Central Intelligence Agency

Torture Did Work — to Produce War (See Footnote 857)

By SAM HUSSEINI | CounterPunch | December 12, 2014 Nothing solidifies the establishment more than a seemingly raging debate between two wings of it in which they are both wrong. Not only wrong, but in their wrongness, helping to cover their joint iniquities, all the while engaging in simultaneous embrace and finger-pointing to convey the […]

LIVING WITH INSANITY

Image: Harper, Abbott, and Cameron at the Brisbane G-20
 
 

It is quite clear that the United States is responsible for destabilizing Ukraine. Its CIA funds have been invested into many unsavoury projects, perhaps most disturbing is its paying support to a collection of neo-Nazi groups ranging from extremist parties to violent militia forces, some of the very groups who have committed atrocities such as murdering many hundreds of civilians.

 
 
 

LIVING WITH INSANITY

Harper, Abbott, and Cameron at the Brisbane G-20 By John Chuckman | Aletho News | November 18, 2014 Canada’s Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, is reported by a spokesman, to have had the following exchange with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin during the Brisbane G-20 summit: “Well, I guess I’ll shake your hand, but I only have […]

Are Covert Ops Compatible With Democracy?

By Bill Blunden | CounterPunch | October 14, 2014 It’s part of the public record that the NSA has engaged in an industry-wide campaign to weaken cryptographic protocols and insert back doors into hi-tech products sold by U.S. companies. We also know that NSA officials have privately congratulated each other in successfully undermining privacy and […]