Exclusive: Last year, Saudi intelligence chief Bandar bin Sultan was swaggering around the world boasting of Saudi influence over radical jihadists from Syria to Chechnya and collaborating with Israel against Iran. But Bandar is gone and the Saudis may be retrenching, writes Andres…
Can the Surveillance State Be Stopped?
Saudi-Iran Thaw Troubles the Neocons
Neocons and other hardliners are still fanning the flames of confrontation with Iran, but the recent thawing of relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia is making the hawks’ work more difficult, writes ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar.
Two Paths toward the Net’s Future
Trying to Scuttle Iran Nuke Talks, Again
Death to the Death Penalty
Oklahoma’s ghoulish killing of convicted murderer Clayton Lockett on April 29 has brought new attention to America’s continued use of the death penalty, a politically popular issue in some states but a practice that has many reasons justifying its abolition, writes…
How NATO Jabs Russia on Ukraine
How Wall St. Bailed Out the Nazis
Hitler’s Shadow Reaches toward Today
From the Archive: The key role of neo-Nazis in Ukraine’s U.S.-backed coup is denied by the mainstream U.S. press, which can’t believe the U.S. government would collaborate with such unsavory characters, but that isn’t the real history, as Robert Parry…
The ‘Net Neutrality’ Fight Heats Up
Cold Water on the Neo-Cold War Hysteria
Ethnic Russians Are People, Too
The Corruption of Human Rights Watch
The Limits of US Military Power
Ukraine’s Dueling Elections
Exclusive: Voters in two eastern Ukrainian provinces showed strong support for secession from the coup regime in Kiev, but the U.S. State Department and other regime supporters reject the outcome and vow to press ahead with a special presidential vote…
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The Truth of Sinn Fein’s Gerry Adams
Political leaders around the world typically seek to hide unpleasant truths, often with the rationalization that some greater good is served by shielding themselves from accountability, a dilemma made more difficult when telling the truth might unravel peace, as ex-CIA…
Burning Ukraine’s Protesters Alive
Putting the Ukraine Crisis in Context
When the Ukraine crisis began, the mainstream U.S. media cast aside any pretense of objectivity and joined in the service of State Department propaganda. But given the emergence of the Internet a far more honest and nuanced story is possible…
How the US Propaganda System Works
Americans are told that other governments practice censorship and propaganda, but not their own. Yet, the reality is quite different with many reasonable viewpoints marginalized and deceptive spin put on much that comes from officialdom, writes Lawrence Davidson.