Western media members are currently basking in what to them seems to be a story of economic ... ... economic ‘problem.’ When you look deeper into the multiple foreign-policy, intelligence, and global political layers of this decision, however, you don’t... ... seems in the world of high economic ‘political finance,’ especially in the Middle East when it comes to global energy markets. Saudi Arabia is ‘punishing’...
... ‘good guy hats’ and ‘bad guy hats’ into foreign affairs: BOTH sides were right in their descriptions. The ... ... strikes are aimed against. The only sustained message given in the media, coming from the government, is that America is lending weapons ... ... But given these strikes are actually being done by the American Intelligence Community, namely the CIA, in an arena where the US ... ... generating support for whatever groups it can find across the Middle East, especially if those groups might share a particular ...
The Intelligence Community, regardless of regime type, has famously always tried to co-opt and ultimately adopt advancements and evolutions in technology, especially in terms of media. Newspapers, radio, and television have long been appropriated in order to influence, massage, and outright manipulate messages and events important to the national interest. Often the question is not so much whether a country’s intelligence ...