Guantánamo, Exception or Rule? Guantánamo, Exception or Rule?
Despite all the focus on Guantánamo, a great many of America’s domestic prisons also routinely abuse inmates and in actual practice are often beyond the rule of law.
Nov 8, 2010 / Chase Madar
War in Yemen: CIA to Get Control of Special Forces, Drones? War in Yemen: CIA to Get Control of Special Forces, Drones?
War in Iraq, war in Afghanistan, possible attack on Iran—oh, what the heck, why not Yemen, too?
Nov 1, 2010 / Blog / Bob Dreyfuss
WikiLeaks and War Spending WikiLeaks and War Spending
That big sucking sound you don't hear? That's the war—spending that's getting away with murder.
Oct 27, 2010 / The Notion / Laura Flanders
A World Made by War A World Made by War
How old will you be when the American war state goes down?
Oct 18, 2010 / Tom Engelhardt
Losing the War’s Beginning Losing the War’s Beginning
War seems simply to be the way it is. We have always been at war in Afghanistan. We will always be at war in Afghanistan. Or maybe Pakistan. Or both.
Oct 7, 2010 / The Notion / Laura Flanders
Is Obama’s Use of State Secrets Privilege the New Normal? Is Obama’s Use of State Secrets Privilege the New Normal?
The Obama administration has invoked the state secrets privilege for the second time in less than a month—this time in an effort to shut down discussion of the targeted kil...
Sep 29, 2010 / Ryan Devereaux
Questioning the Cycle of War Questioning the Cycle of War
In our longest war, we have yet to even begin to grapple with the whys of war and the what-war-really-is questions.
Sep 29, 2010 / The Notion / Laura Flanders
Afghanistan: It’s Time for a Ceasefire, and Negotiations Afghanistan: It’s Time for a Ceasefire, and Negotiations
Gilles Dorronsoro, an iconoclastic visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment, says Pakistan can deliver the Taliban to the bargaining table. It's time to try it.
Sep 24, 2010 / Blog / Bob Dreyfuss
Is the Drug War a Class War? Is the Drug War a Class War?
The war on drugs. We keep calling it that, it seems, because we like wars on abstract concepts.
Sep 23, 2010 / The Notion / Laura Flanders
US Businessman: Blackwater Paid Me to Buy Steroids and Weapons on Black Market for its Shooters US Businessman: Blackwater Paid Me to Buy Steroids and Weapons on Black Market for its Shooters
The businessman also alleges he witnessed Blackwater's cocaine- and hashish-laced "frat parties gone wild" and random shooting at Iraqi civilians.
Sep 23, 2010 / Blog / Jeremy Scahill