The United States recently unveiled a new approach in Iraq and Syria it insists is not new at all: Special Forces will be sent into direct combat. “The fact is that our strategy… hasn’t changed,” Josh Earnest, the White House press secretary, said. “This is an...
Peter van Buren
Stopping ISIS: Follow the Money
by Peter van Buren | Nov 18, 2015 | Featured Articles
Wars are expensive. The recruitment and sustainment of fighters in the field, the ongoing purchases of weapons and munitions, as well as the myriad other costs of struggle, add up. So why isn’t the United States going after Islamic State’s funding sources as a way of...
Paris: You Don’t Want to Read This
by Peter van Buren | Nov 14, 2015 | Featured Articles
You don’t want to read this, and I take no pleasure in writing it, and no one really wants to hear it right now. But I believe it needs to be said. I join the world in grieving for the dead in Paris. I have grieved for the dead from 9/11 forward — the Australians who...
TSA Trained Disney World in Goofy ‘Terrorist Detection’ Methods
by Peter van Buren | Nov 7, 2015 | Featured Articles
The same ridiculed and useless techniques used by the Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) to not find terrorists at America’s airports are now being used at Orlando theme parks, including Disney World, Seaworld and Busch Gardens, to not find terrorists. (click...
Tell Us Why We’re At War in Iraq Again, Mr. President
by Peter van Buren | Oct 30, 2015 | Featured Articles
When I was a kid, three presidents told us we had to fight in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos, because if we didn’t fight them over there, we’d have to fight them on the beaches of California. We believed. It was a lie. I was a teenager during the Cold War, and several...
About That Delta Force Guy Killed in Iraq…
by Peter van Buren | Oct 27, 2015 | Featured Articles
The United States does not formally acknowledge the existence of Delta Force, and rarely mentions the names of any of its members, even after they leave the service. Unlike the SEALs, who seem to be prolific writers, Delta operators keep to themselves. Most of the...
America’s Civilian Killings are No Accident
by Peter van Buren | Oct 22, 2015 | Featured Articles
Hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan after US attackAmerica and its allies make modern war in a way that assures “mistakes” destroy hospitals, and civilian lives are taken by drones. These horrors are all too often strategic decisions, or the result of the profligate use...
Yes, There Still are Some Benghazi Questions Worth Asking
by Peter van Buren | Oct 21, 2015 | Featured Articles
It is very, very difficult to discuss Benghazi and Clinton without almost immediately dipping deep into partisan politics cesspool, and no doubt any hearings she will testify at on Thursday will be ugly and deeply partisan. About half of the people reading this just...
New Report: US Aid to Afghanistan Basically Wasted or Stolen
by Peter van Buren | Oct 19, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
As Obama fails on another campaign promise, this one to end the war in Afghanistan, and as that war moves into its 15th year, it is important to remember the US has spent around $110 billion (no one knows the exact amount due to poor record keeping) to “rebuild” that...
Snowden: NSA, GCHQ Using Your Phone to Spy on Others (and You)
by Peter van Buren | Oct 15, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
You are a tool of the state, according to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. The NSA in the U.S., and its equivalent in the UK, GCHQ, are taking control of your phone not just to spy on you as needed, but also to use your device as a way to spy on others around you....
How to Sustain Perpetual War (It’s Easy!)
by Peter van Buren | Oct 6, 2015 | Featured Articles
Sustaining America’s state of post-9/11 perpetual war requires skillful manipulation of the public at home. The key tool used for this purpose is the bloodless narrative, a combination of policy, falsehoods and media manipulation that creates the impression that...
The Harsh Lessons of History: Faux Reports of Progress Against IS
by Peter van Buren | Sep 25, 2015 | Featured Articles
Allegations that American military analysts may have “cooked the books” to skew intelligence assessments about the campaign against Islamic State (IS), providing a more optimistic account of progress, are a sign of bad things to come. Bad intel leads to bad decisions....
Why the War on Terror is Failing
by Peter van Buren | Aug 31, 2015 | Featured Articles
A well-done article in the New York Times reminds us that four years after the United States assassinated American citizen and Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki (and his teenage son) in a drone strike, his influence on jihadists is greater than ever. At the same time, the...
Follow the Money? Not with Hillary, Follow Pat…
by Peter van Buren | Aug 28, 2015 | Featured Articles
The old adage, “follow the money,” is still not a bad way to suss out wrongdoing. Originated during the Watergate era, the term says if you follow the trail of money through an organization or a caper, you’ll find the guilty people at the end. With the State...
UK Police Scanned the Faces of 100,000 People at Music Festival
by Peter van Buren | Aug 26, 2015 | Featured Articles
Hey, Big Brother? It’s me. Can we talk about facial recognition please? The Download Festival See, the police used facial recognition technology to scan the faces of thousands of attendees at the Download music festival in the UK without their knowledge. The excuse...
Understanding Why the Clinton Emails Matter
by Peter van Buren | Aug 11, 2015 | Featured Articles
In the world of handling America’s secrets, words – classified, secure, retroactive – have special meanings. I held a Top Secret clearance at the State Department for 24 years and was regularly trained in protecting information as part of that privilege. Here is what...
My Dreams Seek Revenge: Revisiting Hiroshima One More Time
by Peter van Buren | Aug 7, 2015 | Featured Articles
I’ve visited Hiroshima many times. There is a Japanese jail not far from the Hiroshima Peace Park, and in my guise as a diplomat working in Japan, one of my jobs was to visit Americans in jail, typically young men and women who’d smoked a little weed in drug-conscious...
Post-Constitutional America, Where Innocence is a Poor Defense
by Peter van Buren | Jul 30, 2015 | Featured Articles
Rahinah Ibrahim is a slight Malaysian woman who attended Stanford University on a US student visa, majoring in architecture. She was not a political person. Despite this, as part of a post-9/11 sweep directed against Muslims, she was investigated by the FBI. In 2004,...
Wesley Clark Calls for Internment Camps for ‘Radicalized’ Americans
by Peter van Buren | Jul 24, 2015 | Featured Articles
Retired general and former Democratic presidential candidate Wesley Clark on Friday called for World War II-style internment camps to be revived for “disloyal Americans.” In an interview on MSNBC in the wake of the mass shooting in Chattanooga, Clark said that during...
New Law Says Web Sites Would Have to Inform Law Enforcement about Readers’ ‘Terrorist Activity’
by Peter van Buren | Jul 16, 2015 | Featured Articles
Social media sites such as Twitter and YouTube would be required to report “terrorist” videos and other content posted by users to federal authorities under legislation approved this past week by the Senate Intelligence Committee. The measure, contained in the 2016...
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