Part III Media Brainwashing Midway in Wimbledon’s championship last July, Denmark’s favorite son, Rune Holger, bashed a forehand over to his senior by 16 years, the seven-time Wimbledon champion Novak Djokovic, who had leg surgery a month before. I missed the return as a loud Danish voice droned over the...

Calls for the resignation of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol have rung out from civil society and beyond after Yoon declared martial law on December 3rd. The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) called for strikes until Yoon steps down, and groups under and beyond that organization are heeding the call...

The CIA likes to fashion itself as a heroic agency that helps to protect national security and uphold democracy around the world. However, Hugh Wilford’s book, The CIA: An Imperial History (Basic Books, 2024), shows that the CIA draws directly from British and French colonial precedents, and adopts the same...

Yamandú Orsi, from the Broad Front (Frente Amplio—FA), is the president-elect of Uruguay. He will take office on March 1, 2025, and lead the country until 2030. This marks a consolidation of progressive forces as the majority in Latin America, including notable popular governments in Mexico, Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia and...

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 line-up of fiction and non-fiction features and shorts… along with panels and conversations featuring both...

Dissidents in U.S.-allied countries and U.S. political prisoners are ignored while people who try to destabilize their own countries are promoted as heroes Gonzalo Lira was a Chilean journalist who was arrested in Ukraine in May 2023 for “producing and publishing material that tried to justify the ongoing Russian invasion,”...

At the end of November, groups aligned with Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) or the “Levant Liberation Committee” and previously known as the Al-Nusra Front, launched significant attacks on the Syrian government in the Idlib and Aleppo regions, taking part of the city of Aleppo. The Syrian Arab Army has mobilized to push back against HTS...

Sensationalistic headlines about North Korean engagement in Kursk contradicted by statements of Secretary of Defense On November 24, Newsweek ran a story by Ellie Cook with the headline “Russian and North Korean Troops Shrink Ukraine’s Gains in Kursk.” The title made it seem like North Korea was fighting on the front-lines...

David Hartsough is a legendary peace activist who first amassed an FBI file in the mid 1950s at the age of 15 when he organized a vigil outside a Nike missile plant where he grew up near West Chester, Pennsylvania. On November 20, Hartsough was one of 75 protesters who...

Part II: The Destruction of the Nord Stream Pipeline: We Came We Saw They Died “If Russia invades—that means tanks or troops crossing the border of Ukraine—then there will be no longer a Nord Stream 2. We will bring an end to it.” President Joe Biden said standing next...