When Turkey’s intelligence chief Hakan Fidan visited Washington earlier this month, reportedly to brief Congress on the assassination of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, he came with another agenda: pressing the Trump administration to extradite Fethullah Gulen, a Turkish national whom Turkey accuses of masterminding an attempted coup in July 2016. Today, Istanbul got Washington’s answer. The Justice...
Category: Theories
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7 Bogus Trump Tweets about the ‘Deep State’
People may ask about THE DEEP STATE news blog, is this a platform for President Trump’s conspiracy theories? The answer is no. Trump has tweeted about the “deep state” seven times since June 2017. They show that the president’s complaints about the “deep state” have little to do with the legitimate reasons people fear secret intelligence...
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The Art of Hidden Power
Conspiracy theories seek to explain the workings of hidden power. Because there is lots of hidden power in this country and the world, we have lots of conspiratorial thinking. Which gives us both Alex Jones lunacy and the finest of art.
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Who Is Watching the Watchers?
That perennial question in the Age of Surveillance was projected by visual artist provocateur Robin Bell on a most appropriate canvas: the headquarters of the FBI in downtown Washington.