In August 1991, journalist Danny Casolaro was found dead in a bathtub in a Martinsburg, West Virginia, hotel room with his wrists slashed and cuts so deep it severed a tendon.
Casolaro had been investigating a web of CIA corruption in the 1980s linked to the Iran-Contra scandal and theft...
Political legitimacy thrives on competence and executing the people’s will—not on money and endless election campaigns
Long before the West ever seriously discussed equal opportunities, sophisticated concepts of meritocratic selection already existed in China. The Tang Dynasty state, in particular, is considered an early example of a system based on...
Named after a U.S. intelligence agent who was allegedly killed by the Chinese Communists during the Chinese Civil War, the John Birch Society was an extreme right-wing organization that regularly warned about communist subversion of U.S. society from within.
According to Republican political operative Roger Stone, Donald Trump’s father Fred...
Perverse system represents a 21st century high-tech version of Robert S. McNamara’s infamous body count that led to so many atrocities during the Vietnam War
The Ukrainian government operates an “Amazon for the military,” called Brave1 Market, that awards military units “e-points” for uploading videos generated by drone strikes.
In return,...
Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) recently issued a memo which states: Cuba is not Venezuela. What does that mean? “The same people who keep ’57 Chevrolets on the road with a coat hanger will wreak havoc against a foreign-imposed regime.”
In 1975, Jamaica’s socialist Prime Minister Michael Manley expressed support for...
On September 5, 1945, Australian journalist Wilfred Burchett published an article in London’s Daily Express, “The Atomic Plague,” which helped reveal to the world the horrific effects of the atomic bomb that had been dropped over Hiroshima.
Burchett estimated that 53,000 people were directly killed, with 13,000 having been seriously...
Nineteen years ago—in February 2007, during the Bush administration’s Axis of Evil regime and calls for attacks on Iran from members of Congress, including “Bomb, bomb, bomb Iran” (to the tune of Beach Boys song “Barbara Ann”) recitation by Senator John McCain—I wrote an article entitled “An Appeal to...
John Stockwell, a CIA operative in Africa and Asia who resigned from the Agency in December 1976 and wrote a tell-all memoir, In Search of Enemies (1978), died in June 2026.
With Philip Agee, Stockwell was among the most important national security and CIA whistleblowers of the Cold War era.
Both...
In the decades after the U.S. dropping of atomic bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, only one serviceman who participated in the bombing missions came forward to publicly declare that he felt remorse for what he had done and reached out to hibakusha (atomic bomb survivors) by making charitable donations...
Never Forget: Germany’s Horrific Past Has No Equal—And Now It Threatens the Future
Consider the historical weight: From German soil emerged two world wars in the 20th century that claimed tens of millions of lives—with the Russians paying the heaviest price—alongside the Holocaust in Europe, the genocide of the Herero...
