Tag: Spotlight
In early January 2009, a thirteen-year-old girl named Almaza Samouni watched in horror as 30 members of her family were killed while her home in Gaza was shelled by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) during Operation Cast Lead. Among the victims was her brother, who was struck by a...
Geography and History Render the U.S. the Most Defensible Country in the World—Indeed It Spends Far More Than Any Other Country On Its Military
Dr. Charles Johnston - 2
This Military Paradox Could Very Well Lead to Nuclear Armageddon
In 1949 the U.S. War Department changed its name. Branches of the armed forces were then administered under a new name: the Department of Defense. This newly defined mandate of defending the United States should have been a relatively easy and inexpensive task.
Geography...
New Investigation Exposes CIA Role in 1975 Coup Against Australian Government which Wanted to Remove U.S. Spy Base
Jeremy Kuzmarov - 3
British Prime Minister Harold Wilson, Queen Elizabeth and U.S. President Gerald Ford Sanctioned an Operation to Bring Left-Leaning Prime Minister Gough Whitlam Down by Having an Arms Company and Bank Run by CIA Assets Trick His Deputy Prime Minister into Accepting an Illegal Loan
Danny Casolaro was a maverick investigative...
“The Death Row You Don’t Want to Know:” An Inmate at San Quentin Reveals What Death Row is Really Like
James P. Anderson - 8
From the date of being arrested (March 4, 1979) in one of the most racist counties in California (Riverside), and enduring one of what would be called by many, “a circus trial” on December 12, 1979, I was brought to the sixth floor of North Block, better known as...
The Maine-Endwell School District in Upstate New York Set a Wonderful Precedent By Hosting a Peace Day on September 21
Children around the world need to be taught that killing brothers and sisters, and fellow humans anywhere is murder and should never be allowed.
In the United States, the vast majority...
Washington Post Lifts the Veil on CIA’s Shadow War Against Russia Waged Since 2014
Jeremy Kuzmarov - 6
In August 2022, Ukrainian security service (SBU) operatives hid explosives in a crate intended for a cat in a car driven by a woman and her twelve year old daughter. After the car passed through the Russian border, the SBU planted the bomb in the SUV of Russian journalist...
CovertAction Bulletin: Largest Pro-Palestine Protest in U.S. History
Rachel Hu and Chris Garaffa - 0
November 4th has been declared an International Day of Solidarity with Palestine. Over 100 demonstrations will take place that day around the world in solidarity with Palestine, from Johannesburg to São Paulo, Berlin to Kuala Lampur, Athens to Algiers...
Notorious “Secret Team” Headed by CIA Agent Theodore Shackley Was Involved in the Kidnapping and Assassination of Italian Premier Aldo Moro, Italian Parliamentary Investigations Show
Denis Voltaire - 1
The Secret Team was a group of CIA agents run by CIA's “Blond Ghost” Theodore Shackley that was involved in the most scandalous U.S. foreign policy interventions throughout the 1970s and 1980s, including the “October Surprise” and Iran-Contra affair. Now, Shackley’s “secret team” has been found to have had...
Director/co-writer Tina Satter’s movie Reality often has a documentary-like vibe. As we’re informed via an onscreen title, the film’s dialogue is mostly taken from the “voluntary” June 3, 2017 interview of Reality Winner (Sydney Sweeney of HBO’s Euphoria) conducted by Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents at her home...
Protests across the world in solidarity with Palestine are building a support movement for the Palestinian resistance and cause, showing leaders that people from the U.S. to the UK to Yemen and Jordan and beyond stand with the Palestinian people in their fight against the U.S.-backed Israeli occupation. These protests are changing the shape of media coverage and influencing popular opinion and the debate over the issue....