TRAVELING THE WORLD, WRITING WHAT THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.
TRAVELING THE WORLD, WRITING WHAT THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions kicked off the New Year by reversing the Obama-era guidance for federal prosecutors to limit their enforcement of federal marijuana laws in states that have legalized marijuana for medical or recreational use. In what is almost certainly not a coincidence, Sessions’ announcement came days after California’s law legalizing recreational marijuana sales Read More…
With an estimated 1,000 people arrested over the course of a little over a week in protests in Iran, the most high profile may ultimately be the most surprising, with reports former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been jailed for “incitement.” Though Ahmadinejad has not really been linked to the protest movement, he made comments during Read More…
Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Email | RSSWelcome to the daily wrap up, a quick show dedicated to giving you the most relevant news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours. As always, for more information on the topics discussed check out TheLastAmericanVagabond.com, or any number of other important independent sites that are included in the show Read More…
Not a lot of people remember this, but George W Bush actually campaigned in 2000 against the interventionist foreign policy that the United States had been increasingly espousing. Far from advocating the full-scale regime change ground invasions that his administration is now infamous for, Bush frequently used the word “humble” when discussing the type of Read More…
“Once you understand what people want, you can’t hate them anymore. You can fear them, but you can’t hate them, because you can find the same desires in your own heart” – concluded Andrew Wiggins in the novel Speaker for the Dead. When Americans hear the word Iran, many have a sort of knee-jerk visceral Read More…
“I have harnessed the cosmic rays and caused them to operate a motive device.” Nikola Tesla, Brooklyn Eagle (10 July 1931) This is a “what if” story. But it’s also based on decades of experience analyzing propaganda and cover stories. It’s based on the knowledge that military and intelligence operatives are trained to lie, and Read More…