Linkage

• Americans Are Paying $38 to Collect $1 of Student Debt (Bloomberg) This is exactly what Bill Clinton extolled in his "reinventing government" initiative, privatizing essential public services.
• Millennium Challenge: The Real Story of a Corrupted Military Exercise and its Legacy (War on the Rocks) Millennium Challenge 2002, a war game intended to demonstrate Rumsfeld's transformation in combat, but the "Red Force" sank the carrier group, and they restarted the game with new rules to hamstring OPFOR so that they could claim that it all worked.
• Slavery Now: Migrant Labor in the Persian Gulf and Saudi Arabia (Counterpunch) Our allies.
• Is My Password Secure? NIST Advises Against Periodically Changing Passwords
• Is My Password Secure? NIST Advises Against Periodically Changing Passwords (International Business Times) It turns out that requiring regular password changes encourages weak passwords.
• In Tumult of Trump, Jon Corzine Seeks a Wall Street Comeback (New York Times) This parasite should be in jail, and banned from the securities industry.
• Theresa May school meals plan hits 900,000 families (Guardian) More political sadism from Theresa May.

The Death Star was an inside job: