
Tag: Intelligence Agencies
Released for Syndication:
05/16/2024
Following the reapproval of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) on April 20, 2024, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer proudly declared that “bipartisanship has prevailed here in the Senate.” Despite the increasing rarity of bipartisanship in recent years, support for government surveillance continues to...
Released for Syndication:
09/03/2021
Some commentators have taken to describing Afghanistan as a “failed narco-state.” While accurate in many ways, the description has a bitter ring when it is used by American officials. That’s like robbing someone of everything they own and then accusing them of poor money management.
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Released for Syndication:
04/23/2021
President Joe Biden, in announcing an ostensible end to the U.S. war in Afghanistan, is continuing his streak of paying eloquent lip service to progressive causes while maintaining the implied status quo. In a televised address from the White House on April 14, Biden...
Released for Syndication:
10/29/2020
Two weeks before Election Day, cybersecurity threats and related disinformation originating overseas and targeting the 2020 election briefly were front-page news.
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Released for Syndication:
08/28/2020
The emergence in recent weeks of a coalition of neocon Republicans and former national security officials who have thrown their support behind the candidacy of Joe Biden is an ominous development to those who believe U.S. foreign policy should be guided by the principles of...
Released for Syndication:
01/29/2020
Sixteen years after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, most Americans understand that it was an illegal war based on lies about non-existent “weapons of mass destruction.” But our government is now threatening to drag us into a war on Iran with a nearly identical “big lie” about a non-existent nuclear weapons program,...