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Trump’s Neocon Conversion and the Syrian 180
Trump’s Neocon Conversion and the Syrian 180 You have to feel a little sorry for the folks who voted for Trump expecting him to live up to his promise to bring the troops home and stop killing people. On Thursday Trump cleared up any doubt about his neocon conversion. Once again he made his supporters—or those […]
Chinese Influence Ops In The US Are Blowback From Decades Of CIA Ops Elsewhere
Chinese Influence Ops In The US Are Blowback From Decades Of CIA Ops Elsewhere The United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission alleged that Beijing is running a massive influence operation inside of America’s institutions. The recently released report raises the alarm about what its authors claim are China’s clandestine efforts “to outsource its messaging […]
How The CIA Undermined Civil Rights
How The CIA Undermined Civil Rights Although the Civil Rights Movement resulted in many well known changes at an institutional level, it is widely agreed that the movement did not succeed in a total transformation of American society. The dream of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was not fully realized. The exact reasons for this are […]
CIA and Saudi Arabia Conspired to Keep 9/11 Details Secret, New Book Says
CIA AND SAUDI ARABIA CONSPIRED TO KEEP 9/11 DETAILS SECRET, NEW BOOK SAYS It’s easier to bury uncomfortable facts than to confront them. So this September 11, the ceremonies marking the 2001 attacks on New York and Washington, D.C., will simply honor the dead. In Manhattan, tourists and mourners will gather where the World Trade […]
The CIA Owns the US and European Media
The CIA Owns the US and European Media William Blum shares with us his correspondence with Washington Post presstitute Michael Birnbaum. As you can tell from Birnbaum’s replies, he comes across as either very stupid or as a CIA asset. When I received my briefing as staff associate, House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, which required top […]
Seymour Hersh and the Disappearing Iconoclast
Seymour Hersh and the Disappearing Iconoclast He won a Pulitzer for My Lai and cracked Abu Ghraib wide open. But this reporter is still a lonely breed. Journalist Seymour Hersh in 2009. Credit: Institute for Policy Studies/Flickr Seymour Hersh, Reporter: A Memoir, Sy Hersh. Knopf, June 2018, 368 pages When people are comforted by government lies, […]
Five examples that show internet censorship is as much a threat to the left as the right
Five examples that show internet censorship is as much a threat to the left as the right © Kacper Pempel / Reuters The banning of right wing controversialist Alex Jones from multiple social media platforms last week was a cause of celebration for many liberals, but should those on the left really be so complacent […]
The Internet Just Crowdfunded the Release of 4,358 CIA Mind Control Documents
The Internet Just Crowdfunded the Release of 4,358 CIA Mind Control Documents (ANTIMEDIA) — A crowdfunding campaign has succeeded in raising the funds necessary to pay a Freedom of Information Act request fee for documents related to the CIA’s controversial MKUltra program. John Greenewald of Black Vault, a website that publishes government documents, appealed to the internet for […]
Edward Snowden: 5 years in Russia and still relevant as ever
Edward Snowden: 5 years in Russia and still relevant as ever Edward Snowden changed the practices of both the internal and external focused US and global intelligence agencies. TASS reported that August 1 was the five year anniversary of Edward Snowden’s being granted temporary asylum in the Russian Federation. This happened after his release of […]
The Schizophrenic Deep State is a Symptom, Not the Disease
The Schizophrenic Deep State is a Symptom, Not the Disease If we understand the profound political disunity fracturing the nation and its Imperial Project, we understand the Deep State must also fracture along the same fault lines. If we consider the state of the nation from 40,000 feet, several key indicators of profound political disunity within […]
Lunatic Politics (Part 1) – Russiagate is a Religion
Lunatic Politics (Part 1) – Russiagate is a Religion As the Snowden documents and David Sanger’s great new book and other books make plain, and as U.S. officials are wont to brag, the U.S. intelligence services break into computers and computer networks abroad at an astounding rate, certainly on a greater scale than any other intelligence service […]
Five Things That Would Make The CIA/CNN Russia Narrative More Believable
Five Things That Would Make The CIA/CNN Russia Narrative More Believable As we just discussed, some major news stories have recently dropped about what a horrible horrifying menace the Russian Federation is to the world, and as always I have nothing to offer the breathless pundits on CNN and MSNBC but my completely unsatisfied skepticism. […]
Silicon Valley Will Not Save You from the Surveillance State
Silicon Valley Will Not Save You from the Surveillance State There was something quite odd about the very welcome news that some Google employees were objecting to a military contract, namely all the other Google military contracts. My sense of the oddness of this was heightened by reading Yasha Levine’s new book, Surveillance Valley: The […]
The Two Superpowers: Who Really Controls the Two Countries?
The Two Superpowers: Who Really Controls the Two Countries? Among the ruling interests in the US, one interest even more powerful than the Israel Lobby—the Deep State of the military/security complex— there is enormous fear that an uncontrollable President Trump at the upcoming Putin/Trump summit will make an agreement that will bring to an end […]
