Central Intelligence Agency

12 Stories You Missed While the CIA Tried to Convince You Russia Hacked the Election

(TFC) The country has its sights firmly placed on the spectacle occurring over the hack/leak of documents that may or may not have influenced the election. It’s irrelevant. The people of the United States cannot grant the CIA (or any intelligence agency) the power to cast doubt on the results of elections via unconfirmed, unsourced, and politically […]

Big Media’s Contra-Cocaine Cover-up

By Robert Parry | Consortium News | December 9, 2016 Amid the mainstream U.S. media’s current self-righteous frenzy against “fake news,” it’s worth recalling how the big newspapers destroyed Gary Webb, an honest journalist who exposed some hard truths about the Reagan administration’s collaboration with Nicaraguan Contra cocaine traffickers. Webb’s reward for reviving that important […]

Myriad ways CIA tried and failed to assassinate Fidel Castro

RT | November 26, 2016 The father of the Cuban Revolution remains unbeaten by his foes even in death. We look over the most dramatic assassination plots on El Comandante – from character-assassinations by way of LSD, to Italian mobsters, tuberculosis wetsuit, and exploding cigar. “If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would […]

Congressional Hawks Rush to Intensify War in Syria

By Rick Sterling | Dissident Voice | November 21, 2016 Hawks pass HR5732 Late in the day Tuesday November 15, Congress convened in special session. With normal rules suspended, they passed House Resolution 5732 the “Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act”. The resolution calls for intensifying already harsh sanctions on Syria, assessing implementation of No Fly […]