It seems clear that whoever hired Black Cube—in an effort to discredit me and former Obama administration officials—favored the US’s withdrawal from the Iran deal. If a foreign private intelligence agency was hired to help change a vital aspect of US foreign policy, with global consequences, it is a matter of urgent public interest to discover who ordered the operation and who paid for it. Congress has a responsibility to investigate. If the Trump administration was involved in a Nixonian campaign to justify its disastrous policy-making, we deserve to know. By Trita Parsi.

Shortwave Trading, Part I. By Alexandre Laumonier.

As Colin Powell's chief of staff, I saw how intel gleaned from 'enhanced interrogation' was used to make the case for the 2003 invasion. By Lawrence Wilkerson.

New evidence continues to accumulate showing how Official Washington got key elements of the Watergate and Iran-Contra scandals wrong, especially how these two crimes of state originated in treacherous actions to secure the powers of the presidency, writes Robert Parry. (Mar. 9, 2013)

The covert and overt sins of a celebrated scholar. By Kevin Williamson.

Before his arrest, Haji Juma Khan worked with the CIA and the DEA while aiding the Taliban and trading tons of heroin and opium. By Johnny Dwyer.

In the 1950s and 60s, a Canadian hospital subjected psychiatric patients to electroshocks, drug-induced sleep and huge doses of LSD. Families are still grappling with the effects. By Ashifa Kassam.

Why an expert in counterterrorism became a beat cop. By Ben Taub.

Declassified US cables confirm the existence of a "national communication and cypher room" at the spy base in the Northern Territory. By Nick Miller.

Robert Fisk visits the Syria clinic at the centre of a global crisis.

From whence comes this feeling? Here are just 20 of the many reasons for this growing anger: By Rob Slane.

Operation Popeye was a secret Vietnam War-era effort to conduct covert cloud seeding over Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, extend the monsoon season, and give the United States an advantage in the war. By Eleanor Cummins.

The company powers much of the Internet, but its cloud facilities are difficult to find. By Ingrid Burrington. (Jan. 8, 2018)

Liam O Hare on the deep connections between Cambridge Analytica’s parent company Strategic Communication Laboratories (SCL Group) and the Conservative Party and military establishment.

The week that has just ended was exceptionally rich in events. But no media were able to report it, because they had all deliberately masked certain of their number in order to protect the story that was being woven by their government. London had attempted to provoke a major conflict, but lost to Russia, President Trump and Syria. By Thierry Meyssan. (Mar. 20, 2018)

Opening the FBI file on James Baldwin. By James Campbell.

Wouldn’t it be more accurate to say the CIA was “involved” with the shooting of Bob Marley or the death of Frank Olson, since we don’t know for sure exactly what happened? No, it would not. Malcolm Harris on Errol Morris and the hot cold war.

Espionage, kidnapping, and the dark art of spycraft is as American as George Washington. By Stephen F. Knott.

Weak institutions, rampant corruption, and sustained violence have brought the Democratic Republic of Congo to the brink of collapse. By Stuart A. Reid.

Forty years ago sleepy Bowral was occupied by the Australian military with armed soldiers protecting some of the world's most important people. By Justin Huntsdale.