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Exposed: How The CIA Manipulates Public Opinion

Liberal feminist icon Gloria Steinem, a close ally of warmonger Hillary Clinton, has passed away at age 92. What many people don't know is that she was a CIA agent. Ben Norton explains how the CIA has cultivated a pro-imperialist, anti-communist "compatible left", who spread propaganda portraying the US empire as a "progressive" force, while the USA oppresses the Global South, waging nonstop wars and organizing countless coups d'etat.

Attacks On Communist Ideology Using Marxist Terminology

Shortly before his death, Herbert Marcuse wrote an essay on Rudolf Bahro’s book The Alternative in Eastern Europe. In the essay, Marcuse hailed Bahro’s “critique of actually existing socialism” as “the most important contribution to Marxist theory and practice in decades.” This statement was part of a coordinated campaign for the book and for Bahro that swept through the major media outlets of the Western world between 1977 and 1979–80. As we now know (or can know), a striking number of the key figures in this campaign maintained connections in the postwar decades to the Central Intelligence Agency or to various institutions and organizations that were either controlled, funded, or considered “friendly” by the CIA or the U.S. State Department.

Faculty At Elite US Universities Linked To National Endowment For Democracy

The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is a CIA off-shoot that was founded in 1983 with the purpose of advancing political propaganda and U.S. regime-change operations. The NED routinely supports dissidents and highlights human rights abuses occurring in countries that are geopolitical rivals of the U.S., like China, Iran and Russia, or socialist countries that have tried to assert control over their natural resources, like Cuba, Venezuela and North Korea. Meanwhile, the NED is silent about the human rights abuses that occur in countries like Ukraine, Israel, Bangladesh, Kenya, Rwanda, Syria or others whose governments are supported or have been installed by the U.S.

Iran Inflicts ‘Unprecedented Damage’ On CIA Installations Across West Asia

Iran “inflicted billions” in “unprecedented damage” on US intelligence facilities across the region throughout its many waves of retaliatory strikes launched in response to Washington and Tel Aviv’s war against it, NBC News reported exclusively on 25 August. “Iranian missile and drone attacks have inflicted damage on US intelligence posts and surveillance hardware in the [region] that is more extensive than any destruction [US] spy agencies have endured,” and the damage will “cost billions of dollars to repair,” the report said, citing four sources. 

Pokémon Go Turned Its Players Into Pentagon Cartographers

For nine years, Pokémon Go asked its players to go outside and “catch ‘em all.” Millions of children and their parents walked through their cities with cameras raised. Some, chasing in-game rewards, filmed statues, parks, street corners and, in at least one case, the inside of an apartment. Someone else was gathering the results. In June, Dutch daily Trouw traced how roughly 30 billion player scans helped train Niantic’s mapping systems. Niantic Spatial has since partnered with Vantor, the rebranded Maxar Intelligence and a major US defense contractor, to develop visual positioning for drones and other platforms in GPS-denied areas. 

Venezuela: Chavistas Reject ‘Treason’ Claims Against Delcy Rodriguez

Venezuelan journalist Andreína Chávez Alava and sociologist María Páez Victor rejected allegations that Acting President Delcy Rodríguez and the Chavista leadership betrayed President Nicolás Maduro following the January 3 US attack, arguing that the theory ignores both Venezuela’s coercive circumstances and the position of the Chavista popular base. During a special Orinoco Tribune interview hosted by editor Jesús Rodríguez-Espinoza, the participants distinguished legitimate criticism from calls—frequently issued from abroad—for Venezuelans to abandon their leadership.

Wikipedia Co-Founder Says Encyclopedia ‘Compromised’ By CIA

Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger accused the CIA and corporate actors of editing the online encyclopedia to serve state and institutional interests during an interview with the German daily Berliner Zeitung published on 7 August. "I believe Wikipedia is already compromised," Sanger said. He added that the platform was identified early as a propaganda instrument, and that its anonymity rule made it easy to use as such.  "What we know as fact through all kinds of evidence: the CIA has already edited Wikipedia. The company Wiki-PR made millions from Wikipedia edits," he said.

Protestors Want Pine Gap Closed

It remains a prickly reminder that Australia is an embarrassed vassal of power, annexed to the security interests of another state basking in imperial and fast diminishing splendour. Pine Gap, known more technically as the Joint Defence Facility Pine Gap (JDFPG), is a largely U.S.-operated effort in Alice Springs, Central Australia. As the late scholar of strategic studies Desmond Ball pithily remarked in 1988, it is “an espionage operation. Euphemisms should not be allowed to obscure this essential point.” It grew out of a desire on the part of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (C.I.A.) in 1965 to establish a remote Australian-sited ground control station intended for signals intelligence satellites.

Review Of Gabriel Rockhill’s ‘Who Paid The Pipers Of Western Marxism’

The book, Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism, published by Monthly Review Press, New York, is, in fact, Volume 1 of a trilogy. Volume 2: French Theory Made in the USA. Volume 3: Radical Theory’s Infantile Disorder. This book review is being published now in July 2026, much later than I had hoped; it was originally planned for February 2026. However, a good wine improves with age. There was an important milestone, and several secondary events that occurred during this more than five-month-long delay from when I first read the book to when I actually wrote this review.

Newly Leaked Documents: Regime Change Mission Foiled

Newly leaked documents reveal that while the Yemeni Armed Forces escalated their military campaign and Red Sea Blockade against Israel during the genocide in Gaza, a secret intelligence alliance and a “sophisticated espionage network” were being formed between Saudi intelligence, Israel’s Mossad and the CIA inside Riyadh to achieve regime change in Sana’a through political assasinations, dismantling Ansarallah from within, defecting military officials and gathering intelligence through charitable aid organizations.

US Revives Old CIA Provocation To Threaten Cuba With Invasion

The Justice Department is moving to indict 94-year-old Raúl Castro, one of the historic leaders of the Cuban Revolution, over Cuba’s 1996 shootdown of two planes flown by Brothers to the Rescue — not a humanitarian group, but one arm of a U.S.-created anti-Cuba terrorist network rooted in the CIA’s war against the Cuban Revolution.  Raúl Castro was a commander in the revolutionary struggle that overthrew the U.S.-backed Batista dictatorship. He later served as Cuba’s defense minister and president. Washington is not just naming an individual. It is targeting a leader identified with the revolution itself.

US Starves Cuba Of Fuel, Then Sends CIA Chief With Ultimatum

Cuba’s energy minister declared May 14 that the island had exhausted its entire supply of diesel and fuel oil — the fuels that power its electricity grid. “We have absolutely no fuel oil, absolutely no diesel. We have no more reserves,” Vicente de la O Levy said in a televised statement. Hours later, CIA Director John Ratcliffe flew to Havana with Washington’s demand for “fundamental changes.” That sequence tells the story. U.S. imperialism first tightened the fuel siege. Then it sent the head of the CIA to deliver the political ultimatum.

Trump Considers Backing Kurdish Militants Against Iranian Government

President Trump is open to backing militant groups who are willing to fight the Iranian government, The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday. Among the groups Trump is considering supporting are Kurdish forces based in Iraq, who have thousands of troops along the Iran-Iraq border, an idea first raised by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a White House meeting with the president, according to a US official speaking to Axios. “When he first came over and sat with Trump for hours, you would have thought Netanyahu had it all figured out,” the official said. “He had the successor planned out.

Palantir Using US Health Data To Provide ICE With Deportation Targets

Palantir Technologies, the CIA-linked technology firm, has come under fire for its role in helping US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) track and arrest undocumented immigrants targeted for deportation using information from government databases, Fortune reported on 28 January. ELITE, a tracking tool used by ICE and developed by Palantir, uses data from the government healthcare program Medicaid and other government databases to generate profiles of individuals ICE believes may be deportable. “ICE is using a Palantir tool that uses Medicaid and other government data to stalk people for arrest,” the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a nonprofit advocating for internet freedom, recently wrote.

Venezuela Rejects CIA Award Rumors

The Venezuelan government on Sunday denied reports circulating on social media regarding an alleged award presented by acting President Delcy Rodríguez to CIA Director John Ratcliffe last Thursday. Through an X post by “Miraflores’ official rapid response,” a recently created government account, officials characterized the reports as “malicious information.” Analysts noted that such claims seek to undermine the responsibility assumed by Rodríguez on January 5, following the kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores by US military forces.
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