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Issue #1981

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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Scott Ludlam visits Pine Gap. 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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Global briefs 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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Etching of woman with flag. 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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Bernardo Arévalo. 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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The Southern Cross Briade visits Giron, Cuba – the Bay of Pigs invasion site. 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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Quill and ink . 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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PEACE NOTES 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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