Professor John Ryan | Global Research | February 07, 2015 The barbarous phenomenon we recently witnessed in France has roots that go back to at least 1979 when the mujahedeen made their appearance in Afghanistan. At that time their ire was directed at the leftist Taraki government that had come into power in April of 1978. This…
Richard Becker | Liberation News | February 06, 2015 The news that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency carried out a meticulously planned terrorist car bombing in Damascus, Syria, in February 2008 appeared on the front page of the Jan. 31, 2015, Washington Post. It was an outrageous action in the capital of a sovereign state. By all…
Ralph Lopez | Digital Journal | 26 Jan 2015 Becoming the first credentialed, well-known media insider to step forward and state publicly that he was secretly a “propagandist,” an editor of a major German daily has claimed that he personally planted stories for the CIA. Saying he believes a medical condition gives him only a…
Norman Soloman | Expose Facts | 4 Feb 2015 The leak trial of CIA officer Jeffrey Sterling never got near a smoking gun, but the entire circumstantial case was a smokescreen. Prosecutors were hell-bent on torching the defendant to vindicate Operation Merlin, nine years after a book by James Risen reported that it “may have…
William Blum | Global Research | January 31, 2015 This article was first published on August 31, 2008. 1947 to 1951, FRANCE According to Alfred W. McCoy in The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia, CIA arms, money, and disinformation enabled Corsican criminal syndicates in Marseille to wrestle control of labor unions from the Communist Party. The…
Nafeez Ahmed | Medium.com | January 24, 2015 Inside the secret network behind mass surveillance, endless war, and Skynet In the wake of the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris, western governments are moving fast to legitimize expanded powers of mass surveillance and controls on the internet, all in the name of fighting terrorism. US and…
Gordon Duff | VT | 17 Jan 2015 Gladio networks control most of Latin America, run ISIS and have taken over the Ukraine, Libya and are sometimes called the “Islamic State.”‘ [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUvrPvV-KQo?feature=player_embedded&w=640&h=360] In Syria I informed representatives at a security conference that terrorism and extremism were components of a multi-generational organized crime network that…
David Swanson | 14 January 2015 Since Tuesday and continuing for the coming three weeks, an amazing trial is happening in U.S. District Court at 401 Courthouse Square in Alexandria, Va. The trial is open to the public, and among the upcoming witnesses is Condoleezza Rice, but — unlike the Chelsea Manning trial — most…
TSM | It has been verified by a source who claims she was there that then-CIA Director William Casey did in fact say the controversial and often-disputed line “We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false,” reportedly in 1981. Despite Casey being under investigation by Congress for being…
Norman Solomon | Expose Facts | January 15, 2015 This week, in a federal courtroom, I’ve heard a series of government witnesses testify behind a screen while expounding on a central precept of the national security state: The CIA can do no wrong. Those CIA employees and consultants are more than mere loyalists for an agency that soaks…