Why does the Hammarskjöld crash still matter? It matters because Secretary General Hammarskjöld had undertaken his mission just as many countries in Africa were seeking their independence from the colonial world. Hammarskjöld was ahead of his time in pushing back against what today we might call the deep state. Picture released on August 15, 1960…
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How the US Justifies Interfering in Others’ Elections
Manuel E. Yepe “When we try to manipulate or influence the elections of other nations, or even when we have wanted to overthrow their governments, we have done so in the best interests of the people of those countries.” Such a tender philosophy was the one that James Robert Clapper Jr, former head of the…
Sullivan & Cromwell: The Dulles Brothers, Corporate Power and the Birth of the CIA
Hugo Turner Internationalist 360° With special thanks to T.P. Wilkinson Introduction Few realize the role corporate lawyers have played in shaping the past 150 years of world history. Sullivan & Cromwell is perhaps the most infamous example. It oversaw the birth of the multinational corporation and launched coups in third world countries decades before there…
Academics in the Service of Empire
James Petras Internationalist 360° Introduction Over the past half-century, I have been engaged in research, lectured and worked with social movements and leftist governments in Latin America. I interviewed US officials and think tanks in Washington and New York. I have written scores of books, hundreds of professional articles and presented numerous papers at professional…
The Trump Pro-ISIS Alliance in Indonesia
Trump’s Indonesian Allies in Bed With ISIS-Backed FPI Militia Seek to Oust Elected President Jokowi By Allan Nairn Introduction by Peter Dale Scott Introduction The following important essay, by the respected and reliable journalist Allan Nairn, reports what Indonesian generals and others have told him of an army-backed movement to overthrow Indonesia’s civilian-led moderate constitutional…
Menwith Hill: NSA’s British Base at the Heart of US Targeted Assassinations
New Leak reveals for the first time how the NSA has used the British base to aid “a significant number of capture-kill operations” across the Middle East and North Africa By Ryan Gallagher THE NARROW ROADS are quiet and winding, surrounded by rolling green fields and few visible signs of life beyond the occasional herd of…
The Deep State, Secret Government, CIA, FEMA and the Doomsday Network: Interview with Peter Dale Scott
darkjournalist In this exciting and revealing special two hour Dark Journalist episode he welcomes University of California, Berkeley Professor and Former Canadian Diplomat Peter Dale Scott. Professor Scott has just released his controversial new book “The American Deep State,” which exposes the truth about covert forces that constitute an unelected, unaccountable, shadow government. The “Deep…
How the CIA Made Google: Inside the Secret Network Behind Mass Surveillance, Endless War, and Skynet
Nafeez Ahmed PART I INSURGE INTELLIGENCE, a new crowd-funded investigative journalism project, breaks the exclusive story of how the United States intelligence community funded, nurtured and incubated Google as part of a drive to dominate the world through control of information. Seed-funded by the NSA and CIA, Google was merely the first among a plethora…
The Globalization of Special Forces
Editorial Comment: Recommended Reading: Joint Vision 2020: America’s Military Preparing for Tomorrow – Full-spectrum Dominance By Manlio Dinucci Special Forces have been designed to use military means to conduct unconventional warfare operations, mainly to cause riots and murder political opponents. Washington already secretly used them in 78 countries, while denying the very existence of their…
The Art of Deception: Training for a New Generation of Online Covert Operations
Document: The Art of Deception: Training for a New Generation of Online Covert Operations Article: HOW COVERT AGENTS INFILTRATE TO MANIPULATE, DECEIVE, AND DESTROY REPUTATIONSTO MANIPULATE, DECEIVE, AND DESTROY REPUTATIONS
Dissecting Contradictions & Sensationalism in the Establishment-Made NSA Scandal (Part I & II)
Editorial Comment: Long before Sibel Edmonds began her inquiry into the “Snowden affair”, journalists in the global South had seen through the facade and exposed the fraud. Nevertheless it may help North American readers to hear how an American whistleblower skillfully dissects this “establishment-made NSA scandal”. Early Warnings: Snowden: Overlooking the Obvious Snowden Revisited Reflections on…
The US Military Presence in Australia: Asymmetrical Alliance Cooperation and its Alternatives
By Richard Tanter Through the ANZUS alliance, Australia, like Japan and South Korea, has been is a key part of the United States “hub-and-spokes” Asia-Pacific alliance structure for more than sixty years. Dating back to the earliest years of the Cold War and the conclusion of post-war peace with Japan. An historical chameleon, the shape…
Australia’s Pine Gap, Five Eyes and Echelon
By Tortilla con Sal Audio commentary : Australia, Echelon, Edward Snowden >> Listen >> Australian writer and broadcaster Warwick Fry is visiting Central America. He talks here about the history of Australian collaboration with the US government global surveillance programmes and current concerns in the light of the revelations by Edward Snowden. Related: Snowden Leaks…
Terror and Assassination: The Pattern of US Foreign Policy
By Nil Nikandrov Physical elimination of foreign politicians fallen out of US favor has become a routine matter for Obama’s administration. The US special services have put to good use the experience of international terrorist organizations as well as the inventions of its own, like, for instance, purposeful cancer contamination or the use of «radioactive…
The US vs. Brazil: From Espionage to Destabilization
By Nil Nikandrov The espionage scandal which broke out after NSA employee Edward Snowden’s disclosures and which has strained relations between Brazil and the United States is gaining momentum. More and more new details are coming to light about routine electronic spying by U.S. intelligence on Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff and those surrounding her, including…
How Giant Tech Firms Help the Government Spy on Us and Gut Privacy
By Tom Burghardt As the secret state continues trawling the electronic communications of hundreds of millions of Americans, lusting after what securocrats euphemistically call “actionable intelligence,” a notional tipping point that transforms a “good” citizen into a “criminal” suspect, the role played by telecommunications and technology firms cannot be emphasized enough. Ever since former NSA…
Surveillance Blowback: The Making of the U.S. Surveillance State, 1898-2020
By Alfred W. McCoy The American surveillance state is now an omnipresent reality, but its deep history is little known and its future little grasped. Edward Snowden’s leaked documents reveal that, in a post-9/11 state of war, the National Security Agency (NSA) was able to create a surveillance system that could secretly monitor the private…
ECHELON Today: The Evolution of an NSA Black Program
By Tom Burghardt People are shocked by the scope of secret state spying on their private communications, especially in light of documentary evidence leaked to media outlets by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. While the public is rightly angered by the illegal, unconstitutional nature of NSA programs which seize and store data for retrospective harvesting…
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