https://media.blubrry.com/last_american_vagabond/content.blubrry.com/last_american_vagabond/The_Daily_Wrap_Up-5-23.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Email | RSSWelcome to The Daily Wrap Up, a concise show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (5/23/18). From a federal judge ruling that Trump can no longer block people from Read More…
Constitutional Rights
One U.S. State Takes Steps To Hold The NSA Accountable For Warrantless Surveillance
In less than a month, a Michigan state law will take effect and ban any state or local government from aiding the National Security Agency’s controversial program that gathers data on Americans in violation of the Fourth Amendment. On the heels of the fifth anniversary of whistleblower Edward Snowden’s disclosure of classified National Security Agency Read More…
The TSA Has A New Secret Watch List — And You Could Soon Be Added To It
The TSA has compiled a secret watch list to protect agents from “threatening” and “unruly” passengers, asserting that a passenger does not need to threaten or inflict physical injury on agency employees to be added to it. The New York Times reported Thursday that according to a five-page directive obtained by the outlet, people “may be targeted as potential Read More…
John Whitehead: “It’s Time For A Bracing Dose Of Reality, America”
We labor today under the weight of countless tyrannies, large and small, carried out in the name of the national good by an elite class of government officials who are largely insulated from the ill effects of their actions, and inflicted on an overtaxed, over-regulated, and underrepresented populace. Consider, for example, that federal and state governments now require – Read More…
Haspel Nomination: Torture? Let’s Also Not Forget the CIA’s Core Program Of Assassination
The nomination of CIA operative Gina Haspel to be CIA director has, fortunately, given rise to powerful arguments against the U.S. government’s participation in torture, a practice that is common to tyrannical regimes. The critics of Haspel’s nomination are right: The United States should never be engaged in evil conduct, and the torture of a human being Read More…
NFL Proves Loyalty To Big Pharma, Forces Players To Use Opioids Instead Of Cannabis
The NFL has denied a player’s request to use medicinal cannabis, forcing him to use highly addictive opioid painkillers to treat his chronic pain if he wants to continue playing football. (TFTP) When a professional football player requested to use medicinal cannabis to treat his chronic pain, the National Football League responded by denying his Read More…