Tag: Secret War
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Scientology & the CIA
This presentation was read by Aleksandr Leonidovich Dvorkin, president of the Irinaeus of Lyons Center for Religious Research Studies, on January 26th, 2016, at a conference run by the Orthodox St. Tikhon University for the Humanities. (Translator’s note: While we wouldn’t claim that the Church of Scientology is an integral element of the US Intelligence Community, Dvorkin’s…
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Programming Chaos: The Arab Spring
Thanks to an advantageous geographical position set between the world’s two major oceans, Americans have been in large measure immune to the consequences of war, upheaval and terror in the Eurasian Great Game. Since Vietnam the United States military-industrial complex has managed to prosecute expeditionary wars across the span of the globe while maintaining losses…
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Cold War Cinema
Listen to my friend Jay Dyer and me as we cover Cold War geopolitics and espionage on his program Esoteric Hollywood. Jay and I discuss everything from Mackinder’s Eurasian Heartland Theory to Directorate S (the reality behind the show The Americans), as well as shady intelligence connections in the movie industry, as evidenced by corrupt…
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Ivan Ilyin vs. the NKVD
The great Russian White emigre philosopher Ivan Aleksandrovich Ilyin (1883-1954) was not just an erudite thinker, but also a practitioner of espionage and underground political work. Before he was exiled in 1922, Ilyin was active in the anti-Bolshevik resistance. This article, written at some point during the 1930s or 1940s, addresses Soviet NKVD provocations and…
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Mark Hackard on Red Ice Radio
I was pleased to be a recent guest on Red Ice Radio with host Henrik Palmgren. We spoke on a variety of topics, most to do with geopolitics, Russia, and the West, as well as Soviet espionage operations in the Cold War and beyond. Red Ice describes our discussion: Mark joins us to speak about…
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Cold War Tension & Mideast Intrigue
Here is the audio interview with co-writers Mark Hackard & Daniel Spaulding. Mark and Daniel joined me to discuss their recent articles and translations of Soviet KGB history, covert operations, black markets, fronts and shell companies, blackmail and intrigue, and Middle Eastern trickery combined with American foreign policy ventures. Topics covered include the Cambridge Five and Philby, Golitsin…
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Revolution Inc.
For millennia rulers have governed through stoking of fear of internal and external threats. While in tribal societies the external (and sometimes internal) threat was very real, the plebeian mind remained fixated on the dialectic of “we good, they bad.” Today man is no different – what is different is that the halls and levers of power are less visible than in…
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The Never-Ending ISIS Fraud
In the midst of Saudi Arabia’s merciless, unprovoked bombing campaign against the people of Yemen comes news that a faction of ISIS-aligned militants has established a beachhead in the south of the Arabian Peninsula for their proclaimed Caliphate. Already media reports have been circulating that the local al-Qaeda affiliate has taken advantage of Riyadh’s bombing campaign…
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On the Brink of Doomsday
On the drizzly autumn Friday of November 11th, 1983, US President Ronald Reagan found no time for his customary Oval Office nap. Besides delivering a speech that morning to the American Legion in honor of Veterans Day, Reagan then filled the rest of his schedule taking part in a NATO nuclear war exercise under the…
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Who’s Trying to Change Russia?
For much of the West in the middle of the 19th century, the idea of Russia and how to approach its people diplomatically was a matter of differentiating them as Europeans or Asians. The prevailing view at the time was a belief that Russians belonged to the latter group, and could not be considered part of…
The Soul of the East 