LInks — 14 Jan 2020 — Part 1

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science (important in that Pinker is a public intellectual)
Steven Pinker on torture
Andrew Gelman | Professor of Statistics and Political Science and Director of the Applied Statistics Center, Columbia University

Bill Totten's Weblog (I am old enough to remember this)
Why does China not make quality products like Japan and Korea do?
Answered by John Ohkuma Thiel on August 21 2017

EPI (capital flows were expenses are least and the labor bill is generally the chief variable cost)
China trade deal will not restore 3.7 million U.S. jobs lost since China entered the WTO in 2001

Robert E. Scott

War on the Rocks (more profits for the MIC)

Battle Of The Bastions

James Lacey

Anti-Empire (desperation)
Please Stop With the Idiotic Nonsense That Iraqi Vote to Expel US Troops Was “Non-Binding”
Juan Cole

Anti-Empire (can't make this up)
US Sanctions Venezuelan Opposition Leader for Beating Guaido in National Assembly President Vote
Marko Marjanović

Caitlin Johnstone — Rogue Journalist (what they don't like is effective investigative reporting)
Establishment Pundits Go Nuts Over New Russian Hacking Conspiracy
Caitlin Johnstone

Counterpunch (What is the US thinking of taking sides with Sunni Islam against Shia Islam, which is how Muslims will see it? Orthodox Christians already see the US promoting Western Christianity at their expense. More religious wars we don't need.)

Demonizing the Shia: How the West Perpetuates False Claims About Iran’s Regional Influence

Counterpunch
Zionism and ‘Anti-Semitism’: A Chronicle of a Smear Foretold

Yoav Litvin

Defend Democracy Press (Pompeo lets the cat out of the bag, revealing that the real targets are Russia and China.)
Pompeo and the rise of totalitarianism. Destroying rule of law, making possible war to Islam, Russia, China

Humeyra Pamuk, Jonathan Landay

Fort Russ News
TEXAS: Iranian Flight Crash Facts Not Adding Up
Russell Bentley

Intel Today
Former CIA Jeffrey Sterling Wins 2020 Sam Adams Award

Mint Press News
How an Israeli Spy-Linked Tech Firm Gained Access to the US Gov’t’s Most Classified Networks

Whitney Webb

Zero Hedge
US Consumer Prices Accelerate At Fastest Since Oct 2018

Oriental Review

The Nomos Of Cybersecurity And A Sovereign Internet
Leonid Savin

People's Dispatch
French unions reject Macron’s concessions, demand complete rollback of pension reforms

Sic Semper Tyrannis (note that "SpaceX has been testing Starlink on an Air Force contract for the last year")
Starlink consumer services

TTG

Sputnik International (duh)
BBC, Reuters Involved in UK Government Plot to Spread Cold War Propaganda, Docs Reportedly Show

Sputnik International
(US Def Sec] Esper Says US Has Legal Authority to Attack Iranian Soil

Sputnik International
Mike Pompeo Shifts Rationale for Soleimani Killing From ‘Imminent’ Threat to Deterrence Strategy

Moon of Alabama
Trump's EU Poodles - Germany, Britain And France - Obey His Order To Kill The Nuclear Deal With Iran

Unz Review
China, Number One Economic Power for Half Decade, Dashes On, by John V. Walsh
John V. Walsh