When I read this morning that El Chapo’s wife, 34-year old Emma Coronel Aispuro, was just released from federal prison, my immediate reaction was, “Wow! This must mean that the forever war on drugs is finally over. ...
Former Secret Service agent Paul Landis has placed proponents of the lone-nut theory of the JFK assassination in an awkward position. That’s because Landis has just come forward with a personal account of that day in Dallas when ...
In the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, the official narrative became that the terrorists just hated America for its “freedom and values.” In other words, America was just minding its own business, with Americans enjoying their “freedom ...
Given that yesterday was the anniversary date of the 9/11 attacks, I would be remiss if I failed to point out why there was so much anger and rage among foreigners toward the United States in the years ...
Martin Luther King pointed out that the U.S. government is “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world.” While King’s memory has been honored with accolades, monuments, street names, and the like, I can’t help but wonder how ...
On August 31, the Nation magazine published an article entitled “Chile: The Secrets the US Government Continues to Hide,” which details the CIA’s continued steadfast insistence on keeping its records secret that relate to the agency’s ...
One of the things that fascinates me about living under a national-security state form of governmental structure is the phenomenal ability of Pentagon, CIA, and NSA officials to use anti-China and anti-Russia propaganda to mould the mindsets of ...
Yesterday, a federal judge in Washington, D.C., sentenced Enrique Tarrio, the former leader of the Proud Boys, to 22 years in jail for the crime of “sedition” arising out of the January 6 protests at the Capitol. It ...
To this day — almost 60 years after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy — it would be impossible to convict any particular official of the U.S. national-security state of having participated in the plot to assassinate ...
Ever since it became clear that the U.S. invasions and occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq were turning into disasters, a common refrain has been to end America’s “forever wars.” Politicians of all political stripes, commentators in the mainstream press, ...
