Antiwar.  Despite all the past experience with attempting to train “rebels”, the Pentagon is going at it again with more tax dollars to fund another batch of Syrian fighters who will, like all the others, immediately hand over their new weapons to Al-Qaida and ISIS as they scatter into the night.

Washington DC’s given Mexico $2.5 billion in Drug War aid over the last 8 years, and nothing but destruction has come of it.  The reason is this: you can’t beat a black market with guns.  Winning the Drug War in Mexico requires the simplest, cheapest solution in the world: legalize the drugs produced by the cartels.  Prohibition created a black market vacuum that was quickly filled by cartels looking to get rich from the high demand for the drugs.  Legalize it all, let anyone produce, buy, sell, these drugs, and the cartels pot of gold will vanish.  It’s tragically simple, how many thousands more will die until Mexico’s leaders admit it?  Daily Beast

World governments are taking notice, ready to punish those who “hid” their money from the taxfeeders.  There’s nothing morally wrong with hiding wealth from a rapacious government, but I have a feeling this will expose where the Political Class is hiding billions they’ve finagled from us for decades.  Slate

Yikes. From Radley Balko’s WaPo blog.

Points are racked up on a scoreboard.  The “winner” gets overtime and vacation.  The losers get put in the cop tower.  VICE

“Kaleabis”. High Times

The McCain Institute.  Probably nothing compared to the donor list of the Clinton Institute, though. Bloomberg

Truthdig.  The Religion of the State, that protects and enhances the power of the Political Class, as well as their chief method of growing that power: endless war.

Picks apart the Big Pharma lies. Activist Post

Reddit had previously informed users on their site that they never received a national security letter demanding info on users.  Dubbed a “warrant canary”, it has now been removed from their site.  Reuters