Peace sign
Sign posted outside of Rare Earth Gallery, Embudo, New Mexico, on the low road between Santa Fe and Taos, November 29, 2008.
The Shorrock Files
New, Rare and Unreleased Material from the DMZ Empire
The Shorrock Files
New, Rare and Unreleased Material from the DMZ Empire
Tim Shorrock
Tim Shorrock is a Washington-based investigative journalist who grew up in Japan and South Korea. He is the author of SPIES FOR HIRE: The Secret World of Outsourced Intelligence, published in 2008 by Simon & Schuster (see him talking about his book here). Over the past 35 years, his work has appeared in many publications in the United States and abroad, including The Nation, Salon, Daily Beast, Mother Jones, The Progressive, Foreign Policy in Focus and Asia Times. He also appears frequently on the radio as a commentator on intelligence, contracting, foreign policy, East Asia and North and South Korea. He has been interviewed on Democracy Now, NPR’s Fresh Air, HuffPostLive and many other outlets.
Happy Halloween!
Tiny Town, near Madrid, New Mexico, September 2008, along the Turquoise Trail from Albuquerque to Santa Fe.
Instant Karma
Exhibit Hall, GEOINT 2007, San Antonio, October 2007.
Take it from Pete
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…
We need FDR – or someone like him
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…
New Dylan out this week
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…
On vacation…back in a few
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…
Outsourcing: Out of control
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…
Utah Phillips, Presente!
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…
Washington Post “Book World Live”
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…
You don’t need a neocon to know the way the wind blows
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…
The Young Turks/Air America
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.
Democracy Now! 5/19/08
Listen or watch my interview with the great Amy Goodman of Democracy Now!
Salon: Blacklisted by the Bush government
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…
It’s official: Carlyle buys Booz Allen intel unit
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…
‘SPIES’ on Fresh Air & Firedoglake
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…
SPIES FOR HIRE in Kos
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…
Private spies
My latest, in Sunday’s New York Post. Here’s the graphic (click twice to make it readable).
SPIES FOR HIRE
Out today, Tuesday, May 6! Watch this page for updates on upcoming interviews and book appearances. Available for web purchases at Powell’s Books, Amazon and Barnes & Noble. And in audio CD too.
Carlyle may jump back into spy business
My latest, from CorpWatch: The Carlyle Group, one of the world’s largest private equity funds, may soon acquire the $2 billion government contracting business of consulting giant Booz Allen Hamilton, one of the biggest suppliers of technology and personnel to…