25 May 2011
Obama opposed to being given total war power
Read more
David Swanson
The White House has put out a statement expressing its disapproval of various bits of H.R.1540, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012. Here's the most interesting, if not the most adamant, objection:
"Detainee...
21 May 2011
Who's the next enemy?
Read more
Saul Landeau
How did this country survive before it found formidable enemies around which the government could mobilize hatred and fear?

I don’t remember the 1930s when poverty, capitalism, godlessness, fascism, communism, Jews and alcohol...
19 May 2011
Wanted dead or alive
Read more
Robert Koehler
When President Obama, summing up the killing of Osama bin Laden, said, “Justice has been done,” the problem wasn’t simply that he misspoke — justice, after all, can only emerge at the end of an impartial judicial proceeding — but that, in...
15 May 2011
Of humans and rights
Read more
David Swanson
U.S. newspapers sometimes print what they call the total death count from one or more of our wars, and all the dead who are listed are Americans. They aren't all the Americans. They don't include contractors or suicides or various other...
10 May 2011
This world and the world without war
Read more
David Swanson
The New York Times published an op-ed on May 7th by a professor here in Charlottesville, Va., arguing that celebrating the killing of Osama bin Laden is actually a good thing, because in so celebrating we are building solidarity with those...
08 May 2011
The unholy grail
Read more
Robert Koehler
Perhaps the eeriest thing about Osama bin Laden’s death is how little it means.
Yeah, I know: “U.S.A.! U.S.A.!” The raid on the devil’s compound outside Abbottabad, Pakistan this week apparently kick-started our patriotic fervor,...

Pages

Subscribe to Op-Ed