Tag: Feature
Indictment Against Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chair Offers Window Into Corruption Underlying U.S. Foreign Policy
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Raises Questions Also As to Why the Democratic Party Would Choose Someone So Far to the Right to Become the Party’s Effective Foreign Policy Spokesperson
The jaw-dropping three-count federal indictment against Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chair Robert Menendez (D-NJ), his wife, and three businessmen with close ties to the authoritarian...
Biden Administration Provides $80 Million Worth of High Performance Helicopters to Right-Wing Government in Zambia While It Carries Out Campaign of Repression Against Country’s Socialist Party
Jeremy Kuzmarov - 0
Socialist Party Leader Fred M’membe Has Been Arrested Numerous Times by Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema. He Received the Helicopters As a Reward for Allowing U.S. Corporations to Plunder Zambia’s Copper Wealth
The Biden administration has gifted Zambia with four state-of-the-art high-performance Bell helicopters, valued at approximately $80 million (1.5 billion...
Prominent Hollywood Actor Says that the U.S. and Israeli Governments Are Responsible For Humanitarian Crisis in Lebanon and Syria
Jessica Ashe - 0
Sir Vincent Raymond Percival Lyn is best known for his role alongside Jackie Chan in Operation Condor, more broadly acting in more than 30 Hollywood films. However, one successful career did not suffice, for this polymath’s interests and achievements run the gamut of humanity itself.
He is a Grammy Award...
Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel is Defiant as President Joe Biden Extends Criminal Blockade on Cuba For 61st Year
Jeremy Kuzmarov - 1
Díaz-Canel Characterized Blockade As Part of a “Tightened Siege” Resulting from An “Unjust International Order”
On September 14, President Joe Biden announced the extension of the U.S. blockade of Cuba for another year, until at least September 14, 2024.
In a memorandum directed to the Secretary of State and Secretary of...
Famed Writer Featured in New Documentary Provided a Literary Equivalent to the FBI’s COINTELPRO
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Thomas Wolfe’s Book Radical Chic Mocked Supporters of the New Left and Helped Deflate Political Activism in the 1970s
Richard Dewey’s Radical Wolfe is a stylish, enjoyable documentary about iconic 20th century American writer Tom Wolfe. Along with Hunter Thompson, Truman Capote and Norman Mailer, Wolfe was an exemplar...
Ukraine’ Assassination Program Has Gotten So Out of Control that Some of Its Members Are Starting to Speak Out
Jeremy Kuzmarov - 1
The Assassination Program Bears Parallels With the Vietnam Phoenix Program and Israeli Mossad Operations Targeting Palestinians
On September 9th, The Economist ran a remarkable story entitled “Ukraine’s Assassination Programme: Its Agents Have Become Expert in Dark Revenge.”
It spotlighted how the Ukrainian Security Services (SBU)’s Fifth Directorate and Special Operations Forces...
Cuba Played a Crucial Role in the Demise of Apartheid While the CIA Helped Uphold It for Decades
Isaac Saney - 0
Between 1975 and 1991, Cuba embarked on a remarkable internationalist mission known as Operación Carlota. This mission was undertaken to defend Angola's newly found independence from an invasion by apartheid-era South Africa, and it played a pivotal role in the broader African anti-colonial and national liberation struggles.
Over 400,000 Cubans...
U.S. Leads the World in Solitary Confinement that Destroys Prisoners Mental Health
John Kiriakou - 0
Anthony Gay is severely mentally ill. And like many Americans who suffer from severe mental illness and who commit a crime, he was placed in solitary confinement after his conviction, rather than in a mental hospital where he could have received treatment for his schizophrenia.
Isolated in a six-by-ten foot...
Biden Appoints Billionaire From CIA-Mafia Linked Family to Oversee Exploitation of Ukraine’s Economy by Multi-National Corporations
Jeremy Kuzmarov - 0
On September 14, President Joe Biden appointed former Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker, an heir to the Pritzker banking dynasty whose net worth is around $3.3 billion, to be Special Representative for Ukraine’s Economic Recovery.
In a statement, Biden said that Ms. Pritzker would “drive the United States’ efforts to help...
The Country Has Sadly Evolved Into a Tax Haven for U.S. Corporations While Aligning Itself More and More with a Failing Empire
“‘I’m at home,’ told the Irish Parliament to thunderous applause. ‘I only wish I could stay longer.’”
The U.S. President, Joe Biden, visited Ireland at the start...