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Author » Matthew Harwood

Matthew Harwood is a journalist working in Washington, D.C. He holds an M. Litt. in International Security Studies from the University of St. Andrews and is a frequent contributor to the Guardian and the Huffington Post. His work has appeared in the Washington Monthly and online at Columbia Journalism Review and Alternet.

Latest from Matthew Harwood

Playthings of the Gods

The United States of Fear by Tom Engelhardt (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2011); 230 page On  the night of March 11, 2012, Sgt. Robert Bales walked a short distance to two Afghan villages in Kandahar Province from Camp Belambay. Under ...

Book Review: Unequal Justice

With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law Is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful by Glenn Greenwald (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2011), 304 pages. In August, something incredible happened: a three-judge panel of the ...

Fear, Inc.

Top Secret America: The Rise of the New American Security State by Dana Priest and William Arkin (New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2011); 320 pages. All Americans are equal, but some are more equal than others. Since the attacks ...

What Are You Afraid Of if You Have Nothing to Hide?

The Rights of the People: How Our Search for Safety Invades our Liberties by David K. shipler (New York: Knopf 2011), 384 pages. Late this past spring, two U.S. senators finally had the courage to look Big Brother in ...

The Violence That Empire Engenders

On May 1, a naturalized Pakistani-American left the United States a smoking surprise in Times Square meant to maim and murder indiscriminately. Fortunately the car bomb failed because a Senegalese Muslim T-shirt vendor sounded the alarm and because the ...