Gone are the days when the CIA secretly infiltrated American newsrooms, craftily tricking people into believing U.S. government propaganda was the real news. Nowadays, they never keep it a secret that they run the media.
The post New Polls Show Almost No One Trusts Our Media Anymore appeared first on MintPress News.
A new study exposes a hitherto wholly unknown dimension of MKULTRA; Black Americans were disproportionately targeted by the CIA.
The post New Research Finds CIA Used Black Americans as Drugs Experiment Guinea Pigs appeared first on MintPress News.
There are many ways to define what is a political prisoner. The most well-known cases are those the national security state framed-up, or imprisoned with extreme sentences for an offense because of their political activism, such as George Jackson. Each period of struggle by the working class and oppressed peoples against ruling class control results some […]
How did The Daily Beast and Rolling Stone become two of the most aggressive smear factories of the US neoliberal establishment, and did US intelligence play a role? This article was part of a three part series originally published in The Defender on US intelligence infiltration of neoliberal media outlets. On Oct. 14, 2016, The Daily Beast published a surprisingly candid retrospective on the CIA’s historic recruitment of media assets. “Other journalists were threatened and blackmailed into cooperating with Mockingbird,” the article […]
In what should have been an extraordinary television confession this month, John Bolton, national security adviser in the previous administration of President Donald Trump, admitted to CNN in passing that he had helped to plot the overthrow of foreign governments while in office. Dismissing the idea that Trump had attempted a coup at the Capitol […]
The post How the Pentagon Dictates Hollywood Storylines first appeared on Dissident Voice.
Matt and I were recently invited on the Dangerous History podcast to discuss our documentary Theaters of War. We talk...
The post Theaters of War on the Dangerous History Podcast first appeared on Spy Culture.(Read more...)
Amazon wants to be your retailer, educator, grocery store, security system, bank and now your healthcare provider: A few days ago, reports came out that the tech giant is looking to buy One Medical for $4 billion, its latest foray into the healthcare business. At the same time, Amazon provides law enforcement with easy access to massive amounts of data and the tools to parse it. Of course it’s not just Amazon: Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Twitter and every big tech company obey the basic law of capitalism: grow or perish. They all rely on one shared resource: our data.
Studying employment websites and databases, MintPress has found that Google in recent years, hired dozens of professionals from the CIA. Alan Macleod reveals the details of the murky relationship.
The post National Security Search Engine: Google’s Ranks are Filled with CIA Agents appeared first on MintPress News.
21WIRE | Orban is roundly attacked for simply stating the obvious.
New Reader Featuring His Reporting Should be Assigned in College Classrooms There aren’t a lot of journalists that Americans can […]
The post Robert Parry Exposed CIA Criminality and Set the Gold Standard for Investigative Journalism appeared first on CovertAction Magazine.
