Jason Ditz, managing news editor at Antiwar.com, discusses the worldwide crackdown on WikiLeaks and Julian Assange; why — despite the government’s uproar about 'dangerous' leaks — there’s not even a pretense of holding State Department officials accountable for their criminal actions; how Cablegate shows the US government is well aware how badly the Afghanistan occupation is going; why European governments believe Afghanistan is a lost cause but continue support out of deference to the US; and...

Jason Ditz, managing news editor at Antiwar.com, discusses the standard WikiLeaks put-downs: Assange is a terrorist with blood on his hands and the leaks don't reveal anything important that wasn't already known; Glenn Greenwald's article that shows the war party's blood lust is never satiated; how the most hyped MSM story derived from Cablegate on Iran's missile program turned out to be bogus; proof that Abu Ghraib inspired hundreds of Saudis to fight the US; and why the US policy on torture...

Jason Ditz, managing news editor at Antiwar.com, discusses the very different newspaper headlines describing the 105-page biannual Pentagon report to Congress on Afghanistan; why the renaming of insurgent attacks to 'kinetic events' must have George Carlin spinning in his grave; US forces stuck halfway through clear, build and hold; and the rampant election fraud in Afghanistan that has significantly reduced Pashtun representation in government (pushing them further toward the insurgency).

Jason Ditz, managing news editor at Antiwar.com, discusses the Obama administration’s change in Afghanistan policy from a 2011 withdrawal to a 2014 'transition,' soaring civilian casualties from increased Predator drone strikes in AfPak, the schism developing between Hamid Karzai and Gen. Petraeus over night raids, the surprising suggestion for an Afghanistan drawdown from the usually-hawkish Council on Foreign Relations and the media’s short attention span that lets the military get away with...

Jason Ditz, managing news editor at Antiwar.com, discusses the many suspicious details in the Yemen printer bomb plot, Obama's declaration of war on al-Qaeda's Arabian Peninsula franchise, a recent-history lesson on Yemeni civilian casualties from US drone strikes and why the somewhat decentralized and anarchic state of Yemen may be another nation-building candidate.

Jason Ditz, managing news editor at Antiwar.com, discusses Pentagon criticisms of WikiLeaks’ Iraq War logs for simultaneously endangering the troops and having so little new information as to be non-newsworthy, exposing the military’s assertion that 'we don’t do body counts' as a total lie, differing U.S. reactions to the nearly identical torture practices of Saddam Hussein’s regime and post-occupation Shi’ite allies and why the New York Times — despite a 10 week advance preview of the...

Jason Ditz, managing news editor at Antiwar.com, discusses Richard Holbrooke’s admission that military victory in Afghanistan is impossible, the unhelpful and over-broad application of the 'Taliban' label to a a myriad of groups opposing occupation, why the 'clear and hold' strategy is apparently too boring to pursue for long, schizophrenic U.S. policy in Somalia and why WikiLeaks’ biggest leak ever could use a university graduate program to help sort through the nearly 400,000...

Jason Ditz, managing news editor at Antiwar.com, discusses current events in Yemen, the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks and U.S. opposition to an Iraqi government power-sharing deal that includes Muqtada al-Sadr.

Jason Ditz, managing news editor at Antiwar.com, discusses the election in Afghanistan: the unofficial ballot box stuffing contest, the lively market in buying and selling voter cards and the very low turnout (especially after correcting for fraud).

Jason Ditz, managing news editor at Antiwar.com, discusses Radio Free Europe’s strange accusation that Ditz is an Iranian agent and the taxpayer dollars wasted on a Cold War propaganda relic reinvented as U.S.  government 'journalism.'

Jason Ditz, managing news editor at Antiwar.com, discusses the second fake U.S. withdrawal from Iraq, why the MSM doesn’t seem to notice the renaming of combat brigades to 'transitional troops,' the evidence of a substantial residual U.S. presence (air bases, Vatican-sized embassy, proposed State Department private army), the Obama administration’s attempt to broker a deal — any deal — to get Iraq’s government together and how Iraq’s escalating violence amid the political stalemate bodes ill...

Jason Ditz, managing news editor at Antiwar.com, discusses the notable early discoveries within the huge cache of  leaked documents from WikiLeaks, the impressive Afghanistan 'War Logs' spread set up by the Guardian, the leak’s effect on public opinion and Congressional war funding, roaming U.S. assassination squads in southern Afghanistan and evidence that IED attacks are as deadly and unstoppable as ever.

Jason Ditz, managing news editor at Antiwar.com, discusses Iraqi factional divisions that have prevented a Prime Minister from being seated from the March elections, the regained prominence of former PM's Ayad Allawi and Ibrahim al-Jaafari, violent popular protests against Iraq's incompetent government, persistent rumors of Saudi airspace authorization for an Israeli attack on Iran and CIA director Leon Panetta's misleading claim that Iran has enough uranium for 2 nukes.

Jason Ditz, managing news editor at Antiwar.com, discusses Israel’s revised list of goods allowed into Gaza, smuggling tunnels from Egypt that provide 'luxury' goods for a few politically connected Gazans, running the clock out on an international flotilla investigation, Obama’s gutless presidency and why Turkey is at a crossroads.