US News Twitter added a ‘hacked materials’ warning to an article published by The Gray Zone detailing how BBC, Reuters, and Bellingcat were paid by the UK Foreign Office. [Link] The US opened a new facility to cage migrant children. [Link] The New York police officers...
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No Warrant, No Problem; How Government Buys Its Way Around the 4th Amendment
by Ken Silva | Feb 24, 2021 | Featured Articles
When the Supreme Court ruled in 2018 that law enforcement agencies need warrants before they can request geolocation data from cell phone companies, civil liberties advocates touted the judgment as a major win for privacy. But since then, government agencies have...
2/19/21 Eli Clifton on the Arms Industry Money Behind Biden’s Afghanistan Study Group
by Scott Horton | Feb 22, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Eli Clifton discusses the Biden Administration's Afghanistan study group, a panel of national security experts and former officers giving recommendations on whether the U.S. should get out of Afghanistan on the Trump administration's withdrawal timeline. Some of these...
News Roundup 2/22/21
by Kyle Anzalone | Feb 22, 2021 | News Roundup
US News Assange’s lawyers are considering a cross appeal to the UK High Court. [Link] Bolivia has returned the entire US-IMF loan the country received when a coup government was in charge. The $346 million loan racked up $25 million in interest when it was paid off....
Will Northeastern Syria Become A Flashpoint Between Turkey and the United States?
by Ahmad Al Khaled | Feb 22, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Last November, the United States saw a rather dramatic presidential election that put a lot at stake and in many ways was supposed to determine the direction of Washington's foreign policy. The new administration under Joe Biden's leadership has repeatedly signaled...
2/19/21 Ray McGovern: Will Comey’s Words Come Back to Haunt Him?
by Scott Horton | Feb 21, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Ray McGovern talks with Scott about the lies and malfeasance of the national security state during the "Russiagate" fiasco. McGovern begins by rehashing the FBI's lies that first led to a FISA warrant on Carter Page, who they failed to disclose to the court was...
2/19/21 Gareth Porter on the Misleading Data Behind Uyghur Genocide Claims
by Scott Horton | Feb 21, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Gareth Porter about his coverage of the recent and widespread claims of a Chinese genocide of the Uyghurs. Many of these accusations have relied on the work of one man, Adrian Zenz, whose research Porter calls into question. Porter wrote a piece with...
2/19/21 Ben Wizner on the Dangerous Precedent of the Assange Prosecution
by Scott Horton | Feb 21, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Ben Wizner of the ACLU about the ongoing Julian Assange saga. Assange's attempted prosecution under the Espionage Act is practically unprecedented, says Wizner. While it's true that many leakers of government secrets have been charged for violations of...
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The Shame of Veterans Day
A photograph taken on the morning of March 8, 1906, on the eastern crest of Bud Dajo. (John R. White Papers, Knight Library, University of Oregon) “Happy Veterans Day and thank you for your service” or “thanks for protecting our freedom.” The events at Bud Dajo in the...
Some Things Never Change
"The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt.” --John Philpot Curran, Irish statesman, 1790
Anti-War Blog – Remember
The 11th of November, specifically at 11AM is a sacred time that has taken on a religious observance among the victorious of World War One. A time to officially remember those who died in that war and the many others since, often with the observation of silence for a...
Rust-Bucket Life Extension for the Win
Ticonderoga Class Arleigh Burke Class It seems counterintuitive but keeping old ships commissioned is expensive. Expertise on the hulls ages out and retires, technology moves on and maintenance demands increase and don't decrease. These life extensions are random and...
Censorship Down Under
The Australian parliament pushes through a bill that will now control access to social media. Like most censorship and prohibition acts it is done under the guise of child protection, the fear mongering used has been constant. Children can be groomed, manipulated and...
Right Diagnosis, Wrong Prescription
The populist Sanders-left (which is actually broader because it includes Tucker Carlson and others called rightists) is partly correct and partly incorrect about what happened to the Democrats last Tuesday. They say correctly that the Democrats failed because they...
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