Top-secret documents reveal the complex relationship the NSA has maintained with Japan over a period of more than six decades. By Ryan Gallagher.

"I got in that morning, past the receptionist, past the armed security that the public never sees, picked up my mail, got my telex’s and opened the door to my office. To my astonishment a Latin looking gentleman was there..." By Gordon Duff.

I’m starting a series here where I talk about history, because geeks love history. I’m going to focus on stories I think anarchists will like. Here’s one… By Sadie the Goat.

Long-sought confidential documents shine a bright light on the powers of this law enforcement agency at the beginning of an era highly likely to be marked by vociferous protest and reactionary state repression. By Glenn Greenwald, Betsy Reed.

History of London’s Authors’ Club reveals plot by two members to bring General Franco back to mainland Spain from Las Palmas in 1936. By Danuta Kean.

The female red panda was last seen in her habitat at the Virginia Zoo in Norfolk on Monday evening and searches have produced no credible sightings.

CIA employees are not staging a coup against Donald Trump. By Philip Giraldi.

How a police informant acted so blatantly, and got away with it. By Rose X. (Dec. 25, 2008)

There is a reason why Central Intelligence Agency director John Brennan has done everything possible to interfere with President-elect Donald Trump taking the reins of the presidency… By Wayne Madsen.

Claims that rendition and torture of Abdel Hakim Belhaj breached Magna Carta rights must go before judges, supreme court rules. By Owen Bowcott and Ian Cobain.

56 years ago today, Congolese prime minister and anticolonial leader Patrice Lumumba was assassinated. By Sean Jacobs.

History’s spookiest spook. By Andy Wright.

Dr Udo Ulfkotte, the former German newspaper editor whose bestselling book exposed how the CIA controls German media, has been found dead. By Baxter Dmitry.

Shared information could be leaked to Russia and onward to Iran, American officials implied to Israelis in closed meeting, saying Kremlin has 'leverages of pressure' over Trump, Ronen Bergman reports.

When Ernest Hemingway agreed to his famous Paris Review interview, he had no idea he’d be helping the CIA. By Joel Whitney.

An official investigation offers evidence that the U.S. military engineered a lethal attack on Syrian troops, sabotaging the president’s effort to cooperate with Russia against Islamic State. By Gareth Porter.

What makes these pictures so different from all of the other pictures of death that we see? By Jerry Saltz.

If there's one thing we know about the CIA, it's that the unethical and criminal projects highlighted in this list are probably just the tip of the iceberg. (May, 2013)

As the hysteria about Russia’s alleged interference in the U.S. election grows, a key mystery is why U.S. intelligence would rely on “circumstantial evidence” when it has the capability for hard evidence, say U.S. intelligence veterans.

The Democratic Party is doing incalculable damage to itself by shapeshifting into the party of baseless conspiracy theories, groundless accusations, and sour grapes. By Mike Whitney.