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Afghanistan Ashraf Ghani corrupt US puppet

How elite US institutions created Afghanistan’s neoliberal President Ashraf Ghani, who stole $169 million from his country

Ben Norton·September 2, 2021

Before he stole $169 million and fled his failed state in disgrace, Afghanistan’s puppet President Ashraf Ghani was... Read More

Matthew Rojansky Russia Ukraine Biden blocked

Ukrainian ultranationalist lobby flaunts influence over Biden, blocks top Russia expert’s appointment

Moss Robeson·April 29, 2021

Demonstrating the power the ultranationalist Ukraine lobby has attained in Biden’s Washington, the White House has withdrawn consideration... Read More

UK Foreign Office Russia propaganda Reuters BBC Bellingcat

Reuters, BBC, and Bellingcat participated in covert UK Foreign Office-funded programs to “weaken Russia,” leaked docs reveal

Max Blumenthal·February 20, 2021

New leaked documents show Reuters’ and the BBC’s involvement in covert UK FCO programs to effect “attitudinal change”... Read More

Facebook hires ex-NATO press officer and social media censor Ben Nimmo as intel strategist

Alan MacLeod·February 9, 2021

Nimmo has previously worked for NATO and the Integrity Initiative, a covert UK govt troll farm. His move... Read More

Richard Stengel propaganda censorship Biden

Biden state media appointee advocated using propaganda against Americans and ‘rethinking’ First Amendment

Ben Norton·November 11, 2020

The head of the Joe Biden transition team for the US Agency for Global Media, Richard Stengel, has... Read More

CLS Strategies Facebook fake news Venezuela Bolivia

U.S. govt-linked PR firm ran fake news networks for right-wing Latin American regimes

Ben Norton·September 6, 2020

A Washington, DC-based PR firm linked to the US government and Democratic Party, CLS Strategies, ran a fake... Read More

US govt-funded Coda Story smears American journalists who undermine new Cold War propaganda

Ben Norton·August 18, 2020

With backing from the US government’s regime-change arm, an Operation Mockingbird-style website called Coda Story is attacking American... Read More

Influential DC-based Ukrainian think tank hosts neo-Nazi activist convicted for racist violence

Moss Robeson·July 20, 2020

The US-Ukraine Foundation hosted notorious neo-Nazi militant Diana Vynohradova in a webinar this month. While legitimizing Ukrainian white... Read More

Vanessa Neumann Venezuela ambassador oligarch

Meet the Venezuelan coup regime’s ‘UK ambassador,’ a pampered US heiress who threatens journalists

Ben Norton·July 9, 2020

Juan Guaidó’s UK representative, a jet-setting US socialite named Vanessa Neumann, has threatened journalists with FBI investigations for... Read More

Venezuelan coup official and economist Ricardo Hausmann

¿Golpista venezolano Ricardo Hausmann escenificó una falsa renuncia al BID para conservar su cómodo trabajo en Harvard?

Anya Parampil and Diego Sequera·February 16, 2020

Atrapado en un conflicto de intereses con su empleador en Harvard, en septiembre pasado Ricardo Hausmann renunció públicamente... Read More

Immigrant Food restaurant DC right wing lobbyists

Anti-Trump-themed ‘Immigrant Food’ restaurant owned by lobbyists for right-wing Latin American coup leaders who fueled migration crisis

Alexander Rubinstein·January 30, 2020

The shocking story of how wealthy Latin American regime-change hitmen exploited immigrant rights, international food, and a pliant... Read More

Woke wonk Elizabeth Warren’s foreign policy team is stacked with pro-war swamp creatures

Alexander Rubinstein and Max Blumenthal·January 26, 2020

With her new list of foreign policy advisors, Warren unveiled a cast of pro-war think tankers, Cold Warriors... Read More

ESPAÑOL

La contrarrevolución cultural cubana: raperos y artistas apoyados por el gobierno de EE.UU. ganan fama como “catalizadores de las protestas”

Cómo medios financiados por EEUU incitaron un golpe de estado en Nicaragua

Cómo USAID, fachada de la CIA, creó el aparato mediático anti-sandinista en Nicaragua

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