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Interview: Former Counterterrorism Official Joe Kent
15+ hour, 48+ min ago (1898+ words) A major message from Kent's early statements and appearances involved the idea that Donald Trump was being pressured into war with Iran by Israel. He said Trump "started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby,…...
"Today's News" Livestream at 6 p. m. ET
2+ day, 22+ hour ago (101+ words) racket. news "Today's News" Livestream at 6 p. m. ET News, analysis, and whatever else the day throws at us There's a lot for Matt and Michael to discuss: President Trump's Easter "message," the war in Iran, the weekend rescue of an American…...
A Storied Russian Muckraker On Oil, Iran, Ukraine, and More
1+ week, 1+ hour ago (562+ words) In Moscow in July 1997, reporter Leonid Krutakov had a scoop. Anatoly Chubais, the Harvard-educated privatization boss and right hand of Boris Yeltsin, had been given a $3 million loan from Stolichny Bank just before that same bank " controlled by an intimidating…...
Big Tech Reverting to Old Ways?
6+ day, 23+ hour ago (502+ words) racket. news Big Tech Reverting to Old Ways? Meta clamps down on a documentary criticizing Meta. Is old-school digital censorship returning? On Wednesday, the firm Empower Oversight sent a letter to four Congressional Committee chairs, complaining that Facebook is supressing…...
EXCLUSIVE: Exposing the FBI's Human Experimentation Studies
1+ week, 1+ day ago (1255+ words) You're only going to create a real problem for an FBI employee if you call "em direct this way." Senior FBI official Thomas Gregory Motta was upset that I dared to call him to talk about the bureau's hidden experiments…...
Activism, Uncensored: No Kings in LA
1+ week, 1+ day ago (248+ words) racket. news Activism, Uncensored: No Kings in LA It wasn't like the summer of 2025, but things definitely got heated. Ford Fischer of News2 Share had a lot of options for covering last weekend's No Kings protests for this edition of Activism,…...
Finally, Good News: Free Speech Wins Big in Court
2+ week, 12+ hour ago (402+ words) The U. S. Surgeon General, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) from threatening social media companies into removing or suppressing constitutionally protected speech on Facebook, Instagram, X (formerly Twitter), Linked In and You Tube. "It…...
Go Outside - by Matt Taibbi
2+ week, 1+ day ago (615+ words) Go Outside'Racket News | Matt Taibbi A place to visit, when the world goes mad Getting this out of the way, since the Internet above all demands a position on the question: yes, Donald Trump is crazy. It was once possible…...
Comments - THE SWAMP LOG " A Boiling Point, Masters of Surprise, Bound for Atlantis
2+ week, 2+ day ago (1175+ words) The same Judge Boasberg who was the presiding judge when FISC accepted a falsified submission from the FBI on Carter Page? Shouldn't that have been part of your comment on the matter? See last week's issue. They have a strange…...
THE SWAMP LOG " A Boiling Point, Masters of Surprise, Bound for Atlantis
2+ week, 3+ day ago (1636+ words) SLIPPING SANCTIONS: It's the 24th day of the Iran War. The third week of conflict saw continued tension over shipping lanes in the Strait of Hormuz, maneuvers on sanctions around the globe, new budget requests, and potential kinetic escalation on an…...