Here's something constructive Trump could do before leaving office at noon on January 20: he could order -- demand, insist --- that all classified intel and other documents related to the origin of the Russia/election investigation be declassified and released to the...
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Why Elections Do Not Represent the ‘Will of the People’
As lawsuits are being filed to challenge the results of this year’s “most important election of our lifetime,” the pundits and talking heads of the political class will repeatedly remind us that election results reflect “the will of the people.” They couldn’t be more...
Techno-Agorist: Do NPCs Dream of Electric Sheep?
I am a huge fan of Philip K. Dick. His short stories have always been my favorite science fiction of all time. In high school, I read through my big volume of his short stories so many times that the binding literally fell apart. Recently, I decided to read through...
11/6/20 Dave DeCamp on the Foreign Policy of a Biden Administration
With Joe Biden apparently poised to be America's next president, Scott talks to Dave DeCamp about some possible foreign policy changes under the new administration. To begin with, DeCamp worries that Biden will use a recent uptick in violence as an excuse to keep...
Center For International Policy: Report on U.S. Government And Defense Industry Funding Of Top 50 Think Tanks
While investigations into Russian influence in the 2016 election regularly garner front-page headlines, there is a half-billion-dollar foreign influence industry working to shape U.S. foreign policy every single day that remains largely unknown to the public. Report...
News Roundup 11/9/20
US News Police in Jackson Mississippi are starting a trial program where the police department will have the ability to access Ring doorbell cameras without a warrant. [Link] The White House removed the head of three agencies that oversees US nuclear weapons. [Link]...
Biden Voters Celebrate a Return to Normal. That Is the Problem.
On Conflicts of Interest #31, Kyle and Will cover a recent UK government report largely debunking the most hysterical claims about the Cambridge Analytica scandal and Russian involvement. A US commander in Afghanistan says American airstrikes against the Taliban will...
W. Bush Congratulates His Iraq War II Partner Joe Biden
Bush congratulates Biden, says election was 'fundamentally fair' and 'its outcome is clear' That's what makes it legitimate you see.
Robert Fisk, Foreign Correspondant
Robert Fisk was a journalist, a historian, and a foreign correspondent reporting on the world's wars. But as a man, he was a witness. He would go into battle armed only with his eyes, and the ammunition he carried were his words. His courage was not just that he put...
Techno-Agorist: Broken Security Is No Security
Every few years, we once again hear about the federal government discussing ways to get around encryption. Usually, thankfully, it doesn't head anywhere. The most spectacular failure was in the nineties when the federal government tried to get tech companies to use...
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