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Washington’s current U.S. buildup of the military industrial complex will certainly prove devastating  — not just on U.S. foreign and domestic policies but also on the economic prospects of average Americans, writes William Hartung. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth tours a defense innovation company in Los Angeles in January as part of his “Arsenal of Freedom” tour. (DoW /Madelyn Keech) By  William HartungTomDispatch Right at this moment, we are witnessing an unprecedented shift of resources from domestic investments in the United States to the military-industrial complex (aka the war machine).  The only comparable period in our history was the buildup…

Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Trump is both an incredibly ignorant person and incredibly dishonest person. As a result, when he claims ignorance of an obvious fact it is difficult to tell whether he really is as ignorant as he claims or he’s just lying. Such is the case with Trump’s claim that he didn’t know Iran might attack its neighbors and close the Strait of Hormuz in response to his joint attack with Israel. Trump insisted that none of the experts thought this possible when in effect just about every expert thought it was both possible and likely. Given…

Most students in the U.S. aren’t proficient in reading or math — but you wouldn’t know it by looking at their report cards. Four out of5 parents say their children are getting B’s or higher. Test scores,meanwhile, have hit multiyear lows. According to one study,…Read Full Article ⟶ Source link

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The software was wrong, but Angela Lipps still had to spend 108 days in a Tennessee jail proving it. Stand against censorship and surveillance: join Reclaim The Net. Angela Lipps spent nearly six months in jail because an algorithm looked at surveillance footage and decided she matched the suspect. She had never been to North Dakota. She had never been on a plane. A facial recognition system said otherwise, and police took that as enough. Lipps, a 50-year-old mother and grandmother from north-central Tennessee, was arrested at her home in July while babysitting four children. US marshals arrived with guns drawn.…

Vice President J.D. Vance and outgoing Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem both said Renée Good, an activist shot three times in her car by a federal immigration officer, was engaged in “domestic terrorism.” Two weeks later, after officers shot Alex Pretti at least 10 times, White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller called Pretti “a domestic terrorist [who] tried to assassinate federal law enforcement.” And in October 2025, a Border Patrol officer shot Marimar Martinez five times in her car; unlike Good and Pretti, Martinez survived. DHS deemed her a “domestic terrorist” who had “rammed” the officers’ vehicle while it was “boxed in.” Even…

Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair In communist Prague, my father was repeatedly arrested, imprisoned, and tortured for his dissident activities. My mother suffered, and in her attempts to halt that downward spiral, she made small gestures to appease the authorities. Her concessions consisted of the fact that, like most people, during communist holidays—the anniversary of the Russian Revolution, Labor Day, and others—she would place small Czechoslovak and Soviet flags in the windows of our Prague apartment and let them fly together, even though doing so was not strictly mandatory, but was well-regarded by the regime. My parents are an example…

New video on the Daily Grail’s Patreon for supporters, in which RPJ and I give our thoughts (ie. rant) about Bob Lazar! Be sure to join up as a supporter and help us put food in our mouth occasionally! Spooky feelings in old houses may be caused by inaudible infrasound from old pipes and ventilation systems, study suggests. Related: We wrote about research into this theory (‘The Haunt Project‘) way back in 2008! The CIA ran MK-ULTRA experiments on prisoners of war in US custody, declassified documents confirm. (Archived page link) The ‘missing scientist’ story is unbelievably dumb. (Archived page…

The hits have just kept on coming! (And not in a good way.) For anyone who cares and/or is curious why CJ has been mostly incommunicado the past 2 months (other than angrily ranting against the insanity of current events on Twitter): In this special DHP episode he gives an update on the most recent trials & tribulations he & his family have been through, including (but not limited to) his wife being hospitalized twice, another major death in the family, & finally, CJ himself being hospitalized for almost a full week while being the sickest & in the worst…

Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Fact…  like the Israeli law that criminalizes speech which “minimalizes” the events of October 7th  or challenges the government recitation of what occurred on that day, but do not incite violence, under Article 24 of the Israeli Anti-Terrorism Law, Palestinians can be imprisoned for 5 years for merely saying “from the river to the sea” under a theory that words, and words alone, are an incitement to violence, an exaltation of terror, or a threat to state security. Fact … according to the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor and the Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem, over the…