The Guardian • CIA
British spooks remain tight-lipped over alleged CIA plot to assassinate Assange
British spooks remained tight-lipped today after questions posed over an alleged CIA plot to kidnap and assassinate Wikileaks founder Julian Assange in London.
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Issue #2006
Weaponising culture: the CIA’s use of art, literature and music in the cold war
Today the CIA has illegal operations around the world, from gathering information on Americans to developing new forms of torture. What is little known is...
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Issue #2098
Pine Gap on red alert
In October 1973, US bases in Australia were put on ‘red alert’ in case of a nuclear war. The USA did not bother informing the...
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Issue #2044
GLOBAL BRIEFS
CUBA: Cuba’s President Miguel Diaz-Canel criticised the inclusion of his country in the US Department of State’s list of “States sponsor of terrorism.” “The US...
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Issue #2143
UN women’s conferences
Nairobi 1985 The first International Women’s Conference I attended was the third World Forum held in Nairobi Kenya in 1985. There were two sites, one...
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Issue #2070
Centre-left win in Guatemala
Nearly seventy years after the CIA-backed coup in 1954, the Left has finally won the presidency in Guatemala. Bernardo Arévalo, of the centre-left Movimiento Semilla...
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Issue #2140
The Jakarta Method – recipe for mass murder
The Jakarta Method: Washington’s Anticommunist Crusade & the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World, by Vincent Bevins In the 1960s the CIA set up...
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Issue #2143
New information released on CIA involvement in Cuba
On 18 March, under President Donald Trump’s executive order, 80,000 documents were uploaded to the National Archives website. Amongst these documents are a plethora of...
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Issue #2130
LETTERS
West Papua: The Jakarta method Before the US – especially the CIA – meddled in the situation, the Dutch government had started to give the...
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Issue #2081
Neither Confirm nor Deny – How the Glomar Mission Shielded the CIA from Transparency
In the 1970s scientific journals such as Scientific American had numerous articles on the mineral bonanza being recovered from the deep ocean floors. In 1975...
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Issue #2110
DINGO
This week’s target of US interventions and aggression is Indonesia 1957-58: President Sukarno, like Egypt’s Abdel Nasser, was the kind of Third World leader the...
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Issue #2132
PEACE NOTES
The United States is one of the world’s most prolific state sponsors of terrorism. It’s time to remember all the times the USA has sponsored...
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