Secrecy Industry Hits Home
Unchecked growth in intelligence agencies raises troubling questions and even affects how we interact with neighbors.
The Wikileaks Release: Smile, You’re on YouTube!
Stewart Brand said, “Information wants to be free.” Only politicians believe they can contain it.
On Trying Not to Think of Stalin While Reading the Priest-Arkin Series
The secretive national security world that Dana Priest and William Arkin catalogue in the Washington Post can’t help but invoke Stalin.
A Way Forward: Reexamining the Pentagon’s Spending Habits
What can you get for a trillion dollars? A new report looks at how how the Pentagon can contribute significantly to deficit reduction while advancing national security goals.
Fresh Thinking on National Security
In the midst of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, we need to make sure that every penny of our tax dollars is spent wisely.
Part 2-The Futility of Trying to Debate Our Way to Disarmament
Another obstacle to those who seek disarmament through policy channels is just how difficult it is to dispute “realist” arguments against disarmament.
A Foreign Policy for Foreign Religions
The Commission on International Religious Freedom has provided tacit support for a dangerous turn in American foreign policy.
Divest Now?
The anti-sweatshop campaigns, the protests against the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the mobilizations against free-trade agreements have all been an education in the global economy that is rarely found in the classroom.
We Get Religion
I pray for the day when the scales fall from our leaders’ eyes, they expiate their political sins, and Washington is wholly transfigured.