America’s Foreign Policy Has a Cold War Hangover
Thinking about geopolitics is all about picking the right metaphor. After World War II, America’s elite conceived of a world engaged in a Cold War, where the United States and Soviet Union played a ga...
19 Jul 201941min
ICYMI: How the Allies Trolled Hitler With Magick
Adolf Hitler’s deputy, Rudolf Hess, was obsessed with the occult. He attempted to read minds and used astrological star charts to inform his battle plans. On the allied side, English magician Aleister...
5 Jul 201932min
Bellingcat Talks Tankers, Deepfakes, and State Propaganda
Misinformation. Grainy and low resolution images from government sources. Signals intelligence. Satellite imagery. Photographs and social media posts from those nearby. Online databases of vast and pu...
28 Jun 201932min
Iran and America’s Complicated Recent History
On June 13, explosions—probably from Limpet Mines—hit two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman. The United States has blamed Iran. On June 20, Iran shot down one of the United States’ Navy RQ-4 Global Hawk...
21 Jun 20191h 21min
War Robots, AI Targeting in Megacities, and Other Things We Learned From the US Army
China and America are two of the world’s great powers. Their economies are intertwined, their military’s powerful, and their soft power spreading across the globe. And tensions are rising. Neither sid...
14 Jun 201932min
Navy Pilots Keep Seeing UFOs Because They're Real
Flying saucers. Little Green Men. UFOs. Over the past few years, reports from US Navy Pilots of strange flying objects has been hitting the pages of America’s newspapers. And no, not just the tabloids...
7 Jun 201931min
America Once Planned to Nuke the Moon
The Soviet Union sent Sputnik into space in 1957. By 1958, thanks in part to the work of famed scientist Carl Sagan, the Pentagon had a plan to show the commies what for by nuking the moon. Thankfully...
31 Mai 201932min
ICYMI: Why QANON Matters And Why It Won't Go Away
Conspiracy theories are as old as the republic. Actually, they're a lot older than OUR republic. In every country, in every culture, people believe powerful forces are colluding in ways they know noth...
24 Mai 20191h 18min
