“In turning to greater use of emigration controls, the US is embracing ever greater control of its domestic population and its resources. Such oversight of US citizens, however, was almost completely unknown in the nineteenth century.”
Read more: https://mises.org/wire/you-now-cant-leave-us-unless-irs-lets-you
“The disputed projects span a range, from building facial-recognition technology that could be deployed on unsuspecting people in public to providing computer services that a few years ago would have been run on a machine inside the Pentagon.”
Read more: https://www.wired.com/story/why-tech-worker-dissent-is-going-viral/
“America’s founding document might be too politically incorrect for Facebook, which flagged and removed a post consisting almost entirely of text from the Declaration of Independence.”
Read more: http://reason.com/blog/2018/07/03/facebook-algorithm-flags-removes-declara
“The DHS request for the Pentagon to house comes a week after the Defense Department was asked to house up to 20,000 unaccompanied alien migrant children. All told, the Pentagon has now been asked to house 32,000 migrants, 2,000 beginning in the next 45 days.”
“Empires are very different from republics. They are no longer by, for, and of the people. They’re too big… too complex… with too many fingers in too many pies for the people or their elected representatives to keep up with.”
Read more: https://bonnerandpartners.com/would-the-founding-fathers-recognize-modern-america/
“The agency had collected the data from a system it created under the USA Freedom Act. Congress enacted that law in 2015 to end and replace a once-secret program that had systematically collected Americans’ domestic calling records in bulk.”
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/29/us/politics/nsa-call-records-purged.html
“That a nation unable to pacify a single impoverished country like Afghanistan after 17 years of trying should contemplate attempting to control the infinite expanse of outer space will strike any sensible person as madness.”
Read more: http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-bacevich-space-force-20180621-story.html
“While there has been mass outrage over Trump’s separation policy, there is virtually no outrage over the U.S. government’s policy of killing children as a way to achieve the political goal of regime change in foreign countries.”
Read more: https://www.fff.org/2018/06/26/why-no-outrage-over-u-s-killing-of-children/
“The memo says the camps would be built on abandoned airfields in California, Alabama, and Arizona.”
Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44585716
“At the end of the Korean War, both North and South Korea were poverty-ridden hellholes. But they took different routes. And got very different results.”
Read more: https://bonnerandpartners.com/trumps-trade-deals-are-a-futile-conceit/