John Dinges

John Dinges is former National Public Radio managing editor and Washington Post special correspondent in Chile John Dinges is the author of three widely praised books on Latin America, including, most recently, The Condor Years: How Pinochet and his Allies Brought Terrorism to Three Continents. Code Name Blue Wren: The True Story of America’s Most Dangerous Female Spy and the Sister She Betrayed (Hanover Square Press 2023), 351 pages.

April 17, 2023

Columns/Diplomacy

Corruption in Ukraine: Comparing the Magnitude to the Afghan War

The Ukraine government, headed by Volodymyr Zelensky, has been using American taxpayers’ funds to pay dearly for the vitally needed diesel fuel that is keeping the Ukrainian army on the move in

Sri Lanka Guardian Essays

The CIA is not your friend

“Better that right counsels be known to enemies than that the evil secrets of tyrants should be concealed from the citizens. They who can treat secretly of the affairs of a nation have it absolutely under their authority; and as

September 20, 2022

Here is How US Secretly Explodes Nord Stream Pipeline to Blam Putin

Corruption/Diplomacy

The U.S. Navy’s Diving and Salvage Center can be found in a location as obscure as its name—down what was once a country lane

Exclusive: US-India Move to Establish Joint Military Base in Trincomalee?

Defence/Diplomacy/News

by Our Diplomatic Affairs Editor Victoria Nuland, the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs of the United States, has made a second visit

Ana Montes: Perfect Cuban Agent

January 13, 2023

Cuba/United States

Ana Belen Montes, the most effective and damaging Cuban spy known to have penetrated U.S. intelligence, was a major warrior in the long nasty war between the United States and its communist