The CIA Then and Now: Old Wine in New Bottles

The CIA Then and Now: Old Wine in New Bottles

“And as the flames climbed high into the nightTo light the sacrificial riteI saw Satan laughing with delightThe day the music died” – Don McLean, “American Pie” The Nazis had a name for their propaganda and mind-control operations: Weltanschauungskrieg– “world view warfare.” As good students, they had learned many tricks of the trade from their…

When 'Former' Spies Run Wild, Bad Things Happen

When 'Former' Spies Run Wild, Bad Things Happen

A number of related stories describe nefarious activities by ‘former’ NSA, ‘former’ CIA, ‘former’ military officers who joined private businesses which harm other people. They demonstrate that there is a structural problem when those trained to be weapons are allowed to run in the wild. Reuters just published a two part story about ‘former’ NSA…

The Making of Juan Guaidó: How the US Regime Change Laboratory Created Venezuela’s Coup Leader

The Making of Juan Guaidó: How the US Regime Change Laboratory Created Venezuela’s Coup Leader

Juan Guaidó is the product of a decade-long project overseen by Washington’s elite regime change trainers. While posing as a champion of democracy, he has spent years at the forefront of a violent campaign of destabilization. *** Before the fateful day of January 22, fewer than one in five Venezuelans had heard of Juan Guaidó. Only…

Influencing Foreigners Is What Intelligence Agencies Do

Influencing Foreigners Is What Intelligence Agencies Do

The Rand Corporation defines America’s influence operations as… “the coordinated, integrated, and synchronized application of national diplomatic, informational, military, economic, and other capabilities in peacetime, crisis, conflict, and post-conflict to foster attitudes, behaviors, or decisions by foreign target audiences that further US interests and objectives. In this view, influence operations accent communications to affect attitudes and…

New Docs Reveal Extent of CIA's Grotesque Mind Control Experiments

New Docs Reveal Extent of CIA's Grotesque Mind Control Experiments

Earlier this year, the CIA marked the 65th anniversary of the launch of Project MKULTRA, a secret program which engaged in mind control experiments on people. Now, thanks to new documents released under the Freedom of Information Act, the public has a chance to learn just how far those carrying out the gruesome experiments were…

Mohammed bin Salman’s Fall from Grace is the Start of a Much Bigger Crisis

Mohammed bin Salman’s Fall from Grace is the Start of a Much Bigger Crisis

The words that were to seal Jamal Khashoggi’s fate are of no consequence. At the time, Khashoggi himself was unconscious of the danger he was putting himself in. It was 15 November, 2016. Trump had just been elected president and a Washington think tank was trawling the opinions of journalists and analysts around the Middle…