Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
#HackerNews #Torture #Techniques #CIA #Black #Sites #Alligator #Alcatraz #HumanRights
Alex Akselrod
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This man was created by #Trump in his first term.
The man suspected of #shooting 2 #NationalGuard members, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, was once part of a #CIA-backed paramilitary group, one of several so-called #ZeroUnits, according to #Afghan & #US officials.
The units also had a reputation for ruthlessness, with journalists & #HumanRights groups referring to them as “death squads.”
#law
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/us/dc-shooting-suspect-afghanistan-cia-unit.html?smid=url-share
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In a 2019 report, Human Rights Watch said it had documented several instances in which the strike forces were responsible for “extrajudicial executions & enforced disappearances, indiscriminate airstrikes, attacks on medical facilities, & other violations of international humanitarian #law.”
#Trump #NationalGuard #shooting #CIA #ZeroUnits #HumanRights
Rolling Stone is back with more reporting on the unit of child soldiers the alleged DC National Guard attacker was the CIA groomed him for.
On the ground reporting from DC tonight indicates that the illegally deployed National Guard troops have largely stood down for the night and have abondened their "high visibility" patrols which had become common in DC.
📸 Jolly Good Ginger via FB
https://www.youtube.com/@jolly_good_ginger
#DC #NationalGuard #Trump #JollyGoodGinger #USPol #venezuela
Wait wait wait, the guy was a child soldier. The CIA initially recruited him when he was 14 or 15. 🤦🏿♂️
📸 Conscious Lee via Meta.
https://www.theconsciouslee.com
#Afghanistan #GWBush #DC #Trump #USPol #nationalguard #CIA #ConsciousLee
Another super #DumbNews update, turns out the guy who killed the National Guard troops was a CIA asset in Afghanistan (so he absolutely could get killed if deported) and not only that but again as the media is leaving out the unit he served in was well known for doling out alleged war crimes.
So in other words.... seems to me like a case of boot on boot violence.
https://www.npr.org/2025/11/27/nx-s1-5623041/national-guard-shooting-suspect-cia-unit-afghanistan
We don't know the motives. We know who the shooter worked for: "CIA-backed “Zero Unit”...which has been implicated in war crimes against Afghan civilians"
"They were the most active and professional forces trained and equipped by the CIA. All their operations were conducted under the CIA command”
"the Zero Units have been responsible for extrajudicial executions and enforced disappearances, indiscriminate airstrikes, attacks on medical facilities"
https://news.antiwar.com/2025/11/27/dc-national-guard-shooter-worked-for-cia-backed-kandahar-strike-group-in-afghanistan/
#US #afghanistan #CIA
In a 2019 report, Human Rights Watch said it had documented several instances in which the strike forces were responsible for “extrajudicial executions & enforced disappearances, indiscriminate airstrikes, attacks on medical facilities, & other violations of international humanitarian #law.”
#Trump #NationalGuard #shooting #CIA #ZeroUnits #HumanRights
This man was created by #Trump in his first term.
The man suspected of #shooting 2 #NationalGuard members, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, was once part of a #CIA-backed paramilitary group, one of several so-called #ZeroUnits, according to #Afghan & #US officials.
The units also had a reputation for ruthlessness, with journalists & #HumanRights groups referring to them as “death squads.”
#law
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/us/dc-shooting-suspect-afghanistan-cia-unit.html?smid=url-share
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Former CIA Officer Philip Agee explains why the US wages war on all socialist countries
#USA #WarOnSocialism #CIA #CorporateProfits #ThirdWorldUSA #FleecingTheCitizens #Corporatocracy #Fascism #RepresentingCorporations #Civilians
Alex Akselrod
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Today in Labor History November 22, 1891: Dr. Edward L. Bernays was born in Vienna, Austria. Bernays, a nephew of Freud, is considered by many to be father of public relations. He is credited with getting millions of women to start smoking with his “Torches of Freedom” cigarette ad campaign that equated smoking with feminism, and with women’s liberation and independence. He also worked to legitimize the CIA/United Fruit overthrow of the democratically-elected Arbenz government in Guatemalan, becoming the primary supplier of information for the international newswires, like Associated Press, United Press International, and the International News Service. He described the masses as irrational and subject to herd instinct and wrote books on how to harness this to maximize profits. In the 1930s, his critics compared him to Goebbels and Hitler, and Goebbels did, indeed, read and utilize Bernays’s books to inform his propaganda campaigns. Bernays was even offered a job by the Nazis, which he reportedly turned down. He also supposedly turned down propaganda job offers from the the Spanish fascist dictator, Francisco, Franco and the brutal Somoza family, in Nicaragua.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #edwardbernays #freud #unitedfruit #cia #guatemala #publicrelations #advertising #smoking #cigarettes #arbenz #hitler #nazis #fascism
Today in Labor History November 22, 1891: Dr. Edward L. Bernays was born in Vienna, Austria. Bernays, a nephew of Freud, is considered by many to be father of public relations. He is credited with getting millions of women to start smoking with his “Torches of Freedom” cigarette ad campaign that equated smoking with feminism, and with women’s liberation and independence. He also worked to legitimize the CIA/United Fruit overthrow of the democratically-elected Arbenz government in Guatemalan, becoming the primary supplier of information for the international newswires, like Associated Press, United Press International, and the International News Service. He described the masses as irrational and subject to herd instinct and wrote books on how to harness this to maximize profits. In the 1930s, his critics compared him to Goebbels and Hitler, and Goebbels did, indeed, read and utilize Bernays’s books to inform his propaganda campaigns. Bernays was even offered a job by the Nazis, which he reportedly turned down. He also supposedly turned down propaganda job offers from the the Spanish fascist dictator, Francisco, Franco and the brutal Somoza family, in Nicaragua.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #edwardbernays #freud #unitedfruit #cia #guatemala #publicrelations #advertising #smoking #cigarettes #arbenz #hitler #nazis #fascism
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In a stunning intelligence coup, the CIA was caught completely off-guard when Fosun Group quietly bought the company that provides liability insurance to its agents.
For an undisclosed period, a Chinese firm had access to the personal details of America's top spies, a move that was perfectly legal and in the open. 😆
What really happened with the CIA and The Paris Review?
#HackerNews #CIA #ParisReview #Conversation #LanceRichardson #Mystery
