The breakdown of the U.S. North Korea nuclear talks was a setback for South Korean president Moon Jae-in who has to battle with both hawks at home and Democrats in Washington who don’t know or care about his agenda of ending the Korean War and denuclearizing the Korean peninsula. From KBS WORLD Radio Moon instructed...
Author: Jefferson Morley (Jefferson Morley)
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Trump Can Give Kushner a Security Clearance — And Congress Can Ask Why
President Trump’s decision to give a security clearance to son-in-law Jared Kushner drew objections from the CIA among others. Sen. Mark Warner, ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee called it an “abuse of power.” Kushner has reportedly been denied access to Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI), the most secret government information, according to the Washington...
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Bellingcat Confirms Iranian Forces Hacked U.S. Drone
Last week The Deep State reported the claim of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) that it had hacked a U.S. drone forcing American forces to destroy it This week Nick Waters of the Bellingcat open-source investigative site says that independently obtained video confirms that Iranian back forces did bring down a U.S. drone in...
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Charles McCarry, prescient spy novelist, dead at 88
Charles McCarry wrote “Tears of Autumn,” one of the best fictional treatments of the assassination of President Kennedy. Coming from a former CIA officer, the depiction of a plot against JFK as revenge for his Vietnam policy had a credibility. Charles McCarry didn’t write many best-sellers, but among aficionados he was regarded as “the dean”...
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Opposite of the Deep State
OPEN is an arresting new light installation at the Flagg Building in the heart of Washington DC. It is an open invitation: to think about power, visible and invisible, in the nation’s capital. Created by visual artist Robin Bell, OPEN uses projected light to refract and splinter omnipresent media images into flickering light sculptures that...