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Timothy Melley
Suspicious Minds: On Timothy Melley (Books & Arts, Covert Ops, Fiction, Non-fiction)

How thrillers inform spycraft, and the fictions that belie them both.

Peter C. Baker
Our National Torture Policy (Film, US Intelligence, War on Terrorism)

As Zero Dark Thirty reminds us, Americans have yet to face the torture committed on our behalf. 

Peter Van Buren
The Visible Government (Covert Ops, Media, US Intelligence)

How the US intelligence community came out of the shadows. 

Tom Engelhardt
Jeju Ladies
On the Front Lines of a New Pacific War (Foreign Affairs, US Military, Environment)

The US military’s aggressive Asia-Pacific strategy is escalating tensions with China and prompting local resistance throughout the region.

Koohan Paik and Jerry Mander
Afghanistan war
With the War in Afghanistan Ending, Where Does the Peace Movement Go Next? (Movements, War and Peace, US Wars and Military Action)

Peace forces could join with labor, civil rights and environmental coalitions to pressure Obama to “do some nation-building here at home.”

Tom Hayden
Military personell
The True Costs of Empire (Arms and Spending Proliferation, Government, US Military Presence Abroad)

Why are US taxpayers still forced to pay billions of dollars for US military bases?

David Vine
Barack Obama
Obama in Tehran? (Barack Obama, Foreign Policy, Nuclear Arms and Proliferation)

What remains of the initial Obama drive to reach out to Iran with an “engagement that is honed and grounded in mutual respect”?

Pepe Escobar
Israeli soldier guarding a detainee
Shelf Life (Books & Arts, War and Peace, Shelf Life)

Breaking the Silence’s Our Harsh Logic: Israeli Soldiers’ Testimonies from the Occupied Territories, 2000–2010.

Eyal Press
Barack Obama
The Barack Obama Story (Updated) (Barack Obama, US Wars and Military Action, The Constitution)

How did a community organizer and a constitutional law professor become an extrajudicial, drone-happy president? 

Tom Engelhardt
Drone flies above Afghanistan
The Possibility of a 'Drone Drawdown' in Peace Talks (Covert Ops, US Wars and Military Action)

A combination of diplomacy, legal challenges and activism could end the program of US drone strikes.

Tom Hayden

Blogs

Robert Jay Lifton: How, and Why, the Media Have Failed on Drone War
Greg Mitchell

The famed “psycho-historian” explores the true meanings, and dangers, of the new “killing technology.”

May 2, 2013
Barney Frank Talks Common Sense
Katrina vanden Heuvel

The congressman sees an opportunity to confront military bloat in the deficit debates and war-weariness.

May 1, 2013
Obama's Choice: Diplomacy or War in Syria
Robert Dreyfuss

Polls show Americans overwhelmingly oppose US action in Syria, 62-24.

May 1, 2013
Obama: Stay Out of Syria!
Robert Dreyfuss

The answer is diplomacy, not war.

April 26, 2013
Jeremy Scahill: Liberal Support Allowed Obama to Expand Bush's Interrogation Program
Nation in the News

Contrary to popular belief, the president has only increased the scope of our global program to detain and torture people.

April 24, 2013
The Chechen-Dagestan Connection to Boston
Robert Dreyfuss

The FBI needs to release its Tsarnaev file.

April 23, 2013
The US, Russia and Chechnya After Boston
Robert Dreyfuss

President Obama should stay out of Moscow’s jihad in Chechnya.

April 22, 2013
The Media and the 'Dark-Skinned' Men from Chechnya
Leslie Savan

Why we're fixated on the ethnicity and religion of the Boston bomb suspects.

April 19, 2013
Terror Hysteria Over Boston Bombs
Robert Dreyfuss

Let's all calm down.

April 19, 2013
On Our Politics of Fear
Rick Perlstein

A reflection for posterity of what it felt like to live in America the week of April 15, 2013.

April 19, 2013