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4 Privacies You Didn’t Know You Lost

We all know that privacy is a thing of the past, right? Followers of The Corbett Report will see past the metadata lie and the PRISM limited hangout to the underlying reality of the all-pervasive Big Brother surveillance grid. CALEA and the Stellar Wind. The CIA...

Episode 325 – The Information-Industrial Complex

Episode 325 – The Information-Industrial Complex

Half a century ago, outgoing President Dwight D. Eisenhower coined the term "military-industrial complex" to describe the fascistic collusion between the Pentagon and America's burgeoning armaments industry. But in our day and age we are witnessing the rise of a new...

Forget Russiagate, The REAL Scandal Is Israelgate

Almost exactly a year ago, just as the "Russia hacked the election!" delirium was taking shape, I pooh-poohed the idea that "Russiagate" (as it has come to be known) would persist for very long. Once the Trump administration started plowing ahead with its agenda, I...

The Sugar Conspiracy

An explosive new study in the PLOS Biology journal confirms three things that independent health researchers have been saying for years: Sugar-heavy diets are worse for your health than fat-heavy diets. Researchers have known this fact for decades. The sugar industry...

When Robots Rule the Markets…

The Corbett Report community held a vigorous discussion on the future of Artificial Intelligence this past summer, and the results are in: No one understands the question (myself included). Now, to be fair, I didn't do a very good job of framing the debate so, as is...