Election Insecurity
Donald Trump Contradicts Himself, and Reality, at Press Conference
Trump's fury at the news media dominated his press conference, but several other matters of real importance were raised that are worth digesting.
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Watch How Casually False Claims Are Published: New York Times and Nicholas Lemann Edition
The Paper of Record publishes a claim it knows to be false about the Snowden reporting. Why?
Disinformation, Not Fake News, Got Trump Elected, and It Is Not Stopping
The "PizzaGate" hoax should be described as what it is: a disinformation operation intended to boost Donald Trump by tarnishing Hillary Clinton.
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U.S. and U.K. Continue to Actively Participate in Saudi War Crimes, Targeting of Yemeni Civilians
Obama was explicitly warned the U.S. could be liable as a war crimes participant. That changed nothing.
Donald Trump’s Not Anti-War, He Just Wants the U.S. Military to Focus on Stealing Oil
Trump’s peacenik credentials are undermined by his vision of American troops as the muscle in a protection racket aimed at extorting oil from Iraq and Libya.
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Why Did the Saudi Regime and Other Gulf Tyrannies Donate Millions to the Clinton Foundation?
It doesn’t exactly take a jaded disposition to doubt that donations from some of the world’s most repressive regimes are motived by a desire to aid the foundation’s charitable work.
What Julian Assange's War on Hillary Clinton Says About WikiLeaks
Assange’s project has always been about opposition research. WikiLeaks exists to find dirt in the servers of the powerful and bring them down by exposing it.
Election Insecurity
If Russian Intelligence Did Hack the DNC, the NSA Would Know, Snowden Says
Americans are right to ask for proof before accepting the idea that Russia was behind the hacking of the DNC; Edward Snowden says the NSA could provide it.
Federal Law Criminalizes Protesting Trump Now That He's Guarded by the Secret Service
The preemptive removal of two dozen black college students from a Trump rally in Georgia raised an obvious question: Why did a local police force apparently obey orders from the campaign to remove dissenters?
Snowden Archive
Controversial GCHQ Unit Engaged in Domestic Law Enforcement, Online Propaganda, Psychology Research
JTRIG’s use of behavioral science research is emphasized as critical to its operations, including discussions of how to foster “obedience” and “conformity.”