Peter Van Buren
Peter Van Buren blew the whistle on State Department waste and mismanagement during the Iraqi reconstruction in We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People. A TomDispatch regular, he writes about current events at We Meant Well. His latest book is Ghosts of Tom Joad: A Story of the #99Percent. His next work will be a novel, Hooper's War.
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The shameful silence of the CEOs
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Starbucks has a racism problem, but the police, both racist and authoritarian, are worse
Shut up or you’re under arrest.
Debunking 10 lies about Syria and Assad
If Americans and Europeans don’t understand the true motives and facts about the Syrian war, they will be lead into calamitous military adventures and destructive global wars in the near future.
Cheney, Rothschild, and Fox News’ Murdoch to drill for oil in Syria, violating international...
While Syria is torn apart by the warring of U.S. imperialists and Islamic fundamentalists – leaving its children to die of starvation – another country plans to take advantage of the chaos by stealing resources from Syria’s southern region.
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