Stories by Nick Turse
Nick Turse is the associate editor of TomDispatch.com and a senior editor at AlterNet. His latest book is The Case for Withdrawal from Afghanistan (Verso).
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Posted on Jan 15, 2012, Source: TomDispatch.com
What 70 downed drones tell us about the new American way of war.
Posted on Dec 20, 2011, Source: TomDispatch.com
The drone increasingly looks less like a winning weapon than a machine for generating opposition and enemies.
Posted on Dec 13, 2011, Source: TomDispatch.com
During 2011, U.S. troops regularly partnered with and trained the security forces of numerous regimes that were actively beating back democratic protests.
Posted on Dec 1, 2011, Source: AlterNet
The U.S. Air Force continues to bomb Afghanistan -- the civilian toll remains unknown.
Posted on Nov 21, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Plainclothes cop says the NYPD response to OWS is meant to stop the next 9/11, but a newly alleged terror plot suggests the police may have put protesters at increased risk.
Posted on Nov 18, 2011, Source: AlterNet
At its do-or-die moment, Occupy Wall Street holds firm, takes to the streets and lives to protest another day.
Posted on Nov 18, 2011, Source: AlterNet
The 99 percent showed up around the city to stand in solidarity with the evicted occupiers and express their support for a growing movement.
Posted on Nov 14, 2011, Source: AlterNet
A top general told AlterNet that the U.S. military is preparing to end the longest air war in history.
Posted on Nov 13, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Why did a police officer declare my reporting "illegal" just days before the pre-dawn raid on the OWS encampment?
Posted on Nov 10, 2011, Source: AlterNet
An all-singing, all-dancing guide to changes in the Pentagon’s foreign base world.
Posted on Nov 6, 2011, Source: AlterNet
There’s a metal monster looming over Liberty Square, but don’t ask questions about it or else.
Posted on Nov 1, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Data provided to AlterNet by the military services reveals massive use of drones, most of their time spent in combat.
Posted on Oct 27, 2011, Source: AlterNet
NYPD floods Wall Street with cops to pen in protesters, then blames Occupy Wall Street for diverting resources as gun violence spikes across the city.
Posted on Oct 25, 2011, Source: AlterNet
NYPD's metal barricades have militarized the peaceable occupation at Liberty Square and contributed to the creeping homeland security state ethos.
Posted on Oct 19, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Occupy Wall Street defies weather, feeds the masses -- even “Wall Street capitalists" -- as storm buffets the Big Apple.
Posted on Oct 18, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Occupy Wall Street arrests approach 1,000, while police rake in millions in overtime.
Posted on Oct 16, 2011, Source: AlterNet and TomDispatch
A ground-breaking investigation examines the most secret aspect of America's shadowy drone wars and maps out a world of hidden bases dotting the globe.
Posted on Oct 15, 2011, Source: AlterNet
The flat-foots were caught flatfooted as Occupy Wall Street marchers took to the streets of New York City.
Posted on Oct 13, 2011, Source: AlterNet
The NYPD has erected a ring of steel around Liberty Plaza, but Occupy Wall Street vows to resist.
Posted on Oct 7, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Occupy Wall Street protesters don’t need old failed ideas, advice from columnists or Barack Obama: they’ve got Tunisia, Egypt and Syria.
Posted on Oct 5, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Why won’t the mainstream media or supercommittee member Patty Murray talk about her award from the defense industry?
Posted on Sep 29, 2011, Source: AlterNet
The Air Force fears epidemic use of the synthetic drugs known as “bath salts," but fails to even track cases.
Posted on Sep 21, 2011, Source: AlterNet
AlterNet teams up with Salon and Brave New Foundation to document how Dems on the Congressional "supercommittee" get far more military campaign money and contracts than the GOP.
Posted on Sep 18, 2011, Source: AlterNet and TomDispatch
The "arc of instability" includes 97 countries. A startling number of these nations are in turmoil, and in every single one of them, Washington is militarily involved.
Posted on Sep 3, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Learn which "civilian" companies are making big bucks on today's wars.
Posted on Sep 2, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Through the "Second to None" campaign, top Pentagon contractors are waging a sophisticated public relations war for the hearts and minds of Americans.
Posted on Aug 3, 2011, Source: AlterNet and TomDispatch
American secret commandos are carrying out raids in 70 countries--just today. By the end of the year, the number will probably be close to 120.
Posted on Apr 28, 2011, Source: TomDispatch.com
U.S. weapons and assistance support regimes actively suppressing democratic uprisings across the Middle East, including Yemen.
Posted on Mar 15, 2011, Source: TomDispatch.com
The Pentagon and oil-rich nations have pressured the White House to help subvert the popular democratic will sweeping across the greater Middle East.
Posted on Jan 31, 2011, Source: TomDispatch.com
Here is the Pentagon's battlefield vision of tomorrow.
Posted on Jan 9, 2011, Source: TomDispatch.com
A count of U.S. bases abroad would be a tiny first step in the necessary process of downsizing the global mission -- and we don't even have that.
Posted on Oct 15, 2010, Source: TomDispatch.com
A marketplace filled with books by former military men devoted to tweaking, enhancing, and improving war-fighting capabilities cries out for some counterbalance.
Posted on Sep 14, 2010, Source: TomDispatch.com
Now’s your chance to pit your wits (and your ability to suspend disbelief) against the best the Pentagon has to offer.
Posted on Sep 12, 2010, Source: TomDispatch.com
For years, American leaders have hailed the way Afghans are supposedly benefiting from the U.S. role in their country. They're not.
Posted on Sep 3, 2010, Source: AlterNet
Many files, beyond the Afghan War Diary and the 'Collateral Murder' video, continue to hide in plain sight on Wikileaks’ Web site.
Posted on Jul 13, 2010, Source: TomDispatch.com
Sebastian Junger's new documentary "Restrepo" presents the story of US soldiers at an isolated combat outpost, keeping Afghan suffering safely off the screen.
Posted on Feb 26, 2010, Source: AlterNet
The same people who sell the Pentagon billions of dollars in technology are advising the Pentagon on what scientific and technical matters to focus on in the years to come.
Posted on Feb 10, 2010, Source: TomDispatch.com
Existing in the shadows, the US base-building program is staggering in size and scope and also extraordinarily expensive.
Posted on Jan 25, 2010, Source: TomDispatch.com
In the years ahead, unmanned machines will increasingly fight our wars.
Posted on Jan 11, 2010, Source: TomDispatch.com
In Afghanistan, a militarized mix of CIA operatives and ex-military mercenaries as well as native recruits and robot aircraft is fighting a war in the shadows.
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