New, Rare and Unreleased Material from the DMZ Empire
New, Rare and Unreleased Material from the DMZ Empire
It still pisses me off that the AFL-CIO has never apologized for working with the CIA and the Nixon administration to bring down the socialist government of Salvador Allende in Chile in 1973. This article, published in The Nation in…
My latest, in Daily Beast. To my amazement, my article and my name were mentioned at the top of Rush Limbaugh’s radio show today. Apparently what caught his attention was the Beast’s lead-in: As American commanders meet this week for…
Just posted, from The Daily Beast. It’s well-known that Sidney Harman, the electronics mogul who just bought Newsweek, is married to Rep. Jane Harman, one of Washington’s heavyweights on intelligence. Rep. Harman, a Democrat, spent eight years on the House…
Just posted. An excerpt: To be sure, the Post did the public a huge favor by showing, in excruciating detail, just how massive our secret government has become since 9/11, how far it spreads geographically across the country, and how…
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…
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…
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…
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!
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).
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.
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…
Domestic surveillance in America: The Pentagon’s Counter-Intelligence Field Activity (CIFA) office signed onto this website today to read my story on the contract it recently awarded to a British contractor linked to former defense intelligence boss Stephen Cambone. The IP…
My latest, from CorpWatch: A Pentagon office that claims to monitor terrorist threats to U.S. military bases in North America — and was once reprimanded by the U.S. Congress for spying on antiwar activists — has just awarded a multi-million…
In 2006 and 2007, I had the tremendous honor of working under a Katrina Media Fellowship from the Open Society Institute to write stories about the social and economic impact of Hurricane Katrina. About 25 print journalists, film makers, photographers…
My latest, from CorpWatch. “A new U.S. intelligence institution will allow government spy agencies to conduct broad surveillance and reconnaissance inside the country for the first time. Contractors like Boeing, BAE Systems, Harris Corporation, L-3 Communications and Science Applications International…
Japan’s nuclear power industry has a terrible record of cover-ups, and the recent earthquake in Niigata has triggered another one. The quake caused fires and a significant leak of radioactive fuel, forcing the government to shut down the world’s largest…
There’s an important detail in the NSA subpoena requests issued by the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday that’s been left out of most news accounts. In addition to asking for documents pertaining to the telecommunication industry’s collaboration with the NSA, the…
I never in a thousand years imagined that I could force the Director of National Intelligence to make a statement about a document I obtained as a journalist. But it happened. Earlier this month, in Salon, I reported that 70…