https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Bz-vTozh1 Above is an interesting piece of astroturf a friend of mine received a few days ago via WhatsApp. There are a couple of things about this that immediately make me question whether this is "fake news." The first question I always ask when I see something like this is: "Who does this message benefit?" … Continue reading Mind Your Mind: Dissecting Astroturf
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The Cost of the Club
I was reading Glenn Greenwald's article in The Intercept today, and he makes an interesting point about how support for wars of adventure in the United States do not line up along any principled lines. The lines they tend to track are political party lines. I have long thought that the fundamental disconnect in the … Continue reading The Cost of the Club
