Tag: Spotlight
New Documentary Explores Life and Legacy of Fletcher Prouty, who wrote about CIA covert operations in his classic book The Secret Team
In a famous scene in Oliver Stone’s epic 1992 film JFK, Kevin Costner’s character confers with a shadowy CIA operative played by Donald Sutherland known as Mr. X...
On December 19, James Foley, U.S. ambassador to Haiti 2003-2005, published an explosive op-ed in the rabidly anti-Communist Miami Times. He lamented how the country had become a “ticking time bomb,” with hundreds of thousands of refugees threatening to emigrate stateside, “mounting gang violence,” withdrawal of “humanitarian relief organizations”...
Donald Trump has nominated Linda McMahon, a former executive with World Wrestling Entertainment and twice-failed Senate candidate as well as the Administrator of the Small Business Administration under his first term, to lead the Department of Education. Speaking about her nomination in early February, Trump said he wants her to put herself out of a job—to shutter the US Department of Education...
Known as the “Pentagon on the Charles,” the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a poster child for the military-industrial-academic complex that was a well-known hub for student anti-war activism in the 1960s and early 1970s.
Campus protests against the Vietnam War at that time got MIT to disassociate itself...
After Hamas submitted a two-page report documenting multiple violations of the tense ceasefire in place since January 19, and said it would on its end delay the release of some hostages until the issues are resolved, the Israeli government is now ramping up for another phase of all-out war against the Palestinian people. Benjamin Netanyahu threatened that if all Israeli hostages are not released by Saturday the 15th, he would “let all hell break loose.” ...
Immediate impeachment is the only option, but we must bring criminal charges against all the collaborating politicians, Democratic and Republican alike
It breaks the heart to see so many lost souls congratulating themselves on the impending approval of Gabbard and Kennedy by the Senate, two corrupt and gutless politicians who...
According to its mission statement, “AFI FEST… showcase the best films from across the globe to captivated audiences in Los Angeles. With a diverse and innovative slate of programming, the film festival presents a robust lineup of fiction and nonfiction features and shorts… along with panels and conversations featuring...
The basic fact that the United States is an empire is perhaps the most systematically taboo subject within mainstream American information systems and public discourse. U.S. imperialism is almost never discussed in depth, critically or intelligently, within corporate media or the educational system. It is never mentioned by candidates...
Over the weekend and early into this week, Elon Musk’s so-called DOGE, Department of Government Efficiency, effectively shut down the US Agency for International Development on a temporary basis. Musk, Donald Trump and their lackeys attacked USAID because they claim it’s a “viper’s nest of radical-left [m]arxists who hate America,” to quote a Musk post on X, saying it’s a corrupt organization that promotes so-called DEI across the world and is used to waste money...
Obstacles to Change
Attempts to change the United States immigration system faces the serious problem that the current system is a very lucrative business for some powerful interests. Corporations benefit with an influx of cheap labor into the U.S.
Corporations also benefit in countries where they are free to pursue the...
