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Nick Turse

Nick Turse is an investigative reporter, a fellow at The Nation Institute, the managing editor of TomDispatch.com, a contributing writer at The Intercept, and the co-founder of Dispatch Books. Visit website his here and follow him on Twitter at @nickturse

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Will it Ever Be Over?  The 20th Anniversary of the War on Terror Arrives

Will it Ever Be Over? The 20th Anniversary of the War on Terror Arrives

Nick Turse

( Tomdispatch.com) – “This is a different kind of war, which we will wage aggressively and methodically to disrupt and destroy terrorist activity,” President George W. Bush announced a little more than two weeks after the 9/11 attacks. “Some victories will be won outside of public view, in tragedies avoided and threats eliminated. Other victories […]

Climate Crisis
War,  Climate Emergency are driving Millions of families from their Homes

War, Climate Emergency are driving Millions of families from their Homes

Nick Turse

(Tomdispatch.com ) – I saw them for only a few seconds. One glimpse and they were gone. The young woman wore a brown headwrap, a yellow short-sleeved shirt, and a long pink, red, and blue floral-patterned skirt. She held the reins of the donkey pulling her rust-pink cart. Across her lap lay an infant. Perched […]

Donald Trump
Trump’s Nuclear Threats reveal the long arm of the Enola Gay and Hiroshima

Trump’s Nuclear Threats reveal the long arm of the Enola Gay and Hiroshima

Nick Turse

( Tomdispatch.com) – Whether you’re reading this with your morning coffee, just after lunch, or on the late shift in the wee small hours of the morning, it’s 100 seconds to midnight. That’s just over a minute and a half. And that should be completely unnerving. It’s the closest to that witching hour we’ve ever […]

Pentagon
The Outpouring of Grief over George Floyd’s Death gave America a chance at Rebirth: Will we take it?

The Outpouring of Grief over George Floyd’s Death gave America a chance at Rebirth: Will we take it?

Nick Turse

( Tomdispatch.com) – They were relegated to the protest equivalent of a ghetto. Their assigned route shunted them to the far fringes of the city. Their demonstration was destined for an ignominious demise far from any main thoroughfare, out of sight of most apartment buildings, out of earshot of most homes, best viewed from a […]

Afghanistan
Trump threatens Armageddon on yet Another Country: Crimes against Humanity in Afghanistan

Trump threatens Armageddon on yet Another Country: Crimes against Humanity in Afghanistan

Nick Turse

(Tomdispatch.com) – On February 4, 2002, a Predator drone circled over Afghanistan’s Paktia province, near the city of Khost. Below was al-Qaeda’s founder Osama bin Laden — or at least someone in the CIA thought so — and he was marked for death. As Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld put it later, both awkwardly and […]

National Security State
America: Bases, Bases, Everywhere, and Not a Base in Sight

America: Bases, Bases, Everywhere, and Not a Base in Sight

Nick Turse

( Tomdispatch.com) – They called it Castle Black, an obvious homage to the famed frozen citadel from the HBO series Game of Thrones. In the fantasy world of GoT, it’s the stronghold of the Night’s Watch, the French Foreign Legion-esque guardians of the northern border of the Seven Kingdoms. This Castle Black, however, was all […]

War
The Pain Remains: The Living Literature of War

The Pain Remains: The Living Literature of War

Nick Turse

( Tomdispatch.com) – Do you remember July 8, 2011? Where you were? What you did? Whom you talked to? Anything at all? I couldn’t pin down one single thing for that day. I couldn’t even locate an email I had sent or a photo I might have taken. It’s all evidently lost in the ether, […]

Libya
Watching another of America’s Forgotten Wars from Libyan Rooftops

Watching another of America’s Forgotten Wars from Libyan Rooftops

Nick Turse

( Tomdispatch.com ) – TRIPOLI, Libya — Sometimes war sounds like the harsh crack of gunfire and sometimes like the whisper of the wind. This early morning — in al-Yarmouk on the southern edge of Libya’s capital, Tripoli — it was a mix of both. All around, shops were shuttered and homes emptied, except for […]

Pentagon
Do we need Tanf? US’s 4,775 global Military ‘Sites,’ cost us $716 bn/ yr.

Do we need Tanf? US’s 4,775 global Military ‘Sites,’ cost us $716 bn/ yr.

Nick Turse

( Tomdispatch.com) – The U.S. military is finally withdrawing (or not) from its base at al-Tanf. You know, the place that the Syrian government long claimed was a training ground for Islamic State (ISIS) fighters; the land corridor just inside Syria, near both the Iraqi and Jordanian borders, that Russia has called a terrorist hotbed […]

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