C.I.A Archives - Page 18 of 42

23Aug

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70th anniversary of the Korean war

https://youtu.be/R3B-cb_-DM0 A world-historic and hard won victory for the socialist forces of north Korea in defending their land against imperialist aggression. On Thursday 23 July, the Communists held this online public meeting celebrating the significance of the Korean Fatherland Liberation War, and its place in the world struggle against imperialism. Comrade Ranjeet Brar (@Rango1917) introduced the speakers, comrade Jack and comrade Christina. Their contributions provide inspiring insights into the internationalist legacy and lessons of the defensive struggle of the Korean people to drive the US imperialists from their land, during which the imperialists were driven to a humiliating stalemate, leading to the signing of the armistice a...

Extrajudicial Executions from the United States to Palestine

23Aug

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C.I.A, Palestine Affairs, USA, ZIO-NAZI

Extrajudicial Executions from the United States to Palestine

By : Noura Erakat ["Extrajudicial Executions from the United States to Palestine" by Noura Erakat was originally published on Just Security. Editor’s Note: This article is part of a special Just Security “Racing National Security” symposium edited by editorial board member Matiangai Sirleaf. The goal of the symposium is to render race visible in national security to shift the dominant paradigm toward addressing issues of racial justice.] On 23 June, an Israeli soldier shot dead Ahmad Erekat, my twenty-seven-year old cousin, at a military checkpoint. He was driving a Hyundai, which he rented to run errands for his sister’s wedding. He had just picked up his mama from a salon and was driving from his village of Abu Dis, an E...

The American Narrative of Hiroshima is a Statue that Must be Toppled

22Aug

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C.I.A, Japan, USA

The American Narrative of Hiroshima is a Statue that Must be Toppled

by ROBERT JACOBS – RAN ZWIGENBERG A photograph of Hiroshima seen from a US airplane after the attack, autographed by Enola Gay pilot Paul Tibbets. In August 1945, the United States attacked two cities in Japan with nuclear weapons in the last days of World War Two. The US used weapons of mass destruction against a primarily civilian population, instantly killing over 100,000 human beings, with tens of thousands of wounded and irradiated people who would die in the subsequent months and years. The American narrative of the nuclear attacks was formalized in a piece written by former Secretary of War Henry Stimson in Harper’s in 1947. Stimson wrote that the use of nuclear weapons ended the war, and in making an invasion of the Japanese home islands unnecessary, saved mi...

21Aug

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C.I.A, Lebanon, USA, ZIO-NAZI

هل المحكمة الدولية المختصة بقضية الحريري مسيسة؟ (Is the Special Tribunal for Lebanon politicised in relation to the Hariri case?)

بقلم منذر هنداوي ما معنى أن تكون المحكمة مسيسة؟ إنها تعني أن احكامها لا تستند إلى الادلة والشواهد، بل إلى المصالح السياسية، أي أن دور القاضي في المحكمة المسيسة يشبه دور مفتي السلطان الذي يتلاعب بالقوانين ليصدر أحكاما لا تتوافق مع القانون أو روح الشريعة، بل تتوافق مع رغبات السلطان أو الحاكم. صحيح أن تعبير مفتي السلطان اشتهر في الدولة العثمانية إلا أن ما يشبه هذا المفتي كان موجوداً في العهود الماضية في قضاء الدول الغربية. لكن مع تحول البلاد الغربية إلى ملكيات دستورية أو جمهوريات تسودها أنظمة ديمقراطية ترسخ الفصل بين السلطات الثلاث التشريعية و التنفيذية و القضائية. هذا الفصل جعل من الصعب جداً على السلطة التنفيذية أن تُمارس الضغط على أي قاض كي يحكم لها وفق ما تريد. قد تحصل أخطاء في حكم القضاة، و قد يكون بعض القضاة متحيزين ضد متهمين، لكن عندما يتم الكشف عن مثل ذلك ال...

20Aug

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C.I.A, China, USA

U.S. Cold War China Policy Will Isolate the U.S, Not China

by MEDEA BENJAMIN - NICOLAS J. S. DAVIES Tensions between the United States and China are rising as the U.S. election nears, with tit-for-tat consulate closures, new U.S. sanctions and no less than three U.S. aircraft carrier strike groups prowling the seas around China. But it is the United States that has initiated each new escalation in U.S.-China relations. China’s responses have been careful and proportionate, with Chinese officials such as Foreign Minister Wang Yi publicly asking the U.S. to step back from its brinkmanship to find common ground for diplomacy. Most of the U.S. complaints about China are long-standing, from the treatment of the Uighur minority and disputes over islands and maritime borders in the South China Sea to accusa...

Unsung Heroes of Los Alamos: Rethinking Manhattan Project Spies and the Cold War

20Aug

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C.I.A, Russia, USA

Unsung Heroes of Los Alamos: Rethinking Manhattan Project Spies and the Cold War

by DAVE LINDORFF high southwest view aerial of Los Alamos Los Alamos National Laboratory (left) and Los Alamos townsite (middle and right) 75 years ago before dawn on July 16, 1945, a cataclysmic explosion shook the New Mexico desert as scientists from the top-secret Manhattan Project tested their nightmarish creation: the first atom bomb, called “the Gadget.” This birth of the Nuclear Age, was quickly followed a few weeks later, first on August 6 by the dropping of a U-235 atom bomb on Hiroshima, a non-military city of 225,000, and then, three days after that on Aug. 9, by the dropping of a somewhat more powerful Plutonium atom bomb on Nagasaki, another non-military city of 195,000. The resulting slaughter of some 200,000 mostly civilian Japanese men, women and children naturall...

Another Hiroshima is Coming…Unless We Stop It Now

20Aug

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C.I.A, USA

Another Hiroshima is Coming…Unless We Stop It Now

by JOHN PILGER Photograph Source: Oilstreet – Own work – CC BY 2.5 When I first went to Hiroshima in 1967, the shadow on the steps was still there. It was an almost perfect impression of a human being at ease: legs splayed, back bent, one hand by her side as she sat waiting for a bank to open. At a quarter past eight on the morning of August 6, 1945, she and her silhouette were burned into the granite. I stared at the shadow for an hour or more, then I walked down to the river where the survivors still lived in shanties. I met a man called Yukio, whose chest was etched with the pattern of the shirt he was wearing when the atomic bomb was dropped. He described a huge flash over the city, “a bluish light, something like an electrical short”, after which wind blew like a ...

The Resistible Rise of Nuclear Gangsters…and Their Downfall

20Aug

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C.I.A, USA

The Resistible Rise of Nuclear Gangsters…and Their Downfall

by LINDA PENTZ GUNTER Photograph Source: Davis-Besse NPP.jpg: Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Original uploader was Theanphibian at en.wikipedia – Public Domain It would be tempting to describe last week’s nuclear scandals — in three states — as something out of the Wild West. But Al Capone’s Chicago would be a more accurate analogy. While no actual shots were fired, some pretty powerful metaphorical ones were, warnings that engaging in criminal racketeering and fraud to fleece ratepayers over failing nuclear plants would not go unpunished. Over the course of just a single week, politicians, lobbyists and nuclear industry executives in Illinois, Ohio and South Carolina were reeled in and, in some cases, charged with high crimes for covering up illegal schemes that bought power, ...

19Aug

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C.I.A, USA

The Space Wars Have Begun

by T.J. COLES Artist rendering of ground and space based laser weapons. Image: US Air Force. “Space is now a distinct warfighting domain,” says the U.S. Defense Space Strategy. Last week, corporate media repeated U.S. military propaganda: that Russia had “tested new technologies that could lead to so-called ‘killer satellites’” (ABC); the U.S. and Britain “accused Russia of testing a weapon-like projectile in space that could be used to target satellites in orbit” (BBC); “the US has publicly accused Russia of testing an ‘orbit weapon’” (CNN); “The launch could represent a step towards the militarisation of space”(Sky News); and so on. SOME CONTEXT These reports invert the chronology of events and omit the U.S. agenda to domina...

19Aug

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C.I.A, Russia, USA

Russiagate, Nazis, and the CIA

by ROB URIE The political success of Russiagate lies in the vanishing of American history in favor of a façade of liberal virtue. Posed as a response to the election of Donald Trump, a straight line can be drawn from efforts to undermine the decommissioning of the American war economy in 1946 to the CIA’s alliance with Ukrainian fascists in 2014. In 1945 the NSC (National Security Council) issued a series of directives that gave logic and direction to the CIA’s actions during the Cold War. That these persist despite the ‘fall of communism’ suggests that it was always just a placeholder in the pursuit of other objectives. The first Cold War was an imperial business enterprise to keep the Generals, bureaucrats, and war materiel suppliers in power and their bank accounts flush after W...