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Secretive Galapagos strikes hint at Trump’s Latin American ambitions

Post author:Joe Glenton
Post published:18 August 2026
Post last modified:18 August 2026

The US has been striking alleged ‘narcoterrorism’ boats in the Caribbean and east Pacific since September 2025. The Trump administration has been militarising the region, backing like-minded dictators and killing people ever since. They even kidnapped the Venezuelan president. Now, new reporting suggests a parallel but separate operation carried out in March 2026 killed or kidnapped fisherman near the Galapagos islands. It is not clear if this operation was carried out by the CIA itself or private military contractors in its employ. According to new reporting from The Washington Post, the CIA was behind the secret attacks on three Ecuadorian fishing…

Polymarket’s secretive links to Israel exposed

Post author:Willem Moore
Post published:6 July 2026
Post last modified:6 July 2026

Journalist Whitney Webb has published a detailed report looking at the secretive history of Polymarket. It’s a history which includes links to US and Israeli intelligence services: We've been quiet recently because Mark Goodwin and I have been working to write the most comprehensive investigation into Polymarket's origins and ambitions to date. We found that Polymarket's "official" origin story, that Shayne Coplan founded the company alone in 2020 and then… — Whitney Webb (@_whitneywebb) July 1, 2026 What is Polymarket? If you’re unfamiliar with Polymarket, it’s an online ‘prediction market’. Yahoo Finance describes prediction markets as: exchanges where people can bet on event…

Australia: Public inquiry overdue for secretive, expensive AUKUS pact

Post author:Joe Glenton
Post published:2 June 2026
Post last modified:9 June 2026

The AUKUS war pact between the US, UK and Australia is expensive, secretive, and the “worst defence decision” since WWII. That’s according to a respected Australian expert, who says a proper inquiry is long overdue. Ian Lowe, an emeritus professor at Griffith University, Queensland, published a recent critique of the deal, saying it was: Negotiated rapidly and in secret [and that] the AUKUS pact to produce new nuclear-powered submarines is among the most expensive, consequential and opaque deals in British and Australian military history. Australia probes shadowy defence deal Australians are holding a public inquiry, a move that Lowe welcomes. The scholar…