Tag: Spotlight
On August 8, 1973, Kim Dae-jung, an opposition leader with the Korean New Democratic Party (KNDP), was kidnapped by the Korean Central Intelligence Agency (KCIA) from the 22nd floor of the Grand Palace Hotel in Tokyo and drugged while he was imprisoned.
The plot was to swiftly eliminate Kim, though...
I believe the status quo in Israel cannot persist because the “peace process” has failed to deliver any kind of resolution. Most people date the beginning of the Israel-Palestine conflict to the Arab-Israeli War in 1948. But the conflict had been brewing for much longer.- Ilan Pappé
On March 14,...
Just a day after Donald Trump made a national prime-time address on April 1st claiming the US is “winning and winning big” in the war on Iran, an American F-15E Strike Eagle fighter plane was shot down over a mountainous region of eastern Iran, kicking off a frantic search-and-rescue and a covert misinformation operation by the CIA within Iran...
As public support for the war in Iran dips lower and lower, the Trump administration is not only threatening a massive bombing campaign but appears to be planning a large-scale ground invasion, including (1) seizure of Iran’s main export terminal at Kharg Island, and (2) raids on nuclear facilities.
The...
While International Citizen Solidarity Is Strong for Cuba, Nations Turn Their Backs
As 700 international solidarity citizens visited Cuba last weekend, Cuban-American Secretary of State Marco Rubio smirked at the humanitarian disaster his and Trump’s policies were wreaking on Cuba, a small island nation of around 11 million people only...
Israeli warplanes set Iran’s South Pars gas field ablaze
On March 18, 2026, Israeli warplanes struck Iran’s South Pars gas field, igniting fires across one of the most critical energy complexes on Earth. The attack targeted infrastructure at the heart of the global natural gas system, sending flames through facilities...
The election of a Pinochet admirer as Chile’s new president shows that the evils she devoted her life to fighting have not been eradicated
The election of José Antonio Kast in Chile, an extreme right-wing admirer of fascist dictator Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990), has brought fears of a return to Chile’s...
Documents obtained by CovertAction Magazine reveal how prolific Western government contractor Torchlight, staffed by British military and intelligence veterans, has covertly trained “commercial and government clients” the world over in Government Communications Headquarters’ (GCHQ) digital espionage and cyberwar strategies.
Cloak-and-dagger techniques to “discredit, disrupt, delay, deny, degrade, and deter” target...
Cuba is set to receive oil for the first time in 2026, following the March 31st arrival at Matanzas Bay of the Russian tanker Anatoly Kolodkin with over 730,000 barrels, or 100,000 tons, of crude oil...
The pre-trial conference of kidnapped and incarcerated Venezuelan political prisoners, President Nicolás Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores, was held on March 26 at the Southern District of New York court in Lower Manhattan.
The defendants were taken hostage in an early morning raid on January 3 by the U.S....
