New, Rare and Unreleased Material from the DMZ Empire
New, Rare and Unreleased Material from the DMZ Empire
It was probably one of the weirdest and most absurd press conferences in Washington history. Today, a full week after the terrible massacre in Newtown, Connecticut, NRA President Wayne LaPierre called for an “armed security” force in every school in America,…
A few days ago I started getting requests on Twitter to comment on the WikiLeaks documents about TrapWire, a potentially frightening surveillance program developed by a company called Abraxas that was started by former CIA officers in 2001 and later…
Last year, I got a surprise call from a staffer on the Senate Homeland Security Committee: would I be willing to provide some input about an upcoming hearing on intelligence contractors? As the author of SPIES FOR HIRE and many…
TIME Magazine, of all places, has an amazing article about Washington this week. It’s called “Bubble on the Potomac,” and it’s about the “new affluence” that sets this gilded city “apart from the country it governs.” To me, the brilliance…
“The anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks began publishing on Monday more than five million emails from a U.S.-based global security analysis company that has been likened to a shadow CIA,” Reuters reports. Here’s what WikiLeaks has to say on this massive release:…
Blackwater, the notorious mercenary company now known as “Xe,” has a new Chief Operating Officer (COO) – Charles (Chuck) Thomas, formerly of the British-owned defense and intelligence contractor BAE Systems Inc. According to today’s press release from Blackwater owner USTC…
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…
Michael Isikoff reports at MSNBC today that a former top CIA official has told him there is “no doubt” that Moammar Gadhafi personally approved the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, one of the incidents that.…
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…
My latest, just posted on Daily Beast: “The only way out of this box is to negotiate,” Leon V. Sigal, the director of the Northeast Asia Cooperative Security Project at the Social Science Research Council in New York, told the…
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…
The CIA, Tuli Kupferberg and Me CIA Man, written by the late, great Tuli Kupferberg, is one of the Fugs‘ oldest songs. I first heard it live at the Harry Smith Memorial Concert in DC produced by the Smithsonian Institution…
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 take on retired Air Force General James Clapper, who’s been appointed by President Obama to be Director of National Intelligence, from Foreign Policy in Focus. Clapper doesn’t lean toward either the Bush or Obama foreign policy agendas, nor does…
Yeah, I’m on Twitter. These days I find it one of the best ways to express myself and be in touch with fellow journalists, intelligence experts and activists. So I’m going to start posting some of my comments, with additional…
The East Timor and Indonesia Action Network (ETAN) has long been at the forefront of the international movement to support democratic and indigenous struggles in Indonesia against the repressive military forces in that country. Those forces are closely aligned with…
My posting last night about the FBI infiltration of Common Ground, the New Orleans-based humanitarian/solidarity organization, drove traffic up on my website from about 60 hits a day on January 6 to more than 550 on the 7th. Most of…
In 2005 I spent nearly six weeks in New Orleans writing about the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and the Common Ground collective, an amazing group of street and health-care activists who came together to provide solidarity and humanitarian support to…
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…
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…