Category: Europe

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Official Secrets

Keira Knightley Plays a British Whistleblower in ‘Dirty Tricks’ 

The catastrophically misguided U.S. invasion of Iraq still reverberates in our lives today. The destruction of Saddam Hussein’s government created space for the global jihadist movement to flourish. It also created democratic space for Iraq’s Shiite majority and their Iranian supporters. Trump’s confrontation with Iran today can be seen as a rearguard action to take...

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Russia's FSB

Shades of Shadow Brokers: Hackers Publish Files of Russian Intelligence Contractor

In April 2017, an anonymous group of hackers calling themselves Shadow Brokers published a collection of cyberwar weapons  created by the National Security Agency. Now a group of Russian hackers has published a set of tools commissioned by Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), according to the BBC. (The FSB is Russia’s equivalent of the FBI.)...

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Steve Bannon

The Russian Connection to the Seth Rich Conspiracy Theories

The conspiracy theory that DNC staffer Seth Rich was killed for political reasons in the summer of 2016 originated with a Russian intelligence service, according to Yahoo News, and was spread through alt-right media outlets and promoted by Roger Stone, Steve Bannon and Julian Assange, much to the dismay of prosecutors and Rich’s family. “To...