The Feds’ Secret Workforce
Last week, Congress was shocked to learn that a tiny energy company in Montana had received a $300 million no-bid contract to help restore Puerto Rico’s electric grid. The public momentarily caught...
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Report: Climate Change Already Damaging Health of Millions Globally (Trevin) The Guardian writes that “action to halt emissions would deliver huge benefits” against heatwaves, pollution, hunger, and...
View ArticleExclusive: National Archives Reveals Missing Document Count to WhoWhatWhy
A National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) official has told WhoWhatWhy that approximately 2,800 JFK assassination records remain withheld in full following Thursday’s disappointing release....
View ArticleHow to Make a Political Statement on Halloween (While That’s Still Legal)
Halloween, and the accompanying costumes, are supposed to be scary or funny. But what do you do at a time when many Americans are already scared about what is happening to their country and the entire...
View ArticleTrumped: The Mandate, the Media, and New Clues Amid the JFK Document (Un)-Dump
For those of us waiting since passage of the JFK Act of 1992 for release of the last withheld documents on President John F. Kennedy’s assassination, the news last Thursday was beyond anti-climactic....
View ArticleRussiagate Blurbs: October 31, 2017
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View ArticleGitmo Lawyer Showdown
Saudi-Led Air Strike Kills 21 in Yemen (Trevin) The strike reduced a market in Yemen’s northern Sa’dah province to “a heap of twisted sheet metal.” The two-and-a-half year war against the Houthi...
View ArticleRussiagate Blurbs: November 1, 2017
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View ArticleThe Boat People’s Long Shadow
Hostility to the proposed refugee resettlement program was high. A poll showed that 62 percent of respondents agreed with the statement: “The [refugees] will take jobs away from Americans at a time...
View ArticleGOP and Trump Kill Consumer Protections
Visualize $63 Trillion in Global Debt (Jeff C.) Guess who leads the world with almost one-third of its sovereign debt? It’s the same country that hasn’t posted an annual budget surplus since 2001....
View ArticleRussiagate Blurbs: November 2, 2017
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View ArticleWhat Made a British Politician ‘Thoroughly Ashamed’?
An extreme example of British politeness captured on video in the Houses of Parliament this week is going viral — and throws behavior in American political establishments into sharp relief.Oh dear....
View ArticleA Russian Sightseeing Tour for Realists
The other day I received an invitation from The Nation magazine to “Visit Russia.” Dear Friend of The Nation, Join us in Russia April 19–30, 2018! At this pivotal moment in US-Russia relations, The...
View ArticleWill Musk’s Rocket Launch Ignite a New Space Race?
Millions of captivated earthlings witnessed an aerospace milestone Tuesday afternoon when the world’s most powerful rocket was catapulted into space from the Kennedy Space Center.It was launched from...
View ArticleJohn Perry Barlow’s Last Words
Mother American Night: My Life in Crazy Times, by John Perry Barlow and Robert Greenfield (Crown Archetype, June 2018).John Perry Barlow’s sudden death last week shined a spotlight on his high-profile...
View ArticleTrump’s Affair With a Porn Star Shouldn’t Matter (Much)
If somebody were to compile a definitive list of do’s and don’ts in politics, “Don’t have it come out that you had an affair with a porn star while your third wife was at home with your newborn child”...
View ArticleIgnored Warnings in Florida Shooting Just the Latest FBI Screw-up
The FBI is one of the few institutions that, no matter how often it screws up in major ways, no matter that there is something deeply wrong with the place, never seems to be held accountable....
View ArticleBilly Graham, Willing Pawn for Politicians
Billy Graham has died. He is being remembered as a friend and confessor to presidents, one who gave them guidance and moral fortification. But just as much, Graham was a willing tool of politicians who...
View ArticleAnother Modest Proposal: Let’s Help Trump by Surrounding Him With Gunslingers
In response to the Florida school massacre, the White House had President Donald Trump participate in an unusual, media-filmed “listening” session with mourning parents and students. Trump listened —...
View ArticleJudicial Activism: Liberal Overreach or Republican Dog Whistle?
The need to protect the Constitution from “activist liberal judges” is one of the favorite rallying cries of the judicial right. The way they see it, conservative judges are the stalwart defenders of...
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