Jesse Robertson

Tapping the Samuel Moyn sign

Close Encounters | Jesse Robertson Have UFOs become a two-for-one state-sanctioned conspiracy theory, serving both security and propaganda functions?

New Jersey residents are in a tizzy about drones (or are they planes?) flying overhead. Last year, Jesse Robertson wrote on UFOs and US intelligence, laying out what the government has to gain when all eyes are on the skies.

Finally seeing my piece from this month’s issue of @thenation.com IRL!

If you're making comparisons between our "information environment" and those of the past, it is a requirement that you actually know something about the past.

Fascinating, from the mouth of Mr. “Perfect Economy” himself.

Literally, give us the Douglas MacArthur movie

“Call of Duty”: Pentagon Ops Inside the weird synergies that launched the videogaming industry---and made the Pentagon fantasies in Call of Duty its stock in trade.

Ok, I’ll try to hawk my wares here too—I recently wrote about the long, strange relationship between war- and video-gaming for @thenation.com. Check it out: www.thenation.com/article/soci...

“My haters will become my waiters when I sit down at the table of success”

Had the hilarious if obvious thought that Joe Biden and all the Democratic consultants that lost the election will get tax breaks under Trump

One of most jaw-dropping things I’ve read in a “centrist” publication

Ahh to be the recipient of the great honor that is the "USAF Scroll of Appreciation"…

This, but then the password works…

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For an affective look into the end of the USSR, you should check out the latest Adam Curtis series, TraumaZone!

The real losers are the people who invest their lives in this and project desires/lacks/fantasies on disclosure and what it will bring.

Close Encounters | Jesse Robertson Have UFOs become a two-for-one state-sanctioned conspiracy theory, serving both security and propaganda functions?

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It’s hard not to feel like it’s Groundhog’s Day w the UFO hearings. Same pattern of a “whistleblower” coming forward w what’s basically hearsay followed by a familiar song and dance, which, most of the time, just lines contractors/lobbyists’ pockets. Wrote about this for @thebaffler.com a while back

Literally, give us the Douglas MacArthur movie

In lieu of a pithy and/or witty first post, here’s a scene from a Mets game I went to recently: