“Whether collectivists realize it or not, they voted to put those kids in cages separated from their families. They voted for Trump to inherit the Obama era powers.”
“Posada Carriles would later boast that ‘the CIA taught us everything… they taught us explosives, how to kill, bomb, trained us in sabotage.’“
“He confessed it was his father, Robert F. Kennedy, who doubted the intentions of the government’s intelligence agency.”
“There exist a considerable number of Americans who just find it inconceivable that the CIA would do the things that it, by its own admission, was specializing in.”
Read more: https://www.fff.org/2018/05/24/a-remarkable-lawyer-and-a-fascinating-case/
“Never has a great power still in its imperial prime proved quite so incapable of applying its military and political might in a way that would advance its aims.”
Read more: https://www.thenation.com/article/americas-war-on-terror-has-cost-taxpayers-5-6-trillion/
“Thanks to a combination of sloppy drafting and clear reluctance to take the executive branch head-on, Corker and Kaine’s proposed AUMF could do the opposite, handing genuinely tyrannical powers over to the president.”
Read more: https://theintercept.com/2018/05/01/ndaa-2018-aumf-detention/
“The CIA operative and FBI informant used to gather information on the 2016 Trump campaign has, for weeks, been falsely depicted as a sensitive intelligence asset rather than what he actually is: a long-time CIA operative with extensive links to the Bush family who was responsible for a dirty and likely illegal spying operation in the 1980 presidential election.”
“Belief in the Pax Americana persists, along with an appetite for armed intervention. So too does a studied indifference to costs and consequences.”
Read more: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/washingtons-pax-americana-cartel/
“The Corker-Kaine AUMF is beyond dangerous. It is unconstitutional. And it is set up to never end.”
“The sharpest plunge in America’s press freedom rating occurred during the Obama administration — thanks in part to its zealous prosecutions of journalists. Trump is continuing policies started by earlier presidents.”