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  • Mistakes, Misfiring and Trident: Britain’s Flawed Nuclear Deterrence

    Nuclear weapons are considered the strategic silverware of nation states.  Occasionally, they are given a cleaning and polishing.  From time to time, they go missing, fail to work, and suffer misplacement.  Of late, the UK Royal Navy has not been doing so well in that department, given its seminal role in upholding the doctrine of […]

  • Einstein’s Postwar Campaign to Save the World from Nuclear Destruction

    Einstein’s Postwar Campaign to Save the World from Nuclear Destruction

    Although the popular new Netflix film, Einstein and the Bomb, purports to tell the story of the great physicist’s relationship to nuclear weapons, it ignores his vital role in rallying the world against nuclear catastrophe. Aghast at the use of nuclear weapons in August 1945 to obliterate the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Einstein threw […]

  • Imperial Venality Defends Itself: Day Two of Julian Assange’s High Court Appeal

    On February 21, the Royal Courts of Justice hosted a second day of carnivalesque mockery regarding the appeal by lawyers representing an ill Julian Assange, whose publishing efforts are being impugned by the United States as having compromised the identities of informants while damaging national security.  Extradition awaits, only being postponed by rearguard actions such […]

  • The Global Deep State

    The madmen are in power. — Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle The debate over U.S. foreign aid is a distraction. That’s not to say that the amount of taxpayer money flowing to foreign countries in the form of military and economic assistance is insignificant. Even at less than 1% of the […]

  • Unaccountable Hackers: The CIA, Vengeance, and Joshua Schulte

    The release of the Vault 7 files in the spring of 2017 in a series of 26 disclosures, detailing the hacking tools of the US Central Intelligence Agency, was one of the more impressive achievements of the WikiLeaks publishing organisation.  As WikiLeaks stated at the time, the hacking component of the agency’s operations had become […]

  • Who Pays the Price for Botched SWAT Team Raids? We Do

    Who Pays the Price for Botched SWAT Team Raids? We Do

    We’re all potential victims. — Peter Christ, retired police officer Sometimes ten seconds is all the warning you get. Sometimes you don’t get a warning before all hell breaks loose. Imagine it, if you will: It’s the middle of the night. Your neighborhood is in darkness. Your household is asleep. Suddenly, you’re awakened by a […]

  • Watchlisted: You’re Probably Already on a Government Extremism List

    In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught. — Hunter S. Thompson According to the FBI, you may be an anti-government extremist if you’ve: a) purchased a Bible or other religious materials, b) used terms like “MAGA” and “Trump,” c) shopped at Dick’s Sporting Goods, Cabela’s, or Bass Pro Shops, […]

  • North Korea Test-fires New Hypersonic Missile

    North Korea Test-fires New Hypersonic Missile

    North Korea has tested a solid-fuel ballistic missile armed with a hypersonic warhead, the Korean Central Telegraphic Agency (KCTA) reported on Monday. The launch was conducted amid growing tensions with Pyongyang’s southern neighbor, after Seoul recently conducted military drills with the US near the North’s border. “On January 14, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s […]

  • Criminal Assumptions: The Howard Cabinet and Invading Iraq

    When war criminals can daub canvasses in blithe safety, rake in millions of dollars in after dinner speeches and bore governments to death with their shoddy words of wisdom, the world is not so much as it should be, but merely as it is.  Former US President George W. Bush, former British Prime Minister Tony […]

  • Tunnels for Safety and Tunnels for Death

    Tunnels for Safety and Tunnels for Death

    Negev Nuclear Research Center photographed by a U.S. reconnaissance satellite in 1968 Declassified Public Domain It’s one thing to burrow beneath the ground, digging to construct a tunnel for refuge, a passage of goods, or to store weapons during a time of war. It’s quite another to use one hand, as a small child, to […]

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