Tag: CIA
Danny Casolaro Was Planning to Meet with Key Figures in Nugan Hand Bank and Members of Australian Government Commission Before He Was Murdered
On August 10, 1991, Danny Casolaro was found lying dead in a tub of bloody water in a hotel room in Martinsburg, West Virginia.
The...
In early September, Dr. Thomas Alter II—author of the well-regarded book Toward a Cooperative Commonwealth: The Transplanted Roots of Farmer-Labor Radicalism in Texas (University of Illinois Press, 2022)—was fired from his tenured position teaching history at Texas State University after he gave an online talk at a socialist conference.
Alter’s...
The New York Times and other obituaries predictably left this out
Richard Armitage, the number two official at the State Department from 2001 to 2005, died on April 13.
The New York Times and other obituaries emphasized that Armitage was a Naval Academy graduate and Bronze Star recipient...
Elbridge Colby, President Donald Trump’s Under Secretary of Defense for Policy and the man running the U.S. proxy war against Russia in Ukraine, is the grandson of Nixon’s CIA Director William Colby, son of Jonathan Colby, a manager of the Carlyle Group, and nephew of Carl Colby, alleged to...
When I was young, my parents worked long hours. As a result, I spent much of my childhood with my grandparents, whose outlook on life always fascinated me—though at times, it left me deeply unsettled. Their time was not my own; it always moved more slowly, as if our...
New disclosures add weight to theory that Burisma was part of CIA operation
On February 21, 2019, a confidential source told the FBI that two CIA officers went with Mykola Zlochevsky, owner of Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company that appointed Hunter Biden to its board, to the office of...
The conservative right has been on a crusade to purge the teaching of critical race theory and aspects of U.S. history that reflect negatively on the country’s past and, hence, might encourage critical thinking about the present.
Most academic historians teaching in the Ivy League and at other institutions of...
In May, Stanford University’s Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (APARC) announced that the Bangladesh-focused media outlet Netra News was the recipient of the 2025 Shorenstein Journalism Award.
Left unmentioned was that Netra News received funding from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a CIA-front organization founded in the 1980s to advance U.S. global...
Listen to the Mockingbird. Let early birds catch worms, but Mockingbirds sing catchy ear worms.
Tone-deaf historians and criminologists continue to neglect music and thereby ignore an important soundtrack to events. Even if our frustration has now reached a boiling point as we long for information that makes sense, dubbing...
“The Mafia is not an outsider in this world; it is perfectly at home. Indeed, in the integrated spectacle it stands as the model of all advanced commercial enterprises.”—Guy Debord
In early June 2025, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) released four documents that had been sealed for 50...
