Authored by John Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute,
“The means of defense against foreign danger have been always the instruments of tyranny at home.” ? James Madison
Who designed the malware worm that is now wreaking havoc on tens of thousands of computers internationally by hackers demanding a king’s ransom? The U.S. government.
Authored by Jason Ditz via TheAntiMedia.org,
Earlier this month, US officials said the US was seeking to reach “billions” of dollars in arms sales to Saudi Arabia as part of Trump’s visit to Riyadh. With a week left before the visit, officials now say the White House is very close to the deal, and that it will amount to over $100 billion in sales.
Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog,
After giving hours of testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee on May 8th (which we covered here), Sally Yates sat down for another round of interviews with CNN's Anderson Cooper to answer all the same questions about Michael Flynn's dismissal all over again. The full interview is set to air tonight at 8pm EST on CNN but a teaser clip has been released for our early digestion.
Perhaps the most provocative part of the teaser comes at the 0:24 mark when Cooper asks whether Flynn's underlying conduct was "illegal." To which Yates responded:
Authored by Robert Parry via The Strategic Culture Foundation,
Where is Stanley Kubrick when we need him? If he hadn’t died in 1999, he would be the perfect director to transform today’s hysteria over Russia into a theater-of-the-absurd movie reprising his Cold War classic, “Dr. Strangelove,” which savagely satirized the madness of nuclear brinksmanship and the crazed ideology behind it.