“Whistle-blower” now means “homegrown terrorist”
And other definitions from the new dictionary for our post-9/11 security state
Tuesday, Jul 2, 2013 4:14 PM UTCPolitics TomDispatch.com
And other definitions from the new dictionary for our post-9/11 security state
Tuesday, Jul 2, 2013 4:14 PM UTCIn one fell swoop, Edward Snowden has laid bare the wants and desires of our surveillance state
Monday, Jun 17, 2013 12:48 PM UTC 12We've left our children a crumbling economy -- and planet. It's a burden they shouldn't shoulder by themselves
Thursday, Jun 6, 2013 1:22 PM UTCDespite reports of historically high CO2 levels, it's business as usual for companies like ExxonMobil and Chevron
Thursday, May 23, 2013 2:34 PM UTC 22How global warming could spell the end of the global superpower -- and the planet itself
Tuesday, May 7, 2013 2:50 PM UTC 29Jeremy Scahill's new book examines our newly militarized CIA and the blowback it's inspiring around the world
Tuesday, Apr 23, 2013 4:16 PM UTCNorth Korea is the latest country to be slapped with the dubious enemy label, regardless of the danger it presents
Monday, Apr 15, 2013 12:43 PM UTCHiroshima. My Lai. The Iraq War. There are almost too many to count
Thursday, Mar 28, 2013 2:05 PM UTCWhy doesn't anybody seem to care?
Monday, Mar 4, 2013 12:31 PM UTC 54The military has kept a Saudi base under wraps for two years. Given its success in the region, it's no wonder why
Tuesday, Feb 12, 2013 6:08 PM UTCThe DOJ's new justification for attacks on U.S. citizens is just the latest proof we live in a lockdown state
Tuesday, Feb 5, 2013 4:54 PM UTCObama has pledged to curb the sale of assault weapons at home, but how will he address American violence abroad?
Monday, Jan 14, 2013 2:38 PM UTCThe center's new "Global Trends 2030" offers a predictably myopic view of America's future place in the world
Thursday, Jan 3, 2013 3:32 PM UTCAmerica's covert wars continue, but on a far grander scale than we ever could have imagined a generation ago
Monday, Dec 17, 2012 5:35 PM UTCAn open letter to the president to end his lethal -- and ever-expanding -- drone wars
Tuesday, Dec 4, 2012 3:14 PM UTC 19The former general was once billed as the man who could save Iraq. Maybe that's why his downfall feels so symbolic
Tuesday, Nov 20, 2012 3:15 PM UTCSix billion dollars of campaign spending later, America is right back where it started
Tuesday, Nov 13, 2012 3:21 PM UTCThe debate cycle has mercifully come to a close, but campaign big business is here to stay -- democracy be damned
Tuesday, Oct 23, 2012 2:18 PM UTCThe fall of the Soviet Union left the U.S. the last military superpower. Where did it all go so wrong?
Tuesday, Oct 9, 2012 3:10 PM UTC 33Can the president make it to the election without a catastrophic October surprise?
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