It's so unfair that people have to go to bad government schools! she says. And so she moved to the burbs to get a good education; and so used her political juice to get a friend of the family into a charter school. (Charter schools are not the ideal at all, but at...
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News Roundup 2/27/20
US News The mass data collection program authorized by the USA Freedom Act led to zero arrests. [Link]The mass data collection program will expire on March 15th, unless it is extended by Congress. AG Barr made the case to Congress for extending the program. However,...
Neocon John Hannah: “Please Explain This Concept ‘Shame.’ I Do not Understand.”
Dick Cheney's man: Iraq Needs Regime Change Again The United States faces an increasingly urgent set of first-order policy questions in Iraq. Spoiler alert: The answer is not Mohammed Tawfiq Allawi, Iraq’s newly designated prime minister. A popular uprising might be....
The Virus
There is an odd information gap surrounding this virus. We can't say that it's particularly harmful yet, as essentially all patients who were treated for it outside of China seem to have recovered nicely or are recovering. Some seem to have only ever had mild...
1/24/20 Nozomi Hayase on Glenn Greenwald and the ‘Assange Precedent’
Scott talks to Nozomi Hayase about the movement to prosecute Glenn Greenwald for cybercrimes in Brazil. Greenwald is accused of helping to steal confidential text messages, as opposed to simply publishing information that had been hacked by someone else. This is...
1/24/20 Dave DeCamp on the OPCW’s Douma Cover-Up
Dave DeCamp talks about the scandalous apparent cover-up of the OPCW's real findings on the alleged chemical attack in Douma in 2018. In 2019 the organization issued a final report affirming the likelihood of a real chemical attack. But now Ian Henderson, one of the...
Time To Break The Silence On Palestine
"To hold fast to the image of God in every person is to insist that the Palestinian child is as precious as the Jewish child.” From an excellent op-ed at The New York Times by Michelle Alexander. Rabbi Brian Walt, who has spoken publicly about the reasons that he...
Ike’s Military-Industrial Complex, Six Decades Later
As Eisenhower predicted, there is no balance left, as U.S. policy is reduced to who we threaten, bomb, or occupy next. January 17 marks the 59th anniversary of President Dwight Eisenhower’s farewell speech to the nation. After eight years in the White House, just...
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