Beyond Torture The CIA’s Shameful Kidnapping of a 12-Year-Old Girl
The U.S. and U.K. collaborated to snatch Khadija al-Saadi's family in Hong Kong and deliver them into the custody of a murderous dictator. BY CONOR FRIEDER
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Medical Examiner Rules that James Brady was Murdered by Son of GHW Bush Business Partner
Necessary background: "THE BUSH-HINCKLEY CONNECTION" archive, "Who Shot Ronald Reagan?" and "All in the Family: Poppy Bush's Failed Assassination of Reagan
Leaked Documents 1.1 Million Names Listed in US Terrorism Database
By Adam Goldman The Washington Post WASHINGTON — A U.S. government database of known or suspected terrorists contains the names of about 25,000 Am
Whistle-Blower Lawsuit How the Vanguard Group Dodges the IRS
Suit alleges Vanguard wrongly avoids paying taxes By Joseph N. DiStefano Philadelphia Inquirer, July 27, 2014 A lawsuit filed in New York last yea
Book Review – Surviving Evil CIA Mind Control Experiments in Vermont
"... We all owe Karen Wetmore a debt of gratitude. I know the impulse is to turn away from such evil as she reports, but we owe it to her, and to ourselves
Critic of Artificial Sweeteners Pilloried by Industry-Backed Scientists
Re a signally dangerous public menace: perception-managing "trade groups" -- "... Public health advocates critical of food industry influence say the Calor
Senate Intelligence Committee Members Protest Administration Deletions to CIA Torture Report
"... The redactions 'are totally unacceptable. Classification should be used to protect sources and methods or the disclosure of information which could co
Former World Vision Manager Accused of Producing Child Porn
By Louie Rosella MISSISSAUGA World Vision Canada has launched an internal investigation after learning a former manager is facing nine charges in connec
Prominent Pro-Troop Charity Caught Diverting Donations To Tea Party PACs
Also see -- "Exclusive: ‘Pro-Troop’ Charity Pays Off Tea Party Cronies Instead" By Tina Nguyen A prominent charity that’s enlisted Presidential help
Two Former Utah Republican Attorneys General Busted for Corruption
By Jennifer Dobner July 15, 2014 SALT LAKE CITY (Reuters) – FBI agents arrested two former Utah attorneys general at their homes on Tuesday and charged
Review of Hack Attack – How the Truth Caught Up with Rupert Murdoch, by Nick Davies, with an Excerpt from the Book
Nick Davies’s account of how he exposed the Murdoch empire is as exciting as a thriller By Peter Oborne Most journalists bumble along. We gr
An Air Force Intelligence Officer Recalls Gulf of Tonkin “Attack”
Countries aren’t Monopoly Cards: An Air Force Officer’s Gulf of Tonkin Reflections — 50 Years Later By Rick Whalen In 1968, I was an Air Force i
Deleted 2014 Times of Israel Post Backed Genocide in Gaza
By Max Fisher The English-language Israeli publication Times of Israel today published, and then quickly deleted, a blog post by the writer Yochanan Go
THE HOUSE ON THE MOUNTAIN HOW MINING CORRODES DEMOCRACY IN PERU – OPED
By Lynn Holland, COHA “We need you because we don’t have anyone who listens to us.” -- Milton Sanchez, arrested 50 times for protesting against t
Border Patrol Agents Killed Mexican Teen in Cross Border Shooting — Eight Shots Fired as He Lay on Sidewalk
Investigation Shows Mexican Teen Was Shot 8 Times on the Ground By ALICE BRENNAN, RAYNER RAMIREZ and CRISTINA COSTANTINI With reporting from John Carlos Fr
“Illegal” Refugees? Hillary Clinton’s Real Scandal is Honduras not Benghazi
"... Which country is the top source of kids crossing the border? Honduras, home to the world’s highest murder rate, Latin America’s worst economic ine
U.S. Holds The World Record for Killing Innocent Civilians
By Kourosh Ziabari 30 July, 2014 Countercurrents.org A world-renowned Canadian philosopher argues that the United States is the world recorder of illegal
Amnesty International to U.S. Stop Arms Transfers to Israel Amid Growing Evidence of War Crimes in Gaza
“It is deeply cynical for the White House to condemn the deaths and injuries of Palestinians, including children, and humanitarian workers, when it kn
The True Story of how Scientists Battled Typhus and Sabotaged the Nazis
By Jonathan Kirsch By now, of course, we know full well that the Holocaust is a bottomless pit. More than a half-century after the liberation of the last
Ronald Reagan and the Infantilization of American Politics
How Ronald Reagan turned America into a nation of children A new book on the rise of modern conservatism argues that Reagan's rhetoric infantilized our pol