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IRAN — Professor Ahmadreza Djalali Death Sentence Suspended
“We hope the sentence will be quashed. My client’s file is currently under investigation by a deputy prosecutor and his assistant in charge of enforcing sentences.” Zeinab Taheri — Professor Ahmadreza Djalali’s lawyer January 24 2018 — The death sentence … Continue reading
Remembering Argentina Prosecutor Alberto Nisman (December 5 1963 – January 18 2015)
“Over the next few weeks, every Argentine seemed to have an opinion about how Nisman had died; the case became the Latin-American equivalent of the J.F.K. assassination, grist for conspiracy theories involving spies and foreign governments and conniving politicians. Posters … Continue reading
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Tagged Alberto Nisman, AMIA, Argentina, Buenos Aires bombings, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner
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Fake News & Journalism for Peace — Pope Francis : “The Truth Will Set You Free.”
“Fake news is a sign of intolerant and hypersensitive attitudes, and leads only to the spread of arrogance and hatred. That is the end result of untruth. (…) This false but believable news is ‘captious’, inasmuch as it grasps people’s … Continue reading
Should You Trust The New York Times and Its Official Sources?
“The evidence of a possible Libyan link, first reported publicly this week by the French newsmagazine L’Express, was confirmed and detailed by American officials involved in the investigation of the Pan Am bombing.” MICHAEL WINES — The New York Times … Continue reading
Posted in Libya, Lockerbie, NYT
Tagged Abdu Diouf, Ahmed Jibril, Ahmed Niasse, CIA, David Leppard, DGSE, Fake News, Jean Collin, L' Express, Libya, Lockerbie, Mansour Saber, Michael Wines, Mohamed Marzouk, NYT, Pan Am 103 (Lockerbie), PFLP-GC, PT/35(b), Senegal, Vince Cannistraro, Xavier Raufer
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One year Ago — Bob Woodward: “Trump Dossier Is a Garbage Document. Intelligence Chiefs Should Apologize to Trump”
“To your request of my opinion of the manner in which a newspaper should be conducted so as to be most useful, I should answer, ‘by restraining it to true facts and sound principles only.’ Yet I fear such a … Continue reading
Wormwood — Searching the Truth to the Bitter End
“The most efficient accident, in simple assassination, is a fall of 75 feet or more onto a hard surface.” CIA assassination manual (1953) “What Wormwood tries to do is tell a story about how we know what we know and how reliable … Continue reading
Breaking News — Former CIA Jeffrey Sterling Released to a Halfway House [UPDATE]
“Sterling’s case drew nationwide attention because the Obama-era Department of Justice unsuccessfully tried to force the reporter, James Risen, to divulge the identity of his sources for ‘State of War’, a book in which he revealed the CIA had botched a covert … Continue reading
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Tagged CIA, James Risen, Jeffrey Sterling, John Kitiakou, Operation 'MERLIN'
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On This Day — Nixon Announces Vietnam Peace Agreement (January 23, 1973)
“We have found that our friend, the Republican nominee, our California friend, has been playing on the outskirts with our enemies and our friends both, he has been doing it through rather subterranean sources. Mrs Chennault is warning the South … Continue reading
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Tagged Everett Dirksen, Henry Kissinger, Le Duc Tho, Paris Peace Talks, Richard Nixon, Vietnam
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One Year Ago — French Minister of Defence Acknowledges the Death of 6 DGSE Officers
“I remember a violent discussion regarding Libya with Vladimir Putin near the end of 2011. We had obtained — thanks to Russia’s vote — that the UN would impose a no-fly zone and that we would take no further actions. Then Gaddafi was killed. … Continue reading