When I was young, my parents worked long hours. As a result, I spent much of my childhood with my grandparents, whose outlook on life always fascinated me—though at times, it left me deeply unsettled. Their time was not my own; it always moved more slo…
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New disclosures add weight to theory that Burisma was part of CIA operation On February 21, 2019, a confidential source told the FBI that two CIA officers went with Mykola Zlochevsky, owner of Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company that appointed Hunter B…
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The conservative right has been on a crusade to purge the teaching of critical race theory and aspects of U.S. history that reflect negatively on the country’s past and, hence, might encourage critical thinking about the present. Most academic historia…
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In May, Stanford University’s Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (APARC) announced that the Bangladesh-focused media outlet Netra News was the recipient of the 2025 Shorenstein Journalism Award. Left unmentione…
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Listen to the Mockingbird. Let early birds catch worms, but Mockingbirds sing catchy ear worms. Tone-deaf historians and criminologists continue to neglect music and thereby ignore an important soundtrack to events. Even if our frustration has now reac…
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“The Mafia is not an outsider in this world; it is perfectly at home. Indeed, in the integrated spectacle it stands as the model of all advanced commercial enterprises.” —Guy Debord In early June 2025, the National Archives and Records Administration (…
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OSS founder “Wild Bill” Donovan is said to have given orders for covert operation that helped dramatically shift U.S. politics to the right Alger Hiss was a former State Department official accused of being a Soviet spy who was imprisoned for almost fo…
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is perhaps the most well-known Soviet dissident. He was the author of The Gulag Archipelago, a three-volume work originally published in 1973 which significantly turned international public opinion against the Soviet Union. Descr…
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On June 6, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) returned Elise Stefanik (R-NY) to the House Intelligence Committee, and added Steve Cohen (D-TN), expanding the committee’s membership to 27 by unanimous consent. The addition of Cohen was a concession to Jo…
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[This article follows from CovertAction Magazine’s series exposing the sordid history of the CIA.—Editors] In early 1958, President Dwight Eisenhower authorized the CIA to provide secret campaign funds to Japanese Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi and othe…
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Palantir is a data analytics company founded with CIA seed money, which employed former Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines and former CIA Director George Tenet as consultants. Its AI software, which journalist James Bamford characteriz…
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The 2024 Netflix documentary American Conspiracy: The Octopus Murders has been nominated for three Emmy Awards. The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) nominated the four-part series in the following categories: The Emmy Awards f…
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