NEW YORK TIMES 03/07/16 By Michael Shank and Paul Gallay Ossining, N.Y. — LAST month, samples showed a spike in the amount of radioactive tritium being discharged from Indian Point Energy Center into the groundwater near our homes along the Hudson River. Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo ordered several state agencies […]
NEW YORK TIMES 08/17/14 By Jake Flanagin “Ferguson, Mo., has become a virtual war zone,” write Elizabeth R. Beavers and Michael Shank in an Op-Ed for The New York Times. “In the wake of the shooting of an unarmed black teenager, Michael Brown, outsize armored vehicles have lined streets and […]
NEW YORK TIMES 08/15/14 By Michael Shank and Elizabeth Beavers WASHINGTON — FERGUSON, Mo., has become a virtual war zone. In the wake of the shooting of an unarmed black teenager, Michael Brown, outsize armored vehicles have lined streets and tear gas has filled the air. Officers dressed in camouflage […]
REUTERS, CHICAGO TRIBUNE 10/22/13 By Michael Shank and Elizabeth Beavers This month, more Mine-Resistant Ambush-Protected vehicles (MRAPs) have found their way from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq to the Main Streets of America. These are just the latest acquisitions in a growing practice by Pentagon that’s militarizing America’s municipal […]
New York Times 09/10/2008 By Michael Shank What unpropitious timing for America to attack Pakistan at the dawn of new democratic elections (“U.S. Attack on Taliban Compound Kills 23 in Pakistani Border Area,” news article, Sept. 9). In a Pentagon-commissioned, five-missile airstrike that was hardly coincidentally timed, Washington’s agenda was […]
New York Times 01/19/2008 By Michael Shank To the Editor: “Unfinished Debate on Iraq” (editorial, Jan. 13) cites the “serious inability of American civilian agencies” to meet Iraq’s post-conflict needs. That is putting it mildly. The irony in the post-surge security successes is that while attacks may be down, Iraq […]