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Tomgram: Michael Klare, The Road to Hell in the Middle East
Tomgram: Michael Klare, The Road to Hell in the Middle East It’s already long forgotten here, but the theocratic regime in Iran was really our baby. After all, in 1953, the CIA and British intelligence engineered a coup to replace a democratic government in Iran with the autocratic Shah and so gave Iranians just what […]
The Coming War Against Iran
The Coming War Against Iran We’ve been through this before: the trumped-up threat from Iraq based on false evidence in 2003 is the harrowingly similar model to what is emerging for Iran in 2018, argues John Kiriakou. I spent nearly 15 years in the CIA. I like to think that I learned something there. I […]
Pompeo Lands In Saudi, Immediately Calls For New Iran Sanctions
Pompeo Lands In Saudi, Immediately Calls For New Iran Sanctions Well that didn’t take long. Just two days after being sworn in as US Secretary of State, former CIA Director Mike Pompeo arrived in Saudi Arabia on Saturday on a hastily-arranged visit to the Middle East to reinvigorate support for new sanctions against Iran. As […]
How Wikipedia Lies
How Wikipedia Lies Did you know that Vice President Dick Cheney admitted that on 11 September 2001 he, as President George W. Bush’s brief stand-in during the 9/11 attacks that hit the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, issued an order (and it was carried out) to shoot down United Airlines Flight 93 while it […]
The Civil War Is At Home
The Civil War Is At Home Francesco Hayez The Death of the Doge Marin Faliero 1867 Dr. D’s swift response to my essay yesterday, Every Kingdom Divided Against Itself. On the mechanisms by which empires fall. They’re always similar and familiar. Dr. D: Wonderfully said. Since no one will report, here’s what happened to that […]
Coming Attraction: Lunatic Loose in West Wing
Coming Attraction: Lunatic Loose in West Wing As Uber-Hawk John Bolton prepares to take over as national security adviser on Monday, Ray McGovern looks back at when Bolton was one of the “crazies” in the George W. Bush administration. John Bolton’s March 22 appointment-by-tweet as President Donald Trump’s national security adviser has given “March Madness” […]
Americans Trust ‘Our’ Intelligence Agencies. Should We?
Americans Trust ‘Our’ Intelligence Agencies. Should We? The record is clear that ‘our’ (that is, the ruling Establishment’s) intelligence agencies, such as the CIA, have lied to the public many times, actually lie routinely — but these lies are always revealed only decades later, by historians, which is too late, because the damage was already […]
The New Military-Industrial Complex of Big Data Psy-Ops
The New Military-Industrial Complex of Big Data Psy-Ops Bryan Bedder/Getty ImagesAlexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, addressing the Concordia Summit in New York, September 19, 2016 Apparently, the age of the old-fashioned spook is in decline. What is emerging instead is an obscure world of mysterious boutique companies specializing in data analysis and online influence that contract […]
Know Your History: Google Has Been a Military-Intel Contractor from the Very Beginning
Know Your History: Google Has Been a Military-Intel Contractor from the Very Beginning Levine’s investigative reporting on the connection between the Silicon Valley tech giants and the military-intelligence community has been praised by high-level NSA whistleblower Thomas Drake, and many others. [See my interviews of Drake here: NSA Started Spying On Journalists in 2002 … […]
America and Its Arab Friends Set Up a New Anti-Iran Alliance
America and Its Arab Friends Set Up a New Anti-Iran Alliance The Saudi king has just begun his two-week visit to the US but the first important achievement was seen even before the top-level talks kicked off on March 20. He and President Trump agreed to assemble a Supreme Committee to counter Iran. The UAE […]
Rand Paul: Deep State Exists, Uses Intelligence for Political Purposes
Rand Paul: Deep State Exists, Uses Intelligence for Political Purposes Washington, D.C.— Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said Tuesday during an appearance on The Laura Ingraham Show podcast that the term “deep state” accurately describes how an unelected bureaucracy of national security officials in positions of power exert influence without Congressional oversight. “Absolutely, there is a […]
Facebook: Six Degrees of Giant Squid
Facebook: Six Degrees of Giant Squid Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179) German artist, philosopher, composer, mystic Cosmic TreeAll of a sudden, politicians in the EU, UK, and USA all want to talk to Mark Zuckerberg. That’s a bad enough sign all by itself. It means they all either have been asleep, complicit, or they’re not very […]
Edward Snowden: Facebook Is A Surveillance Company Rebranded As “Social Media”
Edward Snowden: Facebook Is A Surveillance Company Rebranded As “Social Media” NSA whistleblower and former CIA employee Edward Snowden slammed Facebook in a Saturday tweet following the suspension of Strategic Communication Laboratories (SCL) and its political data analytics firm, Cambridge Analytica, over what Facebook says was imporoper use of collected data. In a nutshell, in […]
Caveat Emptor: MSNBC and CNN Use CIA Apologists for False Commentary
Caveat Emptor: MSNBC and CNN Use CIA Apologists for False Commentary Photo by edkohler | CC BY 2.0 MSNBC prides itself for progressive reporting on national security issues but continues to use apologists for the Central Intelligence Agency in reporting on key intelligence issues. The network’s reliance on former deputy director of the CIA John […]
