Financially, she’s well off, but hardly rich. The CIA director’s 2018 financial disclosure statement, posted by the Office of Government Ethics and flagged by Russ Kick, fits the profile of a career civil servant. Haspel sold a house in Virginia in June 2018 and netted somewhere between $250,000 and $500,00 dollars. She kept a lot...
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U.S. in Venezuela: Is Starvation a Weapon of ‘Regime Change?’
The United States is seeking to shut down Venezuela’s emergency food aid program, according to the Wall Street Journal. The stated goal of U.S. policy is combatting the corruption of the Venezuelan government. The unstated reality is that the Trump administration is doing exactly what it accuses the Maduro government of doing: weaponizing access to...
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National Insecurity: NSA Spyware Used to Hold U.S. Cities Hostage
The story of an American city held hostage by ransomeware hasn’t been getting the attention it deserves, maybe because the victim is Baltimore, a poor city with a disgraced mayor and few national elites. Or maybe the story is not getting attention because the responsible party, the National Security Agency isn’t comment. NSA hackers created...
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Introducing the Deep State Guide to the 2020 Democrats
No matter how it turns out, the 2020 election will be a turning point for the United States’ position in the world. President Trump has broken with decades of U.S. foreign policy based on multilateral alliances, free trade agreements, and military intervention. He has scorned the intelligence agencies and largely jettisoned the inter-agency process that...
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Bolton v. Trump: The Warmonger Leads the War-Wary
When National Security Adviser John Bolton recently demanded military plans to oust the government of Nicholas Maduro in Venezuela, Trump demurred, reportedly saying his national security adviser was trying to pull him “into a war.” When Bolton demanded “regime change” in Iran and the Pentagon produced a plan to put 120,000 troops into the region,...