Yearly Archives: 2020

Grading Trump on Foreign Policy

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Huge Military Budgets, Covert Operations, Drones and Assassinations—but hey, at least he didn’t start another major war By any objective measure, Donald Trump has been one of the worst presidents in American history. His administration exacerbated...

America’s Longest War: An Afghan’s Perspective

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How the U.S. has imposed puppet leaders in Afghanistan who have allied with the Taliban, advocated ethnic cleansing, and betrayed their people During the 2020 election campaign, President-elect Joe Biden made it clear that if...

This Book Turns Everything You Thought You Knew About North Korea Upside Down

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How 70 years of CIA deceit and mainstream media complicity convinced the American public that North Korea was the Bad Guy and the U.S. was the Good Guy—when it was almost always the other...

LETTERS FROM OUR READERS – Re: “Iran in the Crosshairs: Tracing Overt and Covert...

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RE: Iran in the Crosshairs: Tracing Overt and Covert Action, by Eric Walberg - November 28, 2020 Terrific piece in CA magazine. As you are well aware, the US emerged from WWII as the world's...

Outposts of the U.S. Surveillance Empire: Denmark and Beyond

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Data acquired by the NSA has been used to convince the Danish government to buy fighter jets from Lockheed-Martin. Denmark’s military allows the United States’ National Security Agency (NSA) to spy on the nation’s Finance...

Was the Now-Forgotten Murder of One Man on September 9, 2001 a Crucial Pre-condition...

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Peter Dale Scott, with assistance from Aaron Good, breaks new ground with this exclusive investigation into the two-decades-old assassination of Ahmed Shah Massoud and may identify his murder as the green light—not only for...

Stealing Mineral Wealth for Corporate Interests: U.S. Bankrolled Mass Murder of Millions in Central...

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A new book reveals how U.S. Presidents of both parties unleashed the CIA in the Congo to do the dirty work of greedy corporations, causing misery, mutilations and massacres of such magnitude they dwarfed...

Iran in the Crosshairs: Tracing Overt and Covert Action

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As bad as they are on other foreign policy issues, the Biden-Harris victory in the November election is still a cause for optimism in U.S.-Iranian relations, given what we have seen under Trump. At...

Wars R Us: A Review of Christian Sorensen’s New Book “Understanding the War Industry”

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Pay no attention to all those nasty left-wing allegations about how military contractors collude and conspire with the Pentagon to warp our economy, impoverish our citizens, pervert our national goals, and foment needless bloody...

Former CIA Director John Brennan Whitewashes History in Shameless Self-serving Memoir

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During the Vietnam War era, peace activists compared American war planners like Robert S. McNamara and Henry Kissinger to Albert Speer, Hitler’s Minister of War Production and Armaments who stood out for his lack...