In recent months, the Central Intelligence Agency has begun a social media campaign called “Humans of CIA,” presumably in an effort to reach out to marginalized communities and promote diversity…
Root cause of migration crisis in Latin America is U.S. foreign policy, CIA interference
CW: Death, rape and sexual assault, child abuse United States Vice President Kamala Harris hosted a virtual meeting with Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei on April 26—a prelude to the vice…
U.S. interventionism supports terror around the world
The United States needs to stop its long history of aiding, funding and arming terrorist organizations and their partners, giving them the very resources they can use against us. The…
Conspiracy theories that came true
Project MKUltra—the CIA’s top secret LSD experiments Does the government distribute LSD as a form of mind control? Project MKUltra, also known as the Central Intelligence Agency’s Mind Control Program,…
Pigeons are narcs
The birds aren’t real, or maybe they are. A long-founded conspiracy theory says somewhere between the 1970s and 1980s, all pigeons were eradicated by the government and replaced with robot…
This Week Around the World – July 21–25
July 21 Singapore: Together the Singapore National Parks Board and the Customs and Immigrations Checkpoints Authority confiscated 11.9 tons of pangolin scales and 8.8 tons of elephant ivory from three…
Update on Jamal Khashoggi Case
The Central Intelligence Agency released a statement on Nov. 15, claiming Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the killing of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The findings directly contradict…
New lecture series explores diplomacy, development and foreign affairs
Portland State’s Middle East Studies Center launched its Careers in International Affairs and Development Series with a talk by Adjunct Professor Peter Bechtold, “Career Opportunities in the U.S. Government Foreign…
From the hill to the ‘hall: Oct. 24–30
JFK ███████ assassination files ███████ released ███████ The United States National Archives, under the direction of President Donald Trump, released a mass of formerly classified files regarding the assassination of…