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Happy birthday to the ever-expanding national security state
Military Industrial Complex

Happy birthday to the ever-expanding national security state

President Truman inaugurated the era of three-letter agencies in July 1947. One set of rules for spies, scientists, and lawmen, another set for the rest of us.

mexico drug violence
Latin America

Is the CIA car bombing narcos in Mexico?

Recent reporting suggests that covert agents are playing a growing role in the fight against cartels, now deemed terrorists by Trump

CIA deaths in Mexico: Is Trump playing with fire?
North America

CIA deaths in Mexico: Is Trump playing with fire?

The administration’s aggressive counternarcotics approach is now risking American lives and an escalation to real war with one of our closest neighbors

Bay of Pigs
Latin America

65 yrs after first one, Trump's 'Bay of Pigs' may take many forms

'There were sobering lessons,' JFK said after the failed invasion of Cuba in 1961. There is still time for the current president to learn them.

Bohemian Grove: More than a getaway for our war machine elites
Military Industrial Complex

Bohemian Grove: More than a getaway for our war machine elites

Many former military leaders, weapons CEOs and politicians are members, according to membership lists obtained by RS

Shanaz Ibrahim Ahmed iraq
Middle East

Exclusive: Iraq's First Lady says 'this is not our war'

In an interview with RS, Shanaz Ibrahim Ahmed says neither Iraq nor the Kurdish people of Iraq are prepared or willing to be drawn into another conflict