The IOO wouldn’t solve the overall problem of America’s “national security” apparatus running amok. Supporters of freedom have been fighting a rearguard action against that apparatus’s encroachments since at least as far back as the 1940s. The only real solution is to disband the NSA, CIA, NRO, et al., and salt the earth where their headquarters once stood.
Source: The US “Intelligence Community” Can’t Be Trusted to Police Itself – CounterPunch.org
New revelations on the infamous MKULTRA program show how the CIA ran its most inhumane experiments on Black Americans, many of whom were prisoners and mental patients.
Source: CIA targeted Black Americans for MKULTRA drug experimentation, new study says
Russia-Gate and CIA ties to Ukrainian death squads, along with killer drone program and worldwide surveillance apparatus, necessitates new investigations of U.S. intelligence agencies modeled after the Church Committee hearings of 1975. The year 1975 was designated “the year of intelligence,” a season of inquiry into America’s spy agencies and their abuses. Senator Frank Church […]
New Reader Featuring His Reporting Should be Assigned in College Classrooms There aren’t a lot of journalists that Americans can […]
Frank Kermode and Stephen Spender resigned from “Encounter” when the magazine was revealed to have been funded by the CIA. But were they really taking a principled stand?
Source: The mystery behind “Encounter” magazine – Prospect Magazine
With Nixon’s approval, Helms illegally spied on the antiwar movement. Meanwhile the CIA-assisted the murder of Chilean General Rene Schneider – because he supported a civilian transfer of power and would not undo Allende’s legitimate presidency, something which profoundly affronted the testy pride of Nixon and his advisor Henry Kissinger – encouraged fascist killers to go after Allende himself. It signaled that the U.S. not only would not stop their excesses, but also supported them.
The Supreme Court ruled in March that Americans have no right to learn the grisly details of CIA torture because the CIA has never formally confessed its crimes. The case symbolizes how the rule of law has become little more than legal mumbo-jumbo to shroud official crimes. And it is another grim reminder that Americans cannot rely on politically approved lawyers wearing bat suits to save their freedoms.
Source: Supreme Court Tortures the Constitution Again – CounterPunch.org
1848+: The End(s) of History 