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New Documents Reveal a Covert British Military-Intelligence Smear Machine Meddling In American Politics (Must read, Grayzone Project)
I Gave a Bounty Hunter $300. Then He Located Our Phone (Telecom companies promised to stop selling our personal data, but are still doing it, MotherBoard)
Yellow Vests Knock out 60% of All Speed Cameras in France (BBC)
As Democratic Elites Reunite With Neocons, the Party’s Voters Are Becoming Far More Militaristic and Pro-War Than Republicans (The Intercept)
Veteran NBC/MSNBC Journalist Blasts the Network for Being Captive to the National Security State and Reflexively Pro-War to Stop Trump (Excellent piece, The Intercept)
William Barr Helped Build America’s Surveillance State (Trump’s AG pick is very bad, ACLU)
No Tuition, but You Pay a Percentage of Your Income (Interesting article on the innovative Lambda School, The New York Times)
Inside Facebook’s Secret Rulebook for Global Political Speech (The New York Times)
Buyer of House on the Peak in Hong Kong Walks Away from Deal – Loses U.S. $4.6 Million Deposit (Serious pain emerging in the Hong Kong housing market, South China Morning Post)
U.S. News/Politics
Tulsi Gabbard Announces She’s Running for President (Tulsi2020)
Tulsi Gabbard on Her LGBTQ+ Record (CSPAN)
U.S. Senate’s First Bill, in the Midst of the Shutdown, Is a Bipartisan Defense of the Israeli Government from Boycotts (So unbelievably messed up, The Intercept)
John Bolton: Trump’s Foreign Policy Architect or Saboteur? (The American Conservative)
Chuck Todd on Bernie Sanders: ‘If You Can’t Manage a Campaign, How Do You Manage the Country?’ (Corporate media mannequins already trying to sabotage Sanders, The Hill)
The Battle of Bernie and Beto (Spectator)
Progressive Ideas Matter to Voters. So Why Do Democrats Fixate on the Identity of the Messenger? (The Intercept)
Biden Doesn’t Want to Hear Millennials Complain: ‘Give Me a Break’ (This won’t help him if he runs, Newsweek)
Netflix Drops Hasan Minhaj Episode In Saudi Arabia At Government’s Request (NPR)
More People Moved out of This State Than Any Other in America (The New York Post)
How Psilocybin—A.K.A. Shrooms—Could Become the Next Legalized Drug (Esquire)
International News/Geopolitics
A New Cold War Has Begun (With China, not Russia, Foreign Policy)
U.S. Issues China Travel Advisory Amid Increased Tensions (Reuters)
Xi Jinping Says Taiwan ‘Must and Will Be’ Reunited with China (BBC)
French PM Outlines Tougher Penalties for Yellow Vests Violence (Bloomberg)
Macron’s Yellow Vest Response Makes Putin Look Soft (Bloomberg)
New Studies Show Pundits Are Wrong About Russian Social-Media Involvement in U.S. Politics (The Nation)
Michael Isikoff Cuts His Losses at ‘Russian Roulette’ (Consortium News)
Arms Sales to Saudis Leave American Fingerprints on Yemen’s Carnage (The New York Times)
Caliph Erdogan? Why Turkey’s President Is Quietly Courting Indian Muslims (Haaretz)
Fake News Reports Blamed Cuba, Russia And China Of ‘Sonic Attack’ On U.S. Diplomats – The Culprits Were Crickets (Moon of Alabama)
Economy/Finance/Crypto
Doubleline’s Gundlach: High-Yield Market Flashing ‘Yellow’ on Recession (Reuters)
German Recession Fears Mount After More Poor Industrial Data (AP)
Gold-Backed ETFs Gained Globally in 2018, Even with North America Outflows (Reuters)
China Adds to Gold Reserves for First Time Since October 2016 (Bloomberg)
The Malaysia Scandal Is Starting to Look Dire for Goldman Sachs (Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone)
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Dems becoming this hawkish is a damning indictment of the party. Liberals are supposed to have two core tenets: anti-poverty and anti-war. They seem uninterested in fighting bankers and have morphed from apathy to being outright pro-war. Could a modern Dem even explain what the party is supposed to stand for? Do they realize there is a world outside gender pronouns, race baiting, and virtue signaling?
This is yet more evidence that the two party system is broken, along with the financial system and a bunch of other things. I don’t blame Repubs for taking a chance on Trump, circumventing the party elite, but it’s too bad for them he didn’t mean the things he said on the campaign trail.