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Alan MacLeod
From Fight the Power to Work for It: Chuck D, Public Enemy and How the CIA Neutralized Rap
28 Aug 2024
Chuck D was once seen as a rapper with the politics to back up his lyrics. But in recent years he has thrown his hat in the ring with the Department of State, acting as a willing agent of the U.S.…
Jeb Sprague , Kit Klarenburg
Secret cable: CIA orchestrated Haiti’s 2004 coup
13 Mar 2024
A classified diplomatic cable obtained by The Grayzone reveals the role of a veteran CIA officer in violently overthrowing Haiti’s popular President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in 2004.
Orisanmi Burton
New Docs Link CIA to Medical Torture of Indigenous Children and Black Prisoners
28 Jun 2023
The field of medicine is not inherently beneficial. Marginalized people have long been used for experimentation purposes, and the incarceration and surveillance states have participated in these…
Mark P. Fancher
Global Africa’s Mission: Expose the CIA’s Shameless, Continuing Crimes
01 Feb 2023
The CIA director recently visited Libya, a state that was destroyed by the US. History shows that the CIA is never up to anything good in Africa.
Travis Ross
The NED's Role in Undermining Democracy in Haiti
26 Oct 2022
The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is the soft power arm of the CIA. Its operations in Haiti have played a large role in undermining sovereignty.
Kit Klarenberg
New Research Finds CIA Used Black Americans as Drugs Experiment Guinea Pigs
17 Aug 2022
The CIA's Operation Paperclip brought Nazi scientists to the U.S. and MKULTRA mind control experimentation was one of its projects. Black prison inmates were targeted for these unethical procedures.
Ajit Singh, Roscoe Palm
Manufacturing Consent: How the United States Has Penetrated South African Media
17 Aug 2022
The CIA has played a role in controlling South African media from the days of apartheid to the present.
Peter Hogart
How Global McCarthyism Shaped the World
17 May 2022
Military coups are a CIA tool used to control the Global South and ensure U.S. hegemony in many parts of the world.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
DOCUMENT: Covert Action Exploitation of Cuban Involvement in Angola, 1977
06 Apr 2022
A declassified CIA document outlining their strategies for covert action in Angola in the 1970s offers lessons for the present.
Alan MacLeod
Documents Reveal US Gov’t Spent $22M Promoting Anti-Russia Narrative in Ukraine and Abroad
22 Feb 2022
The National Endowment for Democracy can claim it is in the business of democracy promotion. In reality, it does anything but that, unless “democracy” is entirely synonymous with elite U.S.