Surely, this is just another “loony left” headline about Elliott Abrams, the administration’s point man on Venezuela, whom some say has been unfairly pilloried on Capitol Hill. If you read this September 1986 National Security Council email, written by NSC staffer Oliver North, you’ll see the headline is not over-stated but factually precise and faithful...
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Ex-CIA Operations Chief on Venezuela: ‘Not Over Anytime Soon’
“This is a sustained effort,’ Devine said. “I don’t think its over anytime soon.” The former chief of the CIA’s worldwide operations, Jack Devine, told Bloomberg says U.S. intervention to oust Nicholas Maduro is a “proxy war with Russia” that will last a long time. By “this” Devine means the Trump administration’s “regime change” policy. See “CIA...
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Scottish Doctor Became the ‘Godfather of Modern Torture’ Working in Secret Wing Funded by CIA
Cameron is one of the godfathers of modern torture, whose work has been utilised in places like Iraq, Guantanamo Bay, Northern Ireland, the Philippines and Chile, to name just a few. In the 1950s, Cameron, who was working in the United States and Canada, was funded by the CIA to develop and research sensory deprivation...
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Wagner, the Private Russian Security Force, Reportedly in Venezuela
I blogged about Wagner, the Russian private military contractor, as an instrument of President Vladmir Putin. PMCs, like Wagner, are a way that government’s secretly project power without taking responsibility. Just as the Bush administration used Blackwater in Iraq, Putin uses Wagner in Syria and now, according to The Guardian, Venezuela. “The order came down...
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NBC’s ‘Secret’ North Korean Missile Site Is Well-Known in Korean Press
An NBC News report on a “secret” North Korean missile base isn’t news in South Korea. The base in the village of Sino has been cited repeatedly in the South Korean press in the past 20 years, according to The Hankyoreh, a South Korean daily. The NBC story appears to have been based on a new...