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
Tomgram: Nick Turse, Tomorrow’s Blowback Today? Posted by Nick Turse at 9:08am, August 9, 2012 tomdispatch.com Only in America: It turns out that we’re the sole country on the planet where a majority of people (62%) are sunnily in favor of sending drones across the globe (and across the borders of other countries) to take out terrorists. According to Pew Research’s More
Tomgram: Nick Turse, Tomorrow’s Blowback Today? Posted by Nick Turse at 9:08am, August 9, 2012 tomdispatch.com Only in America: It turns out that we’re the sole country on the planet where a majority of people (62%) are sunnily in favor of sending drones across the globe (and across the borders of other countries) to take out terrorists. According to Pew Research’s More
Tomgram> Tom Engelhardt> Chase Madar, Legal Atrocities April 15, 2012   TomDispatch Chase Madar's article,  What the Laws of War Allow> Do the WikiLeaks War Logs Reveal War Crimes> Or the Poverty of International Law? is posted separately on WAMMToday. Of course, it wasn’t Barack Obama’s fault. He didn’t nominate himself for the Nobel Peace Prize More
Scoring the Global War on Terror From Liberation to Assassination in Three Quick Rounds A war that once occupied center stage in national politics has now slipped to the periphery, with legal and moral questions raised by the war left dangling in midair. Andrew Bacevich   February 19, 2012   TomDispatch.com With the United More
450 Bases and It’s Not Over Yet> The Pentagon’s Afghan Basing Plans for Prisons, Drones, and Black Ops By Nick Turse  February 12, 2012  Tom Dispatch In late December, the lot was just a big blank: a few burgundy metal shipping containers sitting in an expanse of crushed eggshell-colored gravel inside a razor-wire-topped fence. The American More
A project of The Nation Institute Tomgram: Engelhardt, Kicking Down the World’s Door Posted by Tom Engelhardt   February 5, 2012    TomDispatch [Note for TomDispatch Readers:  Just a reminder for those planning their week: Jeremy Scahill, one of the best investigative journalists in the business, and I will be talking together on stage at New York University’s More
Tomgram: Iran Through the Looking Glass By Tom Engelhardt   January 29, 2012  Tom Dispatch Iranian Aircraft Carriers in the Gulf of Mexico It Can’t Happen Here Exclusive: New Iranian Commando Team Operating Near U.S. (Tehran, FNA) The Fars News Agency has confirmed with the Republican Guard’s North American Operations Command that a new elite Iranian More
The US Has Special Operations Forces in How Many Countries? The Bush administration had special operations forces in 60 countries. Today, that number is 75—and it’s rising. Nick Turse | Mon Sep. 19, 2011 12:28 PM PDT  Mother Jones This story first appeared on the TomDispatch website. US Army soldiers conduct a patrol through More
