John Kiriakou: GOP Has Not Created a New Church Committee
If U.S. Congress is going to form a special subcommittee looking at government overreach and illegality, then it should do exactly that.
If U.S. Congress is going to form a special subcommittee looking at government overreach and illegality, then it should do exactly that.
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Ours is an age beset by conspiracy theories, with the fascist QAnon cult at the center of much public…
By Kevin Gosztola / The Dissenter The Central Intelligence Agency and former CIA director Mike Pompeo notified a federal court in New York that they intend to push for the…
Given the duplicitous history of the Minsk Accords, it is unlikely Russia can be diplomatically dissuaded from its military offensive. As such, 2023 appears to be shaping up as a…
A short history of neo-Nazism in Ukraine in response to NewsGuard’s charge that Consortium News published false content about its extent.
It is a hard thing to combat because it’s not a physical enemy but rather messages that lodge themselves in millions of people’s minds. And it has come to rule…
The C.I.A. has long had labs, whether overt or covert, where terrible things happened.
By Glenn Greenwald / Rumble
By Eve Ottenberg / CounterPunch One of the world’s most courageous whistleblowers, Daniel Ellsberg challenged U.S. prosecutors on December 6 to come after him, as they have pursued Julian Assange.…
By Chip Gibbons / The Dissenter An institution founded by former CIA director Michael V. Hayden hosted a panel on WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s case. They billed it as a…
Daniel Ellsberg has called on the U.S. to indict him for having the same unauthorized possession of classified material as Julian Assange. Ellsberg follows the Cryptome.org founder who has also…
Latin America’s leftist presidents are leading the campaign to free Julian Assange. The WikiLeaks journalist has the support of Brazil’s Lula da Silva, Mexico’s Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Argentina’s Cristina…
New information raises further concerns about the politicisation of the WikiLeaks founder’s legal case.
By Binoy Kampmark / CounterPunch Poor, silly, protuberant Mike Pompeo. The stocky, irritated former CIA director and former Secretary of State is rather upset that those who worked under him…