Time Slips Into the Past…and the Future: A Book Review of Dons of Time
A new novel by Greg Guma offers a tale of intrigue and mystery, bringing up the issues surrounding surveillance in a world newly aware of the ever-expanding panopticon.
Search Results for Toward Freedom Journal
The Story Behind America’s Fast Food Worker Uprising
How did the biggest-ever mobilization of fast-food workers come about, and what is its endgame?
Asking the Wrong Questions: Did Arab Revolutions Fail?
Challenging the falsehoods and simplifications that surrounded the so-called Arab Spring from the very start doesn’t necessarily mean that one is in doubt of the very notion that genuine revolutions have indeed gripped various Arab countries for nearly three years.
Life During Wartime: Mass Surveillance, Intelligence, and Repression in the United States
Confronted with recent revelations concerning the shape and scope of NSA surveillance, liberal commentators have frequently expressed dismay and forwarded objections that the monitoring of ordinary citizens is a wasteful and dangerous distraction from the hunt for real terrorists. As this selection from the new collection Life During Wartime makes clear, such protestations really miss the point, as they misunderstand both the strategy of wholesale surveillance and the ends it serves.
At Long Last, Congress Hears From a Drone Strike Victim
On Tuesday morning, almost 10 years after the U.S. government began using drones to target suspected militants in Pakistan—one of the tools of the War on Terror that the Obama administration has embraced and expanded since taking office in 2009—Congress heard from some of the policy’s innocent victims for the first time.
Perpetual War: How Does the Global War on Terror Ever End?
Source: TomDispatch.com
[This epilogue to Scahill’s bestselling book, Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield, is posted with the kind permission of its publisher, Nation Books.]
On January 21, 2013, Barack Obama was inaugurated for his second term as president of the United States. Just as he had promised when he began his first campaign for president six years earlier, he pledged again to turn the page on history and take U.S. foreign policy in a different direction. “A decade of war is now ending,” Obama declared. “We, the people, still believe that enduring security and lasting peace do not require perpetual war.”