“Clapper said without knowing exactly what the FBI’s concerns were at the time, it’s hard to say if Mr. Trump should have been warned about the use of informants.”
“The US increasingly looks like a banana republic, where the permanent state and not the people get to decide who’s in charge.”
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“How did a person who should be in the criminal dock both in the US and in the International Criminal Court for running a torture prison get appointed the Director of the US Central Intelligence Agency?”
Read more: https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2018/05/19/64514/
“The House of Representatives on Thursday voted to force a public accounting of the current U.S. role in torture prisons across the south of Yemen.”
Read more: https://theintercept.com/2018/05/24/yemen-war-uae-torture-ro-khanna/
“This is still our country. Don’t just sit there. Do something.”
“Overcoming the evils of our age will require more than intellect and activism. It will require decency, morality, goodness, truth and toughness.”
“In one case, federal officials had turned over eight immigrant children to human traffickers.”
Parents concerned about mass murders perpetrated in gun-free zones should ditch public schools for safer alternatives with better educational outcomes, writes Thomas Eckert.
Read more: https://mises.org/wire/it%E2%80%99s-time-focus-school-school-shooting
“McCain, who is battling brain cancer, writes that the Iraq War ‘can’t be judged as anything other than a mistake, a very serious one, and I have to accept my share of the blame for it.'”
Read more: https://www.vox.com/2018/5/25/17394466/john-mccain-memoir-iraq-war-mistake
“The fact that this criminalizes speech against a public official is even more concerning.”