Reading Time: < 1 minute Russian President Vladimir Putin recently made headlines at the G-20 Summit when he suggested that ISIS was operating its extensive oil smuggling operations in a curiously open manner. Putin stated: “I’ve shown our colleagues photos taken from space and from aircraft which clearly demonstrate the scale of the illegal trade in oil and petroleum products. Read More
Reading Time: < 1 minute Is giving up civil liberties in exchange for more “security” from terrorists a good deal? Here’s a surprisingly candid take from former New York State homeland security adviser Michael Balboni, who was interviewed by New York radio station WNYC on November 17 : “One of the things that is very disturbing about what happened in Read More
Reading Time: < 1 minute Shortly after the carnage of Friday’s terrorist attacks in Paris, unnamed officials reported that a Syrian refugee’s passport was found next to one of the suicide bombers. News that one of the terrorists had posed as a refugee served as a rallying call for those fearing that “terrorists [are] inserting themselves into some of these Read More
Reading Time: 2 minutes Theranos, a “notoriously secretive” Silicon valley biotech start-up that promises to revolutionize the way blood is tested, is starting to raise as many questions as dollars. Theranos’ value skyrocketed to $9 billion based on claims that it has developed a technology that will allow dozens of blood tests to be simultaneously performed from a single, Read More
Reading Time: < 1 minute “For a decade, the FBI flagrantly abused its counter-terrorism authority to conduct a widespread surveillance and monitoring operation of School of Americas Watch (SOAW), a nonviolent activist organization founded by pacifists with the aim of closing the U.S. Army’s School of the Americas (now renamed) and ending the U.S. role in the militarization of Latin Read More
Reading Time: < 1 minute Earlier this week, Michael Hand, the fugitive who co-founded the notorious CIA-linked Nugan Hand Bank, was found living in the United States. Hand vanished in 1980 amid growing inquiries by Australian authorities into the bank’s extensive connections to international drug trafficking. Despite running one of the world’s largest laundering operations for drug money, Hand has Read More
Reading Time: < 1 minute The legacy of Ronald Reagan is a third rail of conservative politics. Thou shall not question the Gipper! Per The Guardian, “Reagan is not just a name but an adjective connoting virtue and conservative ideological purity.” Count us as surprised, therefore, to see one of the pillars of conservative propaganda–Bill O’Reilly–raising questions about Reagan’s mental Read More
Reading Time: < 1 minute Michael Hand, co-founder of the infamous Nugan Hand Bank who disappeared in 1980 after authorities began investigating the bank’s shadowy past following its sudden collapse, has been found. The Nugan Hand bank was a CIA-linked cesspool of drugs, money laundering, and organized crime. In the words of Jonathan Kwitny, the bank was “a true tale Read More