CIA
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Strategic Culture Foundation 2-8 October, 2010: US Dollar vs. Yuan / Elections in Brazil / Kashmir as a Great Game Pawn? / Europe / Ecuador / US Right
8 October, 2010 — Strategic Culture Foundation US Dollar vs. Yuan: Reasons Behind the Conflict 08.10.2010 | 17:42 | SALITZKI Alexander Debates between the US and China over the valuation of the yuan are currently gathering momentum. A new campaign of pressure on Beijing is initiated by the US Congress which proposed a bill authorizing… Continue reading
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Yemen: The Covert Apparatus of the American Empire By Andrew Gavin Marshall
Yemen is perhaps an excellent example of America being on the “wrong side of a world revolution,” as the secret war in Yemen being exacerbated in the name of “fighting al-Qaeda” is in actuality, about the expansion and supremacy of American power in the region. It is about the suppression of natural democratic, local, revolutionary… Continue reading
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The Anti-Empire Report: In struggle with the American mind By William Blum
I direct these remarks to readers who have to deal with Americans who turn into a stone wall upon hearing the United States accused of acting immorally; America, they are convinced, means well; our motives are noble. And if we do do something that looks bad, and the badness can’t easily be covered up or… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 1 October, 2010: Beware of Governments Trumpeting Terror Threats
1 October, 2010 — ICH ‘Horrifying’ Swat Valley Executions By Jane Perlez WARNING- Video Contains Graphic Images An Internet video showing men in Pakistani military uniforms executing six young men in civilian clothes has heightened concerns about unlawful killings by Pakistani soldiers supported by the United States, American officials said. www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26486.htm New U.S. Raids on… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 26 September, 2010: CIA used 'illegal, inaccurate code to target kill drones'
26 September, 2010 — ICH US To Continue Killing Own Citizens Overseas By Spencer S. Hsu The Obama administration urged a federal judge early Saturday to dismiss a lawsuit over its targeting of a U.S. citizen for killing overseas, saying that the case would reveal state secrets. www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26455.htm Obama Argues His Assassination Program Is A… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 24 September, 2010: How the CIA ran a secret army of 3,000 assassins
24 September, 2010 — ICH “The Dead Were Completely Unrecognisable” Interview With Family Devastated by US Drone Attack By Asim Qureshi I am shocked that the US can come to attack Pakistan in this way and Pakistan does not even have the authority to question them on the deaths they are causing. The civilians in… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 22 September, 2010: CIA Directs and Funds Terrorism In Pakistan
22 September, 2010 — Information Clearing House CIA Directs and Funds Terrorism In Pakistan CIA’s Afghan Kill Teams Expand U.S. War in Pakistan By Spencer Ackerman The teams are practically brigade-sized: a “paramilitary army” of 3000 Afghans, said to be “elite, well-trained” and capable of quietly crossing over in the Pakistani extremist safe havens where… Continue reading
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The Fraudulent Criminalization of Marijuana By William John Cox
For almost 40 years, the United States has waged a war on its own citizens who have used marijuana as a part of a drug culture originally encouraged by the government. The war was commenced despite the government’s own findings that marijuana posed less of a risk to American society than alcohol, and that the… Continue reading
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9/11 ANALYSIS: 9/11 and America’s Secret Terror Campaign By Andrew Gavin Marshall
For several years prior to the events of 9/11, top American strategists had been acknowledging the necessity of what they oft-termed a “new Pearl Harbor”, a momentous attack upon America itself, in order to mobilize the American populace for a new global war of domination. Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 26 August, 2010: CIA wants to cover up US war crimes in Yemen
26 August, 2010 — Information Clearing House An Exciting New Muslim Country To Attack By Glenn Greenwald There is anti-Americanism and radicalism in Yemen; therefore, to solve that problem, we’re going to bomb them more with flying killer robots, because nothing helps reduce anti-American sentiments like slaughtering civilians and dropping cluster bombs from the sky.… Continue reading
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The Latest Wikileaks Afghanistan Stories 25-26 August, 2010
26 August, 2010 — Creative-i 26/8/10 – WikiLeaks: CIA Red Cell Memorandum on United States Exporting Terrorism 26/8/10 – CIA shrugs off WikiLeaks “exporter of terrorism” release 26/8/10 – Wikileaks Posts Classified CIA Memo 26/8/10 – Wikileaks publishes ‘red cell’ CIA paper 25/8/10 – WikiLeaks leak lame, alleged CIA assassin accidently shoots self 25/8/10 –… Continue reading
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Hidden Intelligence Operation Behind the Wikileaks Release of “Secret” Documents? F. William Engdahl
The naming of Gul today as a key liaison to the Afghan ‘Taliban’ forms part of a larger pattern of US and British recent efforts to demonize the current Pakistan regime as a key part of the problems in Afghanistan. Such a demonization greatly boosts the position of recent US military ally, India. Furthermore, Pakistan… Continue reading
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WHY IS THE US IN AFGHANISTAN – RUSSIA AND CHINA? Wikileaks: The Pakistan connection Pt.3
So now we’re going to catch up sort of into the current period. What is what we are now calling Taliban? ‘Cause as you said in the last episode, you can’t you know, it’s an easy phrase to throw around, but it’s like saying “the Americans”. I mean, “the Taliban” mean many different things, doesn’t… Continue reading
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CIA AND ISI NURTURED MUJAHIDEEN AND TALIBAN: Wikileaks: The Pakistan connection Pt.2
I think you really have to go back to the early 1970s, when Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, who we already mentioned, has been an active Afghan fighter, who really started, in the early ’70s, separating from Afghanistan. He ended up in trouble, ended up killing another Afghan over political issues at Kabul University, ended up in jail,… Continue reading
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WIKILEAKS: THE PAKISTAN CONNECTION Part 1: CIA AND ISI NURTURED MUJAHIDEEN AND TALIBAN
Gould, Fitzgerald, authors of “Afghanistan’s Untold Story” discuss WikiLeaks Pakistan Taliban connection Continue reading
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The Anti-Empire Report 4 August, 2010 by William Blum
When facts are inconvenient, when international law, human rights and history get in the way, when war crimes can’t easily be justified or explained away, when logic doesn’t help much, the current crop of American political leaders turns to what is now the old reliable: 9/11. We have to fight in Afghanistan because … somehow… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 3 August, 2010: Let Them Eat Wedding Cake
3 August, 2010 — Information Clearing House Pakistan No Obedient Ally By Eric Margolis WikiLeaks data shows how volatile nation is forced to act against own self interests. www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26070.htm The CIA & The ISI: More In Common Than We Think? By Nida Khan Drones Kill 12 Children Playing Outside’ – ‘A Family Buries 15’ –… Continue reading
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Wikileaks Afghanistan Latest Stories 28 July – 2 August, 2010
A digest of stories on the Wikileaks Afghanistan documents Continue reading
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Books: The Trojan Spy by Gaither Stewart
From Feodor Dostoevsky and Joseph Conrad to Doris Lessing, many have explored what makes nihilists or anarchists or terrorists. In The Trojan Spy, Gaither Stewart enters the same maze with Anatoly Nikitin, a Russian double agent and spymaster from the Cold War era who, in its aftermath, intends to kill his CIA controller responsible for… Continue reading
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