Author: Don Smith

Visualization of U.S. Military Bases (Version 2) 0

Visualization of U.S. Military Bases (Version 2)

This is a 3d visualization of U.S. military bases worldwide. The data is approximate and does not cover all bases. Source of data: https://public.opendatasoft.com/explore/dataset/military-bases/export/ https://worldbeyondwar.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/basesabroad.xlsx https://worldbeyondwar.org/bases/ Suggestions for improvements?

A Warning, by Anonymous: a summary 0

A Warning, by Anonymous: a summary

Anonymous, a self-styled “senior Trump administration official,” has written a book A Warning (Hachette Book Groups, Inc., 2019) as a follow-up to his (or her) September, 2018 op-ed in the New York Times, “I...

The Dems caved in on important NDAA amendments 0

The Dems caved in on important NDAA amendments

(Revised 2019-12-10) Democratic negotiators have agreed on a NDAA (National Defense Authorization Act) that omits all or most of the progressive anti-war amendments they had proposed earlier this year. The version passed by the...

Thoughts on the survey from Rep. Adam Smith 0

Thoughts on the survey from Rep. Adam Smith

I got constituent email from Rep. Adam Smith that included a link to a survey about what issues are important to me as a constituent. The survey page asks “What issues matter most to...

The Scale of the Universe of Money 0

The Scale of the Universe of Money

Military budget of the United States Tuition-Free College Could Cost Less Than You Think Fortune 500 Companies Hold a Record $2.6 Trillion Offshore ‘Eye-Popping’: Analysis Shows Top 1% Gained $21 Trillion in Wealth Since...

Free Stuff: Part 1 0

Free Stuff: Part 1

The Pentagon Budget ($700 billion) is about nine times the cost of college tuition for all students ($79 billion)” (source).