Brandon Martinez / Non-Aligned Media
Alt-media simpletons and lackluster analysts believe that gang-warfare between global elites is evidence of the benevolence of some of those power players.
Hostility from the “Western establishment” towards Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump is used again and again as a vindication of the latter’s altruism.
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The US has just started the ball rolling on a new arms race that is going to bring about uncertainty and insecurity throughout the world.
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Read how a KGB counterintelligence team captured CIA officer Martha Peterson, who was attempting to make contact with a valuable US spy in Moscow in 1977.
Tricia Jenkins' The CIA in Hollywood was one of the books that inspired me to start this site, and the recently published second edition expands considerably on the original. Because the CIA is resistant to FOIA requests and other forms of inquiry, Jenkins amassed a wide range of open source materials and interviewed various people both from the CIA (or formerly of the CIA) and from the entertainment industry.
We know about the CIA and Hollywood, but the KGB also placed undercover intelligence officers in Soviet film companies abroad. Here's an example from London.
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This is the latest installment of our new weekly SUNDAY SCREENING feature, where our editorial team curates a documentary film for our 21WIRE audience.
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A review of all the Top Stories from this week – for your consideration.
Nina Kouprianova is an independent analyst of geopolitics and culture. She earned her PhD (History) from the University of Toronto, focusing on modern and contemporary Russia, culture, and U.S. foreign policy. In this interview we discuss her translations and articles found at Espionage History Archive, Soul of the East and on her own blog, NinaByzantina. Critical of the leftist tyranny in modern academia, Nina tells us about her experiences in the West, as well as her upbringing in Russia.
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The US and UK media have descended into pure parody with their reporting of the recent Russian jet “buzzing” of USS Donald Cook, American Navy missile destroyer that “strayed” into Russian waters in the Baltic Sea.
The USS Donald Cook was 43 miles from Russian Naval base in Kaliningrad when the Russian jets “buzzed” the US naval destroyer. A Russian display of aerial dexterity that has sent the US and UK into a tail spin.
