U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, whom we could expect to be a big fan of coups given how instrumental she was in orchestrating one in Ukraine in 2014, flew to the Nigerien capital, Niamey, on August 6. However, this time she was in opposition to the coup...
He’s there daily, often hourly, whether I like it or not, and I don’t have a Department of Homeland Security to separate him from his children, throw them all in degrading versions of prison -- without even basic toiletries or edible food or clean water...
Expressed differently, the United States has not won a major conflict since 1945; has a trillion-dollar national security budget; has had 17 military commanders in the last 17 years in Afghanistan, a country plagued by 23,744 “security incidents” (the most ever recorded) in 2017 alone; has spent around $3 trillion, primarily on that war and the rest of the war on terror...
— brutal and anarchic supercities filled with gangs of youth-gone-wild, a restive underclass, criminal syndicates, and bands of malicious hackers ...
Since September 11, 2001, U.S. Special Operations forces have grown in every conceivable way, including their numbers, their budget, their clout in Washington, and their place in the country’s popular imagination. The command has, for example, more than doubled its personnel from about 33,000 in 2001 to nearly 70,000 today
U.S. Officials Talk Candidly (Just Not to Reporters) about Bases, Winning Hearts and Minds, and the “War” in Africa Read Tom Engelhardt's introduction here. By Nick Turse April 13, 2013 TomDispatch.com What the military will say to a reporter and what is said behind closed doors are two very different things -- especially when it comes More
U.S. Military Averaging More Than a Mission a Day in Africa Documents Reveal Blinding Pace of Ops in 2013, More of the Same for 2014 By Nick Turse March 27, 2014 TomDispatch.com Read Tom Engelhardt's introduction here. The numbers tell the story: 10 exercises, 55 operations, 481 security cooperation activities. For years, the U.S. military has More
U.S. Military Averaging More Than a Mission a Day in Africa Documents Reveal Blinding Pace of Ops in 2013, More of the Same for 2014 By Nick Turse March 27, 2014 TomDispatch.com Read Tom Engelhardt's introduction here. The numbers tell the story: 10 exercises, 55 operations, 481 security cooperation activities. For years, the U.S. military has More
The Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Tomgram, Nick Turse: The Pentagon Makes History the First Casualty Click here to read Tom Engelhardt's introduction. By Nick Turse TomDispatch.com February 18, 2014 It’s 2053 — 20 years since you needed a computer, tablet, or smart phone to go online. At least, that’s More
They operate in the green glow of night vision in Southwest Asia and stalk through the jungles of South America. They snatch men from their homes in the Maghreb and shoot it out with heavily armed militants in the Horn of Africa. .... By Nick Turse January 16, 2014 TomDispatch.com Tomgram: Nick Turse, Secret Wars and Black Ops Blowback. Read More
SOCOM Operators (Photo credit: Dunechaser) “Dude, I don’t need to play these stupid games. I know what you’re trying to do.” With that, Major Matthew Robert Bockholt hung up on me. By Nick Turse January 7, 2014 TomDispatch.com Click here to read Tom Engelhardt's introduction. More than a month before, I had called More
Tomgram: Nick Turse, Israel, Iran, and the Nuclear Freight Train "That the spread of nuclear weapons, whatever the country, is a danger to us all is obvious. Who exactly will use such weapons next and where remains unknown. But there is no reason to believe that, sooner or later, nuclear weapons -- which have now More
