William M. Arkin (born 1956) is an American political commentator, activist, journalist, blogger, and former United States Army soldier.
Arkin served in U.S. Army intelligence from 1974 to 1978. He received a BS from the University of Maryland. He has served as an independent consultant and held positions at the Institute for Policy Studies, Center for Defense Information, Greenpeace, the Natural Resources Defense Council and Human Rights Watch. ...
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William M. Arkin (born 1956) is an American political commentator, activist, journalist, blogger, and former United States Army soldier.
Arkin served in U.S. Army intelligence from 1974 to 1978. He received a BS from the University of Maryland. He has served as an independent consultant and held positions at the Institute for Policy Studies, Center for Defense Information, Greenpeace, the Natural Resources Defense Council and Human Rights Watch. He has worked as a NBC News military analyst and written columns for the Los Angeles Times and Washington Post. As of 2007, he is currently Policy Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government in the Carr Centre for Human Rights Policy, Harvard University, United States.
In 1985, he wrote The Nuclear Battlefields: Global Links in the Arms Race, which revealed the location of secret nuclear bases throughout the world.
On October 15, 2003, William Arkin released video and audiotapes documenting General William Boykin's framing of the "War on...
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