Covert Actions

Covert Operations Are Now Targeting Our Minds

Danny Schechter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Israel, TV Propaganda, Financial Crisis, Banksters, Covert Actions, Incumbents, Business News
Danny Schechter

The sad truth is that the banksters who have gotten away with the massive theft of our economy are still getting away with it and profiting while so many of us continue to sink.

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"Bomb Power," or How the Atomic Bomb Ended a War, Increased Presidential Power and Eroded the Constitution

Tom Alderman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Garry Wills, Iran-Contra, Ronald Reagan, Cia, Secret Security State, Stephen Hoye, Iraq, The Manhattan Project, Dick Cheney, Covert Actions, Iran, Guatemala, Gulf of Tonkin, Cuban Missle Crisis, Fidel Castro, Richard Nixon, Vietnam, Korea, Diem, President Kennedy, Atomic Bomb, Bomb Power, The Justice Dept., Patrice Lumumba, Foundind Fathers, Signing Statements, The Atomic Energy Commission, Congress, Edwin Meese, Democracy, The Shah of Iran, David Addington, Iraq War, Nuclear Weapons, Ike, Cambodia, Presidential Power, President Eisenhower, Jimmy Carter, Lyndon Johnson, Nixon, World War II, Unitary Executive, Accountability, Pulitzer Prize Winning Author, Books News
Tom Alderman

While the bomb ended World War II, it also started a chain reaction that exploded into America's permanent secret security state -- with emphasis on the word 'permanent.'

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House Democrats To Make Major Changes To CIA Briefings

The Plumline | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: House of Representatives, Gop, Cia, Nancy Pelosi, Gang of Eight, Covert-Actions, CIA Breifs, Democrats, Politics News

In a move that could spark another fight with the GOP over CIA intelligence and secrecy, House Dems are quietly preparing to make major changes to the...

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Now I Get It

Paula Gordon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Intelligence, Tim Weiner, Cia, Legacy of Ashes, Truthfulness, Espionage, Haynes Johnson, Covert Actions, Politics News
Paula Gordon

If you find a mess somewhere in the world, there's a good chance the CIA's fingerprints are on it. All over the world. For more than half a century.

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