Reprieve | April 2, 2015 Reuters has today reported that Lithuanian prosecutors have reopened an investigation into secret CIA prisons – or ‘black sites’ – which the country hosted as part of the US Agency’s rendition and torture programme. Lithuania had closed a previous probe into the matter in 2011. The re-opening of the investigation […]
By John Chuckman | Aletho News | April 2, 2015 If you really want to understand the world in which we live – its endless wars, coups, interventions, and brutality towards great masses of people – you need to start with a correct understanding of the political machinery at work. Talk of liberal interventions or […]
By Mahdi Darius NAZEMROAYA | Strategic Culture Foundation | 30.03.2015 The United States and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia became very uneasy when the Yemenese or Yemenite movement of the Houthi or Ansarallah (meaning the supporters of God in Arabic) gained control of Yemen’s capital, Sanaa/Sana, in September 2014. The US-supported Yemenite President Abd-Rabbuh Manṣour […]
RT | March 25, 2015 The bipartisan Surveillance State Repeal Act, if passed, would repeal dragnet surveillance of Americans’ personal communications, overhaul the federal domestic surveillance program, and provide protections for whistleblowers. House lawmakers Mark Pocan (D-Wis.) and Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) are co-sponsoring bill H.R.1466, which was introduced on Tuesday and would repeal the 2001 […]
Xymphora | March 22, 2015 One of the most interesting areas of conspiracy theory is the possibility of the planting of false information by government authorities, for motives including confusing or embarrassing the conspiracy theorists, promoting government-sponsored conspiracy theories, or entrapment. “Is Matt DeHart Being Prosecuted Because FBI Investigated CIA for the Anthrax Leak?”: “. […]
Some rarely discussed truths shaping contemporary American democracy By John Chuckman | Aletho News | March 12, 2015 Many people still think of the CIA as an agency designed to help American presidents make informed decisions about matters outside the United States. That was the basis for President Truman’s signing the legislation which created the […]
teleSUR | March 12, 2015 “A lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA.” NED founding father, Allen Weinstein The U.S. government and military have a long history of interfering in the affairs of numerous countries in Latin American and the Caribbean. By the end of the 19th century, […]
By Robert Parry | Consortium News | March 11, 2015 An early skill learned by Official Washington’s neoconservatives, when they were cutting their teeth inside the U.S. government in the 1980s, was how to frame their arguments in the most propagandistic way, so anyone who dared to disagree with any aspect of the presentation seemed […]
Removing Israel from American politics By Philip Giraldi • Unz Review • March 10, 2015 [The following is a lightly edited version of a speech I gave on March 1 st in Washington during the anti-AIPAC and Netanyahu visit demonstrations. Two days later Israeli Hollywood producer Arnon Milchan, whom I cite below, was sitting in […]
Consortium News | March 9, 2015 The original idea of the CIA was to have independent-minded experts assessing both short- and longer-term threats to U.S. national security. Mixing with operations and politics was always a danger, which is now highlighted by CIA Director Brennan’s reorganization, opposed by a group of U.S. intelligence veterans. MEMORANDUM FOR: The President FROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals […]
