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America Spends $68 Billion a Year on 17 Major Intelligence Agencies. So Why...
This story first appeared on the TomDispatch website. What are the odds? You put about $68 billion annually into a maze of 17 major intelligence outfits. You build them glorious headquarters. You...
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Why America Is Panicking About Terror—Again
This story first appeared on the TomDispatch website. It happened so fast that, at first, I didn’t even take it in. Two Saturdays ago, a friend and I were heading into the Phillips Museum in...
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“A Golden Age to Spy on Everyone:” A Conversation With Director Laura Poitras
This story first appeared on the TomDispatch website. Here’s a Ripley’s Believe It or Not! stat from our new age of national security. How many Americans have security clearances? The answer: 5.1...
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How ISIS and Ebola Took Over the Midterm Elections
This story first appeared on the TomDispatch website. Sometimes it seemed that only two issues mattered in the midterm election campaigns that just ended. No, I’m not talking about Obamacare, or the...
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How Would the US React If Russia Invaded Afghanistan Again?
This story first appeared on the TomDispatch website. Let’s play a game, the kind that makes no sense on this single-superpower planet of ours. For a moment, do your best to suspend disbelief and...
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4 Things the Media Missed Covering Chuck Hagel’s Resignation
This story first appeared on the TomDispatch website. It was the end of the road for Chuck Hagel last week and the Washington press corps couldn’t have been more enthusiastic about writing his...
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How Will We Look Back on Drone Strikes in 2019?
This story first appeared on the TomDispatch website. It was December 6, 2019, three years into a sagging Clinton presidency and a bitterly divided Congress. That day, the 500-page executive summary of...
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What Would a Time Traveler From 1963 Make of the Global War on Terror?
This story first appeared on the TomDispatch website. As 2015 begins, let’s take a trip down memory lane. Imagine that it’s January 1963. For the last three years, the United States has unsuccessfully...
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Why There Is No Massive Antiwar Movement in America
Well, it’s one, two, three, look at that amputee, At least it’s below the knee, Could have been worse, you see. Well, it’s true your kids look at you differently, But you came in an ambulance instead...
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Yes There’s a Bush and a Clinton, but the 2016 Elections Represent Something...
This story first appeared on the TomDispatch website. Have you ever undertaken some task you felt less than qualified for, but knew that someone needed to do? Consider this piece my version of that,...
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