The crowd-sourced investigative site Bellingcat has identified a third suspect in the poisoning of Sergey Skripal, the reneged Russian intelligence officer. The report is credible because Bellingcat and collaborators in the independent Russian media broke the the story that two GRU officers were involved in the poisoning of Skirpal, an allegation the Russian government no...
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Scottish Doctor Became the ‘Godfather of Modern Torture’ Working in Secret Wing Funded by CIA
Cameron is one of the godfathers of modern torture, whose work has been utilised in places like Iraq, Guantanamo Bay, Northern Ireland, the Philippines and Chile, to name just a few. In the 1950s, Cameron, who was working in the United States and Canada, was funded by the CIA to develop and research sensory deprivation...
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MI6 Spy Chief to Stay Through Brexit
It is a measure of how the Brexit had destabilized Great Britain that the government feels it necessary to keep its top spy, MI6 chief Alex Younger, in his position longer than usual, just to deal with the consequences. Younger, 55, is due to retire in November after five years in the role. But officials...
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Former GRU Translator at ‘Heart’ of Mueller’s Russia Inquiry
The Trump-Russia investigation is zeroing in on Konstantin Kilimnik, a translator trained by Russia’s Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) and associate of former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort. According to a heavily redacted, transcript of a closed door court hearing a senior attorney working for Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller III, said Mr. Manafort and Mr. Kilimnik...
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Autopsy of America’s Undeniable Failure in Afghanistan
In War on the Rocks, Jason Dempsey, an Afghan war veteran and adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, dissects how the United States lost the war that is has supposedly been winning for the last 17 years. We blamed the Afghans. These failures of the Afghan security forces have been attributed to the...