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Mar 8, 2026 7 min read

VOA Survived Soviet Jamming and Cold War Censors – But Not Its Own Government

The Soviet Union spent 100 dollars jamming for every dollar VOA broadcast and still failed. It took an American administration…

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Who Pockets the Billion If Iran Sinks a Tanker? Follow That Answer.

The Trump administration's $20 billion tanker reinsurance program routes taxpayer risk to private insurers like Lloyd's and Marsh who withdrew…

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DOGE’s AI Grant Cuts Prove Governments Can Outsource Accountability to Algorithms

DOGE used ChatGPT to cancel NEH grants - and proved that AI can make binding government decisions faster than democratic…

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Taxpayers Are Now Underwriting the Risk That Big Oil Priced Into Its Profits

The Trump administration's $20 billion tanker reinsurance programme socialises wartime maritime risk that oil companies already profited from — American…

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Trump’s Tanker Reinsurance Scheme Proves the Iran War Is Costing Far More Than Admitted

The Trump administration's $20 billion DFC reinsurance plan is not a solution to the Iran war's economic cost — it's…

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Trump’s Anti-Cartel Coalition Is a Monroe Doctrine Reboot Nobody Voted For

The Shield of the Americas summit wasn't about cartels — it was Trump encoding a hemispheric security doctrine that obligates…

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Killing Voice of America Hands Russia and China a Propaganda Win They Couldn’t Buy

A federal judge ruled Trump's VOA dismantling illegal — but Russia and China have already filled the audiences VOA left…

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Washington State Just Blinked First – and Big Tech’s Tax Holiday Is Over

Washington State's move to eliminate data center tax exemptions signals the end of a two-decade race-to-the-bottom where states paid Big…

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AI Cancelling Humanities Grants Is a Test Run for Every Federal Programme

DOGE's use of ChatGPT to cancel NEH grants was not an anomaly - it was a proof of concept for…

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The People Who Built ChatGPT Are Quietly Funding the Institutions DOGE Just Destroyed

DOGE used ChatGPT to destroy the NEH's independent AI ethics research. OpenAI was already building the private alternative. Follow the…