13 links today. Enjoy! Feds Left ‘Explosives’ Material Aboard School Bus After Training Exercises, Parents Told (Speechless, Fox News) Reddit Deletes Surveillance ‘Warrant Canary’ in Transparency Report (Reuters) FBI Is Pushing Back Against Judge’s Order to Reveal Tor Browser Exploit (Oh the irony, Motherboard) EU Sanctions 3 Top Libyans for Blocking UN-Backed Government (Notice all … Read more
25 links today. Enjoy! In Syria, Militias Armed by the Pentagon Fight Those Armed by the CIA (This is a real headline, LA Times) “We Are the Death Merchant of the World”: Ex-Bush Official Lawrence Wilkerson Condemns Military-Industrial Complex (Must read, Salon) Financial-Crisis Panel Suggested Criminal Cases Against Stan O’Neal, Charles Prince, AIG Bosses (Yet nothing happened, … Read more
Hundreds of Turkish academics are waiting to find out whether they will be prosecuted or sacked for spreading “terrorist propaganda”, after they signed a petition calling for violence to end in Turkey’s southeast, where government forces have been fighting Kurdish separatists. After the petition provoked a furious response from Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, several … Read more
Eric Schmidt, the former chief executive officer of Google, will head a new Pentagon advisory board aimed at bringing Silicon Valley innovation and best practices to the U.S. military, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said on Wednesday. Carter unveiled the new Defense Innovation Advisory Board with Schmidt during the annual RSA cyber security conference in San … Read more
14 links today. Enjoy! The Clintons’ $93 Million Romance with Wall Street: a Catastrophe for Working Families, African-Americans, and Latinos (Must read, CounterPunch) How the Democrats Have Helped Wall Street, Not the Middle Class (Interview with Thomas Frank) Ted Cruz, A Bush By Another Name (Cruz is not what he pretends to be, Daily Caller) Former Citi Vice … Read more
16 links today. Enjoy: How the ‘New York Times’ Sandbagged Bernie Sanders (Totally shameless, RollingStone) DOJ to Apple: Start Cooperating or You’ll Get the Lavabit Treatment (EmptyWheel) It Took a FOIA Lawsuit to Uncover How the Obama Administration Killed FOIA Reform (Vice News) I Was Wrong About Donald Trump: Camille Paglia on the GOP Front-Runner’s … Read more
In time of actual war, great discretionary powers are constantly given to the Executive Magistrate. Constant apprehension of War, has the same tendency to render the head too large for the body. A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty. The means of defence against foreign danger, … Read more
Below are links to some of the more interesting and important reads I came across today, but will not be publishing on in detail. On Foreign Policy, Hillary Clinton is the Only Republican Left Standing (Title pretty much says it all, Haaretz) Warmongers Hate Trump (Reason) Cables Show Hillary Clinton’s State Department Deeply Involved in Trans-Pacific Partnership (International Business Times) … Read more
Although the extent to which oil-related funding has sustained ISIS over the past couple of years is highly contested, it’s undeniable that the collapse in prices has had a negative cash flow impact on the terror threat du jour. As such, how’s the group sustaining itself in the fact of such a major cash crunch? According to … Read more
The EU is turning a blind eye to an opposition crackdown in Turkey that’s polarizing society and complicating efforts to find a political solution to the nation’s Kurdish conflict, Demirtas said in an impromptu interview en route to Brussels. European leaders are expected to ink an agreement with Turkey on Monday that will offer faster … Read more