Emails recently released by the State Department give more information on how a securities trader and big-money Clinton donor was appointed by her office to the International Security Advisory Board (ISAB), a group that advises the Secretary of State on nuclear...
Peter van Buren
State Department Tries to Send Embarrassing Press Video Down the Memory Hole
by Peter van Buren | Jun 7, 2016 | Featured Articles
Last week the State Department revealed that an unknown official within its public affairs office ordered the scrubbing of roughly eight minutes from a video of a State press briefing, which included a discussion about negotiations related to the Iran nuclear deal.In...
Obama and the Myth of Hiroshima
by Peter van Buren | May 31, 2016 | Featured Articles
On May 27, Barack Obama became the first sitting American president to visit the Hiroshima Peace Memorial, the site of the world’s first atomic bombing. Though highly photogenic, the visit was otherwise one that avoided acknowledging the true history of the place....
The New State Department Report on Hillary’s Email, and Why it Matters
by Peter van Buren | May 27, 2016 | Featured Articles
The State Department Inspector General’s (IG) investigation report leaked out a day early on May 25 makes a number of significant points. These matter, and need to be considered by anyone voting in November. What’s in the IG Report — Neither Clinton nor any of her...
My Dreams Seek Revenge: Hiroshima
by Peter van Buren | May 26, 2016 | Featured Articles
Unlike President Obama, who today is the first sitting president to ever visit the site of the first atomic bombing, I’ve visited Hiroshima many times while living in Japan.The thing that always struck me about Hiroshima was simply being there. The train pulled into...
Poof! Our Wars are All Forgotten
by Peter van Buren | May 23, 2016 | Featured Articles
One of the most popular apps these days is Snapchat. It allows the sender to set a timer for any photo dispatched via the app, so that a few seconds after the recipient opens the message, the photo is automatically deleted. The evidence of what you did at that party...
Hidden Mics as Part of Government Surveillance Program
by Peter van Buren | May 19, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In another example of multi-dimensional clash among the Fourth Amendment, privacy, technology, and the surveillance state, hidden microphones that are part of a broad, public clandestine government surveillance program that has been operating around the San Francisco...
The Police State and License Plate Scanners
by Peter van Buren | May 18, 2016 | Featured Articles
One of the latest tools for violating our privacy and creating the American police state are license plate scanners. Watching You This technology allows the police to cruise through a city at normal speed and photographically gather images of vehicle license plates,...
Kurd Fighter in Iraq Destroys U.S.-Made Turkish Helo With Russian-Model Missile
by Peter van Buren | May 16, 2016 | Featured Articles
There’s no past in Washington. There is no sense that actions taken today will exist past today, even though in reality they often echo for decades.A video making the rounds online shows a fighter from a Kurdish group known as Kurdish Workers Party, or, more commonly,...
US Can’t Say Whether or Not $759 Million Spent on Education in Afghanistan Helped Anything
by Peter van Buren | May 10, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
If at where you work you spent $759 million on something, and then told your boss you have no idea if anything was accomplished, and that the little data you do have is probably fraudulent, how might that work out for you? If you are the US government in Afghanistan,...
Secret Service Handcuffs The First Amendment
by Peter van Buren | May 9, 2016 | Featured Articles
Thomas Jefferson said that an informed citizenry is critical to a democracy, and with that as a cornerstone the Founders wrote freedom of the press into the First Amendment to the Constitution. The most basic of ideas at play is that the government should in no way be...
Film Review: National Bird Looks Deeply in the Drone War’s Abyss
by Peter van Buren | May 7, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
National Bird, a new documentary by filmmaker Sonia Kennebeck, co-produced with Errol Morris and Wim Wenders, is a deep, multilayered, look into America’s drone wars, a tactic which became a strategy which became a post-9/11 policy. To many in Iraq, Afghanistan and...
Suspect Held in Solitary for Seven Months for Forgetting Hard Drive Passwords
by Peter van Buren | May 4, 2016 | Featured Articles
Innocent until proven guilty? Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination? Hah! Not if you forget your passwords, in Post-Constitutional America. Former Philadelphia Police Sergeant Francis Rawls, above, has spent the past seven months in solitary confinement...
Is This What’s in Those 28 Pages? And Does it Matter?
by Peter van Buren | Apr 27, 2016 | Featured Articles
Did the CIA meet with some of the 9/11 hijackers ahead of the attacks on New York? Did the Saudi government help finance those hijackers? Someone knows the answers, and soon, you might know as well. This Summer? James Clapper, the director of national intelligence,...
Why Don’t the Candidates Talk About Afghanistan?
by Peter van Buren | Apr 19, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Heading into its sixteenth year, with no endpoint in sight, America’s longest war is its least talked about. Afghanistan has not come up in any Republican or Democratic debate, except perhaps as one of a list of countries where Islamic State must be destroyed (left...
Does Over-Classification Matter With the Hillary Emails?
by Peter van Buren | Apr 15, 2016 | Featured Articles
Rules are for fools, and in this case the fools in question are you, me, and what’s left of the American democratic system. Obama, in an interview, basically made it clear nobody is going to indict Hillary Clinton for exposing classified material via her unclassified...
John Kerry, and the Legacy of Hiroshima
by Peter van Buren | Apr 13, 2016 | Featured Articles
US Secretary of State John Kerry and fellow envoys from the G7 visited Hiroshima’s Peace Memorial Park on the margins of their summit meeting this week. Kerry was the highest ranking American government official to visit the Peace Park, the memorial dedicated to the...
‘The Boys Who Said No!’: New Documentary About War Resisters
by Peter van Buren | Apr 4, 2016 | Featured Articles
Evil is participatory, says interviewee David Harris at the beginning of a documentary in progress about Vietnam-era draft resisters, The Boys Who Said No! Evil continuing depends on people joining in, and the first step to stopping it, he continues, is withdrawing...
Iraq Ranks In Ten Most Corrupt Countries In World, Again
by Peter van Buren | Mar 30, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Iraq, the failed state that over 4,600 (and counting…) Americans died to free from some evil tyrant 13 years ago, is still ranking high internationally in something. Unfortunately, that something is corruption. A couple of other places where America has been...
Back to the Future: The Unanswered Questions from the Debates
by Peter van Buren | Mar 26, 2016 | Featured Articles
The nuances of foreign policy do not feature heavily in the ongoing presidential campaign. Every candidate intends to “destroy” the Islamic State; each has concerns about Russian President Vladimir Putin, North Korea, and China; every one of them will defend Israel;...
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