Sadly, Democrats Are Vowing to Be as Tough as Republicans and Support Draconian Surveillance Apparatus During the GOP convention in Milwaukee in July, speaker after speaker made it seem like the U.S.-Mexico border was as porous as a leaking sieve and that the Biden administration had allowed the U.S. to...

When I Confronted RFK Jr. About Trump Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s backing of the Republican presidential candidate and disloyalty to the Democrats, the party his family has been so closely identified with for decades, came on the 85th anniversary of one of history’s most shocking acts of backstabbing. But the...

John Stockwell is a former CIA officer who became a whistleblower and outspoken critic of the Agency, the U.S. intelligence community and the imperialist policies of the U.S. government. He left the CIA in 1976 after serving there for 12 years following service in the U.S. Marine Corps...

On April 4, 1967, from the pulpit of Manhattan’s storied Riverside Church, the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered one of his most powerful sermons. Titled “Beyond Vietnam—A Time to Break Silence,” it was the first time King had publicly denounced the Vietnam War. He had long avoided...

Leon Panetta was drowned out by anti-war activists when he spoke at 2016 convention, but not this time Former CIA Director Leon Panetta (2009-2011) was among the featured speakers on the final day of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Chicago on August 22 when Kamala Harris accepted the party’s...

The founder and CEO of social media and communications app Telegram, Pavel Durov was arrested in France on August 24th. The country, one of the Nine Eyes intelligence partners along with the US, UK, Australia and others, claims that the social media app is a hotbed for illegal activity, and Western media coverage blasts it as a tool of the Russian government. But the attack on Telegram is actually a testing ground for future attacks on encrypted messaging platforms and alternative news sources...

Spy Spoof: The Spy Who Shrinked Me As I entered Los Angeles’ Pacific Resident Theatre’s smaller “co-op space,” Herb Alpert’s jaunty, trumpet-y instrumental piece “Casino Royale” was playing on the P.A. system. In fact, this clever choice was a perfect mood-setter that (literally) set the stage for Gregg Ostrin’s The Spy...

Muhammad Yunus awarded Nobel Peace Prize and given Medal of Freedom by Barack Obama despite screwing over poor On August 8, Muhammad Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank and a pioneer in the issuance of micro-finance credit loans, was sworn in as Bangladesh’s Prime Minister after protests forced the...

The news that the Waihopai spy base was going to be built led to the birth of the Anti-Bases Campaign (ABC) in 1987. ABC has campaigned for the closure of Waihopai ever since (our most recent protest there was in 2023). We have consistently said that it is a U.S....

Biden administration wants to look tough in an election year Late on August 3, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin threw out a plea deal, without comment, that would have seen three of the most notorious September 11 terror suspects at Guantánamo imprisoned without parole for the rest of their...