Posted by Tom Dispatch [Note for TomDispatch Readers: Today, you are witnessing the birth of a TomDispatch experiment. Nick Turse and I are launching Dispatch Books, our own little publishing venture (and adventure), with our initial e-book, Terminator Planet: The… Continue Reading
What a Busted Robot Airplane Tells Us About the American Empire in 2012 and Beyond Reposted by arrangement with Tom Dispatch By Nick Turse The drone had been in the air for close to five hours before its mission crew… Continue Reading
Its Full Extent Revealed for the First Time Reposted by arrangement with Tom Dispatch By Nick Turse They increasingly dot the planet. There’s a facility outside Las Vegas where “pilots” work in climate-controlled trailers, another at a dusty camp in… Continue Reading
By Nick Turse Reposted by arrangement with Tom Dispatch It’s a story that should take your breath away: the destabilization of what, in the Bush years, used to be called “the arc of instability.” It involves at least 97 countries,… Continue Reading
Obama’s Reset: Arab Spring or Same Old Thing? How the President and the Pentagon Prop Up Both Middle Eastern Despots and American Arms Dealers By Nick Turse Reprinted with permission of TomDispatch.com If you follow the words, one Middle East… Continue Reading