‘Democracy Reborn’, the title of a book from 2007 by the historian Garrett Epps, is used in US historiography to designate the time after the Civil War when all progressives joined forces to add Amendment XIV to the Constitution. This amendment provided African Americans with full citizenship and prohibited any …
Read More »‘These patriots did nothing wrong’: Trump defends MAGA caravan that ‘surrounded & harassed’ Biden bus in Texas amid FBI probe
“In my opinion, these patriots did nothing wrong,” Trump said in a tweet on Sunday night, tripling down on his praise for pickup-driving supporters who surrounded a Biden-Harris campaign bus as it passed through central Texas on Friday. In a brief statement, FBI San Antonio confirmed it was “aware of …
Read More »‘Nothing nefarious at all’: Backlash as ex-NSA chief, involved in mass surveillance revealed by Snowden, joins Amazon board
Amazon announced that Alexander, who served as NSA director from 2005 up to his retirement in March 2014, will join the company’s board on Wednesday. “We’re thrilled to elect a new member to our Board of Directors this month. Welcome, General Keith Alexander!” the tech giant said in a statement …
Read More »Snowden did nothing wrong? Court rules NSA spying on Americans’ phones was illegal all along
The metadata “bulk collection” program violated the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Wednesday. The opinion delivered by Judge Marsha Berzon reportedly contained multiple references to Snowden and his role in disclosing the program to the public – for which …
Read More »The new media elite will stop at nothing to protect their profits. They’re rapacious monopolists, and we are their food
In recent weeks, there has been heightened media concern that Facebook is cultivating a close relationship between government and big tech monopolies by poaching and recruiting former senior policy officials. The findings reveal a systematic hiring of government insiders with knowledge of regulation by offering them huge incentives to join. …
Read More »Was nothing to steal
Power in Russia has lost even the hint of a positive agenda, being in a situation of Genie from the songs of Vladimir Vysotsky: “in addition mordobitiya no miracles”. Two and a half years years after the announcement of national projects and two years after the increase in the retirement …
Read More »Was nothing to steal
Power in Russia has lost even the hint of a positive agenda, being in a situation of Genie from the songs of Vladimir Vysotsky: “in addition mordobitiya no miracles”. Two and a half years years after the announcement of national projects and two years after the increase in the retirement …
Read More »“Hell of a job for nothing.” Why the failure of the reform of the Ukrainian police
“No reform, people are running… There are no prospects… Heavy, hell of a job that pays pennies.” People say that five years ago they believed in the new Ukrainian police and went into it to serve, and has now gone or going to leave. Five years ago, July 4, 2015, …
Read More »Want 500 rubles for nothing?
They again all went according to plan. They were confident in their rightness, but instead of recognizing the error of their judgment – decided to cast aside all the money. Some would call this position a trouble, but the name of her opposition. First of all dissuaded to go to …
Read More »The degradation of television – now there was nothing to fix
There is nobody not a secret that news programs on TV to watch, it makes no sense. All the news on the TV there late in the afternoon, in the Internet we learn the news before because, periodically look in the Internet with its social networks. In fact, TV has …
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