The USA’s implacable pursuit of Edward Snowden demonstrates the sole superpower’s reach and suppression of information.
Tom Engelhardt
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Repeated invasions, occupations and drone wars have played a major role in the unravelling of the Greater Middle East.
The US has become a nation not of laws but of legal memos, not of legality but of legalisms.
For Washington, there is no arms control abroad.
In recent years, the US intelligence community has been one of Washington’s major growth industries.
In the past, US presidents pursued “plausible deniability” when it came to assassination plots, but not anymore.
American drone and air strikes have “actually increased membership in al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula”.
What did it mean for two generals to soar to media glory while the wars they commanded landed in the nearest ditch?
Superstorm Sandy revealed just how “unprepared” the US infrastructure is for “predicted climate change events”.
For years, energy executives have funded a massive campaign to deny the reality of climate change.