New, Rare and Unreleased Material from the DMZ Empire
New, Rare and Unreleased Material from the DMZ Empire
My latest, co-authored with Frank Naif, in today’s Huffington Post: Any senior intelligence pick who has served in any capacity in government or as a private intelligence contractor during the past seven years is likely to evoke the kind of…
Your’s truly is quoted in Rolling Stone, by the magazine’s political reporter Matt Tabibi. Even stranger, however, is the fact that [John] Brennan used to head the Intelligence and National Security Alliance, or INSA, in independent nonprofit “research center” which…
Sign posted outside of Rare Earth Gallery, Embudo, New Mexico, on the low road between Santa Fe and Taos, November 29, 2008.
Tiny Town, near Madrid, New Mexico, September 2008, along the Turquoise Trail from Albuquerque to Santa Fe.
In 1964, I was in eighth grade at the American School in Japan in Tokyo. Being the child of left-leaning Protestant missionaries and a recent visitor to Vietnam, where a U.S. counterinsurgency war was brewing, I was pretty aware of…
I’m a little tired of The Nation these days, and find much of its reporting simplistic, cliched and flat-out boring. Still, its commitment to progressive, left politics remains its primary focus, and in that sense it often speaks for me…
Via Wired: Starting Tuesday, the latest music from Bob Dylan will be available on NPR. The album is Tell Tale Signs, another addition to his bootleg series of rare and unreleased recordings. Mississippi, the tune available on Wired, is a…
Meanwhile, take a listen to the great Hawaiian slack key guitarist Ledward Kaapana. Heard him play with 12-string master Mike Kaawa in San Francisco the other night and was blown away by their artistry and sense of humor. Catch them…
My latest, in Federal Times, of all places: “In the aftermath of Sept.11, Vice President Dick Cheney famously warned that the war on terrorism would be fought on ‘the dark side, if you will,’ using ‘sources and methods that are…
Hundreds of people from far and near came to the Nevada City, California, Little League park Sunday morning to say farewell to the late, great folksinger and organizer extraordinaire, Utah Phillips. I drove 80 miles from Truckee to pay my…
Join me on Tuesday, June 3 (3 p.m EST) for a discussion and Q&A about SPIES FOR HIRE on the Washington Post website. I’m sure there’s going to be plenty of spooks and contractors tuning in, so it should be…
Want to know what Richard Armitage has been doing all this time? My latest, from Salon: Ever since the 1950s, with the rise of America’s modern military-industrial complex, high-level U.S. officials and military men have moved between the government and…
Listen to my interview with The Young Turks show on Air America, broadcast live on Tuesday. These guys are full of fire and brimstone and are really engaging. A fun interview.
Listen or watch my interview with the great Amy Goodman of Democracy Now!
My latest, based on reporting in March and April in Saudi Arabia, Washington, D.C., and Ashland, Oregon. Spying on Americans without warrants, charges based on secret evidence, a small town divided by fear. Welcome to the world of Bush’s “specially…
As I reported two months ago, the Carlyle Group, the world’s largest and most powerful private equity fund, will buy the government contracting business of Booz Allen Hamilton, one of the nation’s largest intelligence contractors. The word went out today…
Listen to my interview this week with Fresh Air’s Terry Gross. What a delight to be on a show where the host actually reads your work! Thank you to Terry for being such a great interviewer. Plus: I participated in…
Thanks for this nice review to Meteor Blades of Daily Kos. You won’t read the words “ruling class” in Spies for Hire, and I’m sympathetic, because few writers who want to be taken seriously will unhesitatingly employ those words in…
My latest, in Sunday’s New York Post. Here’s the graphic (click twice to make it readable).
