Central Intelligence Agency

Middle East borders will change, claims ex-CIA director

MEMO | February 26, 2016 A former director of America’s Central Intelligence Agency has said that the international agreements made after World War Two are starting to fall apart, and may change the borders of some countries in the Middle East. “What we see here is a fundamental melting down of the international order,” Michael […]

On abolishing the CIA, Sanders is in some distinguished company

RT | February 23, 2016 Washington insiders were abuzz over a revelation that Bernie Sanders had once advocated abolishing the CIA. Blasting Sanders for his ancient argument, the Clinton campaign forgot to mention that many illustrious US leaders have shared the same intention. While campaigning for the US Senate in 1974, a 33-year-old Sanders called […]

Pentagon mercenaries: Blackwater, Al-Qaeda… what’s in a name?

By Finian Cunningham | RT | February 21, 2016 CIA-linked private “security” companies are fighting in Yemen for the US-backed Saudi military campaign. Al-Qaeda-affiliated mercenaries are also being deployed. Melding private firms with terror outfits should not surprise. It’s all part of illegal war making. Western news media scarcely report on the conflict in Yemen, […]

Torture Isn’t a ‘Political Decision’ — It’s a War Crime

By Dror Ladin | ACLU | February 16, 2016 According to the psychologists who teamed up with the CIA to design, implement, and oversee the agency’s post-9/11 torture program, torture is just politics. That’s what James Mitchell and John “Bruce” Jessen, CIA contractors who profited enormously from torture, told a federal court last month. Facing […]

Russia Has Destroyed the CIA’s Arms Smuggling Operation in Syria

By Stuart Hooper – 21st Century Wire – February 12, 2016 The covert Syrian intervention could not have gone any worse for the Western powers involved in the attempt to oust Assad. The Russian military has successfully closed the Azaz Corridor, a narrow strip of land connecting Turkey to the rebel forces in Aleppo, which was […]