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“There’s no hope for accountability for past crimes or stopping future ones because the CIA and its militia forces operate in the dark.” — Abby Martin
Abby Martin: CIA Stories: Death Squads in Afghanistan
CIA
Abby Martin: CIA Stories: The CIA is Born
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with Abby Martin
Empire Files on Jun 20, 2021
Abby Martin introduces the first installment of a new Empire Files series about the CIA explaining why the agency was created, and how it became the most nefarious criminal organization in the world, with CIA expert Douglas Valentine.
Abby Martin: The Woke CIA PsyOp
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with Abby Martin
Empire Files on May 7, 2021
Abby Martin explains what’s behind the cringe “Humans of CIA” recruitment ad promoting themselves as a place of ‘intersectional’ social progress.
The “Innocence” Of Early Capitalism Is Another Fantastical Myth, by Pete Dolack
The Conquest of the Incas (mural by FUEJXJDK) via Wikimedia Commons
by Pete Dolack
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Systemic Disorder, Apr. 7, 2021
April 8, 2021
It is not unusual for critics of United States foreign policy, whether or not they feel free to use the term “imperialism,” to express regret that a previously rational system has soured. Such sentiments are routine for liberals and hardly unknown among social democrats.
Chris Hedges: America’s Secret Government
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with Chris Hedges
RT America on Mar 20, 2021
On the show this week, Chris Hedges discusses the rise of America’s secret government with journalist and author, David Talbot.
Top 10 Questions for Avril Haines, Neera Tanden and Antony Blinken, by David Swanson
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by David Swanson
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Let’s Try Democracy, Dec. 30, 2020
January 2, 2021
Before Avril Haines can become Director of National Intelligence, Senators must approve. And before that, they must ask questions. Here are some suggestions for what they should ask.
US War Machine Masquerading as Country, by Finian Cunningham
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by Finian Cunningham
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Ireland
Crossposted from Sputnik, Dec. 21, 2020
December 22, 2020
The late and not-so-great Republican Senator John McCain once provocatively described Russia as “a giant gas station masquerading as a country”.
Mitt Romney, the former presidential candidate and fellow Republican Senator, was quoted in US media over the weekend channeling McCain’s contemptuous description of Russia.
Abby Martin: Did Trump Order the Assassination of Iranian Scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh?
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with Abby Martin
Empire Files on Nov 29, 2020
Who was behind the high-level assassination in Iran? Plus: CIA combat death in Somalia reveals hidden fact about US Empire, and Pentagon suffers major defeat in Latin America.
Deep State Bounty Hunters + Russia Bounty-Hunter Story Another Pulp Fiction Release, by Finian Cunningham
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by Finian Cunningham
Writer, Dandelion Salad
East Africa
Crossposted from Sputnik, June 30, 2020
July 2, 2020
The media firestorm over alleged Russian intelligence collusion with Afghan militants to kill US troops has the hallmarks of a psy-ops orchestrated by America’s Deep State.
Abby Martin: Afghanistan War Exposed—Part 2: An Imperial Conspiracy
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with Abby Martin
Empire Files on June 26, 2020
Abby Martin covers the whole truth about the Afghanistan War, from the CIA construct of the 80’s through today’s senseless stalemate. Two decades, three administrations, tens of thousands of lives; it’s time to #EndTheForeverWar.
United States of Distraction: Fighting The Fake News Invasion, Narrated by Abby Martin
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with Abby Martin
ProjectCensored on Jun 4, 2020
Student shot and produced, United States of Distraction: Fighting The Fake News Invasion chronicles critical media literacy and faculty experts, students, and media makers whom provide contextual analysis for understanding the current rise of the so-called “fake news” phenomenon. In addition to deconstructing fake news, the film reminds us that this is not a new development, but rather, a form of propaganda. The interviews provided in the film offer solutions for mitigating the pernicious influence of false content on America’s democratic institutions. Edited narrated by Abby Martin.
Chris Hedges and Bill Binney: It Was The Intelligence Coup Of The Century
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with Chris Hedges
RT America on Apr 11, 2020
Chris Hedges talks to William Binney, intelligence analyst and NSA whistleblower, about the Washington Post revelations over the CIA and West German intelligence (BND) setting up a Swiss company, Crypto AG, to sell encrypted machines to more than 120 governments worldwide. From 1970 to 2018, the CIA intercepted foreign government communications. Among the countries buying the machines were France, Iran, the Vatican, and Venezuela.
David Swanson: How Do You Blow the Whistle on a Whole Society? + Transcript
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by David Swanson
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Let’s Try Democracy
February 6, 2020
“Both war and murder are crimes. It is a crime under Iraqi law to murder someone in Iraq, just as under U.S. law to murder someone here. It is a crime under international law to commit war in Iraq just as it would be in the United States. War is murder by military. Murder is war without military. The legal and moral distinction between murder and war is not and should not be what people suppose. And the distinction should not be a question of who the victims are.”
Abby Martin and Dan Kovalik: The Plot to Attack Iran: Myths, Oil and Revolution
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with Abby Martin
Empire Files on Jan 11, 2020
Abby Martin sits down with Dan Kovalik, human rights attorney and author of the book The Plot to Attack Iran, to discuss the context to Trump’s recent attacks, the most common myths about the country, and the history of US plots.
The Gehlen Org + The Powers of Love and War by Gaither Stewart
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by Gaither Stewart
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Rome, Italy
January 3, 2020
In February 2019 Germany opened a brand new intelligence complex in the city of Berlin. The new headquarters of the BND (Bundesnachrichtendienst or Federal Intelligence Service) occupies a huge space—by the way, much as STASI or State Security Service once did in East Berlin the former German Democratic Republic—and supposedly employs a total of over six thousand persons. The move from its former secret location in the Munich suburb of Pullach reflects both the centralization in Berlin of federal institutions that after World War Two were widely dispersed throughout Germany and importantly, European Union-NATO leader Germany’s efforts to get away from the nation’s Nazi past. The new BND location in Germany’s capital city seems also a giant step away from the former obsessive secrecy of its location in Munich, hidden away in that obscure suburb and operating under a cover name and, above all, until the late 1950s an affiliate of the CIA. The move to Berlin can be interpreted as the BND’s declaration of sovereignty.
