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The entire globe is a battlefield for Pentagon

September 12, 2014June 15, 2013 by Pepe Escobar

RUSSIA TODAY Forget it; the Global War on Terror (GWOT) is not becoming more “democratic” – or even transparent. US President Barack Obama now pledges to transfer the responsibility of the shadow ‘Drone Wars’ from the CIA to the Pentagon – so the US Congress is able to monitor it. Until virtually yesterday the Obama …

Doublethink USA: Dick Cheney vs John Kiriakou

September 12, 2014April 19, 2013 by Richard Grover

Black and white picture. Posterized Dick Cheney on the left framed by the words above, "ORDER OR PERFORM TOTURE"; below, "LOOK FORWARD NOT BACKWARD". On the right a posterized image of John Kiriakou is framed by the words above, "EXPOSE CIA TORTURE"; below, "LOOK BACKWARD GO TO PRISON"

OCCUPIED TUCSON CITIZEN I think John Kiriakou may have gotten the shorter end of the stick.

Zero Dark Thirty

September 13, 2014March 8, 2013 by Robert Guard

photo of Dick Cheney rendered through a filter making the image look aged and crack. Superimposed on his forehead to look like the shape of his brain inside, is a drawing of two figures waterboarding a third figure in an orange jumpsuit

OCCUPIED TUCSON CITIZEN One part nerdy, one part torture porn, Zero Dark Thirty is a cold, amoral view of torture interposed with the more mundane and methodical practices of intelligence gathering, analyzing, and debating. Kathryn Bigelow (director) and Mark Boal (producer) are talented film-makers and manage to sustain a vision and an emotional tension from …

Democracy, or Empire? The F-35 debate is a small part of a much larger question

September 14, 2014July 25, 2012 by Greg Evans

The U.S. Navy variant of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, the F-35C, conducts a test flight over the Chesapeake Bay.

OCCUPIED TUCSON CITIZEN The fact that our local political establishment and democratic process is paralyzed in the face of the military’s insistence that they be free to station the F-35 jet fighter in Tucson should not be seen as a surprise. At least not if we accept the arguments of the distinguished historian Chalmers Johnson, …

CIA Whistleblower Makes ‘Bold’ & ‘Provocative’ Allegations of ‘Selective’ & ‘Vindictive’ Prosecution

September 14, 2014July 25, 2012 by Kevin Gosztola

John Kiriakou interviewed by Truthout's Jason Leopold

OCCUPIED TUCSON CITIZEN? John Kiriakou’s case deserves our attention because the current administration is already responsible for prosecuting more government officials under the Espionage Act than all previous administrations combined. Kiriakou has been an outspoken critic of the CIA’s rendition and torture policies post-911—Ed Former CIA agent John Kiriakou, who the United States government alleges released …