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Trump and Pompeo redraw the map of North Africa

Trump and Pompeo redraw the map of North Africa

With a bizarre, presumptuous tweet, the United States hastily declares a winner in a complex conflict.

Breaking Down the Methods of the World's Leader in Foreign Interference

Breaking Down the Methods of the World’s Leader in Foreign Interference

Stephen Kinzer on In the Context of Empire Podcast

China's Premier Li Keqiang, center, waved as he left a press conference with South Korea's President Moon Jae-in, left, and Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, right, in China last year

Three nations could rule the world together if they wanted

China, Japan, and South Korea could brush the United States aside — if they could only get past centuries of conflict.

MK Ultra: The CIA's Secret Quest for Mind Control | Stephen Kinzer

MK Ultra: The CIA’s Secret Quest for Mind Control | Stephen Kinzer

Stephen sits down with the Koncrete Podcast and dives deep into his most recent work studying the CIA’s secret drug and mind-control experiments, MK Ultra of the 1950s and ’60s, and the CIA’s “Poisoner and chief” Sidney Gotlieb who conducted brutal experiments with pills, powders, potions, and LSD in an attempt to control peoples minds of foreign leaders such as Fidel Castro.