Trump signs a new executive order reinstating the travel ban. This executive order does not include Iraq and does not include VISA holders. The new executive order lists several situations where people may be exempt from the travel ban. Trump is also stopping the...
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Major Papers Target AG Sessions Over Russia
by Scott Horton | Mar 2, 2017 | Blog
On Wednesday night, the big three papers, the New York Times, Washington Post and Wall St. Journal, all ran articles attacking the Trump administration over their supposed "ties" to Russia. Yet, in the tradition of anti-Russia hype in the American media, on close...
Trump’s Attorney General’s Record on Privacy
by Kate Tummarello | Feb 10, 2017 | Featured Articles, Justice, Politics
President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the country’s law enforcement has cleared the Senate. The Senate voted 52-47 on Wednesday to confirm Sen. Jeff Sessions, whose record on civil liberties issues—including digital rights—has drawn fire from Democratic lawmakers...
Journalist Barrett Brown is out of jail – and has big plans
by Jeff Schechtman | Feb 8, 2017 | Featured Articles, Politics
Journalism, Activism, Hacktivism and a New Civic Platform Barrett Brown thinks big. Brown was released from federal prison on November 29 after four years of incarceration for hacking the private intelligence firm Stratfor. The hack — for which the hacker group...
Memo to Congress: On Alleged Russian Hacking, Put up or Shut Up
by Patrick G. Eddington | Jan 24, 2017 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Around Donald Trump’s ascension to the White House hangs one question above all others: was the United States attacked by a foreign power, in this case, the Russian Federation? The allegation is that Russian President Vladimir Putin directed the Russian hacking and...
Mainstream Media’s Russian Bogeymen
by Gareth Porter | Jan 16, 2017 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
In the middle of a major domestic crisis over the U.S. charge that Russia had interfered with the U.S. election, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) triggered a brief national media hysteria by creating and spreading a bogus story of Russian hacking into U.S....
News Roundup 1/16/17
by Kyle Anzalone | Jan 16, 2017 | Blog
Rudi Giuliani's cybersecurity firm's website is riddled with vulnerabilities that can make hacking the site easy. Trump recently named Giuliani as his cybersecurity advisor. [Link] A new report shows that it takes $2.6 billion to bring a new drug to market. This is a...
Hypocrisy over Interference in Elections
by Sheldon Richman | Jan 14, 2017 | Blog, Foreign Policy, Sheldon Richman
Jonathan Marshall, a first-rate foreign-policy reporter and analyst, exposes the hypocrisy of American concern over alleged Russian manipulation of U.S. democracy in "Who's the Real Manipulator of Elections?" This is must-reading for those who want to understand this...
1/13/17 William Binney on Russian hacking, NSA spying, and counterproductive means of fighting terrorism
by Scott Horton | Jan 13, 2017 | The Scott Horton Show
William Binney, a retired senior NSA official and whistleblower, discusses the dubious evidence that Russia used computer hackers to manipulate the election and help Donald Trump win; why 9/11 and other terrorist attacks could have been prevented if the NSA used a...
Search and Replace
by Sheldon Richman | Jan 12, 2017 | Blog, Sheldon Richman
The declassified intel report on the hacking of the DNC/Podesta accounts contains this sentence: “By their nature, Russian influence campaigns are multifaceted and designed to be deniable because they use a mix of agents of influence, cutouts, front organizations, and...
US Created Cyberwarfare
by Sheldon Richman | Jan 12, 2017 | Blog, Sheldon Richman
"One can reasonably argue that Washington started the practice of cyber-warfare and has been a long-time practitioner of both regime change and election tampering in its relationship with much of the world.... Stepping back a bit, it is difficult to avoid the...
Your Tax Dollars at Work
by Sheldon Richman | Jan 12, 2017 | Blog, Sheldon Richman
“Judgments are not intended to imply that we have proof that shows something to be a fact.” -- "Declassified Intelligence Community Assessment of Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent US Elections," Appendix B, Estimative Language
News Roundup 1/12/17
by Kyle Anzalone | Jan 12, 2017 | Blog
Trump appoints Robert Kennedy Jr. to chair a commission looking into the integrity and safety of vaccines. [Link] A Michigan man is given a parking ticket for leaving his car unintended in his own driveway. The car owner went inside for a few minutes after starting...
1/11/17 Philip Giraldi on Russian hacking claims, and Washington’s long history of interfering in elections abroad
by Scott Horton | Jan 11, 2017 | The Scott Horton Show
Former CIA officer Philip Giraldi discusses the intelligence community's weak evidence pointing to Russian involvement in the DNC and John Podesta email leaks that may or may not have led to Hillary Clinton's election defeat; and the privately-sourced 35-page report...
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What Kind of Liberal?
Not to put too fine a point on it, but I am a Locke-Smith liberal.
The Tale of the Steak – A Lesson in Economics by Walter E. Williams
Consider filet mignon and chuck steak. Assume-realistically-that consumers prefer the former. Then the question becomes: why is it, despite consumer preferences, that chuck steak sells at all? The fact is that chuck steak outsells filet mignon. How does something less...
My Favorite Michael Malice Quote
If the government didn't have a monopoly on security, only rich people would be able to have security just like when the government got out of other businesses, the only cars produced were limousines, the only clothes produced were tuxedos and the only food produced...
Volodymyr Zelenskyy is a Tyrant Unworthy of Admiration
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNSMrawCmcM Volodymyr Zelenskyy has: Instituted Military Conscription (Also Known As Slavery and Forced Labor) Bombed Poland Then Lied Blaming Russia Trying to Start World War Three w/ NATO Nationalized (Monopolized) the Media Banned...
Aaron Maté: ‘NATO’s mission’ leaves Ukraine destroyed
'NATO’s mission' leaves Ukraine destroyed — "We are carrying out NATO’s mission." As Ukraine’s defense minister acknowledges the proxy war, NATO proxy warriors disregard the toll. Unveiling its latest military assistance package to Ukraine — at $3.75 billion, the...
Ban This!
Well shoot. I got kicked off of Twitter again. Not sure why. Though I did make a crack that Jordan Peterson should jump off a bridge since he has no dignity since he RTs the MeK cult on regime changing Iran. I mean I didn't really say go kill yourself. It was more...
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