Peter Certo is an editor and writer at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, DC where he edits the organization’s Foreign Policy In Focus website and serves as deputy editor of the nonprofit editorial syndicate, OtherWords. He is a former associate editor of Right Web, a project that monitors the efforts of foreign policy hawks and neoconservatives to influence US foreign policy, and he helped coordinate the first annual Global Day of Action on Military Spending. He is the coauthor of a chapter in the upcoming Verso collection, “The WikiLeaks Files.”