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Trump is banning Black and Brown migrants while granting a VIP asylum lane for white South Africans. He calls it security. iPINIONS calls it apartheid… Read my full take on Substack:https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/from-muslim-ban-to-third-world-ban Read more.
An exhaustive, five-year Senate investigation of the CIA’s secret interrogations of terrorism suspects renders a strikingly bleak verdict of a program launched in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, describing levels of brutality, dishonesty and seemingly arbitrary violence that at times brought even agency employees to moments of anguish. The report by the… Read more.
Based on the very popular James Bond films, one could be forgiven for thinking that practitioners of the dark art of espionage are licensed to kill. But this is just an enduring (and endearing) myth – at least insofar as those who work for Western governments are concerned. Indeed, nothing exposed how truly circumscribed spies… Read more.
Fourteen years before George W. Bush launched a war of dubious justification against Iraq, his daddy launched a war of equally dubious justification against Panama. Baby Bush seemed hell-bent on a personal vendetta to get Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein for allegedly plotting to assassinate his daddy. Daddy Bush seemed hell-bent on a personal vendetta to… Read more.
Pelosi: They mislead us all the time. Reporter: Madam Speaker, just to be clear, you’re accusing the CIA of lying to you… Pelosi: Yes. (Pelosi on May 20 insisting the CIA never told her that its agents were waterboarding, i.e. torturing, terror suspects.) Of course, accusing CIA agents of lying is rather like accusing them of spying … duh!… Read more.
Alas, the same people who insisted that Barack Obama was too passive, naive and inexperienced to defeat the ruthless team of Bill and Hillary Clinton (or the war-hero John McCain) are the ones now insisting that his choice to head the CIA, Leon Panetta, is too passive, naive and inexperienced to lead this agency “in a time of… Read more.
On February 20, 2005, President Hugo Chavez dropped a bombshell that sent shockwaves through diplomatic circles. According to Reuters, the Venezuelan leader informed his nation that President Bush had ordered a hit against him. But as evidence, he merely cited recent declarations by US officials branding him a “negative force” and “source of instability” in… Read more.
