Politics - Part 36
The most extremist power any political leader can assert is the power to target his own citizens for execution without any charges or due process, far from any battlefield. The Obama administration has not only asserted exactly that power in theory, but h ...[Read more]
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Everything the CIA does is deniable. It's part of its Congressional mandate. Congress doesn't want to be held accountable for the criminal things the CIA does. The only time something the CIA does become public knowledge 'other than the rare accid ...[Read more]
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The site didn’t make much sense in the first place. Hillary Clinton crusader Peter Daou advertised Verrit, which the former Democratic nominee endorsed Sunday night, as a “media platform” designed for the 65.8 million Americans who voted for Clinton ...[Read more]
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The Washington Post, whose sole owner is both a CIA contractor and one of the wealthiest plutocrats of all time, has sent its Bezos-paid Ringwraiths after small independent reporters for having the temerity to talk about a lawsuit that had severe implicat ...[Read more]
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An international journalist was interrogated by Bulgarian authorities and fired from her job after publishing leaked documents exposing "Silk Way Airlines" as a weapons transport service for jihadists in Syria and which involved the CIA. ...[Read more]
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Hate speech restrictions are used in European countries to suppress, outlaw, and punish more than far-right bigotry. Those laws have frequently been used to constrain and sanction a wide range of political views that many left-wing censorship advocates wo ...[Read more]
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It has been nearly three weeks since The Nation pushed an explosive memo from the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity into mainstream consciousness with an article detailing the evidence that the DNC leaks last year could not have been the resul ...[Read more]
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Why is the Trudeau government supporting Africa's most ruthless dictator? After amending the constitution to be able to run indefinitely, Paul Kagame recently won 98.63% of votes in Rwanda's elections. ...[Read more]
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The THAAD anti-missile system sure is great, say analysts whose salaries are partly paid for by THAAD’s manufacturer.
Media mentions of CSIS pushing the THAAD missile system omit that one of CSIS's top donors, Lockheed Martin, is THAAD's primary contra ...[Read more]
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Chomsky discusses the historical and political factors that have created and maintained such a shamefully profit-driven health system in the United States. ...[Read more]
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Most of the Donald’s tweets amount to street brawling with his political enemies, but occasionally one of them slices through Imperial Washington’s sanctimonious cant. Indeed, Monday evening’s 140 characters of solid cut right to the bone:
The Amazo ...[Read more]
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