Tag: United States

Lucien Conein was a key figure in coup that set the groundwork for the escalation of the Vietnam War Lucien Conein was a legendary CIA officer known as “Black Luigi,” who ran agents behind the Iron Curtain in the early Cold War, helped organize Iran’s notoriously brutal secret...
This year’s anniversary of 9/11 passed with little mainstream mention. Almost two-and-a-half decades on, the media appear to have lost interest in that fateful, world-changing day. This is despite the April 2023 release of a bombshell court filing by the Office of Military Commissions, which concluded at least two of...
Far-right leader Javier Milei won Argentina’s mid-term legislative elections, strengthening his position for the final two years of his government. President Milei has already announced that he will send regressive and far-reaching bills to Congress: labor, tax and pension reforms. All three sets of bills share the same goal: favoring...
Worked security for Nixon’s 1972 re-election campaign The 2024 Republican National Convention in Milwaukee was a fascistic spectacle where Donald Trump and many of the other speakers spewed vile anti-immigrant rhetoric and a masochistic ultra-nationalistic, extreme right-wing ideology. Fifty-three years earlier, the CEO of the convention’s host committee, Stephen...
After almost a year of an escalating trade war, U.S. President Donald Trump met with Chinese President Xi Jinping in South Korea last week...
Since September 2, 2025, the United States has bombed thirteen boats, two within twenty-four hours, killing a total of sixty-one people in international waters, under the unproven charge that the boats were carrying drugs headed for the U.S. What is amazing in this unprecedented affair is that the expected public...
The Trump-Netanyahu “Peace” for Gaza does not conform to international law and does not augur well for sustainable regional and international peace and reconciliation. The Trump-Netanyahu construct is incompatible with the UN Charter and with the erga omnes obligation of all UN member States to ensure the enforcement of Security...
The voyage went relatively well until the interception. We sailed with the 1000 Madleens to the Gaza flotilla so we spent some time catching up to them, waiting for them and then sailing with them. I met a couple of their people while we were in prison and at the...
Headquartered in San Francisco, The Asia Foundation is a non-profit organization receiving public and private support that coordinates development projects, educational programs and cultural exchanges across Asia, in part with the aim of facilitating better relations with the U.S., according to its website. Put in slightly different terms, The Asia...
President Donald Trump has expressed enthusiasm about Japan’s new prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, stating that her elevation to head the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in late October was “tremendous news.” Speaking to U.S. troops aboard a U.S. aircraft carrier in Japan on October 28 during his Asia tour, Trump introduced...