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View More NewsNew reporting from the New York Times indicates that a freelancer has been fighting a subpoena he received in February of this year after reporting about a failed Navy SEAL Team 6 mission that took place in 2019. In response, Reporters Committee President Bruce D. Brown made the following statement:“In the last 25 years, there have only been three attempts in national security leaks cases to force reporters to name their sources and now we have four attempts – that we know of – in the space of a few months, two of them directed at news stories published in…
International commerce has changed a lot since the long-ago days when spice traders pieced together the first global network for buying stuff you couldn’t grow on your own. One thing that hasn’t changed? You still can’t get Vietnamese cinnamon without trading with Vietnam, or Herbes de Provence without buying it from someone in France. “That’s part of our argument,” says Ori Zohar, co-founder of Burlap & Barrel, a single-source spice importer and retailer. “Some of these tariffs, some of the collateral damage from these tariffs, is that they are written in such a broad way,” Zohar told Reason. “That’s targeting…
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Note: the following review contains plot spoilers.In the opening lines of his poem Ithaka, Constantine P. Cavafy (1863–1933), the second-most famous Greek poet to make his theme the perilous homecoming of the Trojan War hero Odysseus, wroteAs you set out for Ithakahope your road is a long one,full of adventure, full of discovery.Laistrygonians, Cyclops,angry Poseidon—don’t be afraid of them:you’ll never find things like that on your wayas long as you keep your thoughts raised high,as long as a rare excitementstirs your spirit and your body.(The translation is from Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard’s 1975 compilation, C.P. Cavafy, Selected Poems.) Christopher…
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from the ctrl-alt-speech dept Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation‘s Ben…
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