Iran’s intervention in Syria is not particularly popular at home, according to independent Iranian observers. But Iran’s national security policymakers favor it, according to Foreign Policy Iran’s policymakers believe they can reap the benefits of sensible responses to two decades of violent American blundering in the Middle East. Like them or not, their worldview is coherent....
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British Intelligence Privately Says Israel Has Nuclear Weapons But Won’t Admit it Publicly
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Daniel Ellsberg Week Honors Pentagon Whistleblower
How Twitter Became a Propaganda Tool of U.S. Central Command
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Chinese Police Station in New York Is Part of a Vast Influence Operation
Catch-22 at Guantanamo, or How Due Process Got Undone
Wagner Group Leader Calls for End to Russia’s ‘Special Military Operation’
Once Ridiculed, the ‘October Surprise’ Deal Between Reagan and Iran Is Now Confirmed
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UK Spy Agency Says AI Chatbots Pose a Security Threat
How Aerial Surveillance Has Evolved Over the Past 200 Years
Wagner Mercenary Chief Says He Ran Russian Information War
Iranians Outraged After Shah-Era Secret-Police Official Attends U.S. Rally
Israeli-led Disinformation Team Meddled in Dozens of Elections
Director of National Intelligence Barred From Reporting on Domestic Extremists in U.S. Armed Forces
Iranian Intelligence Official Says China in Line to Buy Tehran’s Drones
Former Mossad Chief Urges Compromise on Judicial Shakeup
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Targeted Assassinations: Trump Tops Obama
It’s not really open to dispute that America’s drone wars are controlled by secretive agencies and secrets laws. Both Donald Rumsfeld, a crusty conservative, and Barack Obama, a liberal internationalist, tried to make the U.S. drone apparatus more publicly accountable. Both failed. Now President Trump, an authoritarian nationalist, is escalating the drone wars without much...
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Mueller probes nexus of private security firms and former Israeli intelligence
Two recent reports in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal corroborate a common feature of powerful secret intelligence agencies at work: the collaboration of former spies and private security firms.
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Deep State or Military Industrial Complex?
The former is a ruse, the latter a reality, argues Robert Dreyfuss in The Nation.
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Former CIA director Michael Hayden disputes the idea of a ‘deep state’
In his new book, The Assault on Intelligence, the outspoken former CIA director, deplores the discourse of the ‘deep state’ as a weapon that President Trump and his supporters use to fend off legitimate challenges to their actions.