War

Militarized policing and surveillance and the implied technological transfer is symptomatic of an empire “come home.” Take it from a penitent practitioner of drone warfare: Americans do not want [...]

Seems as though Trump may try to ramp up military adventures in the waning months of his failing presidency. Failing because the U.S. is on the way to having one of the worst COVID-19 outcomes on [...]

===2020 Big Picture=== In preparation for President Trump’s State of the Union speech, the Economic Policy Institute has assembled research from the last year that examines the real state [...]

===2020 Big Picture=== 2005 Context: Roberts: ‘My job is to call balls and strikes and not to pitch or bat’ https://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/09/12/roberts.statement/ 2012 Context: [...]

===2020 Big Picture=== Jeff Bezos: 2010 net worth: $12 billion 2019 net worth: $112 billion Mark Zuckerberg: 2010 net worth: $4 billion 2019 net worth: $76 billion Larry Page: 2010 net worth: $28 [...]

There were 2 major WSJ stories and I mixed up the links. Fixed and added related links… Black is white. Up is down. Pompeo wants us to believe that the agreement that blocked all of Iran’s [...]

===2020 Big Picture=== FDR v Reagan… The 1980s are to the 2020s what the 1940s were to the 1980s … https://twitter.com/JohnFugelsang/status/1212507496310595587 As the Data Show, [...]

They that sow the wind, shall reap the whirlwind… Sunday Cirincione tweeted… The war with Iran crowd is getting excited. They may have found the excuse they needed to trick Trump into [...]

===2020 Big Picture=== Democratic primary voters under 35 years old via new Quinnipiac poll: Sanders 52%, Warren 17%, Biden 11%, Yang 7%, Gabbard 3%, Buttigieg 2%, Bloomberg 2%, Everyone else 1% [...]

===2020 Big Picture=== Question: How will things change if you don’t cast issues-based votes during the primary elections… votes focused on strengthening our communities and investing [...]