10 Years of emptywheel: Jim’s Dimestore
As we celebrate a ten year anniversary, here are ten posts from Jim White that are worth about a dime. But please donate more than that to the blog if you can.
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Did the Flynn-Associated IP3 Presentation Anticipate the Saudi Orb?
Let’s use IP3’s PowerPoint presentation for the Saudi King to look behind the curtains at the famous orb photo.
Retired Generals of Flynn-Associated IP3: “United States Mideast Strategy Is Resourcing Conflict”
The retired generals of IP3, one of the companies that Michael Flynn advised and interacted with but did not disclose in his security clearance renewal, state that current US strategy in the Middle East is to “resource conflict”. That is a stunning admission and rare bit of self-awareness that could be used as a springboard to a better policy.
On July 2016 Panel, George Papadopoulos Used Same Cover Organization as Joseph Mifsud
When George Papadopoulos appeared, along with several elected Republicans, on a panel for the American Jewish Committee in Cleveland during the Republican National Convention, he used a cover identity that is associated with one of the organizations also affiliated with Joseph Mifsud. Papadopoulos did not appear to claim association with the Trump campaign during the appearance.
It’s Not the Economy, Stupid
Despite Bill Clinton’s famous catchphrase that he rode to two terms in the White House, and despite its echo in the 2016 campaign when Trump voters were described as acting out of “economic anxiety”, politics in the United States in my lifetime comes down, first and foremost, to racism. Yes, in Trump’s case and for […]
Waving the Constitution at Those Who Ignore It
In real time Thursday night, I caught only the final few seconds of Khizer Khan’s powerful speech at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. Through the rest of Thursday and Friday, more and more of the details of the speech flitted through my Twitter stream and then my heart was warmed when I saw photos […]
When Does a Random Taxi Driver Become a Lawful Combatant?
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a post questioning the Obama Administration’s logic in killing the leader of the Afghan Taliban in a drone strike in Pakistan. It turns out that the Defense Department also employed some very suspect reasoning surrounding the drone strike. On June 1 (apologies for the delay, but as most […]
Mullah Mansour Drone Strike: Important Milestone or Radicalizing Event?
How much more ironic could it be? More than 43 years after the last Americans evacuated Vietnam, ending our disastrous occupation there, the dateline reads Hanoi on President Barack Obama’s statement today on the US drone strike that killed Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Mansour. Mansour was the head of Afghanistan’s Taliban but was in Pakistan at […]
Snickers Bars and Fudged ISIS Intelligence
Yesterday, Shane Harris and Nancy Youssef informed us that there is now a second allegation of manipulation of intelligence on ISIS: U.S. military analysts told the nation’s top intelligence official that their reports on ISIS were skewed and manipulated by their bosses, The Daily Beast has learned. The result: an overly optimistic account of the […]
Reagan’s Republican Revolution and the Death of the American Dream
On August 3, 1980, Ronald Reagan delivered a watershed speech (pdf) as the presidential campaign entered its final three months. The most often-quoted passage of the speech is his siren call to states’ rights: I believe in state’s rights; I believe in people doing as much as they can for themselves at the community level […]
