Daily Digest

Revealed: Mercer Street’s Parent Shipping Company a Front for Israeli Intelligence

Zodiac Maritime, the Mercer Street’s operator, has a long history of working closely with both the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) and Israeli intelligence unit Mossad, using its ships to ferry arms and operatives around the region for covert operations, including assassinations. 
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Privatizing the Occupation: How Israeli Corporations Came to Police the Palestinians

“The options for these retired [Israeli] generals are narrowing and they either become arms dealers or they set up security companies.” -- Dr. Shir Hever, author of “The Privatisation of Israeli Security”
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Want Regime Change with Plausible Deniability? Call Creative Associates International

The Reagan administration constructed a network of outsourced private organizations that would do the dirty work of the U.S. empire, shielding the U.S. government from the prying eyes of investigators and journalists. 
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How a Poor “Negro” Couple Bucked the KKK and Sowed the Seeds of East-West Diplomacy

“They say that on a quiet night if you listen hard enough and long enough you can hear the angry black people tugging fiercely at their chains all over America.” -- From “Listen, Brother!” by Robert F. Williams
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On Propaganda and Failed Narratives: New Understanding of Afghanistan is a Must

US-Western propaganda, which has afflicted our collective understanding of Afghanistan for twenty years and counting, has been so overpowering to the point that we are left without the slightest understanding of the dynamics that led to the Taliban’s swift takeover.
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