With and sometimes without one raggedy, expired Telesur press pass and a handful of inside contacts, Esteban Carrillo and I repeatedly penetrated Ecuador’s presidential candidate Andrés Arauz’s security detail.
A protégé of former Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa, Arauz won the 2021 first-round vote by more than 13 percentage points over...
On August 31, Duane “Keffe D” Davis was convicted of first-degree murder for his role in the death of famed rapper Tupac Shakur 30 years earlier.
Prosecutors argued that Davis and his nephew, Orlando “Baby Lane” Anderson, “went hunting” for Shakur after Anderson was in a fight with him and his entourage...
The Trump administration is blocking an agreement that would allow Chagossians who were displaced 60 years ago to return to their homeland
The many victims of the Iran War include thousands of Chagossian refugees living in Mauritius who have been prevented from returning to their home on Diego Garcia in...
Part Three: Artificial Intelligence = Alienation Instructors
I am conscious of being alienated. Feeling, knowing we have no real control over our lives, or over what happens around us throughout the world. Many of us who look honestly inside feel isolated, estranged from people, society, ourselves. Hopelessly living limply with...
Philip Mosely, who was considered the “most influential Sovietologist of the Cold War,” embodies the close ties between academia and the CIA
In his 1987 book Cloak and Gown: Scholars in the Secret War, 1939-1961, historian Robin Winks details a close connection between academia and the CIA and its...
At the May 26, 2026, Rage Against the War Machine rally, Joe Kent, a former top counterterrorism adviser and CIA paramilitary officer, denounced the war on Iran as a war driven by Israel and rooted in lies, along with other speakers like former Fox News host Tucker Carlson who...
Trump has already rigged the race to crush Democratic voters and ensure a Republican victory—but Democrats don’t want to hear it
The polls confirm a growing surge of voter enthusiasm for Democrats. Are they wrong? No. They may just not be relevant.
While Democrats deliriously high-five themselves at the release of...
Ernest R. May embodies deep connection between academia and the CIA
Ernest R. May (1928-2009) was a Harvard history professor for 55 years and dean of Harvard College in the late 1970s; he also served as the senior historian, consultant and main author (with Philip Zelikow) of the 9/11 Commission...
China invests in U.S./Israel Wars and supported Pol Pot’s Genocide and South African Apartheid
Che Guevara’s revolutionary humanist perspective led him to “reject any notion that included using capitalist tools or fetishes. The pipe dream that socialism can be achieved with the help of the dull instruments left to us...
Harry Bridges made his mark as leader of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) for more than 40 years, surviving FBI harassment and efforts to deport him.
His fusion of union leadership with the rank and file and outspoken opposition to U.S. imperial foreign policies provide a model that...
