Tag: Feature
It Can and Did Happen Here: Three L.A. Museums Shine Spotlight on the Hollywood Blacklist’s 75th Anniversary
Ed Rampell - 0
Three museums are commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Hollywood Blacklist, the darkest period in Tinseltown history. What happened during this period of right-wing repression? As actor Humphrey Bogart put it: “We saw it—and said to ourselves, ‘It can happen here.’ We saw American citizens denied the right to...
Meet a Forgotten CIA Critic Who Presciently Characterized the Agency as a Cancer in 1970 Book
Jeremy Kuzmarov - 4
David W. Conde set the groundwork for Philip Agee’s 1975 whistleblowing account, Inside the Company.
In 1970, David W. Conde, an American journalist working in Japan, who had served with the U.S. Army Psychological Warfare Branch in World War II, published a now-forgotten book in New Delhi, CIA—Core of the...
U.S.-NATO Involvement in the 2014 Ukraine Coup and Maidan Massacre: The Soft Power Ecosystem and Beyond
Jim Cole - 4
The Psychology of Color Revolutions
Color revolutions are U.S.-funded regime-change operations utilizing a sophisticated understanding of psychology, sociology and political organizing to foment and precipitate an “electoral revolution” resulting in a U.S. client state or one that meets other geopolitical purposes. They require a large ecosystem of change agents, including...
China Brokered Peace Agreement Between Saudi Arabia and Iran Marks End of Era of American Unipolar Power
Morrigan Johnson - 1
The U.S. has lost respect worldwide and control of West Asia and other regions.
A historic peace deal was announced March 10, 2023, with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Islamic Republic of Iran adopting a trilateral peace agreement brokered by the People’s Republic of China.
In an instant the...
Unable to accept the reality of a growing multipolar world order, U.S. elites are willing to risk nuclear war.
In May 2022, Henry Kissinger gave a remarkable speech at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland, where he urged the Biden administration to seek a peace agreement in Ukraine...
The Yemeni “Peace Process” is a Sham Though You Wouldn’t Know That From Watching U.S. News or Reading Foreign Affairs
Andi Olluri - 1
Media and intellectual elites continue to add spin to dignify a criminal war of aggression that has resulted in unconscionable suffering among the Yemeni people.
In April 2022, a temporary truce was signed between the warring parties in Yemen, which ended in October, though fragments of it are still operational.
The...
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Cravenly Rubber Stamps CIA Plan for More Coups, Assassinations, Drone Strikes, Kidnappings and Torture to Save America from Fabricated Foreign Enemies
Jeremy Kuzmarov - 1
March 28 Hearings Provided a Platform for the CIA’s “Nice Guy” Public Face, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), and the Violent Coup Plotters and Regime Changers That it Supports
The concept of separation of powers was pivotal to the so-called ideal of democracy laid out by the founding fathers...
United States Hypocrisy Toward the World is Another Way of Saying, ‘Don’t Do as We Do, Do as We Say’
David Starr - 2
In February 2023, United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken briefly met Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and proceeded to give him a “moral” lecture on Russia’s decision to suspend its role in a nuclear arms treaty, and on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. They were in India for the...
Flipping the Bird Site: How Elon Musk’s Twitter Builds a Pipeline from the Alt-Right to Salafi Extremists
Ambrose Sylvan - 0
Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter for $44 billion has been called many things. Risky. A victory for free speech. A narcissistic ego trip. A complete disaster. The mistake of a very divorced man. True or false, these criticisms are superficial. What is the method behind Elon’s madness?
Getting the Gang...
A Look Back at the American Experience in World War I Shows the Danger of Where We May Be Headed
Jeremy Kuzmarov - 1
So far the 2020s have been a very bad time for American democracy, with the January 6, 2021, riots, censorship on Twitter, Facebook and in the classrooms, rising anti-Russian fervor resulting from the conflict in Ukraine, COVID-19 lockdowns, declining newspapers and marginalization of anti-war voices.
Still, as bleak as things...