Yearly Archives: 2024

Gaza War: Deceptions, Distortions, Misperceptions. What are the Relevant Actual Facts?

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Responses to the current violence in, and from, Gaza vary as follows: Israeli leaders, much of the Israeli public, and Zionists in the West, thirsting for vengeance, call for genocidal mass murder and/or wholesale ethnic-cleansing...

CIA Cutout Appoints Counterterrorism Czar Who Supported Massive Human Rights Abuses

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Juan Zarate’s contempt for human rights was reflected in his criticism of Barack Obama for trying to close down Guantánamo Bay Zarate also helped sow misery as a chief architect of modern financial warfare The National...

Christian Preachers in U.S. Senate Show Their Hypocrisy By Voting For Military Aid to...

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The February 12, 2024, Senate vote on sending another $14 billion to Israel shows the depravity of most of the members of the U.S. Senate. In particular, it showed the hypocrisy of the two Senators...

The Truth Was Almost Killed in Nicaragua

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Survivor of Radio Station Attack By U.S. Backed Criminals During 2018 Coup Attempt Recounts Harrowing Ordeal Carlos Alfaro León, 46, is a sports journalist who covers baseball and boxing matches for La Nueva Radio Ya,...

The National Archives is So Underfunded that It Will Take 600 Years to Fulfill...

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Prioritization of funding for the Pentagon and intelligence agencies decimates vital government agencies that are needed for functioning democracy For the fifth time since October 2023, the federal government faced yet another shutdown, thanks to...

NATO & New Zealand: European War Machine Comes to the Pacific

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What does NATO have to do with New Zealand and vice versa? The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is what it says on the tin, and New Zealand is about as far away from...

U.S. Inks Deal to Build New Military Bases that Can Serve as Launching Point...

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On February 15, the Biden administration signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Government of Somalia to construct up to five military bases for the Somali National Army in the name of bolstering...

Israel’s Censorship: The Repression of Pro-Palestinian Voices

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Besides the Israeli military’s mass murder of Palestinians in Gaza (the West Bank as well), there have been repressive measures by Israel to silence the dissent of pro-Palestinian voices. In a sane world, Israel...

CovertAction Bulletin: Why the U.S. Really Wants to Ban TikTok

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Far from being in the interests of advancing data privacy or the security of working-class people in the United States, banning TikTok would be a boon to American social media companies who routinely spy on their users and collaborate with intelligence and other government agencies. Instead, the bill is just part of the U.S. attack on China’s growing influence across the world...

Twenty-Two Years After It Was Created, Guantanamo Bay Prison Remains a Monstrosity

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In 2020 Campaign Biden Promised to Close Facility, But Has Actually Upgraded It During the 2020 election campaign, Joe Biden followed Barack Obama in promising to close the prison at Guantánamo Bay, which had...