0000

Antiwar.com columnist Justin Raimondo lays out a series of predictions for the new year, including hyperinflation, Keynesianism, and war in Taki's Magazine titled Save Your Candles—the Dark Ages Are Coming! "All in all," he concludes, "the prospects for liberty, and peace, in 2009, might be charitably described as dim, although bleak seems more precise." Read more, or get involved with a Real Change Requires R3v