Blog Posts

Meet John Kiriakou

By Kelley B. Vlahos, on Jan 31, 2012

WASHINGTON — Meet John Kiriakou. A married father with a baby and two small children at home, he once had a fulfilling job as a CIA operations officer and spent his early post-9/11 days “hunting down [al] Qaeda figures” in Pakistan for his country.

Gitmo’s Prying Eyes

By Kelley B. Vlahos, on Jan 27, 2012

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Jack Murtha and the Ghosts of Haditha

By Kelley B. Vlahos, on Jan 27, 2012


Nearly two years ago on Feb. 8, 2010, Rep. Jack Murtha, a Democrat from Pennsylvania, who was also a Marine Corps Vietnam Veteran, died of complications from gall bladder surgery.

Mentally Unfit but Serving Anyway

By Kelley B. Vlahos, on Jan 13, 2012

The year began with a story about a 24-year-old ex-soldier who shot and killed a female park ranger at Mt. Rainier National Park in Washington before dying of apparent hypothermia, his body face down in the snow.

LOLA Merchandise now on sale!

By Nena, on Jan 10, 2012

Where there is a demand, supply is born.  T-shirts, water bottles, and more from cafe press!

Dark Days for Govt. Whistleblowers

By Kelley B. Vlahos, on Jan 5, 2012

This is the third profile in an occasional series about individuals taking on the Goliaths of war from inside the belly of the beast — Washington, D.C.

2012: Revolution or Devolution

By Kelley B. Vlahos, on Dec 27, 2011

The year 2011 marked a critical confluence of militarism and revolution, not only in places like Libya and Egypt, but also here at home, where massive demonstrations in cities and towns throughout the country were met with a well-oiled law enforcement machine deployed in camouflage and Kevlar, lobbing tear gas grenades and packing rifles with rubber bullets.