In response to a round-the-clock sit-in the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington, President Trump’s special envoy Elliot Abrams said on Thursday the activists are “clearly breaking the law.” The protesters say they were invited to stay by the government of President Nicholas Maduro, which the Trump administration is seeking to oust. The U.S. and about 50...
Author: Jefferson Morley (Jefferson Morley)
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British Intelligence Rejects Trump’s ‘Ridiculous’ Spying Charge
British intelligence has rejected claims that it was asked by the administration of former President Barack Obama to spy on then-President Elect Donald Trump after the 2016 presidential election. The Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), the equivalent of America’s National Security Agency, says it never happened. It is true that the GCHQ, which works closely with the...
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Social Media ‘Soft War’: The Syrian Presidency Says Its Instagram Account Has Been Blocked
The war of social media is heating up. The CIA will soon add an Instagram account to join its Twitter feed in dispensing Langley’s spin to the wold. Britain’s version of the NSA, the General Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) already has an Instagram account. But woe to America’s foes. Iran’s state broadcasting outlets, including PressTV, have...
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The U.S. Military Has 36 Code-Named Operations in Africa
The United States runs a global military empire whose workings are effectively unknown to the American people. Congress is supposed to conduct oversight of the armed services but it doesn’t. When the Senate held a hearing about the weekly U.S. attacks on Somalia–47 drone strikes in 2018 that killed hundreds of people–only Elizabeth Warren asked...
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Chris Hayes Talks About the Uighurs and China’s Secret Internment Camps
One of the most under-covered new stories in the world is the Chinese government’s “Orwellian” repression of the Uighur people in western China. China’s Ministry of State Security is responsible. MSNBC’s Chris Hayes picked up the story on his podcast. Right now, roughly ten percent of the Uyghur population has been ‘disappeared’, held indefinitely in...