Central Intelligence Agency

What US Congress Researchers Reveal About Washington’s Designs on Syria

Seeing the government in Damascus as too far to the left, Washington has been trying to orchestrate a regime change in Syria since at least 2003 By Stephen Gowans | what’s left |February 9, 2016 Documents prepared by US Congress researchers as early as 2005 revealed that the US government was actively weighing regime change […]

CIA covert ops needs Saudi money: decades story recurring

American Herald Tribune | January 30, 2016 For decades, America’s Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has been relying on its partner’s money in discrete and covert operations; the money of the Saudi oil-rich kingdom. Citing several current and former US officials, the New York Times reported on Jan. 23 that from the very beginning of the […]

American Take on the Freedom of the Press

By Martin Berger – New Eastern Outlook – 29.01.2016 In the “free and democratic system” being pushed upon all other states in the world by the United States and its Western allies, journalists are increasingly unhappy about the repressions they’ve been facing over the last decade, along with constant surveillance and the demand to cooperate […]

Visas for Al-Qaeda: CIA Handouts That Rocked the World

By Nikolai Gorshkov – Sputnik – 26.01.2016 The New York Times has exposed a long-standing CIA partnership with Saudi Arabia, whose latest endeavor is a program to arm Syrian rebels authorized by President Obama in early 2013. Under the “Timber Sycamore” program the Saudis provide funding and purchase weapons for Syrian rebels, while the CIA […]

US Role as State Sponsor of Terrorism Implied in US Congressional Research Service Report on Syria Conflict

By Stephen Gowans | what’s left | January 10, 2016 The implication of a report written for the US Congress is that the United States is a state sponsor of terrorism in Syria. At the same time, the report challenges widely held beliefs about the conflict, including the idea that the opposition has grass-roots support […]

Zionism: Imperialism in the Age of Counter-revolution

Coercive Engineered Migration: Zionism’s War on Europe (Part 2 of an 11 Part Series) By Gearóid Ó Colmáin | Dissident Voice | January 17, 2016 During the 1920s General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Josef Stalin formulated what he considered to be the essential contribution of Lenin to Marxist political economy. […]

Portuguese Court Demands CIA Agent Extradition to Italy for Rendition Crime

Sputnik – 16.01.2016 A Portuguese court of appeals has ordered the extradition of a former CIA officer who was convicted in absentia for her alleged role in the rendition of a suspected terrorist. Sabrina De Sousa could face four years in jail. The dual American and Portuguese citizen traveled to Lisbon in April with her […]