If Hillary is to promote freedom of speech abroad, she should start with...
The title says it all. While the State Department mimes support for free speech around the world, it continues to work against those very rights for its own employees, in the instant case, me. The...
View ArticleHow Drone War Became the American Way of War
Americans are having a love affair with drones, those robot assassins of the modern age. They’ve been touted in the media as the shiniest presents under the American Christmas tree of war. TomDispatch...
View ArticleRationale Thought on (In)Security
TomDispatch offers a head-smacking piece on how far we have slid down that slippery slope into becoming just another crappy security state: Sometimes a little distance is all it takes. I left town —...
View ArticleShe remained silent. We do not.
“Countries that restrict free access to information or violate the basic rights of internet users risk walling themselves off from the progress of the next century,” said SecState Hillary Clinton....
View ArticleThe Question
My recent posting on TomDispatch included a contest, where readers sent in questions for me. TomDispatch chose the most interesting one for me to answer. The winner also got a signed copy of my book....
View ArticleSometimes being right doesn’t solve a damn thing
People ask the question in various ways, sometimes hesitantly, often via a long digression, but my answer is always the same: no regrets. In some 24 years of government service, I experienced my share...
View ArticlePredator Nation
From TomDispatch: A devastating account of drone wars as our number one export of the twenty-first century and just how we’ve become a Predator nation, America as a Shining Drone Upon a Hill, On...
View ArticleTerminator Planet: The First History of Drone Warfare, 2001-2050
The future is now. This new Ebook Terminator Planet: The First History of Drone Warfare, 2001-2050 is the first unclassified history of US drone warfare, written as it happened. From the opening...
View ArticleUS Drone Policy and Wedding Day Massacres
It probably hasn’t been the most popular thing to do, but I’m glad that TomDispatch has been one place that has continued to focus on the “collateral damage” of our recent wars and is the only website...
View ArticleAn Obligation to Speak Out
In an age where dissent is thought of as a form of treason, where Federal agencies spy on their own employees to prevent whistleblowing, it is important to remind ourselves that as government workers–...
View ArticleUS Militarization of Africa: 5000 Personnel, Ten Countries+
Here’s something genuinely different from TomDispatch.com. In response to Nick Turse’s July 12 piece, “Obama’s Scramble for Africa,” Colonel Tom Davis, the director of the U.S. Africa Command Office of...
View ArticleAmerica’s Shadow Wars on the Rise
Nick Turse’s changing face of empire series has been especially popular at TomDispatch. His most recent piece on how the U.S. military presence is spreading in Africa was publicly disputed by U.S....
View ArticleImperial Reconstruction and Its Discontents
If you missed my recent article “How Not to Reconstruct Iraq, Afghanistan — or America A Guide to Disaster at Home and Abroad,” it is available at the following sites, below. Please note that despite...
View ArticleHow Not to Reconstruct Iraq, Afghanistan — or America
This article was originally published on TomDispatch.com and Huffington Post on August 16, 2012 Some images remain like scars on my memory. One of the last things I saw in Iraq, where I spent a year...
View ArticleRebuilding America’s Infrastructure (in the Middle East)
Storms that knock out power for days, stripping away the veil that America’s infrastructure matches its first-world ambitions, are now common-place. Equally common, at least while there was an election...
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