American foreign policy will never recover from Iraq
Ten years after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the Middle East is more unstable than we ever could have imagined
Thursday, Mar 7, 2013 5:34 PM UTC 36Politics TomDispatch.com, Iraq
Peter Van Buren
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Torture: America’s other national pastime
Don't let "Zero Dark Thirty" fool you. The suffering we inflict is psychological -- and has lasting consequences
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What won’t be discussed during tonight’s debate
Expect both candidates to pose and posture -- and ignore pressing issues like our mission in the Middle East
Thursday, Oct 11, 2012 3:15 PM UTCPolitics The Middle East, Saudi Arabia
Whistle-blowing US torture
John Kiriakou exposed the CIA's dark dealings, and as a reward, he's facing 45 years in prison
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Why American reconstruction fails
Our efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan have caused more harm than good, and we have only ourselves to blame
Thursday, Aug 16, 2012 3:53 PM UTC 24Politics Iraq, Afghanistan, U.S. Military
Leaking war
How Obama’s targeted killings, leaks, and the everything-is-classified state have fused
Tuesday, Jun 12, 2012 1:41 PM UTCPolitics National security
Our real Iraq losses
We left their nation in turmoil and our own country entangled in an endless "national security" nightmare
Monday, Apr 9, 2012 2:14 PM UTC 10News Iraq, Iraq war
Obama’s unprecedented war on whistleblowers
From Manning to Kiriakou, critics are aggressively targeted as the White House turns a blind eye to abuses
Thursday, Feb 9, 2012 4:05 PM UTC 80News WikiLeaks, Bradley Manning
Inside the attack on the First Amendment
An op-ed got Davis fired from his government job. He's hardly the first to have his free speech rights trampled
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Interrogated by the State Department
A month after I posted a WikiLeaks link on my blog, the federal agency I work for told me I was under investigation
Tuesday, Sep 27, 2011 4:01 PM UTCNews WikiLeaks
What withdrawal from Iraq?
The U.S. military may slowly be leaving, but it's being replaced with an ever-growing State Department presence
Tuesday, Jun 7, 2011 5:45 PM UTC 24Politics Iraq war, War Room, Iraq
The seductive power of the U.S. military
Why do journalists and other civilians have such trouble staying objective when they're embedded with the army?
Monday, May 16, 2011 8:01 PM UTC 15Politics U.S. Military, War Room, Iraq
Peter Van Buren spent a year in Iraq as a State Department Foreign Service Officer serving as Team Leader for two Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs). Now in Washington, he writes about Iraq and the Middle East at his blog, We Meant Well. His book, We Meant Well: How
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