From What does it take to excite America’s moral nerve endings? Bombing kids with cluster bombs or shredding wedding parties with drone attacks doesn’t seem to do it any more. Nor does torture. Oh, sure, there was a collective gasp when lurid photos of American soldiers laughing as they prodded naked Iraqi captives with electrodes...
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How MI6 Cultivated British Media on Iraq’s Non-Existent WMD
Germany Arrests 25 People Suspected of Plotting to Overthrow ‘Deep State’ Government
Pakistan’s Deep State: New Army Chief Named Amid Political Drama
Talking Nukes: CIA Chief Meets With Russian Counterpart in Turkey
UAE Meddled in U.S. Political System, Intelligence Report Says
Admit We Have Nukes, Top Israeli Military Figure Says
A Bold New Look at China’s Audacious Spies
The Most Dangerous Day in History
CIA Thought Putin Would Quickly Conquer Ukraine
MuckRock’s Guide to Getting Your Own FBI File
Russian Mercenary Chief Vented to Putin Over Ukraine War
The National Security Act Turns 75
Behind Zelensky’s Security Shakeup
Pegasus Project: What Has Happened Since the Revelations About Israeli Spyware
DHS Scrambles to Counter Violent Extremism in America
Iran Detains Former British Diplomat Collecting Soil Samples
Saudi Intelligence Agency Runs 20 Secret Prisons, Activists Say
The Unmasking of Agent Z9A
Haspel Personally Observed CIA Waterboarding, Witness Testifies
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A Short Course in the CIA’s Use of Torture
Sidney Gottlieb: Mastermind of MKULTRA
“He was creator and destroyer, an outlaw who served power, a gentle hearted torturer… above all he was an instrument of history,” writes Stephen Kinzer of Sidney Gottlieb, chief of the CIA’s mind control program notoriously known as MKULTRA. The revelations of Kinzer’s fascinating and disturbing biography, Poisoner in Chief, are unsettling enough. Kinzer, former...
The Five Eyes: The Global Spy Network You Never Heard Of
[Inside the Five Eyes: a Five Part Series: Part 1 [below] | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 ] The Netflix thriller series, “Pine Gap” takes place on a sprawling, top-secret signals intelligence facility in the Australian Outback. On the screen, Pine Gap is depicted as a cockpit of drone...
RIP Fred Hampton, Black Panther Assassinated by the FBI
[This piece was first published in Counterpunch, Dec. 4, 2019. I’m republishing it for Black History Month 2021] Fifty one years ago, a squad of Chicago police officers killed Black Panther leaders Fred Hampton and Mark Clark in a pre-dawn raid on the apartment where they were sleeping. In the decades since, a revealing body...
Can U.S. Spy Agencies Stop White Power Violence?
In the aftermath of the failed Jan. 6 coup, people are calling for the creation of a domestic intelligence agency. Jeff Stein at SpyTalk surveys leading US officials from a variety of agencies for theirreaction. I think the nays have it. The US doesn’t need new laws or new organizations to combat white nationalists. It...