Radical Islam has proven, with Washington’s help, a worthy successor to the Soviet Union, a superb money-making venture and great way to build a monumental national security state.
What if Edward Snowden was made to disappear? Whistleblower Peter Van Buren examines how the control exerted by governments on the internet is a threat to the very notion of human memory, social and cultural capital.
What if your country begins to change and nobody notices? As the weaponry and technology of war came home, so did a new, increasingly Guantanamo-ized definition of justice. This is one thing the Bradley Manning case has made clear.
Here are five things that I imagine were on his mind (they would have been on mine) as that plane took off.