WikiLeaks’ publication of “Cablegate” in late 2010 dwarfed previous releases in both size and impact and helped cause what one news outlet called a political meltdown for United States foreign policy.
Category: Intelligence
Whistleblower Jeffrey Sterling, Who Went Through Kafkaesque Trial, Wins 2020 Sam Adams Award
PEPE ESCOBAR: Trump to De-Escalate: Intel Source
Premiere of CN Live! Season 2 on the Crisis With Iran
VIPS MEMO: Doubling Down Into Yet Another ‘March of Folly,’ This Time on Iran
“We write with a sense of urgency suggesting you avoid doubling down on catastrophe,” VIPS tells Donald Trump in its latest memo to the president.
PEPE ESCOBAR: US Kick Starts Raging ’20s Declaring War on Iran
Fear of a Major Mideast War
Fears of a major war in the Middle East exploded Thursday night with the U.S. assassination of arguably the second most powerful man in Iran.
ROBERT PARRY: An Apology & Explanation, Two Years On
Remembering America’s First (& Longest) Forgotten War on Islamists
Danny Sjursen finds America’s Moro War – which included misleading accounts of progress by military commanders — grimly familiar in the context of today’s Afghan War.