Tomgram: Peter Van Buren, Joining The Whistleblowers’ Club Posted by Peter Van Buren at 5:19pm, April 8, 2012. The world can be a luckless place, but every now and then serendipity just knocks you off a cliff. In what passed for my real life before TomDispatch intervened, I was (and remain, on a part-time basis) a [...]
Foreign Service Officer Van Buren Disciplined Over WikiLeaks Peter Van Buren by Kelley B. Vlahos, October 18, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum WASHINGTON — Peter Van Buren has been officially sanctioned today. Depending how one looks at it, he could be either the first State Department WikiLeaks casualty or the first who’s been [...]
Peter Van Buren, How the American Taxpayer Got Plucked in Iraq Posted by Peter Van Buren at 6:00pm, October 2, 2011. [Note for TomDispatch Readers: Today’s twisted treat for you is a slightly adapted chapter from Peter Van Buren’s new book, We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of [...]
Fobbit Humor By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/content/fobbit-humor “How many PRT [Provincial Reconstruction Team] staff members does it take to screw in a light bulb? One to hire a contractor who fails to complete the job and two to write the press release in the dark.” A FOB is a Forward Operating Base, and the Fobbits who [...]
