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NATO is a Goldmine for the US/Military Industrial Complex
NATO is a Goldmine for the US/Military Industrial Complex Photo source Parker Gyokeres | CC BY 2.0 Countries of the NATO military alliance have been ordered by President Trump to increase their spending on weapons, and the reasons for his insistence they do so are becoming clearer. It’s got nothing to do with any defense […]
Twitter Caught Censoring Conservative Journalists With Site-Wide Shadowbans
Twitter Caught Censoring Conservative Journalists With Site-Wide Shadowbans Two days after Twitter told Congress that they aren’t politically biased when censoring content, several prominent conservatives discovered that the social media giant automatically includes them in a site-wide “Quality Filter Discrimination” shadowban which prevents anyone not already following them from viewing their posts. While the filters have been around since […]
Where Do You Draw the Line in Today’s Crazed Political Environment?
Where Do You Draw the Line in Today’s Crazed Political Environment? If you vote for Trump, then you the voter, you, not Donald Trump, are standing at the border like Nazis going ‘you here, you here’. – Donny Deutsch on MSNBC last week Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he […]
Congressional Democrats Demand Answers About Amazon’s Facial Recognition Technology
Photo illustration: Getty Images CONGRESSIONAL DEMOCRATS DEMAND ANSWERS ABOUT AMAZON’S FACIAL RECOGNITION TECHNOLOGY REPS. KEITH ELLISON, D-Minn., and Emanuel Cleaver, D-Mo., sent a letter to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos on Friday morning, demanding answers about how the tech giant’s facial recognition technology is being used by law enforcement agencies around the country. The letter, provided […]
Decades of Unconstitutional Wars
Decades of Unconstitutional Wars Despite United States Congress members insisting that Congress debate and vote on US military actions overseas, congressional leadership has chosen inaction, allowing military actions unilaterally pursued by the executive branch to continue unrestrained. And, when, this year, consideration has begun to move forward on an authorization for use of military force […]
Congress Weighs Indefinite Detention of Americans
Congress Weighs Indefinite Detention of Americans A Senate bill under consideration could allow Donald Trump to indefinitely jail American citizens without charge if they oppose U.S. military action, says Marjorie Cohn. Under the guise of exercising supervisory power over the president’s ability to use military force, Congress is considering writing Donald Trump a blank check […]
Perpetual Business Of War
Perpetual Business Of War Shortly before its attack on Syria, the US declassified its “Report on the Legal and Policy Frameworks Guiding the United States’ Use of Military Force and Related National Security Operations.” As its name implies, this paper concerns itself with US military operations abroad. The word “war” is never officially used, as […]
There is Over $7.5 Trillion In Debt That’s Highly Vulnerable To Rising Rates – Here’s What To Expect
There is Over $7.5 Trillion In Debt That’s Highly Vulnerable To Rising Rates – Here’s What To Expect The 10-year interest rate hit the critical level of 3% this morning. And this is the highest level it’s been since 2014 – four years ago. . . A couple months back, I highlighted the correlation of […]
6 simple reasons why Trump is going to war in Syria
6 simple reasons why Trump is going to war in Syria Attacking Syria has nothing to do with values and democracy. POTUS Trump knows that the chemical attack in Syria is a hoax and false flag. The mainstream media knows that the chemical attack in Syria is a hoax and false flag. All of Congress knows […]
Rand Paul: Deep State Exists, Uses Intelligence for Political Purposes
Rand Paul: Deep State Exists, Uses Intelligence for Political Purposes Washington, D.C.— Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said Tuesday during an appearance on The Laura Ingraham Show podcast that the term “deep state” accurately describes how an unelected bureaucracy of national security officials in positions of power exert influence without Congressional oversight. “Absolutely, there is a […]
Trump Seeks Congressional Funding for 60,000-Man Army to Overthrow Assad
Trump Seeks Congressional Funding for 60,000-Man Army to Overthrow Assad ISIS, or ISIL, or Islamic State, has been almost completely defeated in Syria, but the U.S. Department of Defense is requesting an increase instead of a decrease in funding to support “Vetted Syrian Opposition,” or fighters in Syria against Syria’s Government, and it refers to […]
A Rhetorical Education
A Rhetorical Education Quite a bit of the discussion on this blog and its predecessors has focused on controversial issues, the kind of thing that causes rhetoric to fly fast and thick. Given the themes I like to discuss in these essays, that could hardly have been avoided. Ours is an age riven by disputes, […]
Dictator for Life: The Rise of the American Imperial President [SHORT]
Dictator for Life: The Rise of the American Imperial President [SHORT] I’m not a fan of Communist China. It’s a vicious totalitarian regime that routinely employs censorship, surveillance, and brutal police state tactics to intimidate its populace, maintain its power, and expand the largesse of its corporate elite. Just recently, in fact, China—an economic and […]
Rising Economic Head Winds
Rising Economic Head Winds Remember the “tea party” revolt in 2009–2010 against government bailouts and government spending? Remember the “fiscal cliff” drama of Dec. 31, 2012, when Congress raised taxes and cut spending to avoid a debt default and government shutdown? Remember the actual government shutdown in October 2013 as Republicans held the line against […]
Tomgram: Danny Sjursen, Buttering Up the Pentagon
Tomgram: Danny Sjursen, Buttering Up the Pentagon Recently, the Pentagon’s top Asia official, Randall Schriver, told senators that the Afghan war would cost this country’s taxpayers $45 billion in 2018, including $5 billion for the Afghan security forces, $13 billion for U.S. forces in that country, and $780 million in economic aid. How the other […]
