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Creative Associates International (CAI): It’s Not Exactly the CIA, But Close Enough
CHEVY CHASE, MARYLAND — You have likely not heard of them, but Creative Associates International (CAI) is one of the largest and most powerful non-governmental organizations operating anywhere in the world. A pillar of soft U.S. power, the group has been an architect in privatizing the Iraqi education system, designed messenger apps meant to overthrow the… Continue reading
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British High Court Expands US Government’s Appeal In Assange Extradition Case
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was astounded by Britain’s High Court after it reversed a prior decision and permitted the United States government’s appeal on grounds related to his health. Continue reading
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Watch: Top New York Times, WaPo Experts Affiliated With Pentagon-Funded CNAS Think Tank
Imagine a country where there’s no separation between the government, the military, and the media. A lot of Americans would think of China, Russia or North Korea, but it’s a perfect description of the United States today. And here in Washington, the think tank inside this nondescript building – Center For A New American Security… Continue reading
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Hiroshima-Nagasaki: The story they want us to forget
The world’s first nuclear explosion occurred on July 16, 1945, when a plutonium implosion device was tested at a site located 210 miles south of Los Alamos, New Mexico, on the barren plains of the Alamogordo Bombing Range, known as the Jornada del Muerto (day of the dead). Continue reading
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Cuba’s US-Backed Pop-Culture Dissidents
Over the past decade, Washington has spent millions to cultivate anti-government rappers, rock musicians, artists, and journalists in Cuba, Max Blumenthal reports. Continue reading
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Foreign Agents #1: Exposing the San Isidro Movement & US culture war on Cuba
In new Rokfin livestream, Max Blumenthal details his investigation into Cuba’s San Isidro Movement and the US sponsorship of the right-wing cultural dissident group Continue reading
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The Apocalypse That The Imperialists Are Engineering
As the U.S. empire slowly crumbles, it’s cutting its losses. This means waging ever-growing campaigns to destabilize the places that are slipping out of its control. Obama’s 2011 destruction of Libya, where the richest democracy in Africa was bombed into nonexistence and NATO left the country a slave trade-ridden failed state, was a major step towards this… Continue reading
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Why Hypersonic Missiles Are Real Game Changers – by Gordog
We all remember when Vladimir Putin announced these wonder weapons in his March 2018 address to his nation [and the world]. The response from the US media was loud guffaws about ‘CGI’ cartoons and Russian ‘wishcasting.’ Well, neither Nato nor the Biden team are guffawing now. Continue reading
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Requiem for an Empire: A Prequel
The inexorable imperial rot will go on, a tawdry affair carrying no dramatic, aesthetic pathos worthy of a Gotterdammerung. Assaulted by cognitive dissonance across the spectrum, the Empire of Chaos now behaves as a manic depressive inmate, rotten to the core – a fate more filled with dread than having to face a revolt of the satrapies. Continue reading
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Blinken’s single-point agenda in Delhi – China
The overnight visit by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken to New Delhi has been an eye-opener in many ways. It highlighted how much India has changed through the searing pain and suffering it underwent in the past one-year period and how that tumultuous period also led to a reset in the government’s calculus. Continue reading
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Bayer Confirms End of Sale of Glyphosate-Based Herbicides for US Lawn & Garden Market
29 July 2021 — Sustainable Pulse Bayer have announced that they will no longer sell glyphosate-based herbicides to U.S. gardeners as of 2023, following the costly litigation battle over their cancer causing weedkiller Roundup. Read More Continue reading
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Chris Hedges: The Price of Conscience
PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY (Scheerpost) — Daniel Hale, a former intelligence analyst in the drone program for the Air Force who as a private contractor in 2013 leaked some 17 classified documents about drone strikes to the press, was sentenced today to 45 months in prison. Continue reading
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U.S. – China Talks Point To A Longer Conflict
The U.S. wants to slice and dice its approach to China. It will use all means to take advantage of China where it can, while restricting China in those fields were it can no longer compete with it. The Chinese reject that approach. The U.S., they say, should not see China as an enemy. It… Continue reading
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The US Is The Absolute Worst: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
America has the single worst government in the world. Shut the fuck up about Cuba. Hands off Cuba and regime change America. Continue reading
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Trying to Put All America Behind
NSO Group, a private Israeli firm that sells surveillance technology to governments worldwide, insists that its Pegasus spyware is used only to “investigate terrorism and crime.” Leaked data, however, reveals that the company’s hacking tool “has been used to facilitate human rights violations around the world on a massive scale.” Continue reading
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US-Russia ties warming up. Is it for real?
A “thaw” has appeared in the US-Russian relations. The unanimous vote by the United Nations Security Council last Friday extending a cross-border aid operation into Syria from Turkey must be regarded as an important moment. Continue reading
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How Not to Cover Critical Race Theory
After working the right up into a lather over Black Lives Matter (FAIR.org, 5/27/21), Fox News and its conservative media allies have turned white rage onto a more actionable target: critical race theory. Though the theory is a longstanding and specific academic lens for understanding systemic racism, the right has transformed it into a catchall for anything that… Continue reading
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Biden avoids diplomacy with Russia
The Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov exhorted today in an extraordinary statement that the state authorities and the society at large must mobilise their resources amid the West’s pressure. Addressing an audience in Vladivostok, Lavrov said, Continue reading
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The failure of “vaccine passports”: The Case of the USA
With vaccine effectiveness down to just 60%, the case for “vaccine passports” implodes. SPR and other independent expert groups warned very early on that “vaccine passports” – promoted by Bill Gates and his ID2020 alliance – are doomed to fail (from a medical perspective), simply because covid vaccines cannot achieve sterilizing immunity (i.e. prevent infection… Continue reading