RON PAUL: Liberty is still popular

Defense One: The Pentagon is getting more secretive–and it’s hurting national security

Unz: The Yemen war death toll is five times higher than we think

Counterpunch: The Saudi blueprint: Arms sales and assassinations

TAC: The other murderous Gulf monarchy

FEE: Greece, prostitution, and the sad consequences of democratic socialism

Fast Company: Big Brother is being increasingly outsourced to Silicon Valley, says report

Mashable: Police trial of Amazon facial recognition tech doesn’t seem to be going very well

GovTech: Amazon pitches its facial recognition AI to ICE

Gizmodo: Google pledges $25 million for ‘good’ AI, totally isn’t trying to make you forget about that military AI stuff

Filter: Brazil heading for even deadlier drug war after election of president Jair Bolsonaro

Techdirt: Court tells deputy he can’t lie about reasons for a traffic stop and expect to keep his evidence

TruthDig: A glimpse into the US Warfare State abyss

Antiwar.com: US airstrike kills family of five on Syrian border

JUSTIN RAIMONDO: Lightening skies: The case for optimism

High Times: World’s first trial to treat brain cancer with medical cannabis is about to start

Mises: Deficits do matter: Debt payments will consume trillions of dollars in coming years

EFF: Corporate speech police are not the answer to online hate

War On The Rocks: The US-Saudi alliance was in trouble long before Jamal Khashoggi’s murder

Forbes: Why we should fear China’s emerging high-tech Surveillance State

KEVIN WILLIAMSON: Rage makes you stupid

PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS: The triumph of evil

Ars Technica: Gut bacteria recover from antibiotics, but they may take six months

Techdirt: Appeals court judge tears into ATF’s life-wrecking, discriminatory stash house stings

Consortium News: Wikileaks’ legacy of exposing US-UK complicity

Reason: European court: Woman’s criticism of Mohammed doesn’t count as free expression

The American Conservative: Google wants to be your media mommy

Truthdig: The sinister reason the U.S. persists in waging unwinnable wars

Activist Post: Parents given nearly $5 million after officers ignored teen daughter as she died in jail

The Federalist: How public schools indoctrinate kids without almost anyone noticing

FEE: How the U.S. government led a program that forcibly sterilized thousands of poor Peruvian women in the 1990s

Reason: FDA recognizes psilocybin as ‘breakthrough therapy’ for depression

High Times: The yin and yang of pot: Why CBD oil and THC are better together

Motherboard: Physicists discover how an exotic form of ice grows at over 1,000 miles per hour

The Federalist: No, the world wouldn’t be better off with fewer African children. Ed: The murderous, and discredited, population-bomb theories are being aggressively promoted by the “humanitarian” foundations of foolish billionaires. Prosperity always and everywhere far outstrips population growth when markets are allowed to operate.

BBC: Cannabis in Canada: How it went down on Legalization Day

Antiwar.com: Why did an American hit squad kill politicians in Yemen?

TAC: Forgotten FBI anti-terrorism entrapment debacles

Also TAC: Thanks to government, that road sign might be watching you

Reason: Congress needs an opioid intervention

Techdirt: Mississippi law enforcement performed $200,000 worth of illegal forfeitures because it ‘didn’t realize law had changed’

FEE: Young voters are warming to socialism because they don’t know its history

The Intercept: Why Israel’s, and America’s, legal justifications for assassinations don’t add up

Antiwar.com: Saudis dismembered journalist while he was still alive, according to audio recording

Reason: The Saudis need us, not the other way around

WILLIAM HARTUNG: Jobs are no excuse for arming a murderous regime

Truthdig: What keeps Washington indefinitely in bed with Riyadh

Washington Post: Sears’ radical past: How mail-order catalogues subverted the racial hierarchy of Jim Crow 

NOVA: When addiction starts at the dentist

FEE: Facial recognition scanning in schools has arrived

The Federalist: The five most important guns in American history

Futurism: Meet the researchers bringing bizarre AI creations to life

High Times: Rhode Island approves medical marijuana treatment for autism

WSWS: Pages purged by Facebook were on blacklist promoted by Washington Post

JIM BOVARD: Believe women: Apply the Christine Blasey Ford test to the TSA’s female victims

Counterpunch: The Saudi atrocities in Yemen are a worse story than the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi

Reason: Court: Police can’t shoot unlicensed dogs with impunity

Also Reason: The most badly behaved border agents are in Texas

The Nation: Cops usually get away with murder. What was different in Chicago?

Techdirt: A decade’s worth of meth convictions overturned due to drug lab employee’s misconduct

PAUL GOTTFRIED: Time to foreclose on the Churchill cult

National Review: Native Americans react to Elizabeth Warren’s DNA test Ed: She exploited a fraudulent minority status in order to easily glide into a Harvard professorship, Rachel Dolezal-fashion.

New York Times: Psychedelic mushrooms are closer to medicinal use

Defense News: America sold $55.6 billion in weapons abroad in FY18, a 33 percent jump

Activist Post: The purge is here: Hundreds of political social media pages deleted without warning

RAND PAUL: Stop military aid to Saudi Arabia

Reason: FDA threatens E-cigarette companies with product approval

The Intercept: Google CEO tells Senators that censored Chinese search engine could provide “broad benefits”

Reason: The $15 minimum wage is turning hard workers into black market lawbreakers

The Week: I smoke weed. I’m still a responsible parent.

High Times: Canada’s legal cannabis may pose challenges for police dogs

Techdirt: Report shows LA sheriff’s deputies engaging in biased policing, performing tons of questionable traffic stops

RYAN MCMAKEN: Yes, inequality is a problem…when caused by the government

Reason: Study: 80% of Americans believe political correctness is a problem

Also Reason: Washington State Supreme Court strikes down death penalty

Mises.org: Police fail to make arrests in nearly half of murder cases

NPR: Mexico’s morgues are overflowing as its murder rate rises

TruthOut: Civilian deaths in Yemen increased by 164 percent. Will Congress act?

The Week: The Saudi-US alliance must end

JUSTIN RAIMONDO: Goodbye and good riddance, Nikki Haley

The Intercept: At largest ICE detention center in the country, guards called attempted suicides “failures”

Reason: US prisons held at least 61,000 inmates in solitary confinement last year

Techdirt: NY legislators introduce bill that would seriously curb law enforcement’s surveillance collections

High Times: Denver’s psilocybin initiative moves forward to signature-gathering phase Ed: The burgeoning awareness and acceptance of cannabis and psychedelics by the culture at large is an indication that we are on the verge of a revolution in wellness, mental health, and the very definition of ‘medicine’. The pharmaceutical industry is already extinct, it just doesn’t yet know it.

IFJ PAN: Where is the foundation of quantum reality?

National Review: Is the tide turning toward justice for police-shooting victims?

RYAN MCMAKEN: New data shows Federal Reserve is causing more inequality

The Intercept: Leaked transcript of private meeting contradicts Google’s official story on China

TAC: The Pentagon: Incompetent on cybersecurity

Military.com: Army to revamp recruiting strategy after missing yearly goal Ed: Prepare for even more aggressive salesmen in your kids’ public schools and college campuses selling the “Join the Empire! See the world!” crap. Military recruiters are pure garbage, and they will tell your children anything at all in order to trick them into signing their future away, destroying it in some unnecessary conflict on the other side of the planet.

Electronic Intifada: Dutch supplier of Israeli attack dogs compensates Palestinian victim

FEE: How Trump’s trade policies make us more like a banana republic

National Interest: No, Mr. President, war against Venezuela is a bad idea

DON BOUDREAUX: The best trade policy is to ignore other governments’ trade policies

Fortune: Walmart might start selling cannabis products in Canada

High Times: Recent study reveals anti-anxiety effects of ketamine may alter theta brainwaves

MIT Tech Review: The 8-dimensional space that must be searched for alien life

Weed News: Oklahoma City Council approves cite-and-release marijuana ordinance

Reason: Judge rules against pregnant woman mauled by police dog because she wasn’t the intended target

BONNIE KRISTIAN: Staying in Syria is a good way to get into a bad war with Iran

FEE: Compulsory schooling laws: What if we didn’t have them?

PETER VAN BUREN: Democrats die again on the wrong hill

WSWS: CIA Democrats call for aggression against Russia, run pro-war campaigns in 2018 congressional races

UN peacekeeper held over alleged sexual abuse of minors

Motherboard: Scientists fear DARPA’s ‘insect allies’ will attack global food supply with viruses

Inverse: Why psychedelics researchers are calling for open science of LSD, magic mushrooms

Nautilus: Researchers create ‘quantum artificial life’ for the first time

The Verge: A one-word Turing test suggests ‘poop’ is what sets us apart from the machines