Former CIA Director John Brennan Whitewashes History in Shameless Self-serving Memoir
Jeremy Kuzmarov - 2
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 of ideological zeal in supporting the Nazi cause. What motivated Speer, rather, was a cold...
Interviews with Assange Legal Advisor Renata Avila, Journalists Glen Ford, Max Blumenthal and More in new Assange: Countdown To Freedom
Randy Credico - 8
Listen to the latest episode of Randy Credico’s acclaimed radio show “Julian Assange: Countdown to Freedom,” an ongoing exploration of the prosecution and persecution of the imprisoned WikiLeaks founder, featuring regular updates from the Courage Foundation’s Nathan Fuller.
In this 6th installment, Randy speaks with Assange's legal advisor Renata Avila,...
CIA Disinformation Campaign: Brennan to Publish Memoir Stoking New Cold War Flames
Jeremy Kuzmarov - 2
In October, John Brennan, CIA Director from 2013 to 2017, will release a memoir titled Undaunted: My Fight Against America's Enemies, at Home and Abroad.
Early excerpts from the book, published in The New York Times on Thursday July 30, quote Brennan expressing outrage that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell...
On Lockdown: Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange—Dennis Bernstein Interviews John Pilger (Part 1)
Dennis Bernstein - 0
In the USA of 2019, truth itself has become a radical act, and to be motivated by belief, instead of profit and corporate power, is to say the least, rare. Chelsea Elizabeth Manning is indeed one of those rare examples of a 21st century truth teller who has been...
Beltway Pundit Predictions About Putin’s Downfall Are as Wrong as Predictions 100 Years Ago that the Bolsheviks Would Lose the Russian Civil War
Jeremy Kuzmarov - 0
When Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin launched a revolt against Vladimir Putin on June 23, Beltway pundits became euphoric, predicting Russia’s descent into a civil war and the potential end of Vladimir Putin’s regime.
Michael McFaul, the former U.S. Ambassador to Russia, took to Twitter to declare that Putin had...
Headscarf Requirement, Discrimination Against Homosexuals, and Construction Worker Accidents in Qatar Overshadow an Insane Big Lie Aimed at Starting Another World War
Felix Abt - 2
The European Woke International of Hypocrisy and Neo-Colonialism looks past the incendiary escalation of the Ukraine conflict, preferring instead to spoil the beautiful game for hundreds of millions of soccer fans in Arab and developing countries.
Anyone who thought the media would take an in-depth look at the current and...
Digital Literacy and Civics Education are Essential Tools in Era of Disinformation and Surveillance Capitalism
John Kiriakou - 0
Heidi Boghosian delivers a powerful and meticulously researched call to arms for a digitally overwhelmed society grappling with declining civic engagement and the manipulation of truth in the digital age in her new book Cyber Citizens: Saving Democracy with Digital Literacy.
With sharp insight and urgency, Boghosian—the director of the AJ...
While sitting in my apartment in Caracas, Venezuela, and reading the online edition of Time magazine (5/19/16), I noticed a report asserting that there was not even something as basic as aspirin to be found anywhere in Venezuela: “Basic medicines like aspirin are nowhere to be found.”
I walked out of the...
Exclusive Interviews with Nils Melzer, Lauri Love and John Kiriakou on Assange: Countdown to Freedom
Randy Credico - 2
In this extraordinary fifth installment of "Live on the Fly - Julian Assange: Countdown to Freedom," Randy Credico speaks with Nils Melzer, UN Special Rapporteur on torture and professor at Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights; Lauri Love, who successfully avoided extradition to the U.S.; and...
CovertAction Bulletin Podcast: Whitewashing Neo-Nazis in Ukraine & Biden’s “Disinformation Governing Board”
Rachel Hu and Chris Garaffa - 1
Biden announced last month the assembly of a team within the Department of Homeland Security with the title: Disinformation Governing Board (DGB). Supposedly this team will be working to combat Russian, Iranian, and Chinese “disinformation.” We dive deeper into the contradictory history of disinformation about Ukraine in 2014 spread by non other than the executive director of the DGB board, Nina Jankowicz.










