Matthew Hedges, British graduate student detained by the United Arab Emirates for seven months, has published an account of his ordeal. It speaks to the reality of the U.S. intelligence partners in the Middle East. They’re a tyrannical, torturing bunch. Hedges was arrested when he arrived at the Dubai airport on trip to do research...
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DNC Alleges Russia’s GRU Tried To Hack the Party After 2018 Election
Russian hacking wasn’t limited to the 2016 election, says the Democratic National Committee. In updating their lawsuit against the alleged hackers, the DNC says Russians tried a spearfishing attack late last year. From the non-profit National Security Archive. On January 17, 2019, the Democratic National Committee filed an amendment to their original lawsuit against the Russian...
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NBC’s ‘Secret’ North Korean Missile Site Is Well-Known in Korean Press
An NBC News report on a “secret” North Korean missile base isn’t news in South Korea. The base in the village of Sino has been cited repeatedly in the South Korean press in the past 20 years, according to The Hankyoreh, a South Korean daily. The NBC story appears to have been based on a new...
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Pro-War Engel Take Chair of House Foreign Affairs Committee
I paused over describing Rep. Eliot Engel, the new chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee as “pro-war.” Was it fair. As I studied his record, I realized the epithet was not inaccurate, indeed. “pro-war” captures something essential about Engle’s policy positions. Engel not only favored launching the most disastrously failed war in American history–Iraq...
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Whitewash: CIA Tweets in Honor of MLK, the Man They Spied On
The CIA is nothing, if not shameless. Fifty three years ago, the agency with the help of the FBI and local police, was spying on Martin Luther King as he passed through Miami. The agency wanted to know more about one of his associates said to be “a member of the Communist party.” They were...