Tag: CIA
World War Two’s covert ops are failing in the post-war world
Why the fascination with arming foreign insurgents and proxy armies to fight wars that the U.S. won’t fight itself?
Military, Deep State and the American innocence
Like fish in the water, Americans have lost the ability to notice the pervasive and omnipresent propaganda.
CIA-linked military contractor used Arizona ‘black site’ to secretly jail dozens...
A major U.S. military and CIA contractor has been detaining dozens of migrant children inside a vacant Phoenix office building with dark windows, no kitchen and only a few toilets.
Hypocritical Democratic Senator announces support for Haspel’s nomination
Besides Sen. Mark Warner, Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin, Joe Donnelly, and Heidi Heitkamp have announced their support for Haspel’s nomination.
The banality of Haspel
It would be hard to find someone with more experience to run the CIA. And that’s why she’s a terrible choice.
The Resistance needs better heroes
A movement is defined by its heroes. The Resistance can find better heroes than the ones some of its members have chosen – and it should.
‘Bloody Gina’ Haspel’s disqualifying record of CIA torture
All senators should close the book on torture now and vote to oppose Gina Haspel's confirmation.
Trump’s pick for CIA Director ran black site torture program
CIA Deputy Director Gina Haspel, nominated to lead the agency, is responsible for running a secret CIA black site prison in Thailand and overseeing the torture of at least two terror suspects.
Former CIA officer arrested after caught spying for China
Jerry Chun Shing Lee was arrested this week and charged with unlawful retention of national defense information.
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Australia becomes first country to approve psychedelics as form of medicine
Australia is reclassifying them as “controlled substances” and making them available for use in managed medical settings.
Congress has been captured by the arms industry
And what a price to pay!
How Indigenous land management practices are a blueprint for climate-resilient agriculture
As a rapidly warming world strains at the shortcomings in industrial farming, key lessons can be taken from Indigenous practices.
We don’t have to choose between nuclear madmen
We can make a difference -- maybe even the difference -- to avert global nuclear annihilation.
What connects Trump’s likely arrest with the bank bailouts?
Let's start with multi-billionaire Peter Thiel, and follow the money.