Keeping abreast of the waste of U.S. taxpayer money in Afghanistan’s so-called “reconstruction” is a full-time job. Since I already have a full-time job and can’t do it, luckily the Special Inspector General for Afghan Reconstruction (SIGAR) does document the waste as...
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US Planning to Send 450 More Military Personnel to Iraq
by Peter van Buren | Jun 11, 2015 | Featured Articles
When at first you don’t succeed, fail, fail again. And with that, we woke up Wednesday to see the Obama administration ready to announce a change of course in Iraq, one that is very much a back to the future kind of event. Following about a year of not defeating,...
Hope for Iraq? Depends on What You’re Hoping For…
by Peter van Buren | Jun 1, 2015 | Featured Articles
Is there hope for Iraq? It depends on what you are hoping for. It is becoming clearer that there is little hope of destroying Islamic State in Iraq. Islamic State has no shortage of new recruits. Its fighters capture heavy weapons with such ease that the United States...
Iraq and Another Memorial Day
by Peter van Buren | May 25, 2015 | Featured Articles
Iraq? On another Memorial Day, we’re still talking about Iraq? Remembering I attended the 2015 commencement ceremonies at Fordham University in New York. The otherwise typical ritual (future, global, passion, do what you love, you’ll never forget this place) began...
Love, Visas, and Marriage in Post-Constitutional America
by Peter van Buren | May 14, 2015 | Featured Articles
The government can block your foreign husband or wife from living with you in America, based on secret information you can’t see or contest. Like with the No-Fly list, in post-Constitutional America the walls are built of secret databases. Taking Visas to the Supreme...
FBI Monitored Peaceful Demos in Baltimore with High-Tech Surveillance
by Peter van Buren | May 13, 2015 | Featured Articles
The FBI surveilled peaceful protests in Baltimore following the police killing of Freddie Gray, protest acts protected by the First Amendment, from the air, using high-tech monitoring aircraft. The surveillance aircraft can be equipped with infrared and other...
State Department Won’t Review Clinton Ethics
by Peter van Buren | May 9, 2015 | Featured Articles
When Hillary Clinton became Secretary of State in 2009, the Obama White House required her to sign an agreement promising to have her family’s charities, under the umbrella of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI; now known as the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton...
US to Widely Export Killer Drones
by Peter van Buren | Apr 17, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Here’s one of those “Now what could possibility go wrong?” stories. Drones for Everyone Reversing years of restricted sales of America’s robot drone killers, the Obama administration announced it will begin allowing sales of armed drones to some friendly and allied...
$416 Million Afghan Program to Empower Women: No ‘Tangible Benefit’
by Peter van Buren | Apr 7, 2015 | Featured Articles
The American reconstruction campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan have, and continue, to spend billions of taxpayer dollars on pointless projects seemingly designed solely to funnel money into the pockets of US government contractors. Empowering Women These projects (Iraq...
White House Email Archiving Office Exempts Self from FOIA Disclosures
by Peter van Buren | Mar 18, 2015 | Featured Articles
Hot on the high heels of the Clinton email atrocity, where one individual determined for her own campaign and indeed for all of history which parts of her work as a taxpayer-paid government official would be forever sent down the Memory Hole, the White House announced...
The Future of Mosul is Kobane
by Peter van Buren | Mar 7, 2015 | Featured Articles
It was necessary to destroy the Syrian town of Kobane (above) in order to save it from ISIS. The rubble and ruin of what was once a place more than 200,000 people lived is now free. Want to know the future of Mosul? Look to Kobane. Destroying Kobane Kobane once...
State Department Gives 87 Percent of Afghan Funds to Only Five Recipients
by Peter van Buren | Feb 27, 2015 | Featured Articles
The Special Inspector General for Afghan Reconstruction (SIGAR) issued a scathing report showing the Department of State gave a staggering 87 percent of all Afghan reconstruction funds to only five recipients. In fact, 69 percent of all taxpayer money spent went to...
Libya: A Perfect Storm of Interventionist Failure
by Peter van Buren | Feb 17, 2015 | Featured Articles
Libya is the perfect storm example of the failure of US interventionist policy in the Middle East. The Obama-Clinton Model In 2011, Libya was to be the centerpiece of Middle East Intervention 2.0, the Obama-Clinton version. Unlike the Bush model, that of Texas-sized...
The Seduction of Brian Williams: Embedded with the Military
by Peter van Buren | Feb 12, 2015 | Featured Articles
Brian Williams was seduced. He is a liar of course, someone who did not tell the truth no matter the reason or excuse, a bad trait for a journalist. Williams lied about being RPG’ed in a helicopter over Iraq; he did not see any variant of what you can see in this...
Supreme Court Rules in Favor of TSA Whistleblower Robert MacLean
by Peter van Buren | Feb 6, 2015 | Featured Articles
Whistleblower laws exist because government officials do not always act in the nation’s best interests. The Obama administration, in its war on whistleblowers, just lost a major battle. Major in its venue — the Supreme Court — and major in its implications for future...
America Is Open for Business in Iraq (Psst… Wanna Buy an M1 Tank?)
by Peter van Buren | Jan 15, 2015 | Featured Articles
The current American war in Iraq is a struggle in search of a goal. It began in August as a humanitarian intervention, morphed into a campaign to protect Americans in-country, became a plan to defend the Kurds, followed by a full-on crusade to defeat the new Islamic...
What Didn’t Happen in 2014: The Paranoia Year in Review
by Peter van Buren | Jan 6, 2015 | Featured Articles
So how’s 2015 so far? Outside playing on your hoverboard while Dad brings in the family helicopter? Mom inside serving up a hearty meal, all in pill form? Planning a trip to the Lunar Grand Hyatt? Enjoying a life free from all disease, war and hunger, courtesy of the...
Torture and the Destruction of the Human Being Shaker Aamer by the United States
by Peter van Buren | Dec 18, 2014 | Featured Articles
click photo to enlargeThe Bush and Obama administrations have gone to extraordinary lengths to hide America’s archipelago of secret prisons and systems of torture. For all the empty talk of “transparency” being high-fived around following the Senate Report, they at...
Torture and the Myth of Never Again: The Persecution of John Kiriakou
by Peter van Buren | Dec 11, 2014 | Featured Articles
In a Galaxy Far, Far Away The United States sanctioned acts of torture by the Central Intelligence Agency and others. The acts took place in secret prisons (“black sites”) against persons detained indefinitely without trial. They were described in detail and...
Voiceprints: Time to be Afraid Again
by Peter van Buren | Nov 18, 2014 | Featured Articles
The end of privacy in the United States was brought about as much by technology as intention. Those who claim there is little new here — the government read the mail of and wiretapped the calls and conversations of Americans under COINTELPRO from 1956 to at least...
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