Tom Engelhardt is a co-founder of the American Empire Project and the author of The United States of Fear as well as a history of the Cold War, The End of Victory Culture. He runs the Nation Institute's TomDispatch.com. His new book, Shadow Government: Surveillance, Secret Wars, and a Global Security State in a Single-Superpower World (Haymarket Books), has just been published.
Richard Krushnic is a former real estate loan asset manager and housing and business contract analyst at Boston’s Department of Neighborhood Development. He is currently involved in community development in Latin America and can be reached at [email protected].
Jonathan Alan King is professor of molecular biology at MIT and chair of the Nuclear Abolition Committee of Massachusetts Peace Action. He can be reached at [email protected].
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Published in: openSecurityThe Fourth Branch: the rise of the national security stateThough the US may be finally addressing some of the fictions propping up its security policies, the question...
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Published in: openSecurityThe 95% doctrine: climate change as a weapon of mass destructionWhen we speak of WMD, we usually think of weapons - nuclear, biological, or chemical - that are delivered in a...
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Published in: openSecurityHigh speed silk roads: the birth of a Eurasian century
No amount of US "pivoting" can prevent the emergence of a multipolar, multi-powered world along a Eurasian axis that...
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Published in: openSecurityThe US military's new normal in AfricaEvery new African nightmare turns out to be another opening for US military involvement.
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Published in: openSecurityThe creation of a border security state
Americans may increasingly wonder whether NSA agents are scouring their meta-data, reading their personal emails,...
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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....