by Tom Engelhardt | Dec 8, 2014 | Democracy & Governance, Redev, War & Peace
It’s the end of the road for Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, and the Washington press corps couldn’t have been more enthusiastic about writing his obituary. In terms of pure coverage, it may not have been Ferguson or the seven-foot deluge of snow that hit...
by Tom Engelhardt | Oct 3, 2014 | Democracy & Governance, Redev
What are the odds? You put about $68 billion annually into a maze of 17 major intelligence outfits. You build them glorious headquarters. You create a global surveillance state for the ages. You listen in on your citizenry and gather their communications in staggering...
by Peter Van Buren | Sep 26, 2014 | Redev, War & Peace
I wanted to offer a wry chuckle before we headed into the heavy stuff about Iraq, so I tried to start this article with a suitably ironic formulation. You know, a déjà-vu-all-over-again kinda thing. I even thought about telling you how, in 2011, I contacted a noted...
by Patrick Cockburn | Aug 26, 2014 | Redev, War & Peace
This essay is excerpted from the first chapter of Patrick Cockburn’s new book, The Jihadis Return: ISIS and the New Sunni Uprising, with special thanks to his publisher, OR Books. The first section is a new introduction written for TomDispatch. There are extraordinary...
by Matthew Harwood | Aug 15, 2014 | Democracy & Governance, Drugs, Human Rights, Redev, War & Peace
Jason Westcott was afraid. One night last fall, he discovered via Facebook that a friend of a friend was planning with some co-conspirators to break in to his home. They were intent on stealing Wescott’s handgun and a couple of TV sets. According to the Facebook...
