Op-eds/Must Reads Ilargi: Ungovernability (Naked Capitalism) ‘The Woman is a Disaster!’: Camille Paglia on Hillary Clinton (The Spectator) How Congress Can Protect the U.S. From Russia (If you want to read the ramblings of an insane warmonger, read this, Politico) A Constellation of Influencers: Behind the Curtain at Teneo (The New York Times) Hacked Memo Offers … Read more
Opinon/Must Reads The Cashless Society Is a Creepy Fantasy (Bloomberg) Sorry Not Sorry: Politico’s Thrush Doubles Down on Podesta Emails (U.S. media is a total disgrace, The Hill) Dangerous Idiots: How the Liberal Media Elite Failed Working-Class Americans (The Guardian) The Slide Toward War With Russia (The Nation) Geopolitics/Foreign Affairs Nationalists and Populists Poised to … Read more
Two weeks worth of links today. Opinion/Must Reads Aide Planted Anti-Bank Comments in One Paid Clinton Speech to Throw Reporters Off the Scent (The Intercept) The Press Buries Hillary Clinton’s Sins (The Wall Street Journal) The Disastrous Failure of Lesser Evilism (CounterPunch) Trump May Not Win, but He’s Not Going Away (Bloomberg) The Long History of the … Read more
Opinion/Must Reads Gary Johnson: Take a Deep Breath, Voters. There Is a Third Way. (Op-ed by Gary Johnson, New York Times) Geopolitics/Foreign Affairs U.S. to Send More Troops to Iraq Ahead of Mosul Battle (We’re never getting out of Iraq, Reuters) Pakistan ‘Completely Rejects’ Indian Claim of Cross-Border Strikes (Reuters) Erdogan Signals Preference for Longer Turkey … Read more
Opinion/Must Reads “FBI Is Handing Out Immunity Deals Like Candy” (Total insanity, Zerohedge) WashPost Makes History: First Paper to Call for Prosecution of Its Own Source After Accepting Pulitzer (Epic shamelessness, The Intercept) In Wells Fargo’s Bogus Accounts, Echoes of Foreclosure Abuses (The New York Times) Academic Penury: Adjunct Faculty as the New Precariat (Naked Capitalism) The … Read more
33 links for your weekend reading pleasure. Enjoy. Opinion We, the Plutocrats vs. We, the People (Long but worth it, Bill Moyers) Fooled Again (Chris Hedges writing at Truth Dig) Foreign Affairs/WW3 The Saudis Can’t Wait for Hillary Clinton (The Hill) Obama to Veto 9/11 Victims Bill (The Saudis always win, CNN) Throughout History, Debt and … Read more
I’m trying something new with the links post today. Separating articles into categories so scanning through them is easier. 24 links for your weekend reading pleasure. Enjoy. Opinion Pieces Matt Lauer’s Pathetic Interview of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Is the Scariest Thing I’ve Seen in This Campaign (Great window into the mindset of a mainstream … Read more
This should keep you busy over the long weekend. 28 links today. Enjoy. 12 Things I Learned From the FBI Report on Hillary Clinton’s Private Email Server (Total madness, must read, The Washington Post) Clinton Staff Smashed Old Blackberry Devices with Hammer (Boston Globe) List of the 400 Wealthiest People in the World (Excluding Michael … Read more
25 links today. Enjoy. Powerful NSA Hacking Tools Have Been Revealed Online (Must read, Washington Post) Clinton’s Syria War Plans (VERY scary, must read, The American Conservative) The King of ‘Political Intelligence’ Faces a Reckoning (More Washington D.C. sleaze, Wall Street Journal) U.S. Opens Probe Into Concerns Over Health-Provider Payments (Just another slimy corporate scam, Wall Street Journal) We … Read more
28 links today. Enjoy. Pentagon’s Sloppy Bookkeeping Means $6.5 Trillion Can’t Pass an Audit (The Fiscal Times) Tracking Lobbying by Foreign Governments (Mind-boggling lack of transparency, by Demand Progress) Pentagon Acknowledges US Ground Forces Supporting ISIS Fight in Libya (More non-boots on the ground, The Hill) With Yemeni Casualties Rising, GOP Senator Looks to Block Big … Read more