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Celebrity Assassination

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On January 19, 2020
Douglas London, a retired Senior CIA Operations Officer, has a disturbing – but not in a terribly surprising way – piece at Just Security. The gist is that Trump is obsessed with taking down “celebrity” targets, and in ways that undermine American national security objectives. At CIA, I saw this play out more than once. […]

Racism in Action

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On March 21, 2018

Of course. #watchwhitenesswork pic.twitter.com/6j9bms3tWt — Samuel Sinyangwe (@samswey) March 21, 2018 Remember kids, it’s not terrorism unless the murderer is brown or black. And if the m

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“Terrorism” in America

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In General
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On October 2, 2017
We already know that the mass murderer in Vegas can’t be a terrorist because he was white. It’s hard to imagine anything that gets closer to the deep, dark heart of racism in America than the automatic exclusion of mass murder by whites as “terrorism,” making that an inherently racialized word. And while this modern […]
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