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Peter Van Buren

Peter Van Buren blew the whistle on State Department waste and mismanagement during Iraqi reconstruction in his first book, We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People. A TomDispatch regular, he writes about current events at his blog, We Meant Well. His new book, Ghosts of Tom Joad: A Story of the #99Percent, has just been published.

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Dec 10, 2017
Latest from Peter Van Buren
Op-Ed
War & Peace

Whistleblowers, Moral Injury and Endless War

If the US accepts the idea of fighting endless wars, it will have to accept something else as well: that the costs of war are similarly endless.
by
Peter Van Buren,
TomDispatch
May 18, 2017
Truthout
Op-Ed

It’s Personal: Apologizing to My Daughter for the Last 15 Years of War

“I wanted to tell my daughter just how sorry I was that she would have to live in what 9/11 transformed into the most frightened country on Earth.”
by
Peter Van Buren,
TomDispatch
September 20, 2016
Truthout
News Analysis
War & Peace

Five Ways the “Newest” Story in Iraq and Syria Is Not New

In our never-ending Iraq wars, the same “lessons” are always there to be absorbed, but no one in Washington ever seems to learn.
by
Peter Van Buren,
TomDispatch
May 16, 2016
Truthout
News Analysis

Five Unanswered Foreign Policy Questions in the 2016 Presidential Race

The nuances of foreign policy do not feature heavily in the ongoing presidential campaign.
by
Peter Van Buren,
TomDispatch
March 17, 2016
Truthout
Op-Ed

Nickel and Dimed in 2016: You Can’t Earn a Living on the Minimum Wage

Holding a job should not be a test of how to manage life as one of the working poor.
by
Peter Van Buren,
TomDispatch
February 16, 2016
Truthout
Op-Ed
Prisons & Policing

Our Prisons Are Us

The world’s self-proclaimed freest society is anything but.
by
Peter Van Buren,
Peter van Buren's Blog
December 12, 2015
Truthout
Op-Ed
War & Peace

Washington to Whomever: Please Fight ISIS for Us

The reality is clear: Washington’s policy in Syria and Iraq is bound to fail, no matter who does the fighting.
by
Peter Van Buren,
TomDispatch
December 10, 2015
Truthout
Op-Ed
War & Peace

What If They Gave a War and Everyone Came? What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

No one is predicting a world war from the mess in Syria. However, one finds a lot of pieces in play inside a tinderbox.
by
Peter Van Buren,
TomDispatch
October 22, 2015
Truthout
Op-Ed
War & Peace

The Balance of Power in the Middle East Just Changed

For the first time in decades, the two major powers in the Middle East have opened the door to relations.
by
Peter Van Buren,
TomDispatch
July 28, 2015
Truthout
Op-Ed
War & Peace

Five Things That Won’t Work in Iraq: When at First You Don’t Succeed, Fail, Fail Again

If ever there was an avoidable US crisis, Iraq War 3.0 is it.
by
Peter Van Buren,
TomDispatch
June 25, 2015
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