American Totalitarianism and the Culture of Fake News
"The Pew study indicates that there is a significant cognitive problem among US people in being able to assess facts from opinions."
"The Pew study indicates that there is a significant cognitive problem among US people in being able to assess facts from opinions."
"The memo says the camps would be built on abandoned airfields in California, Alabama, and Arizona."
"Emotion, not genuine geopolitical insight, drives popular support for inflated defense spending."
"As the Saudis attack the Yemeni port town of Hodeidah, the stated goal is to starve the residents into opposing the Houthi forces controlling the city. The US is actively participating in what is clearly a war crime against civilians. Why?"
"Was it General Eisenhower who saw more clearly than any of us?"
"The system includes mandatory facial-recognition scans at gas stations and Wi-Fi sniffers that secretly collect data from network devices. Over the past two years, the technology has helped authorities round up an estimated hundreds of thousands of Uighurs and other Muslims and lock them up in clandestine camps that China calls 're-education centers.'"
"Lonsdale and Luckey argue that building cheaper, more efficient systems is a virtuous pursuit, saving taxpayer dollars. Anduril’s Palantir pedigree may have prepared it for criticism."
"The United States is at war in so many places that the majority of citizens would struggle to name half of them."
"Graham, a retired colonel, has in the past supported the ability to indefinitely detain those captured under the current AUMF and has opposed limits on the president’s ability to conduct war."
"Why wouldn’t the CIA and the Pentagon effect a domestic regime-change operation on November 22, 1963?"