Peter Van Buren: Whistleblowers, Moral Injury, and Endless War
Introduces new novel, Hooper’s War, about the moral injury suffered in war. Did this motivate Chelsea Manning to become a whistleblower?
Read more...Introduces new novel, Hooper’s War, about the moral injury suffered in war. Did this motivate Chelsea Manning to become a whistleblower?
Read more...A hard look at the results of one of America’s globalization projects, that of the casual creation of failed states.
Read more...Why fixating on Trump has the convenient effect of shifting attention away from other important topics. Cui bono?
Read more...Sunny predictions for oil prices in 2017 are looking a tad premature.
Read more...Trump has turned conduct of his wars over to neocon mad dogs like Paul Wolfowitz that even hawkish Reagan made sure to keep out of power.
Read more...A discussion of US rationalizations for committing more troops to Afghanistan with no endgame in sight.
Read more...Why head on opposition to war has failed and other approaches have better odds of long term success.
Read more...The US game plan for the Middle East seems to be not just more wars, but losing more wars.
Read more...The Obama White House blamed Assad for a 2013 sarin attack in advance of evidence. The claim fell apart. The Trump White House is making a rerun.
Read more...The US has just attacked Syria. Unless the Russians abandon Syria, this looks like the war the neocons wanted.
Read more...US + UK ban laptops and other electronics from cabin baggage on flights from Mid East: Why? Airlines scramble in response, lame jokes ensue.
Read more...The OPEC deal last year was weak and is vulnerable to US shale players increasing production.
Read more...A string of oil deals between Russian oil companies and Arab petrostates have shifted the center of political gravity in the Middle East and North Africa towards Moscow
Read more...Why the Iraq oil problem was not so much access, as in meeting U.S. oil needs, but that U.S. firms had been frozen out of Iraq.
Read more...Why corporate Democrats are not your friends.
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