CIA
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U.S. intelligence agencies are preparing for the developing crisis in Venezuela By Nil NIKANDROV
Hostile forces in Venezuela and beyond, are taking the opportunity to intensify subversive activities aimed at overthrowing the Bolivarian government. The conspiracy, which is coordinated from CIA headquarters, is implemented via many channels and is aimed at destabilizing Venezuela, inciting internal conflict in the nation’s leadership, and fanning the feelings of panic over an alleged… Continue reading
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Hugo Chavez: Why Does He Hate Us? By Peter Hart
While it’s hard to say Chavez has made a “career” out of U.S.-bashing–he does have, after all, a full-time job as president of Venezuela–you, too, might be excused for harboring some hard feelings towards a government that helped to try to overthrow your own. Which may be why U.S. reports rarely bring up the 2002… Continue reading
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2013 Academy Award Nominations: “And the Winner is … The CIA” By David Walsh
In 2012 the American film industry presented an extraordinary contradiction, between those showing an interest in social life and history, on the one hand, and those eagerly endorsing the “dark side” of imperialist policy, on the other. In their own inimitably muddle-headed fashion, the Oscar nominations reflect this divide. Continue reading
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Review of "Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956" By Eric Walberg
The period following WWII in eastern Europe is considered to be a black one, best forgotten. All the pre-war governments had been quasi-fascist dictatorships which either succumbed to the Nazi onslaught (Poland) or actively cooperated with the Germans (Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria). The Soviet liberation was greeted with trepidation by many – with good reason for… Continue reading
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Movie Review: “Zero Dark Thirty”: Torturing the Facts By Marjorie Cohn
Zero Dark Thirty is disturbing for two reasons. First and foremost, it leaves the viewer with the erroneous impression that torture helped the CIA find bin Laden’s hiding place in Pakistan. Secondarily, it ignores both the illegality and immorality of using torture as an interrogation tool. Continue reading
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GR Week in Review 8-12 January 2013: Dr. Drone Heads the CIA, Hollywood “Nominates” the CIA
12 January 2013 — Global Research “Zero Dark Thirty”: Torturing the Facts, Marjorie Cohn, January 11, 2013 Granting impunity to the torturers combined with propaganda films like Zero Dark Thirty, which may well win multiple Oscars, dilutes any meaningful public opposition to our government’s cruel interrogation techniques. Continue reading
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The CIA’s Hollywood Release: “Zero Dark Thirty”, or How People Lose Their Humanity By Annie Day
So how did they feel about liking a film that upholds something they would otherwise find deplorable? Several people said it’s just a movie and shouldn’t be taken so seriously. One woman said she appreciated coming to understand, from the CIA’s perspective, why they used torture. And far too often, the answer was, “It’s complicated.” Continue reading
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New Boss at the CIA: Brennan’s “Legal Framework” for Drone Killings By James Gundun
Rumored since President Barack Obama secured his second term in office, Brennan has finally received a formal nomination to replace the scandalized David Petraeus and advance his work at the CIA. Continue reading
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Video: 11 Years of Guantanamo; Brennan CIA Nomination Consolidates Drone Assassination Strategy
Michael Ratner: From Guantanamo to Brennan at CIA, Obama carries on the policies of George Bush Continue reading
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John Brennan vs. a Sixteen-Year-Old By Medea Benjamin
In October 2011, 16-year-old Tariq Aziz attended a gathering in Islamabad where he was taught how to use a video camera so he could document the drones that were constantly circling over his Pakistani village, terrorizing and killing his family and neighbors. Two days later, when Aziz was driving with his 12-year-old cousin to a… Continue reading
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The Anti-Empire Report #112 8 January 2013 By William Blum: A Jihadist by any other name
8 January 2013 — www.killinghope.org Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? “France no longer recognizes its children,” lamented Guillaume Roquette in an editorial in the Figaro weekly magazine in Paris. “How can the country of Victor Hugo, secularism and family reunions produce jihadists capable of attacking a kosher grocery store?” 1 Continue reading
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ICH 7 January 2013: A warning to all who consider dissent
7 January 2013 — Information Clearing House Syria: Why Assad May Yet Claim Victory By Simon Tisdall Perhaps it’s not Bashar al-Assad who is detached from reality but Obama and Hague. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33554.htm Continue reading
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Will Syria Become Another “Failed State”? The Role of the United Nations By Carla Stea
The Libya now described in innumerable credible reports, is a failed state, now defenseless against the exploitation or plunder of its resources and people, as a result of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973 as implemented by US-NATO. Confronted with the horrific consequences of Resolution 1973, adopted by a vote on which they abstained, Russia… Continue reading
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Washington’s Dilemma: The “Good Terrorists” versus the “Bad Terrorists” By Dr. Ismail Salami
Terrorism is terrorism and it cannot be defined otherwise unless the interests of one party tilt the scale in disfavor of another and the dichotomization of the terrorists in Syria into good and bad by the West casts doubt on its claim on democracy. Continue reading
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Speak2Tweet: Google & Twitter Partner Up with US State Dept. to Monopolise Information Flow Out of Syria By Martin Iqbal
Amid Internet and telephone network outages in Syria, US-trained opposition activists use US-supplied satellite phones to contact Google & Twitter’s ‘Speak2Tweet‘ service. Despite these efforts, the service seems so far to be a resounding failure. Continue reading
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United States and al-Qaeda: Strange Bedfellows? Hassan N. Gardezi
There is a war raging in our times between a coalition of states led by the United States of America and al-Qaeda which has entered its second decade. One of the parties in this war, the United States, needs no introduction. After the collapse of the Soviet Union it became the sole superpower and is… Continue reading
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Beaten and sodomized: European human rights court finds CIA guilty of torture
The European Court of Human Rights found the CIA guilty of torturing a terror suspect for the first time ever. A German citizen was illegally detained, tortured and sodomized by a CIA “rendition team’ after being mistaken for an al-Qaeda member. Continue reading
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Apostles of a war without end By Neil Clarke
The West stepped up its intervention in the Syrian civil war this week, with the United States formally recognising the rebel coalition as “the legitimate representative” of the Syrian people. Continue reading
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ICH 14 December 2012: 159 Killed in Syria: 27 Killed in Connecticut
14 December 2012 — Information Clearing House US-Backed Syrian Opposition Demands Support for Al Qaeda By Tony Cartalucci US-handpicked opposition leader, Moaz al-Khatib wants US to reconsider terror listing for Al Qaeda’s al-Nusra front. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33315.htm Continue reading
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NSA: The Jonathan Pollard Spy Case: The CIA’s 1987 Damage Assessment Declassified
When Naval Investigative Service analyst Jonathan Pollard spied for Israel in 1984 and 1985, his Israeli handlers asked primarily for nuclear, military and technical information on the Arab states, Pakistan, and the Soviet Union — not on the United States — according to the newly-declassified CIA 1987 damage assessment of the Pollard case, published today… Continue reading
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