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I just finished Daniel Ellsberg’s new book, The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner. Talk about hair-raising! Ellsberg, of - William J. Astore for Antiwar.com Original

Today we have yet a new Treaty by nations tired of nuclear weapon states persistent delays, misinformation, and violations of agreements.  The NYC Council

30 Movies with Alternate Endings On 6/9/21 at 7:00 AM EDT Movies are collaborative endeavours on enormous scales, meaning they are inevitably processes of constant evolution, from tweaks to the script to entire re-shoots. Films can consequently have alternative endings, especially if a studio takes control of the production or the director is influenced by test audiences negative reactions. Such cinematic substitutes can sometimes become publicly available, allowing film buffs to see what might...

Activist short selling plays an important role in keeping financial markets accountable and efficient.

why the missile caucus is so influential is: money Meet the Senate nuke caucus, busting the budget and making the world less safe,   https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2021/05/26/meet-the-senate-nuke-caucus-busting-the-budget-and-making-the-world-less-safe/ These lawmakers represent states with a direct interest in pouring billions into modernizing and building new weapons.    Democrats might control the legislative and executive branches of the U.S. government right now, but a small Rep...

Antiwar.com Original Once upon a time, the United States of America – the world’s self-styled "beacon of democracy" – nearly nuked China’s then 600 millions worth of innocents. This, before Beijing even had any A-Bombs of its own. Well, that much we’ve known, in broad strokes – though, I fear, without the requisite resultant soul-searching – since historian Gordon Chang’s 1988 journal article (which I was assigned in graduate school en-route to West Point’s ...

Destiny’s Top 7 Halo and Marathon References "One moment left. One point of space and time. I know who you are. You are destiny." -from Marathon Infinity To some longtime fans, Bungie’s big three franchises are something more than isolated explorations of the space-shooter genre. Destiny, the studio’s current venture, is host to a myriad of themes, phrases, and (allegedly) even characters from Bungie’s previous titles. While this only rarely includes Oni, Bungie’s forgotten 3rd perso...

Share this article A new SEC filing shows that the Scion Asset Management, the private investment firm founded and led by famed investor Dr. Michael Burry, purchased about $10.5 million worth shipping stocks in the first quarter of 2020. Burry was famously portrayed as one of the main characters in the 2015 movie “The Big Short” about his early predictions and profits from the U.S. housing market crisis. The movie is based on a 2010 book, “The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine,” ...

A famous light on secrets: UMass examines legacy of Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers Daniel Ellsberg, second from left, in 2019 with Gar Alperovitz, far left; Patricia Ellsberg; and Janaki Natarajan as he joined his co-conspirators at the University of Massachusetts Amherst after the school acquired his papers. STAFF FILE PHOTO University of Massachusetts Amherst history professor Christian Appy is a principal organizer and a moderator for the virtual conference on Daniel Ellsberg’s l...

The China Fear Factor This post is also available in: French America vs. China: “A Clash of Civilizations” Hillary Clinton famously said, “’I don’t want my grandchildren to live in a world dominated by the Chinese.” During his tenure, President Obama launched his “Pivot to Asia,” moving 60% of US naval power to bases surrounding China, developing the Trans Pacific Partnership treaty specifically to economically isolate China, making Air-Sea Battle the official US doctrine explic...