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Covering geo-political news and current affairs across Asia

Tag: Central Intelligence Agency

Posted inUnited States

Time for America to privatize its hybrid wars

by Erik Prince October 19, 2021October 23, 2021

Four and a half years ago I offered the Trump administration an offramp for the continuous loop of failure America faced in Afghanistan. A similar package was previously suggested to Team Obama and finally to Team Biden in January this year. Sadly, the administrations’ set of “credentialed” experts rejected a common-sense rationalization for letting US […]

Posted inUnited States

Air America vets may finally get their fair due

by John McBeth August 15, 2020August 18, 2020
Posted inUnited States, World

It’s time to abolish CIA & FISA

by Angelo Codevilla February 17, 2020February 19, 2020
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The US wants to expand foreign troop training

by Stephen Bryen December 17, 2019February 18, 2020
Posted inIran, Middle East

What really happened in Iran?

by Pepe Escobar December 7, 2019April 4, 2020
Posted inNorth Korea, Northeast Asia

Trump seems to give Kim a free pass with CIA

by Bradley K. Martin June 12, 2019February 18, 2020
Posted inAT Finance, Malaysia, North Korea, Northeast Asia, Singapore

Kim’s murdered half-brother a CIA informant, new book says

by Bradley K. Martin June 11, 2019February 18, 2020
Posted inAT Finance, Vietnam

The Tiger Man of Vietnam passes away

by Alan Parkhouse March 1, 2019February 18, 2020
Jamal Khashoggi was murdered when he visited the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2. Photo: AFP
Posted inMiddle East, Saudi Arabia, Turkey

Saudis ‘don’t know’ where Khashoggi’s body is

by Asia Times staff February 11, 2019February 18, 2020
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Hun Sen invokes Venezuela to stir anti-US fear

by David Hutt February 6, 2019February 18, 2020
Posted inMiddle East, World

Trump determined to pull troops out of ‘endless wars’

by Asia Times staff February 4, 2019February 18, 2020
US President Donald Trump is welcomed by US Navy Admiral Harry Harris, then commander of United States Pacific Command, at its headquarters in Aiea, Hawaii, November 3, 2017. Reuters/Jonathan Ernst
Posted inAfghanistan, AT Finance, Australia, Beijing, China, India, Japan, New Zealand, North Korea, Northeast Asia, Oceania, Philippines, Russia, Singapore, South Asia, South Korea, United Kingdom, Vietnam, World

Trump dispatches China hawk to Australia

by Alan Boyd February 14, 2018February 18, 2020
United States Major General Edward Lansdale in 1963. Photo: US Air Force / Wikimedia Commons
Posted inAfghanistan, AT Finance, Iraq, Japan, Laos, Middle East, Northeast Asia, Philippines, South Asia, Syria, Vietnam, World

Heart and mind of a US super spy

by Doug Tsuruoka January 13, 2018February 18, 2020
Air America helicopters land on top of Phou Pha Thi mountain during the US' 'secret war' in Laos. Photo: Walt Darran
Posted inAT Finance, Australia, China, Laos, Northeast Asia, Oceania, South Asia, Thailand, Vietnam, World

Revolutionary monument to CIA’s fall in Laos

by John McBeth January 2, 2018February 18, 2020
US President Donald Trump chats with Russia's President Vladimir Putin as they attend the APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting in Danang, Vietnam, on November 11, 2017. Photo: AFP / Sputnik/ Mikhail Klimentyev
Posted inAT Finance, Beijing, China, Egypt, European Union, Iran, Middle East, North Korea, Northeast Asia, Russia, Turkey, Vietnam, World

In from the cold: CIA gesture indicates thawing US-Russia ties

by M.K. Bhadrakumar December 18, 2017December 18, 2017
A stock image of a young US soldier in the Vietnam War era. Photo: iStock/Getty Images
Posted inAT Finance, Cambodia, China, Laos, Northeast Asia, South Asia, Thailand, Vietnam, World

Revelations, grievances of a Vietnam War spy

by Richard S Ehrlich May 13, 2017February 18, 2020
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The waterboarded evildoer

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by Pepe Escobar January 13, 2007June 22, 2020
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Iraq, the new Afghanistan

by Pepe Escobar June 24, 2005June 22, 2020

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