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Wikipedia Co-Founder Says Encyclopedia ‘Compromised’ By CIA

August 8, 2026 News Desk, The Cradle. , , ,
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.

The Hidden Cost Of The US Military

June 20, 2026 Breakthrough News. , , , ,
US President Donald Trump has proposed a $1.5 trillion military budget for the fiscal year 2027, which would increase the acknowledged budget for 2026 by 44%. While a roughly $500 billion increase would be unprecedented in modern US history, the idea that the military budget only recently hit $1 trillion is incorrect. US military spending has exceeded $1 trillion for many years. Adding $500 billion (and potentially $200 billion more to fund war in Iran), as the president has proposed, would take the total military budget up from $2 trillion to $3 trillion.

Big Tech Built A Gig Economy That Works Against Us

June 9, 2026 Michael Huggins, Inequality.org. , , ,
Recent reporting has confirmed what many working people already feel every day: companies are using personal data to decide the lowest wage someone will accept. What working people are calling exploitation, Silicon Valley is calling innovation.  The seven largest gig platforms in the United States — Amazon Flex, DoorDash, Favor, Instacart, Lyft, Shipt and Uber — are using data that tracks how long its users stay on an app, what jobs they accept, and how urgently they need income. This algorithm calculates what the employers can pay to get the job done at the lowest rate individuals will accept. Not what their labor is worth. Not what is fair. 

Bring Member Power To The Table By Opening Up Bargaining

June 3, 2026 Dan DiMaggio, Labor Notes. , , ,
Since electing new leadership in 2022, Teamsters Local 135 in Indiana has completely changed the way it conducts negotiations. It’s using open bargaining to revitalize the local. Under the previous leadership, a small bargaining team negotiated behind closed doors. Gag orders ensured that members would know nothing about negotiations until an agreement was presented for a vote. “It would be the business agent and a couple of stewards,” says business agent Robert Doolin, who started out in 1998 at a warehouse that supplies Kroger. “I always hated this. The company would always try to put a gag order on negotiations.”

AIPAC ‘Hides’ Support For Democratic Candidates

May 31, 2026 News Desk, The Cradle. , , , ,
The pro-Israel lobbying group AIPAC has begun hiding its involvement in funding political campaigns for candidates running for public office in the US, as support for Israel becomes increasingly toxic among Democratic voters, Haaretz reported on 31 May. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) has traditionally boasted of its success in helping elect candidates for Congress and the Senate who are committed to supporting Israel, including voting to provide it billions in US military aid each year. However, as Israel continues to commit genocide against Palestinians in Gaza and wage war on Lebanon and Iran, US voters are beginning to view Israel and its lobby in the US in an increasingly negative light.

Inside The US F-15E Rescue Cover-Up

April 9, 2026 Robert Inlakesh, Mintpress News. , , ,
The F-15E rescue Iran operation, sold by the Trump administration as a ‘biblical’ triumph, stands exposed as one of the most costly and contradictory failures in modern military history. Not only did it set back the US taxpayer over $300 million dollars, Iran now claims that they foiled an attempt to seize the nation’s highly enriched uranium – explains geopolitical analyst Robert Inlakesh in this week’s MintPress Livestream. A triumphant success of biblical proportions, was the way US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth described his nation’s mission to evacuate two fighter pilots, whose F-15E fighter jet was downed over Iran’s Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad province.

Pentagon Officials ‘Cover Up’ Mounting Casualties Of Troops

April 2, 2026 News Desk, The Cradle. , , , ,
Nearly 750 US soldiers have been injured or killed since October 2023, The Intercept revealed in a new investigation released on 1 April – citing a defense official as saying that Washington is engaged in a “casualty coverup.” At least 15 soldiers were injured last week in an Iranian attack on an air base in Saudi Arabia, two officials confirmed to the outlet, adding that “Hundreds of US personnel have been killed or injured in the region since the US launched a war on Iran just over a month ago.” The report adds that CENTCOM’s updates have been outdated.

How Will Corporate Lobbyists Fix Healthcare?

March 22, 2026 John Canham-Clyne, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. , , , ,
Corporate media political reporting has always been a clubby endeavor, but a recent reporting experience suggests that the insider culture in Washington, DC, is more insular than ever. It’s often a challenge for independent media to get responses from Washington insider sources—especially on stories critical of powerful actors—but it’s become increasingly difficult even to pose the questions to those sources. Corporate news sources now issue press releases without bothering to include any information about who to contact with follow-up questions, as if the source is handing the truth down from on high.

How Europe’s Climate And Sustainability Rules Were Shredded

March 1, 2026 Hugh Wheelan and Raj Thamotheran, DeSmog. , , ,
The European Union’s package of major corporate environment and sustainability laws was years in the making — and has just been quietly gutted. A debate that reshaped corporate Europe unfolded almost entirely within Brussels policy circles. Millions of Europeans who believe climate action should be prioritised and favour greater corporate accountability never realized the regulations were under threat.  This should prompt serious reflection among those of us who believe that the climate and human rights focus of the regulations was deadly serious, but that support among politicians was not.

Move To Allow Intelligence Agencies Easier Access To Law Enforcement Files

February 25, 2026 Tim Golden, Pro Publica. , , ,
The Trump administration is loosening restrictions on the sharing of law enforcement information with the CIA and other intelligence agencies, officials said, overriding controls that have been in place for decades to protect the privacy of U.S. citizens. Government officials said the changes could give the intelligence agencies access to a database containing hundreds of millions of documents — from FBI case files and banking records to criminal investigations of labor unions — that touch on the activities of law-abiding Americans. Administration officials said they are providing the intelligence agencies with more information from investigations by the FBI, Drug Enforcement Administration and other agencies to combat drug gangs and other transnational criminal groups that the administration has classified as terrorists.

Supreme Court Is Going To New Lengths To Hide Its Inner Workings

February 7, 2026 Marjorie Cohn, Truthout. , , ,
Two weeks after the November 2024 election of Donald Trump, the Supreme Court instituted a new policy to hide its actions from public scrutiny, according to a recent report in The New York Times. Chief Justice John Roberts told the court’s employees to sign a nondisclosure agreement pledging to keep the court’s internal workings secret. Although employees of the court have long been compelled to remain silent about what happens behind the scenes, the new nondisclosure agreement requirement is stiffer than prior agreements employees had signed.

Every Voting Tech Hack Washington Blamed On Venezuela Was Invented In Ohio

December 9, 2025 Gloria Guillo, Uncontrolled Opposition. , , , ,
Every voting tech hack that Washington claims was “invented in Venezuela” was discovered, demonstrated, and documented in the United States years — sometimes decades —before Smartmatic even existed. Full Stop. With President Trump’s false narco-trafficking claim boomeranging back and re-exposing the U.S. governments longstanding involvement through its military and CIA in cocaine and heroin trade, its state department is running out of excuses that justify stealing Venezuela’s crude oil to prevent higher prices that could result in the dreaded 1973 event of “dropping trucks off the road.”

The Chaotic Release Of Long Sought After JFK Files

March 21, 2025 Kevin Gosztola, The Dissenter. , , , ,
The National Archives published two batches of records from the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection after President Donald Trump spontaneously announced that all remaining files would be released. “This is a breakthrough. The absurd and suspicious redaction that have denied us the full story are, for the most part, removed,” declared renowned reporter Jefferson Morley, known for his work publishing the JFK Facts newsletter. He’s also the vice president of the Mary Ferrell Foundation, which maintains a searchable database for exploring released files.

Who’s Running The DOGE Wrecking Machine?

March 16, 2025 By Christopher Bing, Avi Asher-Schapiro and Annie Waldman, ProPublica. , , ,
When President Donald Trump announced his marquee government cost-cutting initiative, he left no doubt about whom he intended to run it: Elon Musk. Still, questions about the scope of Musk’s authority have hounded the newly formed Department of Government Efficiency ever since. As DOGE began to order massive budget cuts and layoffs, and those affected by the moves began to raise questions in the press and in court about their legality, administration officials equivocated on Musk’s exact role, asserting he was simply a senior adviser to the president and had no official position in DOGE.

FBI Redactions On Seth Rich Index Leave No Answers

March 12, 2025 Joe Lauria, Consortium News. , , , ,
The attorney in the freedom of information case against the Federal Bureau of Investigation seeking the contents from the computers of a murdered staffer of the Democratic National Committee has criticized the number of redactions in the index that the bureau turned over to the court late Monday night. “Lots of things in the Seth Rich indexes don’t pass the smell test,” wrote Ty Clevenger, the attorney for Brian Huddleson, a Texas businessman, who filed a Freedom of Information Act request in September 2017 seeking to learn whether Rich was the source of WikiLeaks’ 2016 publication of DNC emails that impacted that year’s U.S. presidential election.
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