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January 27, 2014
'Anti-Semite' de Blasio schmoozes AIPAC
Bill Weinberg

Mayor de Blasio's closed-doors meeting with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) plays into the worst stereotypes about Jews. No thanks, Bill.

Pretty hysterical irony. Gawker reported Jan.

December 6, 2013
Nelson Mandela: forgotten history
Bill Weinberg

Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962 thanks to CIA intelligence, and only removed from the US "terrorist watch list" in 2008—15 years after his Nobel Peace Prize.

With the passing of Nelson Mandela today, Barack Obama of course issued the requisite accolades, hailing the departed icon of South African freedom as "one of the most influential, courageous, and profoundly good human beings that any of us will share time with on this Earth... Like so many around the globe, I cannot fully imagine my own life without the example that Nelson Mandela set. And so long as I live I will do what I can to learn from him." (USA Today) Obama's words may well be heartfelt, but the notion that the US stood beside Mandela in the long struggle against apartheid is revisionism that must be combatted. 

January 18, 2012
Iran: Israeli "false flag" ops behind Jundallah terror?
Bill Weinberg

Foreign Policy magazine cites US intelligence memos to the effect that Mossad agents recruited militants from the Iranian terrorist group Jundallah by passing themselves off as CIA agents in a "false flag" operation. Does this make sense?

Does it get any murkier than this? The conspirosphere is abuzz with claims aired in Foreign Policy magazine Jan.

August 28, 2011
Civil rights probe sought in NYPD-CIA collaboration claims
Bill Weinberg

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has called for a federal investigation and Senate hearings into an AP report asserting that the CIA helped the New York Police Department in spying on the city's Musilm communities.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has called for a federal investigation and Senate hearings into an Aug.

June 9, 2011
Libya: mercenaries fighting on both sides?
Bill Weinberg

Following recent charges that Israeli spook firms are recruiting mercenaries for Qaddafi come claims that the CIA is recruiting mercenaries for the Libyan rebels.