Year: 2016

I’m enjoying the GOP meltdown as much as anyone, but a brief reminder of why this election matters is warranted. Donald Trump wants to bring back torture. At least half of the 39 people who went through the C.I.A.’s...

by releasing his tax returns.

David Graeber, OuiShare: The Era of Predatory Bureaucratization Merged private-public bureaucracies have one effect: extracting rents.  Graeber argues that this is closer to feudalism in form, something we’ve used as...

Nicholas Burns was let go when John Kerry needed to deploy a diplomatic effort. HRC is more hawkish yet … Eastern Europe needs permanent Nato troops, say ex-US policymakers | The Guardian – June 2016 | In a report...

I mean, who knew Trump was a monster?