First and Second Thoughts
Kent M. HarringtonAbroad at home....
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Bootleggers and Beijing's EVs: China's Canadian Coming-Out Party
Prohibition’s promoters promised the moon in 1919. Banning booze, they said, would reduce crime, corruption, and empty prisons while boosting the nation’s health. It failed miserably. Americans wanted Canada’s bootlegged beer, bourbon and g...
Fear and Loathing in Washington: A President's Psychotic Soliloquy
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“There was madness in any direction, at any hour,” Hunter Thompson wrote in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. The line couldn’t better...
The November Election: Do the Billionaires Know What They're Buying?
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Mark Hanna, a businessman, US senator, and the mastermind of President William McKinley’s 1896 and 1900 campaigns, wasn’t subtle abo...
What Me Worry? The Next Election, Yep
Former Majority Leader Gephardt and Senator Tim Worth’s Warning That Trump is Building the Infrastructure of Authoritarian Control
Then finally we speak with Kent Harrington, a former senior CIA analyst who served as National Intelligen...
The Last Election: Then and Now
Nothing was a secret. All was lawful. And newspapers printed the story. What happened to the Weimar Republic 93 years ago is worth contemplating. The attack on its democracy played out in public just like what’s happening now.
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Kent M. Harrington is a writer and former senior CIA analyst, who has served as national intelligence officer for East Asia, chief of station in Asia, and the CIA’s director of public affairs.
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