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  • 2 months ago | spoilsofwar.substack.com | Andrew Cockburn

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  • 2 months ago | spoilsofwar.substack.com | Andrew Cockburn

    We can’t say we weren’t warned. The emergency powers Trump has invoked to impose the largest tariffs in a hundred years, fast track energy and mineral production, and militarize federal lands on portions of the southern border were at least on the public record, authorized by Congress in The National Emergencies Act of 1976. The act permitted a president to unleash 150 statutory powers by declaring a national emergency.

  • 2 months ago | hoerzu.at | Michael Schiffer |Leslie Cockburn |Andrew Cockburn

    » Pulsbeschleuniger mit Traumpaar « Aus einem russischen Zug mit ausgemusterten Atomraketen verschwinden Sprengköpfe. Der amerikanische Geheimdienstoffizier Thomas Devoe und seine Mitarbeiterin, die Atomwissenschaftlerin Julia Kelly, können acht Sprengköpfe sicherstellen. Doch der neunte gelangt in die Hände des serbischen Extremisten Vlado Mirich.

  • 2 months ago | alethonews.com | Andrew Cockburn

    The fix is in for new Air Force F-47 — and so is the failure By Andrew Cockburn | Responsible Statecraft | April 7, 2025 If and when it finally comes to be written decades from now, an honest history of the F-47 “fighter” recently unveiled by President Trump will doubtless have much to say about the heroic lobbying campaign that garnered the $20 billion development contract for Boeing, the corporation that has become a byword for program disasters (see the KC-46 tanker, the Starliner...

  • 2 months ago | thespectator.com | Andrew Cockburn

    Defense contractors tend, on the whole, to be a pretty faceless crew, indistinguishable in their dark suits and hence little known to the world outside the military-industrial complex. Palmer Luckey, founder of Anduril Industries, strives to be different, invariably sporting a uniform of Hawaiian shirts, shorts and flip-flops – projecting an iconoclastic image attractive to venture-capital investors, somewhat in the manner of former crypto mogul Sam Bankman-Fried.

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Andrew Cockburn
Andrew Cockburn @andrewmcockburn
9 Jun 25

Trump’s emergency powers? A lot of shots in that locker. @Harpers @RStatecraft https://t.co/ImhxNc3xyo via @Harpers

Andrew Cockburn
Andrew Cockburn @andrewmcockburn
8 Jun 25

A good time to be afraid. https://t.co/Z6ICyKvHTD

Andrew Cockburn
Andrew Cockburn @andrewmcockburn
4 Jun 25

“Yes, we want to spend millions figuring out what is popular with voters; but we won’t adopt the already well established greatest hits voters crave like booting money out of politics, raising wages, expanding cheap healthcare, and taxing billionaires and corporations to levels