Kudos to Glenn Greenwald, a rare leftist voice of sanity on so many issues, for opening his recent article this way: In virtually every realm of public policy, Americans embrace policies which they know will kill people, sometimes large numbers of people. They do so...
Glenn Greenwald on the role the media played in propagating CIA disinformation to stop Trump from removing troops in Afghanistan. More here
US News Glenn Greenwald resigns from the Intercept after editors censored his article. [Link] Biden says he would never suggest withdrawing US troops from South Korea. [Link] France French President Macron announces he will deploy 7,000 troops within France to defend...
On Conflicts of Interest #27, Will and Kyle break down a series of recent stories that illustrate ramped up tensions between the US and China, as Washington carries out joint war games with Japan with eyes on Beijing and attempts to build an alliance of Asian states...
Veddy interesting. Update: okay, mildly interesting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0rcLsoIKgA&t=455s
On FPF #505, Will Porter returns to the show to discuss efforts to rein in the police. The recent weeks of protests have produced 100s of videos of police murdering and assaulting people. The police have committed these crimes with a very small chance of facing any...
Breaking in the New York Times. Note that this is the same as Trump's case against Julian Assange: The recipient and publisher of a leak is a co-conspirator with whoever did the leaking. It's a war against honesty in language first and foremost, and it's a threat to...
Here's some more Chomsky from a couple weeks ago on what he called the "farcical" fixation on Russiagate and Trump/Russia collusion. Twitter often distorts the critical difference between establishment liberalism & leftism so Chomsky is great to listen to on all...
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