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Chickening Out in Iraq: How Your Tax Dollars Financed ‘Reconstruction’ Madness in the Middle East Chickening Out in Iraq: How Your Tax Dollars Financed ‘Reconstruction’ Madness in the Middle East

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

Oct 3, 2011 / Peter Van Buren

As Obama Goes Abroad Searching for Monsters to Destroy, Ron Paul Rightly Rejects Assassinating Americans As Obama Goes Abroad Searching for Monsters to Destroy, Ron Paul Rightly Rejects Assassinating Americans

While Rick Perry hails the president's authorization of the killing of two Americans in Yemen, Paul rejects “assassinating American citizens without charges.”

Oct 1, 2011 / Blog / John Nichols

Assassinating Awlaki: Obama Can Kill Anyone He Wants To Assassinating Awlaki: Obama Can Kill Anyone He Wants To

Eliminating bad guys from the sky, even American citizens, confuses national security with a R-rated video game.

Sep 30, 2011 / Blog / Bob Dreyfuss

Mahmoud Abbas’s High-Stakes UN Gamble Mahmoud Abbas’s High-Stakes UN Gamble

The Palestinian leader’s defiance of Washington was applauded in Ramallah. But his diplomatic daring has little chance of success without a unified national strategy that dra...

Sep 28, 2011 / Graham Usher

After Deng: On China’s Transformation

After Deng: On China’s Transformation After Deng: On China’s Transformation

Is Deng Xiaoping’s legacy of modernization without political reform one that no contemporary Chinese official can control?

Sep 27, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Joshua Kurlantzick

For State Department Employees, Freedom Isn’t Free For State Department Employees, Freedom Isn’t Free

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

Sep 27, 2011 / Peter Van Buren

Hugh Grant’s Awfully Big Adventure Hugh Grant’s Awfully Big Adventure

At the Labour Party conference, a whiff of Hollywood glamor helps Britain's anti-hacking campaigners keep their spirits up—and MPs on their toes.

Sep 27, 2011 / Blog / D.D. Guttenplan

Comeuppance of a Superpower: Neoliberal Capitalism and the Decline of the West Comeuppance of a Superpower: Neoliberal Capitalism and the Decline of the West

The proverbial bogeymen of our world—Osama, Saddam, Gaddafi, Ahmadinejad—are clearly meant to act like so many mini-black holes absorbing all our fears.  But they won’t save t...

Sep 26, 2011 / Pepe Escobar

10 Reasons Why the UN Occupation of Haiti Must End 10 Reasons Why the UN Occupation of Haiti Must End

It's past time for a speedy withdrawal of all UN soldiers from Haiti.

Sep 26, 2011 / Greg Grandin and Keane Bhatt

Bombing Haqqani: A Bad Idea Bombing Haqqani: A Bad Idea

 Obama should make a deal with Pakistan, not threaten to bomb it.

Sep 26, 2011 / Blog / Bob Dreyfuss

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