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Lock Up Washington

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Real American Boy: How Our Byzantine Immigration System and Failed Economy May Have Made a Terrorist
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California Man Sues Officers He Says Nearly Beat Him to Death

The Promise of a Courageous Al-Jazeera America May Be Fading

A Step Closer to Immigration Reform

GOP Senator’s Hypocrisy on Tornado Aid, Jon Stewart Hates Washington, and More

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Economic Murder: How and Why Austerity Kills

‘Left, Right & Center’: The White House Scandal Trifecta

Save Our Democracy: Buy the L.A. Times for $660 Million

‘The Daily Show’: Stewart Slams Hypocrites Cheney and Rumsfeld

‘SNL’: Stefon’s Farewell Features Anderson Cooper

Act of Congress
By Jesse Eisinger

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By Gabriel Thompson

The Girls of Atomic City
By Scott Martelle

The Questions Education Reformers Aren’t Asking

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Gore Vidal: His Life and Legacy

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Acts of War: Iraq and Afghanistan in Seven Plays

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Tag: We Meant Well

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With a recent semi-victory, whistle-blower Robert MacLean may not only have given himself a shot at getting his old job back, but he may have also created a precedent for future federal whistle-blowers. In the post-9/11 world, people like him show us how deep the Washington rabbit hole really goes.

Posted on May 9, 2013 READ MORE

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An All-American Nightmare

By Peter Van Buren, TomDispatch —

Torture can’t be disappeared like the body of a political prisoner, or conveniently deep-sixed simply by wishing it elsewhere or pretending it never happened or closing our bureaucratic eyes. After the fact, it can be dealt with only by staring directly into the nightmare that changed us—that, like it or not, helped make us who we now are.

Posted on Dec 19, 2012 READ MORE

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Leaking War

By Peter Van Buren, TomDispatch —

What lies at the nexus of Obama’s targeted drone killings, his self-serving leaks, and his aggressive prosecution of whistleblowers is a president who believes himself above the law, and seems convinced that he alone has a preternatural ability to determine right from wrong.

Posted on Jun 12, 2012 READ MORE

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Silent State: Washington’s Campaign Against Whistle-Blowers

By Peter Van Buren, TomDispatch —

There can be little doubt that government retaliation against whistle-blowers is not an isolated event, nor even an agency-by-agency practice. The number of cases in play suggests an organized strategy to deprive Americans of knowledge of the more disreputable things their government does.

Posted on Feb 9, 2012 READ MORE | 11 COMMENTS

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Freedom Isn’t Free at the State Department

By Peter Van Buren —

On the same day that more than 250,000 unredacted State Department cables hemorrhaged out onto the Internet, I was interrogated for the first time in my 23-year State Department career by State’s Bureau of Diplomatic Security for posting on my blog a link to a WikiLeaks document already available elsewhere on the Web.