Tag: Europe

The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) was up to its old tricks at its awards banquet on September 10th, which took place at the estate of George Washington in Mount Vernon, Virginia, to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the writing of the U.S. Declaration of Independence. The honorees...
CIA Director John Brennan was key to U.S. foreign policy strategy that aimed to draw Russia into quagmire in Ukraine and attack its energy infrastructure so U.S. oil and gas producers could take over its depleted markets The Russia-Ukraine War, really a U.S.-Ukraine proxy war on Russia, has taken a...
The passage of the “sanctions from hell” bill by both houses of Congress provides a fitting tribute to its original sponsor, Lindsey Graham (R-SC), the warmonger who died from an alleged heart attack on July 11 after returning to Washington, D.C., from a visit to Ukraine. Targeting Russian oil and...
Ukrainian intelligence units are conducting drone-warfare operations in Africa and the Middle East as proxies for the U.S. A consolidation of U.S. elite interests has taken shape in the Russo-Ukrainian war, with a network of Western venture capitalists, high-tech start-ups, NATO military advisers, and CIA intelligence officials reaping material...
Perverse system represents a 21st century high-tech version of Robert S. McNamara’s infamous body count that led to so many atrocities during the Vietnam War The Ukrainian government operates an “Amazon for the military,” called Brave1 Market, that awards military units “e-points” for uploading videos generated by drone strikes. In return,...
Never Forget: Germany’s Horrific Past Has No Equal—And Now It Threatens the Future Consider the historical weight: From German soil emerged two world wars in the 20th century that claimed tens of millions of lives—with the Russians paying the heaviest price—alongside the Holocaust in Europe, the genocide of the Herero...
AUKUS, an acronym for Australia, United Kingdom and the United States, is a trilateral military partnership established in 2021. Its primary publicized goal is “to promote a free, open, and secure Indo-Pacific region by enhancing collective deterrence and accelerating the joint development of advanced military technologies.” Former Malaysia Prime Minister...
Actually I have grown tired of explaining to people the deception at the heart of airport security procedures. For years I have tried to show that the explanations given for the increasingly intrusive, not to mention time-consuming, controls to which passengers in international travel and for decades now in...
Protests receive scant coverage in the U.S. media In early April, an unidentified Irish man climbed onto the roof of a U.S. C-130 Hercules military transport vehicle parked at Shannon Airport in County Claire, Ireland, and sabotaged its wing and fuselage using a hatchet, causing $75 million in damage. The heroic...
Frank Wisner was a CIA legend from the early Cold War era who earned the nickname “the Mighty Wurlitzer” for his ability to supposedly orchestrate covert operations with the precision and intricacy of a symphony maestro. Wisner, however, got countless of his own agents killed running infiltration missions behind the...