Revealed: U.S Secret Military Deployment on British Cyprus

Matt Kennard An aerial view of RAF Akrotiri, the British air base on Cyprus where US military personnel are deployed. (Photo: Google Earth) US Air Force is expanding its deployment on RAF’s Cyprus base to 129 airmen New 147-room installation is being built by US military across 1.5 acres of British base to house its…

Where Does the Security State End & Social Media Begin?

The revolving door between the US security state and social media corporations has become larger every year. Former employees from the CIA, FBI, DoD, NATO and other agencies are being hired more and more by large social media corporations like Facebook, Google, Instagram, Twitter and others. What are the implications of such a strong connection?…

Nothing Good Will Come from the New Cold War with Australia as a Frontline State

Tricontinental The US Navy’s only forward-deployed aircraft carrier, USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76), steams in formation with ships from the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, Royal Australian Navy, and Indian Navy during Exercise Malabar 2022. Photo: Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Michael B. Jarmiolowski/US Navy On 15 November 2022, during the G20 summit in Bali (Indonesia),…

Private Spying Firm Targets Global Population with Illegal Spyware

Kit Klarenberg A Washington DC-area Anomaly 6 firm is marketing illegal spy tech that can scrape an individual’s most sensitive personal data by tracking their smartphone. The British Ministry of Defence and GCHQ are potential buyers. Leaked documents reviewed by The Grayzone reveal how a smartphone tracking technology tramples over fundamental data protection tenets and international law,…

French Imperialism vs. Crypto Colonialism

Sebs Solomon The Central African Republic (CAR) recently added Bitcoin as a legal currency, tokenized natural resources, and even created a “cryptocurrency economic zone” called Sango—following in the footsteps of El Salvador. The CAR is still using its French currency (CFA franc) just like El Salvador is still using the American dollar. In addition to the crypto economic zones, CAR is also offering e-residency…

Origins of State Surveillance

Will Griffin “State surveillance has been an integral part of American political life far longer than we might imagine.” – Alfred McCoy, Tom Dispatch The modern surveillance state is now ubiquitous; it’s everywhere, all the time. In 2013, Edward Snowden may have proved that the state, along with its corporations, were illegally spying on US…

Canada’s NSA

Yves Engler This year marks the 75th anniversary of a little known but influential arm of Canada’s foreign policy apparatus. An entity called the Communications Security Establishment was established to spy internationally in 1946, operating secretly during its first four decades. With an annual budget of $780 million and 3000 employees, the CSE has a variety…

Stepping Out of the Shadow of 9/11: Start by Ending the Post-9/11 States of Emergency

Aaron Good, Ben Howard and Peter Dale Scott[Source: abcnews.go.com] Because this series has been the result of a collaboration among three writers with extensive knowledge about 9/11, U.S. hegemony, and the commonly suppressed aspects of our system of governance, our authors decided to take a different approach with Part 3. Rather than present one consensus…

Five Eyes in Latin America: Australia’s Secret Role in Chile’s Coup

Kit Klarenberg Declassified files expose Australia’s secret role in General Pinochet’s seizure of power, and shed light on the ongoing participation of the United States’ Five Eyes partners in covert intelligence operations in Latin America, as well as assistance from US-allied governments in neighbouring countries, namely Brazil. Washington’s central role in the violent overthrow of…

The Twenty Year Shadow of 9/11: U.S. Complicity in the Terror Spectacle and the Urgent Need to End It

Aaron Good, Ben Howard and Peter Dale Scott [Source: boottheglobalperspectives.com] Part 1: How the U.S. Used Radical Islam and 9/11 to Advance Imperialism and Override the Constitution This is Part One of a three-part re-evaluation of 9/11 in light of startling new evidence that may change many minds about the so-called “craziness” of those who…

Dunhammer: The Operation That Could Tarnish Biden’s Visit to Europe

Misión Verdad The recent arrival of U.S. President Joe Biden on European soil is preceded by a scandal that could influence the diplomatic agenda that the Democrat intends to develop in his first visit since he was elected last December. “Something is rotten in Denmark” At issue is the revelation of more information about the…

US Military Bases, Training, and New Threats

Pablo Ruiz In Latin America and the Caribbean, the army, the DEA, the CIA, and other U.S. agencies, have innumerable bases of operations, facilities, offices, as military agreements that allow them to operate at any time in our territories. In the past, they claimed that their objective was to combat communism, subversion, revolution, which challenged…

US Deep State: The Myth of the Progressive Biden-Harris Government

Mison Verdad Interventionism, Business and Digital Surveillance Return to the White House The Deep State is a way of executing power in the United States through an invisible branch without affecting the facade that falls on the federal government in the White House. The clandestine nature of this National Security State (also called so because…

Biden’s Transition Team is Filled with War Profiteers, Beltway Chickenhawks, and Corporate Consultants

Kevin Gosztola A glance at the Biden-Harris agency review teams should provide a rude awakening to anyone who believed a Biden administration could be “pushed to the left.” An eye-popping array of corporate consultants, war profiteers, and national security hawks have been appointed by President-elect Joe Biden to agency review teams that will set the…

NSA-CIA Global Surveillance: Pine Gap and Menwith Hill

Role of Menwith Hill by Dr. Dave Webb of the Global Network CABB Archive Menwith Hill Accountability Campaign Pine Gap: Australian Anti-Bases Campaign Coalition Global Network

A 70-Year War on ‘Propaganda’ Built by the CIA

Cynthia Chung “Hell is empty and all the devils are here” – William Shakespeare (The Tempest Act 1 Scene 2) War has always depended on a reliable system to spread its propaganda. The Arthashastra written by Chankya (350-283 BCE) who was chief advisor to the Emperor Chandragupta (the first ruler of the Mauryan Empire) discusses…

Venezuela: A-30, the CIA’s Greatest Defeat in Decades

Valentin Vasilescu With Venezuela’s acquisition of the su-30 aircraft, S-300 anti-aircraft systems, T-72 tanks and Russian coastal bastion batteries, the Pentagon headquarters (USSOUTHCOM) in charge of Central and South America has deployed Technology Espionage (TECHINT) capabilities to assess, analyze and interpret information related to Venezuelan army combat equipment. They are MASINT (Measurement and signature intelligence)…

Five Eyes: US Used NZ Spies to Spy on Third Countries, Including France; US Army Ready for Unrest

Suzie Dawson I’ve spent six years alternately begging major NZ journalists to investigate state-sponsored spying on activists including me, and, out of sheer necessity, reporting extensively on it myself from within the vacuum created by their inaction. So it is somewhat bemusing to now observe the belated unfolding of what ex-Member of Parliament and Greenpeace…