Category Archives: CIA
The Vegas shooter, general aviation, & CIA planespotting
By Daniel Hopsicker Source: MadCow News It is a circumstance unparalleled in American history. Two weeks after a gunman started pouring down fire from a 32nd floor window in Las Vegas on people at a country music festival, police and … Continue reading
U.S. WARS AND HOSTILE ACTIONS: A LIST
By David Swanson Source: Let’s Try Democracy There is a reason that most countries polled in December 2013 by Gallup called the United States the greatest threat to peace in the world, and why Pew found that viewpoint increased in 2017. But it is … Continue reading
The Silencing of Dissent
By Chris Hedges Source: Information Clearing House The ruling elites, who grasp that the reigning ideology of global corporate capitalism and imperial expansion no longer has moral or intellectual credibility, have mounted a campaign to shut down the platforms given … Continue reading
The Superpower That Fought Itself — And Lost
By William Astore and TomDispatch Source: TomDispatch.com After 19 al-Qaeda militants armed only with box-cutters and knives hijacked four American commercial airliners, the U.S. military moved with remarkable efficiency to rectify the problem. In the years since, in its global … Continue reading
New York Times stokes anti-Russia campaign to promote Facebook, Twitter censorship
By Bill Van Auken Source: WSWS.org The New York Times has mounted a concerted campaign promoting a crackdown on political expression on social media on the basis of unsubstantiated allegations of Russian government interference in the 2016 US presidential election. … Continue reading
Conspiracy Theory
By Paul Craig Roberte Source: PaulCraigRoberts.org In the United States “conspiracy theory” is the name given to explanations that differ from those that serve the ruling oligarchy, the establishment or whatever we want to call those who set and control … Continue reading
As US Empire Fails, Trump Enters a Quagmire
By Kevin Zeese Source: Information Clearing House A quagmire is defined as a complex or unpleasant position that is difficult to escape. President Trump’s recently announced war plans in Afghanistan maintain that quagmire. They come at a time when US Empire is failing … Continue reading
