Edward Snowden: The Insecurity Industry
From Edward Snowden’s Substack: The greatest danger to national security has become the companies that claim to protect it The first thing I do when
From Edward Snowden’s Substack: The greatest danger to national security has become the companies that claim to protect it The first thing I do when
A friend just sent the following video, from someone named Spiro Skouras about something called the “Great Reset,” which the World Economic Forum (i.e., Davos)
This is getting ridiculous. Every few days another country blows up, as their citizens take to the streets with little warning and no apparent interest
Just a couple of weeks ago the financial world’s biggest worry was the plunging price of oil. Supply was up, stockpiles were building and speculation
Looking strictly at the numbers it’s hard to work up much interest in whether Republicans or Democrats are in charge after 2020. Either way, trillion-dollar
This is the second post in a week on Chicago’s epic financial train wreck. That’s a lot of attention and it probably won’t happen again,
One of history’s hard lessons is that collapsing financial systems beget authoritarian politics. Today’s world, alas, is following this script, as rising debts lead to
Two points about today’s political economy – and then a prediction involving Illinois: Point One: What’s coming is poetic justice for the aristocracy. The wave
Now that we’re all free to speak our minds (maybe we should we call this the “post-political-caution world”) a lot of previously discredited ideas have
Among all the many things governments do that seem to violate the Constitution — not to mention common sense and basic fairness – asset forfeiture
With the election of Donald Trump, the US right let its id off the leash. Now pretty much everything conservatives have thought but not said
After a long, initially-successful run promoting European integration and mass immigration, German Chancellor Angela Merkel saw the bottom fall out of her political fortunes this
President Trump will soon nominate his second Supreme Court justice. The first, Neil Gorsuch, has so perfectly replaced the late Antonin Scalia that it’s safe
After the recent deluge of videos showing police abusing and sometimes flat-out murdering more-or-less innocent citizens, the willingness of a growing number of cities to
In the past 48 hours, two stories broke that illustrate how dominant technology has become in the age-old war between freedom and control: Malware Lets
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