Moscow’s Reaction to Snowden Revelations: Relocate Servers to Russia Moscow’s Reaction to Snowden Revelations: Relocate Servers to Russia
Russian lawmakers claim it would curb US access to Russian Internet data. But the real goal, critics say, would be to enable greater Russian surveillance over online activist activ...
Jul 16, 2013 / Alec Luhn
How to Be a Rogue Superpower How to Be a Rogue Superpower
A manual for the twenty-first century.
Jul 16, 2013 / Tom Engelhardt
Surveillance Blowback Surveillance Blowback
The making of the US surveillance state, 1898–2020.
Jul 16, 2013 / Alfred W. McCoy
Syria Plan Blows Up in Obama’s Face Syria Plan Blows Up in Obama’s Face
Anti-Assad forces battling each other as the CIA helps Hezbollah. Yes, Hezbollah.
Jul 16, 2013 / Bob Dreyfuss
Iran, Israel and Palestine—Does Kerry Have A Plan? An Idea? Anything? Iran, Israel and Palestine—Does Kerry Have A Plan? An Idea? Anything?
He’s back for the sixth time in six months.
Jul 15, 2013 / Bob Dreyfuss
Interns’ Favorite Articles of the Week (7/12/13) Interns’ Favorite Articles of the Week (7/12/13)
This week: Tariq Ramadan calls a coup a coup, California prisoners begin a hunger strike for basic human rights, and Dinyar Godrej unpacks the exploitation of debt.
Jul 11, 2013 / StudentNation
Secretary Kerry’s Mission Impossible in Israel-Palestine Secretary Kerry’s Mission Impossible in Israel-Palestine
Washington’s assurances that it will defend Israel no matter what it does, however objectionable, kill any hope of a two-state solution to the conflict.
Jul 11, 2013 / Henry Siegman
Jeremy Scahill: The War Against Whistleblowers Jeremy Scahill: The War Against Whistleblowers
What a country's treatment of its own citizens says about how it will treat non-citizens.
Jul 11, 2013 / The Nation Video and On The Earth Productions
Creating a Military-Industrial-Immigration Complex Creating a Military-Industrial-Immigration Complex
Here's how to turn the US-Mexican border into a war zone.
Jul 11, 2013 / Todd Miller
Anton Antonov-Ovseyenko, Truth-Teller Who Exposed Stalin’s Crimes Anton Antonov-Ovseyenko, Truth-Teller Who Exposed Stalin’s Crimes
From his release from a Gulag in 1953 to his death in Moscow this week, Anton had one mission: ‘To unmask Stalin, his henchmen and their heirs.’
Jul 11, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Stephen F. Cohen