Tell Priti Patel: Stop your attack on journalistic freedom
Journalists who share leaks of official information should not face life imprisonment for doing their job
Peter Van Buren blew the whistle on State Department waste and mismanagement during the Iraqi reconstruction in his first book, We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People. A TomDispatch regular, he writes about current events at his blog, We Meant Well. His latest book is Ghosts of Tom Joad: A Story of the #99Percent.
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Published in: HomeThe military-industrial complex in IraqRadical Islam has proven, with Washington’s help, a worthy successor to the Soviet Union, a superb money-making...
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Published in: HomeNo-fly-list America
Sad as it may be, the Ibrahim case is a fairly benign example of ordinary Washington practices in the post-9/11 era....
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Published in: HomeWelcome to the memory hole - disappearing Edward SnowdenWhat if Edward Snowden was made to disappear? Whistleblower Peter Van Buren examines how the control exerted by...
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Published in: HomeWelcome to post-Constitution America
What if your country begins to change and nobody notices? As the weaponry and technology of war came home, so did a...
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Published in: HomeEdward Snowden’s long flight: what a whistleblower thinks a fellow whistleblower might have thought
Here are five things that I imagine were on his mind (they would have been on mine) as that plane took off.