Tag: Feature
Palantir is a data analytics company founded with CIA seed money, which employed former Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines and former CIA Director George Tenet as consultants.
Its AI software, which journalist James Bamford characterized as “the digital equivalent of weapons of mass destruction,” is used by the Israeli Air...
The 2024 Netflix documentary American Conspiracy: The Octopus Murders has been nominated for three Emmy Awards. The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) nominated the four-part series in the following categories:
Outstanding Lighting Direction
Outstanding Investigative Documentary
Outstanding Documentary
The Emmy Awards for News and Documentaries are scheduled to be held...
Klan norms, values, and ideals continue to shape and influence state public policy
Jenks Public Schools, in Tulsa County, Oklahoma, suffered a significant budget shortfall in February 1922.
Approximately $9,000 suspiciously disappeared from the public coffers. Teachers’ salaries were in jeopardy and general operating expenses threatened to end the nine-month school year...
Deeply inspired, with a heart full of empathy and rage at almost two years of a colonial Holocaust, I returned to Palestine. My initial visit motivated me to pursue a deeper, more comprehensive connection with the historic Palestinian people who have been resisting 76 years of apartheid and genocide.
I...
John Millis was poised to release a report exposing CIA involvement in drug trafficking in Central America
An investigation into Millis’ death should be reopened along with journalist Gary Webb and others who were privy to info about the CIA’s drug running in Central America during the Reagan-Bush era and...
The events of recent months in Ukraine have in many ways marked a shift in priorities in international politics. Despite the horrific consequences of this conflict, many European leaders are eager for the continuation of the war and more bloodshed of Ukrainian soldiers.
According to various Ukrainian, European and American...
Ramparts magazine was a beacon of the 1960s social movements: an anti-establishment muckraking magazine that published important exposés of the CIA, including its involvement in the murder of Ché Guevara, its infiltration of the National Student Association (NSA), and its support for clandestine police training programs in South Vietnam...
Part II: “Humanitarian Aid”
In February, corporate media went ballistic when the new administration of U.S. President Donald Trump announced the dismantling of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
The uproar claimed the dismantling of the foreign aid agency would not only result in massive government layoffs but cause...
Why? Because I’m a human rights activist and I get in the way of U.S. foreign policy.
Your tax dollars well spent.
And you thought that USAID’s purpose was foreign aid and humanitarian assistance.
Then again, Americans are used to pumping money into the U.S. foreign interventionist and war machine and not...
On May 8, 2025, I was honored to speak at the Oxford Union debates on the topic: “This House Would Hold The Arms Industry Responsible For War Crimes.” My partner speaking in favor of the motion was Katie Gallagher, an excellent attorney with the remarkable Center for Constitutional Rights in...
