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Tillerson is viewed as an unconventional pick who would bring dealmaking skills to the job. Certainly, You might also say "...Exxo...

The Koch network, which says it spent about $250m this election cycle on politics and policy efforts, is comprised of several hundred donor...

"...The incoming vice-president, Mike Pence, has acknowledged the support of David Koch. Myron Ebell, the chair of the Koch-backed Cool...

"...I think that perhaps what I’ve actually done is scraped the topsoil off the surface of 2016 and found one of the underground spring...

"... You cannot confront a power until you know what it is. Our first task in this struggle is to understand what we face. Only then ca...

... Tucked inside is language that strips North Carolina workers of the ability to sue under a state anti-discrimination law, a right that ...

Hardly what you'd call disinterested observers .

What happens when their faceless men face off each other? They make a big deal of Putin and the Chinese hegemons in the current exposition,...

In a series of interviews with party insiders, operatives and elected officials, the party’s predicament is clear – Trump is on the verge of...

Is is just me or is this $election starting to feel like deja vu all over again ? Except more interesting, in a pathological incitement to...

The funniest part of this story is the assertation that this is "... an unusual arrangement undercutting Keith Alexander’s assuran...

hiding out in the open .

The NSA does not ask Courts about data mining. If there's a code, and they want it, these people will unscramble it or steal it....

He would answer these questions , but every time he pauses to reconsider escalation, the Secret Service "accidently" screws up...

In order for evil to succeed, it is only needful for the right people to stand aside . For the right plausible deniability at the right tim...

Strategy is figuring out a way for the private contractors that own the Pentagon to make a few billion more before Xmas.

"... current developments in biology may soon lead to the replacement of H sapiens by completely different beings, enjoying godlike qua...

So many irons in this fire. I am sure the Russians are totally disinterested electoral monitors. I am sure the Queen really loves he...

I wonder if said Yale professor has a nice grant from the Koch brothers or a subsidiary? ...Deforestation accounts for about 20 percen...

I'm sure.

Racing around to come up behind you again... A decade ? More likely the next century will be wasted, and the whole eastern coastal plain w...

What could go wrong? And they captured them , I'm sure. It says so, right there on the label.

Why would they lie to you? ...ahead of an impending clash with the Senate intelligence committee, which is due to release a public versio...

A lot, more or less . But if it does, don't look for the referendum in Scotland to resolve anything. Because somebody will want what...

... The international coalition that Mr. Obama says is crucial to his plan is just being formed . While there have been positive steps towar...

Certainly we should all support brave freedom fighters , where ever their funding derives from. And if there are facts you really want to ...

Why will any real progressive movement sputter and fade periodically? Randy Newman said it best in pure poetry: Of all of the people that ...

Every person in Congress who votes for and profits from a default should face criminal prosecution . The RICO Act should be invoked, and t...

"Obama is a nice guy. David Cameron is a nice social Democrat. About three hours from London in Greece there are some very nasty polit...

You have to remember it's supposed to be like this here. Sergio Leone would understand perfectly.

Not surprising , it has never really been in the interest of the strongest supporters of the Confederacy to support it. It is a sad measure ...

But I am sure this has absolutely nothing with all the money and munitions the CIA has been pouring into Al-Qaeda in Syria the last few yea...

This sounds like something the Pentagon would really rather have seen kept secret. A directed EMP weapon that could stop a car in its tra...

Contrary to the opinion of many, there is no such thing as a "progressive" war. Kerry and Obama seriously jumped the shark on thi...

"i's a moral imperative"

The thing about Obama is that he actually believes what he's saying. LBJ thought he had all the facts about the Gulf of Tonkin inci...

It's so hard to get a fearless Dear Leader these days . Someone should arrest that man for war crimes against humanity, but one guesse...

The faster you go, the shorter you get in the direction you're traveling. Or something like that.

If the United States has responsibility, it is because the CIA used Al Qaeda operatives to take advantage of the Arab spring movement.  ...

Known knowns in 1987: Known knowns now:

Exactly who is going to be able to bell the cat, much less even design a collar for it? The internet was designed by DARPA. The national ...

It's odd how both John McCain and Barack Obama don't see any possible way fighting a war with these would present a problem.   ...

One of the remarkable things about the Obama administration that those of us on the alledged fringe left have noticed is its continuity with...