Bookies back Billy Elliot star Jamie Bell to be the next James Bond The Durham-born actor is priced at 18-1 to play 007 in the bookies’ market Chronicle Live · Mar 23, 2022
SNP council candidate urged to quit after Pope slur and saying 9/11 was an 'inside job' Siobhan Tolland took to social media to say that she thought the 9/11 terror attacks were an "inside job". Daily Record · Mar 22, 2022
How Putin’s disinformation mirrors classic Soviet propaganda from the Cold War The US and the UK also did plenty of nefarious things during this period, 88-year-old Milton Leitenberg tells Andrew Buncombe The Independent UK · Mar 21, 2022
Africa, Ukraine and Cold War hangover Many African countries remember the Soviet Union as an ally — and the U.S. as a backer of thugs and tyrants Salon · Mar 20, 2022
The False Promise of Arming Insurgents America’s Spotty Record Warrants Caution in Ukraine Foreign Affairs · Mar 18, 2022
Tibet's armed resistance to Chinese invasion Part 6: The Tibetan resistance continues, and thwarts a genocide Reason · Mar 17, 2022
The Flight Attendant: Season two trailer shows Cassie with side hustle at the CIA Second season premieres on 12 April The Independent UK · Mar 17, 2022
Docs prove CIA torture training A prisoner at a CIA site in Afghanistan was used as training prop, according to newly declassified documents Salon · Mar 17, 2022
Detainee at secret CIA detention site was used as living prop for torture techniques Ammar Al-Baluchi - a Pakistani 9/11 suspect still being held at Guantanamo Bay - was routinely and repeatedly tortured by CIA agents while at a secret facility north of Kabul, Afghanistan known as "Cobalt" or "the darkness" to prisoners, declassified documents have revealed Daily Mirror · Mar 16, 2022
UK spies who allegedly passed questions to CIA torturers subject to English law, court rules Abu Zubaydah, tortured at CIA ‘black sites’ in six different countries, has right to sue UK government The Guardian - UK · Mar 16, 2022
Russian politician urges Vladimir Putin to fire 'ballistic missile' at US nuclear test site Yevgeny Alexeyevich Fyodorov urged the despot to push the button and launch a missile at the Nevada test range as a warning. Daily Record · Mar 15, 2022
White House makes light of Russia's retaliatory sanctions The White House on Tuesday made light of Russia's retaliatory sanctions against U.S. officials, saying Moscow may have inadvertently sanctioned the deceased father of Joe Biden by omitting the suffix "junior" from the spelling of the U.S. president's name. Reuters · Mar 15, 2022
The Guardian view on CIA torture, two decades on: we need the truth Editorial: The systematic brutalisation of detainees was pointless as well as cruel. An honest reckoning is long overdue The Guardian - UK · Mar 15, 2022
Ukraine: Kremlin sanctions Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton in retaliation for economic blockade on Russia Russia’s foreign ministry has announced sanctions against 13 senior US politicians including President Joe Biden and former secretary of state Hillary Clinton. Evening Standard · Mar 15, 2022
Daily Mirror · Mar 15, 2022 Putin told to fire nuclear missile at largest US weapon range as a 'warning' Russian politician Yevgeny Alexeyevich Fyodorov called on Vladimir Putin to launch a ballistic missile at the largest weapon testing range in the US because he says western leaders have been acting "on the assumption that Putin has no trump cards in his hand"
Reuters · Mar 15, 2022 Russia bars entry to Biden and Canada's Trudeau Russia said on Tuesday it had put U.S. President Joe Biden, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and a dozen top U.S. officials on a "stop list" that bars them from entering the country.
Axios · Mar 15, 2022 Russia sanctions Biden, State Secretary Blinken and other Biden admin officials The move, while largely symbolic, marks an escalation in hostilities between the U.S. and Russia.
The Guardian - UK · Mar 15, 2022 First Thing: will voters approve of Biden’s handling of the Ukraine crisis? Democrats tout Biden’s role in responding to Russian aggression and highlight contrast with Putin-friendly Trump. Plus, Pete Davidson is going to space
The Independent UK · Mar 15, 2022 CIA ‘black site’ detainee used as a prop to teach interrogators torture techniques, US government report says The ‘black site’ detainee was ‘walled’ by trainees so as to receive certification, the report reveals
Reason · Mar 14, 2022 Tibet's armed resistance to Chinese invasion Part 3: Eastern Tibet is liberated 1956-57
The Guardian - US · Mar 14, 2022 CIA black site detainee served as training prop to teach interrogators torture techniques Newly declassified documents reveal Ammar al-Baluchi was repeatedly slammed against a wall while naked until all trainees received ‘certification’
Reason · Mar 14, 2022 Encryption Protects Ukrainians, Dissident Russians, and You No class of governments can be trusted with access to people’s private communications.
Asharq Al-Awsat · Mar 14, 2022 US View of Putin: Angry, Frustrated, Likely to Escalate War More than two weeks into a war he expected to dominate in two days, Vladimir Putin is projecting anger, frustration at his military’s failures, and a willingness to cause even more violence and destruction in Ukraine, in the assessment of US intelligence officials. Officials in recent days have publicly said…
The Independent UK · Mar 13, 2022 US, China officials to meet as tensions mount over Russia President Joe Biden is sending his national security adviser for talks with a senior Chinese official in Rome on Monday
Axios · Mar 10, 2022 CIA director: Putin's "propaganda bubble" is failing in Ukraine "This is one information war that I think Putin is losing."