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Handing Trump the Keys to the Turnkey Totalitarian State
As the Electoral College gathers across the country to cast ballots for the 45th president of the United States and the reality of a Trump administration draws closer, an overriding concern – beyond the questionable appointments of oil executives, billionaires and bankers to top cabinet posts – is what the Trump presidency might mean in […]
NSA’s knowledge is power
In the fall of 2002, the American public’s post-9/11 trauma-based complacency was briefly shaken when the Pentagon’s Total Information Awareness program was revealed to the country. Suddenly, a population that had seemingly resigned itself to a host of new inconveniences at airport security checkpoints and the government monitoring its library reading habits decided that there ought […]
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