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Brazil’s Intelligence Service Targets ‘Progressive Clergy’

The reliable Brazil Report offers a fascinating snapshot of the intelligence agency of the second largest country in the Western Hemisphere. Now known as ABIN, the Brazilian Intelligence Agency was previously known as National Intelligence Service or SNI. The country’s right-wing president Jair Bolsonaro has expressed admiration for SNI, which powered a military coup in...

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Citizen Lab

Mexican Cartels Use Israeli Spyware to Target Journalists, Investigators Say

From Citizen Lab, and interdisciplinary investigators from the University of Toronto: On May 15th, 2017, journalist Javier Valdez was shot dead as he left the offices of Riodoce, the newspaper that he founded to investigate cartels and organized crime in Sinaloa, Mexico. His killers pulled him from his car, shot him a dozen times, and stole...

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Jefferson Morley, editor

Why Is the U.S. in Venezuela?

That’s the question we discussed March 11 on CGTN’s show “The Heat.” Its pleasure to go on a show where the host and all the guests are well-informed. My bottom line: the danger for Venezuela is that U.S.-sponsored “democratic transition” will lead, not to democracy, but to a failed state.

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Gina Haspel

How Many Civilians Die in CIA Drone Strikes? It Just Got Harder to Say

The reliable Katie Bo Williams reports from the bowels of the U.S. intelligence community (That’s “IC” to some; the “deep state” to others). In Defense One Williams has an update on U.S. drone wars. The Trump administration has breathed new life into the CIA’s covert drone program, which Obama sought to suffocate by shifting control...