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Nick Turse
Nick Turse is the managing editor of TomDispatch and a fellow at the Type Media Center. He is the author most recently of Next Time They’ll Come to Count the Dead: War and Survival in South Sudan and of the bestselling Kill Anything That Moves.
About six weeks ago, at the urging of fellow TomDispatch author Rebecca Solnit, I undertook the beginnings of an on-line memorial to…
On November 2, 2005, I found myself in a familiar situation — at a protest. This time, it was the New York…
In late August 2005, after twenty years of service in the field of military procurement, Bunnatine (“Bunny”) Greenhouse, the top official at…
When you think of food and the U.S. Army, what do you picture? Long chow lines with a grunt serving up chipped…
It’s been a tough year for the U.S. military. But you wouldn’t know it from the Internet, now increasingly packed with slick,…
When we last left our hero, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, I sarcastically conjectured that poor Rummy had been ‘dropped from the…
Lets face it, making war is fast superceding sports as the American national pastime. Since 1980, overtly or covertly, the United States…
I first noticed the pattern last year with the Abu Ghraib torture scandal exploding. By now it’s beyond a trend. Closer to…
Part II: The Civilian Half When we last left this story, we were knee-deep in the emerging Homeland Security State, a special…