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Julian Assange Kidnapping Plot Casts New Light on 2018 Senate Intelligence Maneuver
Julian Assange Kidnapping Plot Casts New Light on 2018 Senate Intelligence Maneuver
The CIA labeled WikiLeaks a “non-state hostile intelligence service” while entertaining plans to kidnap or assassinate its founder. ...[Read more]
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Geopolitics, Profit, and Poppies: How the CIA Turned Afghanistan into a Failed Narco-State
Geopolitics, Profit, and Poppies: How the CIA Turned Afghanistan into a Failed Narco-State
The COVID-19 pandemic has been a death knell to so many industries in Afghanistan. Charities and aid agencies have even warned that the economic dislocation could spark widespread famine. But one sector is still booming: the illicit opium trade. Last year ...[Read more]
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Venezuela’s Gangs Have Been Turned into Armed Capitalist Enterprises (Part II)
Venezuela’s Gangs Have Been Turned into Armed Capitalist Enterprises (Part II)
n July, security forces carried out a three-day anti-gang operation in the Cota 905 barrio of Caracas after an uptick in violence in the working-class district. The Gran Cacique Indio Guacaipuro Operation, which caught the headlines of the global media, i ...[Read more]
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Before 2001 Invasion, Bush Admin Declared Taliban an Ally in the War on Drugs
Before 2001 Invasion, Bush Admin Declared Taliban an Ally in the War on Drugs
Just months before the Taliban became an enemy in the war on terror, President George W. Bush’s administration declared the fundamentalist rulers of Afghanistan an ally in the global “war on drugs.” In early 2001, narcotics officials in the United S ...[Read more]
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Cuba’s cultural counter-revolution: US gov’t-backed rappers, artists gain fame as ‘catalyst for current unrest’
Cuba’s cultural counter-revolution: US gov’t-backed rappers, artists gain fame as ‘catalyst for current unrest’
Over the past decade, the US government has spent millions of dollars to cultivate anti-government Cuban rappers, rock musicians, artists, and journalists in an explicit bid to weaponize “desocialized and marginalized youth.” The strategy implemented ...[Read more]
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CIA Assassination Plot Targeted Cuba’s Raul Castro
CIA Assassination Plot Targeted Cuba’s Raul Castro
Washington D.C., April 16, 2021 – In the earliest known CIA assassination plot against leaders of the Cuban revolution, high agency officials offered the pilot of a plane carrying Raul Castro from Prague to Havana “payment after successful completion ...[Read more]
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U.S. Intel Walks Back Claim Russians Put Bounties on American Troops
U.S. Intel Walks Back Claim Russians Put Bounties on American Troops
It was a huge election-time story that prompted cries of treason. But according to a newly disclosed assessment, Donald Trump might have been right to call it a “hoax.” ...[Read more]
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CIA Headquarters Got Vaccinated in Early January, Rankling Intelligence Officers Abroad
CIA Headquarters Got Vaccinated in Early January, Rankling Intelligence Officers Abroad
“Nobody gives a shit about the overseas workforce,” a former CIA officer complained. ...[Read more]
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The CIAs Secret Global War Against the Left
The CIAs Secret Global War Against the Left
Forty-five years ago, under a cloak of secrecy, Operation Condor was officially launched: a global campaign of violent repression against the Latin American left by the region’s quasi-fascist military dictatorships. The US government not only knew about ...[Read more]
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Planting the Seeds of Regime Change: How GMO Seeds and Monsanto/Bayer’s “RoundUp” are Driving US Policy in Venezuela
Planting the Seeds of Regime Change: How GMO Seeds and Monsanto/Bayer’s “RoundUp” are Driving US Policy in Venezuela
Top political donors of those most fervently pushing regime change in Venezuela have major stakes in Monsanto and Bayer. ...[Read more]
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US State Department publishes, then deletes sadistic Venezuela hit list boasting of economic ruin
US State Department publishes, then deletes sadistic Venezuela hit list boasting of economic ruin
The Grayzone has obtained a list of "key outcomes" on Venezuela deleted out of apparent embarrassment by the State Department. It boasts of wrecking the nation's economy, destabilizing its military, and puppeteering its political opposition. ...[Read more]
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