TRAVELING THE WORLD, WRITING WHAT THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.
TRAVELING THE WORLD, WRITING WHAT THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.
Podcast: 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 (3/26/18). I want to begin by calling out something that is very apparent to Read More…
Fighting terrorism is now morphing into clamping down on human migration, as far as the European Union is concerned. France’s President Emmanuel Macron is leading the charge, claiming at a conference in Paris last week that terrorism and human trafficking are part of the same problem, requiring the deployment of a military force spread across Africa. The melding Read More…
This database can show you exactly what kind of military hardware your local PD is stockpiling and proves why the 1033 program is a terrible idea. (TFTP) Washington, DC — This week the Trump administration announced that they were lifting an Obama administration ban on certain military grade weapons being sold to state and local Read More…
Editor’s Note: Bottom line – The more munitions the military can go through, then larger their budget will be the following year; they are incentivized to be as wasteful and careless as possible, and the recent and dramatic uptick in civilian casualties make that shockingly apparent. Those who take issue with the Pentagon’s 1033 program — the avenue through which excess Read More…
Lurched back and forth in the ever-quickening spiral of an American empire circling the drain, we — as a people — have chosen battle lines on nearly every issue from politics to foreign policy, domestic surveillance to policing. Thrust back into national focus, the last issue — policing in the U.S. — might even surpass Read More…
‘The fact that the police have a weapon like this…is an example of the militarization of the police and law enforcement—and goes in the wrong direction.’ As news emerges that police officers in Dallas, Texas used an armed robot to kill the suspected shooter in Thursday night’s ambush, experts are warning that it represents a Read More…