2021-09-19: News Headlines

Jeffrey St. Clair (2021-09-19). Hitchcock's Sabotage: Film as Terrorism. counterpunch.org Oscar Homolka in Alfred Hitchock's Sabotage. | As compulsively watchable as it is, Hitchcock's Sabotage makes a real hash out of Conrad's The Secret Agent—that prescient novel which so accurately predicted the ways in which radical underground groups could be penetrated and manipulated by intelligence agencies into doing the repressive work of the state. | To read this article, In order to read CP+ articles, your web browser m…

_____ (2021-09-18). Likely Assassination of UN Chief by US, British and South African Intelligence Happened 60 Years Ago Today. strategic-culture.org New evidence over the past decade has led to a UN probe into the probable assassination of the second UN chief, but U.S., British and South African intelligence are rebuffing UN demands to declassify files to get at the truth. | By Joe LAURIA | Former President Harry Truman told reporters two days after Dag Hammarskjà∂ld's death on Sept. 18, 1961 that the U.N. secretary-general "was on the point of getting something done when they killed him. Notice that I said 'when they killed him.'" | The mystery of the second U.N. secretary-general's death festered until the 2011 book Who Killed Hammarskjà∂ld? by Br…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-09-18). Five Eyes in Latin America: Australia's Secret Role in Chile's Coup. libya360.wordpress.com Kit Klarenberg Declassified files expose Australia's secret role in General Pinochet's seizure of power, and shed light on the ongoing participation of the United States' Five Eyes partners in covert intelligence operations in Latin America, as well as assistance from US-allied governments in neighbouring countries, namely Brazil. Washington's central role in the violent overthrow of…

Rick Rozoff (2021-09-18). Greece: NATO, Pentagon seek new bases. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com After Afghanistan pullout, US seeks NATO basing, intel pacts Against the backdrop of the troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, the top US military officer is meeting in Greece with NATO counterparts this weekend, hoping to forge more basing, intelligence sharing and other agreements…. Army Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the …

Staff (2021-09-18). 'United Slaves' — Facts About the US Collapse. orinocotribune.com Journalist and RT's Washington DC correspondent Helena Villar has recently published her book titled United Slaves. The Other Face of the American Dream. Through analysis of hard data, Villar portrays the reality of the United States in different social aspects: health policies, the military industrial complex, the collapse of the country's infrastructure and, in general terms, the decadence of the US society resulting from the life regulating policies implemented by the corporate elites with bipartisan support from consecutive governments. | La amarga y despiadada cara B del "sueño americano" | Próximo desembarc…

Julia Rock (2021-09-18). YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: Congress Expands Big Oil Investigation. dailyposter.com Good things are happening! Fossil fuel interests are facing mounting heat in Washington for spreading misinformation about global warming. Sen. Bernie Sanders, meanwhile, has drawn a line in the sand on the Democrats' $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation package, while Los Angeles makes a bold move to stop fossil fuel developments. What's more, Americans are finally realizing the Supreme Court isn't the beacon of apolitical justice that it purports to be.All that and much more in this week's Weekend Reader, exclusively for paying subscribers below.

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