On a Saturday afternoon in August 1998 a red Vauxhall parked in the centre Omagh, a town located in Country Tyrone, Ireland. Inside this car were two men and up to 500 pounds of explosives, after arming the bomb the two men walked away and melted into the crowd. Waiting nearby was a getaway car, these men and the many more who helped them were responsible for the single worst atrocity of the Irish
With President Trump upping the pressure for a trade deal with China by stating he will introduce higher tariffs on Chinese goods, this FRONTLINE and NPR special sees correspondent Laura Sullivan investigate the forces which are at work behind the tensions both in the United States and abroad.It is a great power struggle which seems to have many people concerned with regards to the economic fu
On April 13th 1953, newly appointed CIA director Allen Dulles signed off on MKUltra, the CIA's top secret mind control project. Three days before that Dulles gave a speech on the battle for mens minds to justify it. For Dulles it was a missive into a newly declared battle for the minds of men and would come just weeks after he became CIA director as a countermeasure to Soviet "brainwashing".Du
Originally released in 2004, War Feels Like War is a British film which for three months follows five reporters and photographers who managed to circumvent the military media control in order to gain access to a different perspective of the Iraq War.As the world witnessed the Coalition of the willing sweep through Iraq, some journalists in Kuwait took it upon themselves to travel in their wake
It was election day 2016 and as Americans headed to the polls United States intelligent agencies were on high alert. Intelligent agencies had been tracking a multi-pronged effort to influence voters, leaks of hacked emails, adverts on Facebook and Google, on social media trolls and bots were spreading as much fake news as possible all of which they believed was connected to Russian president Vladi
Emile Ghessen is a former British Royal Marine Commando who served in the military for 12 years, over these years he was exposed to extensive action in Iraq and Afghanistan. However his father is from Syria and came to the United Kingdom in the 1970's but the majority of his family still live in Syria, because of this Ghessen is very much concerned with their well being due to the ongoing civil wa
Osama Bin Laden, the man who ordered the 9/11 attacks on America some how managed to evade capture for 10 years after being made public enemy no. 1. Found in Pakistan, a place no one expected him to be, he was killed on 2nd May, 2011.During this operation the Americans found private papers which revealed what life was like for Osama whilst on the run from the worlds most powerful army. The pap
The thing about a virus is that it doesn't destroy you head on but rather brings you down from the inside, turning your own cells against you. This story is about a virus, a virus created five decades ago by a government with the intention to slowly and methodically poison its enemies but this is no biological virus it's more of a political one and chances are you have already been infected.Wh
It goes without saying that Northern Ireland has a troubled history, for 30 years loyalists mainly Protestants fought to keep Northern Ireland in the United Kingdom but on the flip side there were republicans, mainly Catholics who fought for a united Ireland. Nearly 4,000 people lost their lives as a result of this conflict.In 1998 the Good Friday peace agreement was signed and with it what is