Banned Seven Words: Censorship or Good Strategy?
After a federal official told staff not to use certain words in budget documents, the pushback was huge. But there might have been a method to this madness.
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After a federal official told staff not to use certain words in budget documents, the pushback was huge. But there might have been a method to this madness.
Forty-six years after the release of the Pentagon Papers, Ellsberg reveals another set of documents on how nuclear war might have been waged in the 1950s and 60s.
California’s recent wildfires provided frightening news footage of what it looks like when an entire region is ablaze. Even more, the images also offer a glimpse of what’s in store in the future.
Dan Rather might have made some journalistic errors in pursuing the story of George W. Bush’s National Guard duty, but he got the underlying narrative right.
Bill Binney was an NSA analyst whose work was so effective it was shut down. It threatened to derail the gravy train fueled by the kinds of problems he might have solved — including preventing potential terrorist attacks. The contractors and executives riding that train had a motto: “keep the problem going, so the money keeps flowing.”
Was President John F. Kennedy’s mistress killed in an intricate, CIA-conducted operation like something out of the old television series Mission Impossible?
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The FCC seems hell-bent on gutting net neutrality and giving broadband providers the power to regulate the Internet — even at the cost of ignoring identity theft.
On the anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination, let’s not forget the man who was lost that day and think about how much he could have changed the world.
While President Donald Trump seeks to dismantle almost everything put in place by the Obama administration, one area where he stays the course is the drone war.
The author finds out more and more about the elusive man who may have murdered President John F. Kennedy’s mistress.
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