blackwater Blackwater founder Erik Prince used ex-spies to infiltrate liberal groups for Project Veritas Thom Dunn
trumpism Betsy DeVos quietly spends millions to promote the unpopular policies she hopes to enact as a federal official Cory Doctorow
late stage capitalism War criminal and snowflake Erik Prince cancels Beloit College talk after student protests, threatens lawsuit Cory Doctorow
Business Cambridge Analytica is out of business, but its heavy hitters have reopened under a new name Cory Doctorow
trumpism Sources in Trump's White House report meetings to assemble a network of deniable wetwork/black ops spooks to target Trump's political enemies in the US and elsewhere Cory Doctorow
picks Puerto Rico's streets crawl with heavily armed, masked mercenaries bearing no insignia or nametags Cory Doctorow
class war Blackwater founder and DeVos war-criminal sibling Trump should install merc-backed viceroy in Afghanistan Cory Doctorow
News U.S. court tosses murder conviction of Blackwater guard Nicholas Slatten in massacre of 14 unarmed Iraqi civilians Xeni Jardin
war “The Warrior Class”: Blackwater videos in Harper's Magazine show brutality on display Xeni Jardin
trump George Nader indicted on child porn charges and traveling with a minor to engage in illegal sexual activity Xeni Jardin
china Human Rights Watch reverse-engineered the app that the Chinese state uses to spy on people in Xinjiang Cory Doctorow
guillotine watch Blackwater founder to site mercenary training camps conveniently close to China's Uighur concentration camps Cory Doctorow
trolls Top White House troll Betsy DeVos is considering using federal funds to buy guns for teachers Mark Frauenfelder
gop Good riddance: Justice Kennedy; Democrats, it's time for hardcore, relentless Gorsuch payback Cory Doctorow
russia Russian investigative journalist who wrote about Russian mercenaries in Syria dies from fall Mark Frauenfelder
politics George Nader, witness to 2 secret Trump transition meetings, faced child porn charges in 1985 Xeni Jardin