Sometimes the problems facing intelligence agencies–and those who report on them–seem insoluble. For example, what caused U.S. diplomatic official to...
December 10, 2020December 10, 2020
Paradigm Shift by Pandemic
(This article, written by Joel McCleary and Mark Medish, first appeared in Counterpunch.) Nobel-winning biologist Joshua Lederberg warned “the single...
November 20, 2020November 20, 2020
Coronavirus Did Not Originate in Wuhan, Scientists Say
Wuhan, China where the coronavirus was first detected. (Credit: South China Morning Post) From the South China Morning Post “Wuhan...
November 12, 2020November 12, 2020
How One Small U.S. Agency Is Hobbling the President-Elect Biden’s Pandemic Team
Update: as November 12, the Washington Post reports, that ” Emily Murphy, the administrator of the General Services Administration, still hasn’t...
September 15, 2020September 23, 2020
The Spies Who Predicted COVID-19
Former CIA spokesman Kent Harrington runs down the history of warnings from the intelligence community about pandemics. There were quite...
September 8, 2020September 23, 2020
Intelligence Findings on COVID19 Origins: Not Man-Made or Genetically Modified
“I will tell you, more and more, we’re hearing the story [that the new coronavirus emerged from a Wuhan lab,” President Trump...
August 24, 2020October 5, 2020
Another Scientist Who Says COVID19 Was Not Man-Made
Professor Francois Balloux of the Genetics Department of the University College of London tweets that the genome–the genetic makeup–of the...
July 6, 2020September 19, 2020
Could the Death of the National Security State be the Silver Lining of COVID-19?
[This article was first published in a wise magazine called Counterpunch. Subscribe here.] Could something good come from the catastrophe...
June 22, 2020September 23, 2020
Trump’s Trade Adviser Repeats Unsubstantiated COVID Theory
First it was former MI6 director Richard Dearlove espousing a theory about the origins of the COVID virus that has...
June 22, 2020September 23, 2020
Indonesia’s Intelligence Service Is Coming Out to Counter COVID19
Amid the COVID pandemic, Indonesia’s State Intelligence Agency (BIN) is asserting itself in unusual ways. Writing in The Diplomat, Tangguh...
June 1, 2020September 23, 2020
Three Questions for Investigators of the COVID19 Intelligence Failure
In the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks President George Bush stoutly resisted the creation of a committee to investigate of...
April 27, 2020September 23, 2020
Pakistan Using ISI Spy Service to Track Suspected Covid-19 Cases
Pakistan’s powerful spy services, Inter-Services Intelligence, just got a little stronger. Prime Minister Imran Khan has given ISI a lead...
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