In late November, Avril Haines, the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), traveled to Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) for meetings with Rwandan President Paul Kagame and DRC President Felix Tshisekedi.
The stated purpose of the meetings was to try to de-escalate tensions in eastern DRC, which has...
Serves As an Award Presenter at 40th Anniversary Gala of CIA Cutout
Barbara Lee (D-CA), 77, is rightly revered in progressive circles as the sole member of Congress—House or Senate—to have voted against a resolution that gave the president power to wage aggressive war indefinitely in the Middle East after...
And be warned: Encryption is unsafe and cyber-security is a myth!
For Crypto AG, the Swiss company that, according to The Economist, "rose to dominate the global market for cipher machines after the Second World War" and was for decades the leading manufacturer of cipher equipment for voice communications and...
From 1983 until 2021, Carl Gershman served as director of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), which was established by Congress to take over the CIA’s covert propaganda initiatives.
The NED packages itself as a champion of human rights, though it finances groups that primarily publicize the atrocities—both real and...
The United States government is inserting itself into a border dispute between Venezuela and Guyana on behalf of ExxonMobil. The oil-rich Essequibo region has the world’s biggest reserves per capita of crude oil and in May of this year, a “significant discovery” by ExxonMobil was announced in the area’s 6.6-million acre Staborek Block oil field...
In early November, the leadership and board of Consortium News, the independent news site, filed a major lawsuit against the federal government and NewsGuard Technologies, Inc. NewGuard at first glance looks like a media watchdog organization, a group that seeks to keep misinformation and disinformation out of the mainstream....
Hunt Was Among Victims of a United Airlines Flight That Crashed in Chicago on December 8, 1972, Soon After Richard Nixon’s Re-Election
Dorothy Hunt’s life of adventure and privilege came to a tragic end at the age of 52 on December 8, 1972, when United Airlines Flight 553 crashed into...
On December 10, 2004, the body of journalist Gary Webb, 49, was discovered in his home near Sacramento after a moving company worker found a note posted to his front door that read: “Please do not enter. Call 911 and ask for an ambulance.”
Webb’s death was listed as a...
A noted historian says those three letters are C-I-A. And even more, that Lennon was betrayed by Yoko Ono. Far-fetched? Before you scoff, look at the evidence this respected professor has finally decided to release after sitting on it for 41 years.
The Sixties era officially ended just before...
“The war that we have carefully for yearsprovokedCatches us unprepared, amazed and indignant.Our warships are shotLike sitting ducks and our planes like nest-birds,both our coasts ridiculously panicked,And our leaders make orations. This is thepeopleThat hopes to impose on the whole planetaryworldAn American peace.”
- Robinson Jeffers, “Pearl Harbor.”
“This...
