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Guns and Hotdogs
GUNS AND HOTDOGS How the U.S. Military Promotes Its Weapons Arsenal to the Public America’s wars take place far away — Kabul is 6,700 miles from New York or, traveling in the other direction, 7,400 miles from San Francisco. They also involve fewer and fewer Americans — the Army now has about 475,000 active duty soldiers, […]
Brexit is Only the Latest Proof of the Insularity and Failure of Western Establishment Institutions
Brexit is Only the Latest Proof of the Insularity and Failure of Western Establishment Institutions THE DECISION BY UK VOTERS to leave the EU is such a glaring repudiation of the wisdom and relevance of elite political and media institutions that – for once – their failures have become a prominent part of the storyline. Media reaction to the Brexit vote falls […]
British Exit From EU Not Inevitable, Despite Referendum
British Exit From EU Not Inevitable, Despite Referendum IN THE FIRST HOURS after the British public voted to exit the European Union, amid all sorts of triumphal statements and recriminations, one declaration was notably absent: the formal notification to the EU that the United Kingdom intends to leave the organization, which is required to start the […]
More Troubling Evidence That Hillary Clinton Will Start WW3
More Troubling Evidence That Hillary Clinton Will Start WW3 Yesterday, I published a post warning readers about the increasingly dangerous situation on the ground in Syria, and detailed why a Hillary Clinton presidency will quickly usher in World War 3. Here it is in case you missed it: Is the Syrian War About to Experience a Major […]
Ex-White House Officials Criticize Vague Rules Around Disclosure of Hacking Tools
Ex-White House Officials Criticize Vague Rules Around Disclosure of Hacking Tools WHEN U.S. GOVERNMENT officials discover a new vulnerability they can use to hack into people’s computers, they have a decision to make: Should they keep it to themselves? Or should they warn the world? Exactly how they make that decision is a mystery. Now, two […]
Secret Text in Senate Bill Would Give FBI Warrantless Access to Email Records
Secret Text in Senate Bill Would Give FBI Warrantless Access to Email Records A PROVISION SNUCK INTO the still-secret text of the Senate’s annual intelligence authorization would give the FBI the ability to demand individuals’ email data and possibly web-surfing history from their service providers without a warrant and in complete secrecy. If passed, the change […]
With New EPA Advisory, Dozens of Communities Suddenly Have Dangerous Drinking Water
WITH NEW EPA ADVISORY, DOZENS OF COMMUNITIES SUDDENLY HAVE DANGEROUS DRINKING WATER THE EPA ANNOUNCED new drinking water health advisory levels today for the industrial chemicals PFOA and PFOS. The new levels — .07 parts per billion (ppb) for both chemicals — are significantly lower than standards the agency issued in 2009, which were .4 ppb for PFOA and .2 […]
The Intercept is Broadening Access to the Snowden Archive. Here’s Why.
THE INTERCEPT IS BROADENING ACCESS TO THE SNOWDEN ARCHIVE. HERE’S WHY FROM THE TIME we began reporting on the archive provided to us in Hong Kong by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, we sought to fulfill his two principal requests for how the materials should be handled: that they be released in conjunction with careful reporting that puts […]
Leaks Show Senate Aide Threatened Colombia Over Cheap Cancer Drug
Leaks Show Senate Aide Threatened Colombia Over Cheap Cancer Drug LEAKED DIPLOMATIC LETTERS sent from Colombia’s Embassy in Washington describe how a staffer with the Senate Finance Committee, which is led by Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, warned of repercussions if Colombia moves forward on approving the cheaper, generic form of a cancer drug. The drug is […]
Bank Lobby Takes Aim at Last Remaining House Republican Who Backed Dodd-Frank
Bank Lobby Takes Aim at Last Remaining House Republican Who Backed Dodd-Frank THE BANK LOBBY is making another attempt to unseat Rep. Walter Jones, R-N.C., the maverick House Republican who consistently supported greater oversight of the finance industry, and is the last remaining member of the GOP caucus to have voted in favor of the Dodd-Frank reform law. The American Bankers […]
Panama Papers Source Wants Whistleblower Immunity to Aid Law Enforcement
Panama Papers Source Wants Whistleblower Immunity to Aid Law Enforcement THE ANONYMOUS SOURCE responsible for leaking the vast document trove known as the Panama Papers said in a manifesto published on Friday that she or he “would be willing to cooperate with law enforcement” to ensure the prosecution of wrongdoing revealed by the paper trail — but only once “governments […]
Whistleblowing Is Not Just Leaking — It’s an Act of Political Resistance
Whistleblowing Is Not Just Leaking — It’s an Act of Political Resistance “I’VE BEEN WAITING 40 years for someone like you.” Those were the first words Daniel Ellsberg spoke to me when we met last year. Dan and I felt an immediate kinship; we both knew what it meant to risk so much — and to […]
New Study Shows Mass Surveillance Breeds Meekness, Fear and Self-Censorship
New Study Shows Mass Surveillance Breeds Meekness, Fear and Self-Censorship A newly published study from Oxford’s Jon Penney provides empirical evidence for a key argument long made by privacy advocates: that the mere existence of a surveillance state breeds fear and conformity and stifles free expression. Reporting on the study, the Washington Post this morning described this phenomenon: “If we think that […]
How the CIA Writes History
HOW THE CIA WRITES HISTORY LAST SUMMER I PAID a visit to Georgetown University’s Lauinger Library as part of my research on legendary CIA counterspy James Jesus Angleton. I went there to investigate Angleton’s famous mole hunt, one of the least flattering episodes of his eventful career. By the early 1960s, Angleton was convinced the KGB had managed […]
Andrew Bacevich and America’s Long Misguided War to Control the Greater Middle East
ANDREW BACEVICH AND AMERICA’S LONG MISGUIDED WAR TO CONTROL THE GREATER MIDDLE EAST THE CONVICTION that invasion, bombing, and special forces benefit large swaths of the globe, while remaining consonant with a Platonic ideal of the national interest, runs deep in the American psyche. Like the poet Stevie Smith’s cat, the United States “likes to gallop about […]
