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 (2011). A TomDispatch regular, he writes about current events at his blog, We Meant Well. His latest book is Ghosts of Tom Joad: A Story of the #99Percent. His next work will be a novel, Hooper's War. Follow him on Twitter: @WeMeantWell.
ALL POSTS BY Peter Van Buren
May 16, 2016The war against ISIS is being conveyed to us as if we're on Snapchat. Important things happen, then they're gone.
February 16, 2016It's been 15 years since Barbara Ehrenreich published her seminal book about what it's like to work for the minimum wage in America. Unfortunately, not much has changed.
October 24, 2015Until America plunged into Iraq in 2003, there hadn't been such an upset of power in the Middle East since World War I.
November 10, 2014Four months into the Iraq War 3.0, the cracks are showing -- on the battlefield and at the Pentagon.
September 30, 2014Ray McGovern was brutally arrested and put on a government watch list following a silent protest at a speech by Hillary Clinton. He sued and won back his freedom.
September 24, 2014America is now fighting the Iraq War for the third time, somehow madly expecting different results.
June 4, 2014"Why don’t the unemployed get off their couches?" and eight other critical questions for Americans.
May 11, 2013How the U.S. government spent seven years and untold dollars to silence one man.
