How Mossad’s Attempt to Smuggle Jews Out of Ethiopia Ended in Rape, Torture and Imprisonment

For over three decades, details on ‘Operation Djibouti’, a Mossad extraction mission so secret that not even the Israeli foreign ministry or the army knew about it, remained largely hidden from the public. … Read More >How Mossad’s Attempt to Smuggle Jews Out of Ethiopia Ended in Rape, Torture and Imprisonment

Israeli Officials Divided Over Threat of Intl Trial in Hague Over War Crime Allegations – Report

The International Criminal Court (ICC) green-lighted in 2015 a preliminary probe into allegations of war crimes allegedly committed by Israel in the Palestinian territories. The Palestinian Authority (PA) has signed the Rome Statute and formally accepted the court’s jurisdiction over its soil. … Read More >Israeli Officials Divided Over Threat of Intl Trial in Hague Over War Crime Allegations – Report

New Bolivian Authorities Finish Arrests of All of Morales-Era Election Officials – Reports

The interim Bolivian authorities detained on Friday Lidia Iriarte, the only member of the Morales-era Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) who had stayed free in the wake of the October election fraud allegations, media reported. … Read More >New Bolivian Authorities Finish Arrests of All of Morales-Era Election Officials – Reports

US Media Hails Putin’s ‘New Best Friend’ in Africa in Bizarre Piece on ‘Russian Meddling’ in Guinea

The Russian president hosted the leaders of dozens of African nations, including President Alpha Conde of Guinea, at the first-ever Russia-Africa Summit in Sochi in October, signing over 500 agreements worth over 800 billion rubles ($12 billion). … Read More >US Media Hails Putin’s ‘New Best Friend’ in Africa in Bizarre Piece on ‘Russian Meddling’ in Guinea

On Contact: Afghanistan Papers with Spenser Rapone

Chris Hedges talks to Spenser Rapone, former combat veteran and US Army officer, about the Washington Post’s series the ‘Afghanistan Papers’. Drawing on thousands of pages of international government documents about the war in Afghanistan, the series exposes the lies, deceit, mismanagement, waste, corruption, fraud, and failed schemes that both Democratic and Republican administrations pursed in Afghanistan, the longest conflict in US history … Read More >On Contact: Afghanistan Papers with Spenser Rapone