Craig Murray: The Film About Julian Assange
Ithaka is a heart-rending film that offers an important rebuttal to more than a decade of propaganda aimed at dehumanizing the WikiLeaks publisher.
How Spooks and Establishment Journalists are Circling the Wagons
In the second of this two-part series, we examine why so many journalists are keen to cooperate with and parrot the key messages of the US and British intelligence agencies.
Abolish the CIA
By Eve Ottenberg / CounterPunch Just about every lousy U.S. foreign policy escapade from the 1950s to the late ‘70s traces back to the CIA. From the catastrophic1953 coup of…
How Spooks and Establishment Journalists are Circling the Wagons
It would be foolish to imagine that, in this more complex information age, the U.S. and U.K. intelligence services’ influence over journalists has diminished. Both Carole Cadwalladr and Paul Mason’s…
CIA, European Commandos Operating on the Ground in Ukraine: NYT
Previous reporting from the New York Times and CNN said the White House had incomplete intelligence about the war because of a lack of personnel in Ukraine.
Stella Assange: ‘We Are Going to Fight This’
“We are going to use every appeal avenue,” Stella Assange told a London press conference on Friday after the home secretary signed the extradition order, reports Joe Lauria.
John Kiriakou: The Triumph of “Bloody Gina,” the CIA’s Torture Queen
Court filing reveals CIA director Gina Haspel participated directly in the spy agency’s black site illegal torture program while fellow officer Kiriakou was imprisoned for exposing it.
Elon Musk Is Not a Renegade Outsider—He’s a Massive Pentagon Contractor
By Alan MacLeod / MintPress News AUSTIN, TEXAS – Elon Musk’s proposed takeover of Twitter has ruffled many feathers among professional commentators. “Musk is the wrong leader for Twitter’s vital…
Lee Camp: I Know Who the US Will Coup Next!
The US has created a ridiculously long list of coups around the world over the past 50 years.
ICE Probably Spied on You
A new investigation reveals the immigration agency has collected data on most Americans. It’s the latest case in a worrying trend.
John Kiriakou: Info-Warrior Malcom Nance
Has the former MSNBC analyst dropped his media gig and really gone off to battle the Russians in Ukraine?
John Kiriakou: Biden’s Orwellian ‘Disinformation Governance Board’ and Other Assaults on Free Press
From the announcement of the Biden Administration's new “Disinformation Governance Board" to NewsGuard's "Disinformation Fingerprints" project, free speech is under attack in the U.S.
Confessions of a Failed Tax Resister
Rebecca Gordon and her partner were both informal tax resisters due to their antiwar beliefs. But the day came when they could resist the most powerful government in the world…
Matt Taibbi: The Media Campaign to Protect Joe Biden Passes the Point of Absurdity
A development in the infamous laptop story further proves the "Russian Disinformation" tale was itself disinformation, shaming a herd of craven media stenographers
Greenwald: The NYT Now Admits the Biden Laptop — Falsely Called “Russian Disinformation” — is Authentic
The media outlets which spread this lie from ex-CIA officials never retracted their pre-election falsehoods, ones used by Big Tech to censor reporting on the front-runner.