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Peter Van Buren

Peter Van Buren spent a year in Iraq as a State Department Foreign Service Officer serving as Team Leader for two Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs). Now in Washington, he writes about Iraq and the Middle East at his blog, We Meant Well. His book, We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People (The American Empire Project, Metropolitan Books), will be published September, 2011.

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Joining the Whistleblowers' Club (Government, US Wars and Military Action)

What we lost in Iraq and Washington between 2009 and 2012.

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In Washington, Fear the Silence, Not the Noise (Government)

The fierce campaign against whistle-blowers in Washington.

Peter Van Buren
Free Speech for Government Employees (US Politics, Law, Politics)

A case being heard this month will likely define the free speech rights of federal employees and so determine the quality of people who will make up our government.

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Chickening Out in Iraq: How Your Tax Dollars Financed 'Reconstruction' Madness in the Middle East (US Military, US Wars and Military Action)

State Department employee Peter Van Buren was sent to Iraq to help rebuild it. The result was an exercise in Murphy's Law.

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For State Department Employees, Freedom Isn't Free (Internet and New Media, Media Activism, US Military Presence Abroad, US Wars and Military Action)

Peter Van Buren is a State Department employee—who might get fired for disseminating public information about WikiLeaks online.

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Occupying Iraq, State Department–Style (Foreign Policy, Iraqi Reconstruction and Occupation, World)

Eight disastrous years after we invaded, it is sad but altogether true that Iraq does not matter much in the end.

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Warrior Pundits and War Pornographers (War and Peace, World)

What is it about being embedded with the military that turns normally thoughtful journalists into war boosters?

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