The United States runs a global military empire whose workings are effectively unknown to the American people. Congress is supposed to conduct oversight of the armed services but it doesn’t. When the Senate held a hearing about the weekly U.S. attacks on Somalia–47 drone strikes in 2018 that killed hundreds of people–only Elizabeth Warren asked...
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Puppies and Covert Ops: Edward Snowden Explains Why the CIA Just Made an Instagram
I thought I was the only one bothered by the fact that the CIA has a Twitter account, which effectively serves as a domestic propaganda channel, and that the agency plans to add an Instagram account soon. I have company: Edward Snowden. In a podcast with the tech site Motherboard, the NSA whisteblower explained why...
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Which 2020 Democrats Take Money From the Arms Industry?
Four Democratic candidates have sworn off all PAC contributions. Nine have pledged not to take money from the fossil fuel industry. But what do the candidates say–and do–about contributions from the arms industry? So far, not much. Almost 60 years ago, retiring Republican President Dwight Eisenhower warned of the “unwarranted influence” of the “military-industrial complex”...
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Under Mueller’s Questioning, Trump’s ‘Great Memory’ Failed 30 Times
The president’s self-proclaimed “great memory” failed him when he responded in writing to questions from Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller in November 2018. A month later, Mueller told Trump’s lawyers about “the insufficiency of those responses. ….We noted, among other things, that the President stated on more than 30 occasions that he “does not ‘ recall’...
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Giuliani: ‘Nothing Wrong’ With Taking Information from Russians
The president’s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, articulated the permissive rules that the Trump White House wants applied to itself and to no one else. “There’s nothing wrong with taking information from Russians,” Giuliani said on CNN’s “State of the Union.” He was referring to a June 2016 Trump Tower meeting involving Mr. Trump’s son Donald Jr.,...