Regional players have long accused the US of supporting the group with midnight helicopter transport into Afghanistan. (By: Alex Rubinstein, Substack) The list of governments, former government officials, and organizations in the region that have ...
Doug Valentine is the author of The CIA As Organized Crime: How Illegal Operations Corrupt America And The World and The Phoenix Program: Americas Use of Terror in Vietnam.
Why label intelligence reports “Secret” then lie about it if no evidence of criminal activity or an intelligence-led cover-up existed? (By: Elizabeth Voz, Mintpress News)Concerning the Finders cult — the elusive Washington, D.C.-based outfit whose ...
Leo Zeilig is a writer and researcher. He has written extensively on African politics and history, including books on working-class struggle and the development of revolutionary movements, and biographies on some of Africa’s most important ...
Vijay Prashad is a historian, journalist and commentator. His newest book is Washington Bullets: A History of the CIA, Coups, & Assassinations. Transcript Coming Soon.
“Kashgar is a key location for the land and sea interface of the Belt and Road, connecting not only westward to West Asia, Europe, the Red Sea, and Africa, but also southward to the Indian ...
(By: James DiEugenio, CovertAction Magazine) When Oliver Stone’s blockbuster film JFK premiered in 1991, it delivered a hugely embarrassing shock to academic historians, Democratic Party grandees, corporate media pundits and other respected purveyors of conventional wisdom. ...
Haines is the proverbial wolf in sheep’s clothing. (Editor’s Note: Avril Haines’ Confirmation Hearing is scheduled to take place on Tuesday, January 19) Even before President-Elect Joe Biden sets foot in the White House, the ...
The war on Vietnam plays an infinitely larger role in history in the common understanding of a typical U.S. citizen than does what the U.S. government did to Indonesia in 1965-1966. But if you read ...
Bill Barr is covering up for Donald Trump. Trump’s first national security adviser, General Michael Flynn, met with the Russian ambassador to the U.S., Sergey Kislyak, just after President Obama had imposed sanctions on Russia for interfering ...
America’s relationship with the Taliban has always been determined by how useful they are at advancing US interests in the region and the Trump administration’s recent efforts to make “peace” with the group are no ...
The New York Times Editorial Board, it seems, rarely meets a coup backed by the US government that it doesn’t approve of. (By: Alan Macleod, Mintpress News) Bolivian President Evo Morales was overthrown in a U.S.-backed ...
“The Patriot Act extension passed the House with nearly all Democrats voting for it. When Pres. Trump signs it into law, Democrats will be just as responsible for warrantless surveillance as Trump and the GOP. ...
In something of an ironic twist, the Pentagon, which has a long history of creating fake news, is developing software to detect “falsified media assets.” Concern over the widespread use of “fake or false news” ...
In 2017, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) created a special unit — the Iran Mission Center — to focus attention on the U.S. plans against Iran. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was adamant ...
An explosive report from a relatively unknown journalist, Gary Webb, claimed the CIA helped foster the crack epidemic that ravaged Los Angeles in the 1980s. In 1996, a bombshell report by journalist Gary Webb claimed ...
The conduct of our military and CIA has become more than questionable. They have become a law unto themselves with no regard for the Constitutional restrictions that have been placed upon them. I am not ...
Jose Rodriguez, the CIA official who ordered CIA officers to destroy a cache of videotapes that had documented the treatment of two terror suspects, says he told Gina Haspel what he intended to do. President ...
Tensions in Syria are escalating once again and war hawks are cheering on the idea of the U.S. sending missiles into Syria to take out President Bashar al-Assad, the evil Syrian dictator, and his military. ...
Operation Mockingbird was a CIA program that enlisted more than 400 American journalists, as well as journalists around the world, to manipulate public opinion by spreading propaganda or what we call it today, fake news. ...
In 1975 Congress investigated the CIA out of concern that former President Nixon may have used the CIA in an abuse of his powers. Nixon had resigned from office the previous year on August 9, ...
Trump’s nominees for secretary of state and CIA director have alarming pasts, but the Senate Minority Leader isn’t encouraging his party to oppose their nominations. (By Andrea Germanos, Common Dreams) The Senate’s top Democrat is not ...
Complaints by two former CIA employees against Christopher Sharpley are pending, but he testified he was “unaware” of them. (ProPublica,by Jennifer Valentino-DeVries) Two former CIA employees say the Trump administration’s nominee to be CIA inspector general ...
Why is there one set of criminal laws for the private sector and another set for U.S. officials? (Re-posted with permission from The Future of Freedom Foundation, by Jacob G. Hornberger) The inspectors general for the ...
Reposted With Permission From The Free Thought Project, by Barin Hines, October 19, 2016 While Americans continue to be distracted by the discussion over Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, geopolitical tension around the proxy war ...
Reposted from History.com The Iranian military, with the support and financial assistance of the United States government, overthrows the government of Premier Mohammed Mosaddeq and reinstates the Shah of Iran. Iran remained a solid Cold ...
Reprinted from EcoWatch by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., originally posted 25 February, 2016. The fossil fuel industry’s business model is to externalize its costs by clawing in obscene subsidies and tax deductions—causing grave environmental ...
In October of 2014 Udo Ulfkotte admitted in an interview on RT to taking bribes from the CIA and submitting articles that were purposefully pro-US. He claims that, like him, many journalists around the world ...
Beginning in the 1950’s the CIA planted stories in mainstream media to influence public opinion. After the Watergate scandal in the early 1970’s Congress launched a series of Congressional investigations looking into the CIA. Senator ...
A crucial role of the CIA is to keep the public misinformed. Victor Marchetti worked for the CIA for 14 years but eventually became bothered enough by the CIA’s practices to quit and write a ...
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