President Barack Obama and President Dmitry Medvedev of Russia sign the New START Treaty during a ceremony at Prague Castle in Prague, Czech Republic, April 8, 2010. (Official White House Photo by Chuck Kennedy)
The timing for the ratification of the New START treaty is dividing Republicans and Democrats while President Barack Obama keeps on pleading that there is “no higher national security priority” for the lame-duck session of the Congress.
DCBureau.org editor Joe Trento interviews the author of an important new book that examines a CIA-funded mosque in Munich, Germany, that was controlled by the most extreme elements in Islam. Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Ian Johnson’s book, A Mosque In Munich, tells how the CIA deliberately went into business with the pro-Nazi Muslim Brotherhood at the height of the Cold War.
The Obama administration had asked the Department of Energy (DOE) to withdraw its application to build a waste dump at a Yucca Mountain site but nuclear waste from the Savannah River site will go to Yucca Mountain after all.
James Jesus Angleton, the legendary head of Central Intelligence Agency counterintelligence, warned me in the 1970s that a group of right-wing, anti-Castro Cubans had become assassins for a number of conservative governments around the world with the CIA’s blessing. Continue reading The Secret History: The United States and South Africa
On June 14, Bloomberg Businessweek reported that the Obama administration is planning on rolling out a climate package in July, which may or may not be coupled with his answer on the Keystone XL pipeline. President Obama reportedly told a group of donors at a closed-door fundraiser that he will unveil a series of climate proposals in the coming weeks.
In his State of the Union address earlier this year, the » read more
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On DCBureau are a story and timeline about the history of the Clean Water Act and the efforts to undermine it. Together they show an incremental, well-funded, organized campaign to weaken the law. On the 40th Anniversary of the Act, it is important to remember that environmental laws enjoyed bipartisan support for years. Weakening environmental regulations through the Congress and courts will have lasting, irreversible results.
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A new web documentary quotes security experts as saying the Savannah River Site, where massive amounts of weapons-grade plutonium and other dangerous substances are stored, is vulnerable to a terrorist attack that could have dire consequences for the entire southeastern United States. The documentary reveals the Site is guarded by a foreign-owned firm with a checkered security record. The radioactive material is stored in aging buildings. The small private guard force » read more
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James Jesus Angleton, the legendary head of Central Intelligence Agency counterintelligence, warned me in the 1970s that a group of right-wing, anti-Castro Cubans had become assassins for a number of conservative governments around the world with the CIA’s blessing. 
