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Tag: CIA

7 February, 2022 • Mike Booth

The Conspiracy to Conceal Conspiracies

Every warm-blooded Arab loves a good conspiracy theory — so, it turns out, do many Americans, observes cultural critic Mike Booth.

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15 October, 2021 • Mischa Geracoulis

Gitmo and Abu Ghraib, Infamous Symbols of US Human Rights Violations

Lawyers Beyond Borders, Advancing International Human Rights Through Local Laws and Courts By Maria Armoudian University of Michigan Press (Sept 2021) ISBN 9780472132560   Mischa Geracoulis “The human rights cases… Continue reading Gitmo and Abu Ghraib, Infamous Symbols of US Human Rights Violations

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15 September, 2021 • Hadani Ditmars

20 Years Ago This Month, 9/11 at Souk Ukaz

Hadani Ditmars The commemoration of the 20th anniversary of 9/11 unfolds in televisual real time and yet with a strange sense of suspended animation, as if we’re on a slow… Continue reading 20 Years Ago This Month, 9/11 at Souk Ukaz

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14 March, 2021 • Lisa Hajjar

Torture Is the Nasty Center of the 9/11 Case at Guantánamo

In our centerpiece this month, Lisa Hajjar takes us inside the war on terror and the dystopia that is Guantánamo.

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14 March, 2021 • Stephen Rohde

Secrets, Leaks, and the Imperative of Truth and Transparency

Stephen Rohde on how widespread government secrecy, alongside the punishment of truth-tellers, betrays fundamental principles underlying democracy.

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14 March, 2021 • Francisco Letelier

Dinner at the White House, in the Lion’s Den

Francisco Letelier searches for the truth about his father's assassination in Washington DC while excavating US government complicity in its cover-up.

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10 March, 2014 • Jordan Elgrably

America’s Great Game: The C.I.A. & U.S. Middle East Foreign Policy

If you want to understand the CIA, it will certainly help to read the works of Hugh Wilford, Robert Baer and Robert Scheer, but you will not find all the answers to the U.S.-Middle East conundrum.

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