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Lockerbie : A ‘Conspiracy Theory’ Worth Pursuing
Top, Convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, holding release papers, at Glasgow International Airport, after his release Thursday, August 20, 2009. Photo by Danny Lawson / Pool / AP. Below, wreckage of Pan Am 103, Lockerbie, Scotland, Dec. 21, 1988.Unlocking … Continue reading
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Tagged CIA, Conspiracy Theories, Middle East, Terrorism, US Intelligence
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Dick Cheney : Assassination Nation
Dick Cheney: More tales from the dark side Peter Berger, a security analyst at the American Enterprise Institute thinks that, judging from Congressional reaction, the program must have involved much more than killing some Al Qaeda people. By Sherman DeBrosse … Continue reading
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Tagged Bush Legacy, Cheney, CIA, Department of Defense, War Crimes
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Steve Weissman : Chinese Revolt Exposes Washington’s Folly
Rebiya Kadeer” : Her skirts are hardly snow white. Photo from the Sunday Morning Herald.Chinese Revolt Exposes Washington’s Folly Rebiya Kadeer, the fascinating woman at the center of the cock-up, would never be taken for a modern-day Mata Hari. By … Continue reading
Dick Cheney Isn’t the Only One Who Planned Assassinations
When a person repeats precisely the same behaviour over and over again, but expects the result to be different, that is Einstein’s definition of insanity. Americans have been doing the same thing over and over again for 200 years, somehow … Continue reading
Steve Weissman : The U.S. Role in Iran’s ‘Green Revolution’
Photo from BrooWaha.com.Iran: Seen to Be Meddling Our multimedia meddlers sought… to help mobilize the millions of Iranians who had already turned against the regime of Ahmadinejad and were questioning the theocratic rule of the ayatollahs. By Steve Weissman / … Continue reading
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Tagged CIA, Green Revolution, Imperialism, Iran, Iranian Elections, New Media, U.S. Foreign Policy
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Iran, Cyber Warfare and the CIA : The World is Watching
Twitter and the new Iranian revolution. Cartoon by Ian D. Marsden / truthout.Iran: The world is watching [The media] give wall-to-wall coverage of the protesters, whose heroism is very real. But the TV cameras and front-page headlines completely ignore how … Continue reading
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Tagged CIA, Internet, Iran, Iranian Elections, New Media, Technology, Twitter, U.S. Foreign Policy
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Alan Haber : Exposing the Dark Forces
As long as these forces operate, and are not pursued, there is no democracy, whatever the window dressings. By Alan Haber / The Rag Blog / June 25, 2009 See ‘Did the CIA kill Bobby Kennedy?’ by Shane O’Sullivan, Below. … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, CIA, Iranian Elections, Robert Kennedy, Sixties, Social Movements
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Steve Weissman : U.S. and Iran: Nonviolence 101
Was there meddling in the Orange Revolution in the Ukraine in 2004-2005?Iran: Nonviolence 101 Washington’s promotion of nonviolent resistance in other countries is already casting suspicion on a number of activists and thinkers who, wittingly or not, have allowed themselves … Continue reading
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Tagged CIA, Civil Disobedience, Imperialism, Iran, Iranian Elections, Nonviolence, U.S. Foreign Policy
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Iran and the USA : Who’s Diddling Democracy?
The Persian Service of Voice of America (VOA) is said to have sided with the anti-Ahmadinejad candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi. Photo by AP from BBC News.Who’s Diddling Democracy in Iran? Does my reading of the tea leaves prove conclusively that … Continue reading
