Blog Posts - August 2012

Assange Dodges Elite Media Darts

By Kelley B. Vlahos, on Aug 22, 2012

 

How does it feel to be one of the beautiful people?
– Lennon/McCartney

The Freedom 7 Are Beating Obama in Court

By Kelley B. Vlahos, on Aug 14, 2012

While Congress was dickering over doomed amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), the “Freedom 7″ have been quietly gaining the upper hand over the federal government.

Menace to Drone Society

By Kelley B. Vlahos, on Aug 7, 2012

Last spring at the first annual Drone Summit in Washington, Reprieve founder Clive Stafford Smith took to the stage, and by the second slide in his presentation had splashed across the screen the cherubic face of his little boy Wilfred, a British portraiture straight out of a Whistler painting.

"picture a stereotype: a wild-eyed hippie, long hair, tattoos."

By Kelley B. Vlahos, on Aug 6, 2012

This is the second in a series of profiles and interviews Antiwar.com is conducting this summer with activists who have made it their life’s work to challenge the mighty bulwarks of the U.S. national security state.