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[ad_1] The strategy is being overseen by Elbridge Colby, the Pentagon’s policy chief, who has long called for the U.S. to prepare to fight a “limited nuclear war,” reports Dave DeCamp.  Nuclear weapon test Dakota, June 26, 1956. (U.S. Dept. of Energy /Wikimedia Commons) By Dave DeCampAntiwar.com The Pentagon is reportedly drafting a new nuclear strategy that’s expected to emphasize the use of tactical nuclear weapons to give the president more “options” in a potential nuclear conflict. The strategy, first reported by NBC News, is being drafted by the Pentagon’s policy chief, Elbridge Colby, who has for more than a decade…

[ad_1] Most discussions about the Democratic Party in this election cycle focus on the remarkable rise of progressive Democrats (such as Florida state Rep. Angie Nixon, a democratic socialist who yesterday scored an upset win in the Democratic contest for the Florida Senate). Read Full Article ⟶ [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Legal intern Suzanne Castillo was the principal author of this post. The Fourth Circuit issued a disappointing opinion in U.S. v. Belmonte Cardozo, a case in which EFF filed an amicus brief, alongside the national ACLU, its Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia affiliates, and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL). We argued that electronic device searches at the border should require a warrant based on probable cause, but at minimum, regardless of whether an officer searches by hand or with forensic software that plugs into a device and downloads its entire contents for search, the same Fourth Amendment…

[ad_1] As the summer of the Democratic Socialists of America gives way to the fall’s midterm campaigns, some patterns have emerged with implications for the 2028 presidential contest. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] By the time Bernie Sanders ran for President, in 2015, I was financially secure. But the previous decade had left a mark. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Following last year’s revelations of the secret shipping of F-35 fighter jet parts to Israel through Thailand from Sydney, new documents show parts being routed onto passenger jets through the U.S., Peter Cronau reports.  A United Airlines B777-200 passenger airliner captured taking off from Sydney International Airport on the long-haul flight across the Pacific to San Francisco and Los Angeles. (James Kirkland/ JetPhotos/Via Declassified Australia) By Peter CronauDeclassified Australia New shipping records leaked to Declassified Australia show the secret cargo of Australian parts for Israel’s F-35 fighter jets has been diverted onto passenger planes of U.S. airline, United Airlines.…

[ad_1] The narrative being spun about his tragic death is an affront to reason and a free media. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] March 10, 1972, was supposed to be a blockbuster day in the literary world. Publisher McGraw-Hill planned to unveil “The Autobiography of Howard Hughes,” an as-told-to book midwifed by novelist and investigative journalist Clifford Irving. The book promised to lift the curtain on one of the most fascinating personalities of the age. The reclusive billionaire was a famed aviation visionary, Las Vegas gambling tycoon, movie mogul, beau to beautiful stars, and much more. But the balloons popped the day before the book party was supposed to take place. Irving was in court. He had audaciously gambled that Hughes’ aversion…

[ad_1] Statistician Aaron Brown and gun policy scholar Robert Spitzer debate the resolution, “Until there is convincing evidence that government-imposed gun control brings a net reduction in harm, all legal restrictions on adult possession of guns should be abolished.” Taking the affirmative is Brown, a statistician, Bloomberg opinion columnist, and author of Wrong Number: How To Extract Truth From a Blizzard of Quantitative Disinformation. Subscribe to Brown’s Reason newsletter here. Taking the negative is Spitzer, distinguished service professor emeritus of political science at SUNY Cortland and author of multiple books on gun policy. The debate is moderated by Soho Forum…

[ad_1] Regino Tirado sorts through merchandise outside his store in the Stanford Wholesale Mart. Photos by Jeremy Lindenfeld for Capital & Main. “For Lease” signs dot once-busy storefronts, where immigration raids led to a drop in foot traffic and fear among workers and shoppers. Marisa Gerber Capital and Main El seis, they call it.  That day in June of last year when armed federal immigration officers descended on a garment shop in Los Angeles’ Fashion District, arresting and shackling more than a dozen employees before whisking them away in unmarked vans. The raid on Ambiance Apparel became one of the defining…