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Remember Jade Helm? After a summer of heated racial justice protests that drove President Donald Trump to dispatch federal law enforcement officers to liberal cities — and prompted a sitting senator to call for the president to “send in the troops” against the American people — it’s quaint to look back on a crackpot conspiracy theory about former President Barack Obama enacting martial law. “Jade Helm 15” was a multi-state military training exercise that took place in the summer of 2015 and spawned a constellation of delusions I wrote about as a TPM reporter covering right-wing ...

No, Chinese troops are not on the Canadian border — and the dangers of misinformation December 15, 2020 No, there are no Chinese troops on the border with Maine. This photo, originally taken in October 2020, shows refurbished howitzers being moved in Maine. (Screengrab via Twitter) It may seem like an updated version of the 1966 comedy “The Russians Are Coming! The Russians are Coming!” but there is nothing funny about conspiratorial ravings from the Twitterverse that Chinese troops massed along the border with Maine were schwacked in an airstrike. Recent posts from a QAnon-backin...

A tale of two elections What to make of an election in which Donald Trump openly sought to subvert the will of the American electorate and did so, often with the tacit support of the GOP? By Michael A. Cohen Contributor,Updated December 16, 2020, 12:22 p.m. Email to a Friend In dozens of lawsuits, Republicans tried to make voting and counting votes harder.Tamir Kalifa/NYT On Monday afternoon, the Electoral College took care of its singular quadrennial responsibility and certified Joe Biden the winner of the 2020 presidential election. Electoral democracy has prevailed. But what is one to make...

A small earthquake in Maine and a fatal F-16 crash in Michigan have given rise to a new and extreme conspiracy theory claiming that 50,000 Chinese troops have invaded the US. There's nothing to that claim, and the proliferation of that conspiracy theory and others like it can actually threaten national security if they spread unchecked. Every evolution of American politics gets the conspiracy theories it deserves. During the administration of President George W. Bush, an alarming number of Americans believed that the September 11 attacks were an inside job; during President Barack Obama's tim...

Counterterrorism. and then the russians under general officer developed a new concept of warfare, one we had explored but had largely pushed back on largely for legal and constitutional reasons. we became cyber guys. the russians became information guys. they wanted to go and conduct information warfare and grasimov writes several years back about contact-less warfare, how i can use dominance in the information space to directly attack the will of an adversary population and win that way. they did it to their domestic audience. they did it to us and the europeans with this information bubble o...