1+ week, 4+ day ago  (481+ words) Rep. Anna Luna (R. Florida) kicks off the MKUltra hearing. Image courtesy House.gov. There is scarce new information on MKUltra, so it is surprising to see congressional inquiry over half a century after the program terminated. But as is often…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (1052+ words) The American taxpayer has become the cleanup crew for the American Police State. We pay for the constitutional violations. We pay for the wars. We pay for the lawsuits, the settlements, the cover-ups, the damage control, the reconstruction, the overreach,…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (360+ words) Image by Markus Winkler. Because television is broadcast on public airwaves, it is also subject to FCC regulation. These rules could not, however, apply to cable television, which is transmitted over private networks. The internet spread with the expectation that…...

3+ mon, 4+ week ago  (363+ words) Instead, what has awkwardly replaced Wikileaks ten years on is Trump’s D.o.J’s file-dumping, with Pam Bondi announcing the next big “leak” or declassification of archives. The first wave of freed files concerned the assassinations of iconic Americans whose deaths…...

6+ mon, 3+ day ago  (730+ words) Seymour Hersh, still from Cover-Up (Netflix). The Mouse Turd and the Pentagon The Trade Value of Secrets and Why Sources Talk One of the most revealing moments in Cover Up comes when Poitras presses Hersh on why his sources talk…...