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On Leakers, Heroes and Traitors
Julian Assange, Bradley Manning and, now, Edward Snowden. Heroes or traitors? My latest story in The Nation argues that character questions of this sort serve as distractions ...
‘We Steal Secrets’ Misses the Leak for the Leakers
The Nation
Just as the Assange saga consumes too much of Alex Gibney’s film, so today’s Snowden obsession deflects attention away from our sprawling surveillance state.
June 18, 2013
Here’s a recipe for diluting the debate about our surveillance state: start talking about the foibles ...
Drexel University
Philadelphia, PA
Panel discussion with Gary Knight and Tim McLaughlin about our exhibit, Invasion: Diaries and Memories of War in Iraq, which will be on display at Drexel University’s College of Media Arts & Design. Discussion in the URBN Center Annex at 6 pm, followed by a reception ...
Did the Iraq War Bring the Arab Spring?
The New Yorker Online
April 9, 2013
Guess what? The war in Iraq had a bright side. It created the Arab Spring.
That is the theory that proponents of the invasion are peddling on the tenth anniversary of the toppling of the statue of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad, on April 9, 2003. They are trying to persuade ...
A Diarist At War
The New York Times
March 14, 2013
The following story ran on the NYT’s At War blog.
With the invasion of Iraq just weeks away, Lt. Tim McLaughlin began a military ritual that dates back to Homer. He started a war diary. It was not a blog or e-mails sent from his waiting-to-invade base in the Kuwaiti ...
Invasion: Diaries and Memories of War in Iraq
The exhibit I have been working on, Invasion: Diaries and Memories of War in Iraq, opened last week at the Bronx Documentary Center in New York City. It features the remarkable war diaries of Marine Lt. Tim McLaughlin, excerpts of stories I wrote about the invasion, and photos by Gary Knight. ...
Mirage
Crude World
The Venezuela of Hugo Chavez
03/01/2013
(Excerpted from “Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil” by Peter Maass)
The addictions of Hugo Chávez, president of Venezuela, are regularly
in full view. On his television show, Aló Presidente, Chávez sips espresso
from ...
Tufts University
Boston, MA
Panel discussion with Mowaffak al-Rubaie, Gary Knight and Tim McLaughlin on “Ten Years After the Toppling: The Fall of Iraq, the Media, and the US.” Organized by the Institute for Global Leadership at Tufts University, March 5, 2013 at 7:00 pm in Cabot Auditorium, 170 Packard ...
A Private Battle for Baghdad
Sunday Times Magazine (London)
Lieutenant Tim McLaughlin was at the Pentagon on 9/11 and in Baghdad the day it fell. Ten years on, he shares his graphic war diaries for the first time.
March 3, 2013
A few years ago, a former marine named Tim McLaughlin drove to New Hampshire in his red pickup ...