Liberty Links 2/3/19

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America Has Spent $5.9 Trillion on Wars in the Middle East and Asia since 2001, a New Study Says (CNBC)

Venezuela Crisis: Former UN Rapporteur Says U.S. Sanctions Are Killing Citizens (You won’t hear about this from mass media, The Independent)

How Amazon’s Ring & Rekognition Set the Stage for Consumer Generated Mass Surveillance (Washington Journal of Law, Technology & Arts)

Central Bank Gold Buying Hits Highest Level in Half a Century (CNBC)

EU Launches Mechanism to Bypass U.S. Sanctions on Iran (Al Jazeera)

Facebook Pays Teens to Install VPN That Spies on Them (Disgusting, TechCrunch)

Walgreens Is Exploring New Tech That Turns Your Purchases, Your Movements, Even Your Gaze, into Data (Super creepy, The Atlantic)

One of the Biggest At-Home DNA Testing Companies Is Working With the FBI (BuzzFeed)

Anti-Maduro Coalition Grew from Secret Talks (AP)

Elliott Abrams, Trump’s Pick to Bring “Democracy” to Venezuela, Has Spent His Life Crushing Democracy (The Intercept)

U.S. News/Politics

Wall Street Freaks Out About 2020 (Politico)

An Anti-Facebook Manifesto, by an Early Facebook Investor (The New York Times)

Facebook Unveils Plans for Preventing Spread of Misinformation Ahead of Elections Worldwide (I think you know what this really means, The Hill)

Psychedelic Mushrooms Are on a Trip to Denver’s 2019 Election Ballot (The Denver Post)

International News/Geopolitics

The U.S. Has Formally Requested to Extradite Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou from Canada (Business Insider)

Venezuela Plans to Fly Central Bank Gold Reserves to UAE (Reuters)

The ‘Venezuelan People’ Are Whoever Agrees With Donald Trump (FAIR)

These Media Claims About Venezuela Are Lies Or Misconceptions (Moon of Alabama)

Venezuela – Coup Attempt Part Of A Larger Project – Military Intervention Likely To Fail (Moon of Alabama)

Bolton’s Notepad Stirs Questions over White House Plans in Venezuela (The Hill)

China Asks: If U.S. Is so Powerful, Why Is It so ‘Afraid’ of Us and Russia? (Newsweek)

U.S. Forces in Japan to Increase Combat Readiness in 2019 (Taiwan News)

Economy/Finance/Crypto

China’s U.S. Treasury Holdings Continue to Tumble Amid Trade War (Bloomberg)

Facebook vs. Apple: Tech’s Biggest Cold War Heats up — and Gets Personal (NBC News)

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