When I do contract work with the government I make it clear I’m against their rules, but follow all the rules to a T. Which drives them crazy, because they are publicly for the rules but want me to break them to keep things moving.
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10/25/19 Kieren McCarthy on the FBI’s National Security Surveillance Lies
Kieren McCarthy discusses the recent revelation that the FBI has access to the NSA's national security database, and has queried it tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of times. The database, gathered under special surveillance powers by the NSA and CIA, is not...
Saudi Bases and the Bin Ladens: A Love Story
What is Trump really up to? It’s almost unknowable. At the same time that the president was pulling (some) troops out of Northeast Syria, giving an antiwar speech, and then sending other troops back into Syria to "secure the oil," he also quietly sent another 1800...
Trump Flip-Flops on Syria Withdrawal. Again.
President Trump is reversing his foreign policy decisions so quickly these days that it almost seems like he overturns himself before making the decision in the first place. Last week he was very clear that the US was pulling its troops out of Syria. “Bringing...
Let’s Stop with this ‘Culture of Liberty’ Nonsense
Imagine if someone you didn’t know, who lived 3,000 miles away, had a say in who you could or couldn’t marry. Would you think that was crazy? What if that person could dictate what you were allowed to put into your body? Since that is a reality why isn’t it just as...
News Roundup 10/28/19
US News Maria Butina has been released from a Florida prison and deported to Russia. [Link] In a speech, Pence voices support for the Hong Kong protesters. He also condemned China for being too interventionist. Pence targeted Nike and the NBA for being too supportive...
Episode 330: Tearing Apart the Rogan/Snowden Interview w/ Monica Perez
66 Minutes PG-13 Pete invited Monica Perez, the host of the Monica Perez show on WSB Radio in Atlanta, to come back on the show to have a lively discussion about the recent "interview" of Edward Snowden on the Joe Rogan Experience. Monica is also the host of the...
10/25/19 Trevor Aaronson on the FBI’s Unconstitutional Investigative Powers
Trevor Aaronson discusses some of the FBI's egregious abuses of its power over American citizens, most recently brought to light by their use of an informant to investigate a law-abiding militia group in California for years. Although the FBI claims to be concerned...
Washington Post Eulogizes ‘Austere Religious Scholar’ Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
No foolin'. https://twitter.com/LizRNC/status/1188477530602377218 Not that the U.S.A. under the Obama government, at the constant urging of GOP leaders such as John McCain, and their allies at the Washington Post, New York Times, Daily Beast, Foreign Affairs and all...
**Bonus** Scott Horton on the Death of Abū Bakr al-Baghdadi
17 Minutes Suitable for All Ages With the U.S. government announcing the death of Abū Bakr al-Baghdadi I thought to ask Scott Horton to give about 15 minutes of commentary as to what this should mean to the future of U.S. foreign policy. Antiwar.com Fool's Errand...
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