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At least 38 people were killed and 102 others were wounded late on April 17 when a series of United States strikes hit the oil port of Ras Isa in the western Yemeni province of al-Hodeidah, in one of the deadliest attack since the U.S. began its operation against the Houthis (Ansar Allah).
Some 14 strikes hit the port, mainly killing workers, the Houthi-run Al-Masirah TV said, adding that another wave of strikes later targeted first responders, causing casualties among them.
Videos aired by Al-Masirah and shared to social networks by activists showed a series of large blasts and fires at Ras Isa, as well as burned out bodies and people suffering from serious burns.
Later, the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) acknowledged the deadly attack, alleging that the Houthis were benefiting from the oil port.
“Today, U.S. forces took action to eliminate this source of fuel for the Iran-backed Houthi terrorists and deprive them of illegal revenue that has funded Houthi efforts to terrorize the entire region for over 10 years,” the command said in a statement. “The objective of these strikes was to degrade the economic source of power of the Houthis, who continue to exploit and bring great pain upon their fellow countrymen. This strike was not intended to harm the people of Yemen, who rightly want to throw off the yoke of Houthi subjugation and live peacefully.”
The command went on to warn that “the Houthis, their Iranian masters, and those who knowingly aid and abet their terrorist actions should be put on notice that the world will not accept illicit smuggling of fuel and war material to a terrorist organization.”
The attack was the deadliest since CENTCOM resumed strikes against Houthi-controlled areas in Yemen on March 15 on orders from President Donald Trump, who said at the time that the large-scale operation was launched in response to the group’s renewed attacks on Israel-affiliated shipping in the Red Sea.
The toll from the attack brought the number of people killed in Yemen since the start of the U.S. operation against the Houthis to over 160.
The Houthis hit back quickly. Early on April 18, the Israeli military said that a ballistic missile launched at Israel by the group from Yemen was successfully intercepted by air defenses.
Amid the attack, sirens sounded across central Israel, in the Jerusalem area, and in some West Bank settlements. Videos posted to social networks showed the launch of at least two interceptors. There are no immediate reports of casualties or damage.
The U.S. deadly attack mimics several carried out by Israel against Yemen infrastructure last year, thus it is possible that the Israeli military was involved in the planning or target designation.
When the U.S. first embarked on its new operation against the Houthis, Hebrew media reported that Washington asked Israel not to respond to any attacks by the group. So far, the Israeli military has remained committed to this, focusing its resources on Gaza and other fronts.
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mk-ultra netflix film shines light on how manson family murders appear to have been tied to cia mind control project by john potash – april 17, 2025 1as detailed in his book, chaos: charles manson, the cia, and the secret history of the sixties, and the new netflix documentary, chaos: the manson murders, premiere magazine writer tom o’neill turned a feature-article assignment into a 20-year investigation, revealing a mass of evidence that a
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wow , the article is about the us illegally bombing civilian infrastructure in yemen . are you saying that manson did it ?
cia doctor—jolyon west—helped create charles manson and his “family” of murderous young women and men.testimony and evidence support that the cia, through projects such as “chaos” and particularly “mk-ultra,” created the manson family and other cia assets nationwide.the man at the center of the storm—charles manson. [source: foxnews.com] book and documentary counter previous narrative on manson murders
major american publisher little, brown and company released a very important non-fiction book in 2019, titled chaos: charles manson, the cia, and the secret history of the sixties. in march 2025, netflix issued a new documentary by academy award-winner errol morris, chaos: the manson murders, based on o’neill’s book. in chaos, tom o’neill and co-author dan piepenbring laid out o’neill’s 20-year investigation of the infamous 1969 charles
manson murders of hollywood actress and activist-organizer sharon tate and others around los angeles. o’neill took the name from the cia’s operation chaos, first revealed by seymour m. hersh in a new york times front-page story. alternative magazines revealed various illegal cia activities in the u.s. and abroad for years. hersh’s 1974 story was one of the new york times’s first revelations about the cia’s illegal work against american anti-war and
major american publishers rarely produce books that uncover so many cia covert operations as chaos does. one of the few books published by a major publisher that may have surpassed chaos in its depth of revelations on cia projects, such as mk-ultra (which overlapped the cia’s operation chaos), is acid dreams: the cia, lsd and the sixties rebellion. fairness & accuracy in reporting co-founder martin a. lee wrote this book with bruce shlain in 1985.
o’neill started out by reviewing the most common source of information about the manson murders, which came from manson’s los angeles prosecutor, vincent bugliosi, who published the best-selling book, helter skelter. o’neill related bugliosi’s threats and seeming bribes during at least several long personal interviews with him.
o’neill also came to find that bugliosi covered up much information throughout both the trial and his overlapping book writing. despite the censorship of information, bugliosi did describe how charles manson used lsd and some form of hypnosis to turn a large group of young people into murderers.vincent bugliosi [source: fineartamerica.com] u.s. intel drug trafficking, “investigating” and embedding in the manson family
o’neill reported having conducted hundreds of interviews and reviewed troves of police files, court records, and cia documents. he filed freedom of information act requests for many of the government documents, including cia documents that are extremely hard to obtain.the followers manson called his “family” included mostly underage girls whom he supplied with lysergic acid diethylamide, commonly known as lsd or acid, as well as amphetamines.
the young guys in this family, who all dressed like hippies, joined the girls in pointing their rifles at the los angeles county sheriff’s department officers and fire department personnel who came onto their property, but superiors consistently gave manson and his family leniency from prosecution for two years, until they committed the more infamous murders.[1]
as o’neill interviewed more people involved with manson and some of manson’s victims, he found that some of these undercover u.s. intelligence agents or collaborators—such as, charles tacot, billy doyle, and particularly reeve whitson—working around the manson family were taking part in either drug trafficking or murders. as documented in more than 20 pages detailing dozens of interviews, many close to reeve whitson reported his work for the cia and as an
undercover agent in the manson family, including whitson’s ex-wife ellen josefson.based on these many years of interviews, o’neill told interviewer joe rogan that reeve whitson worked and lived with the manson family in and around the spahn ranch in the los angeles area, while also working for the cia. several of o’neill’s other findings include los angeles police detective william herrmann, working for the cia’s operation phoenix, slaughtering civilian vietnamese, before coming
l.a. and getting involved in the manson case—o’neill detailed how herrmann worked for both the lapd and a “dizzying list of american intelligence and military agencies” concurrently. los angeles district attorney evelle j. younger worked for the fbi and then the cia predecessor, the office of strategic services. younger’s second in command, lynn “buck” compton, worked with herrmann on “advanced intelligence gathering” on “subversives and militants,” which was not
was not supposed to be part of their duties.such intelligence gathering was usually done on behalf of the cia’s chaos program, which had also teamed up with the fbi’s counterintelligence program (cointelpro). both programs targeted anti-war activists and black civil rights activists, particularly the black panthers.
mk-ultra, targeting robeson and castro, dr. jolly west, and mind control
as o’neill related in his book chaos, cia directors illegally shredded most of the cia’s project mk-ultra documents due to a forthcoming u.s. senate inquiry in 1973, though at least some were found in a financial department. acid dreams writer martin lee and a terrible mistake writer h. p. albarelli reported that 20,000 documents remained in archives for their research. the cia’s mk-ultra could be called an umbrella project, as it included 149 sub-projects carried out at 44 colleges
and universities, as well as many hospitals and jails. one of its main thrusts was what some documents described as the use of drugs for “unconventional warfare.”
a u.s. senate report detailed how mk-ultra used lsd and other drugs to hurt people’s minds or manipulate people’s behaviors at home and abroad.
as mentioned earlier, the cia’s project mk-ultra used lsd as a weapon against many targets. for example, mk-ultra
this led to london doctors convincing robeson’s wife that robeson needed to be hospitalized in a facility collaborating with mk-ultra where they gave him 54 electro-convulsive shock treatments and seriously damaged his mind permanently.[7]
tom o’neill’s investigative research reached its peak in finding and detailing a ucla archive of undercover cia operative dr. louis jolyon “jolly” west. dr. west, a psychiatrist, had infamousl
had infamously “examined” jack ruby before he testified in front of the warren commission about the murder of president john kennedy’s reported assassin lee harvey oswald.
documents revealed that dr. west used “hypnosis and sodium pentothal” in that examination, supporting his creating a conclusion of ruby’s “psychosis” that disallowed ruby’s testimony about his murder of oswald.
in the ucla archive, o’neill uncovered many more documents, including direct correspondence between dr. west and cia project mk-ultra director gottlieb.[8] on muckrock, a photocopy shows part of a letter from west to gottlieb—“s.g.”—and part of a proposal asking for his work with hypnosis and drugs to run from “1956 to 1967.” in this last year, dr. west would be working in san francisco’s haight-ashbury free medical clinic, the year it was founded.
after the u.s. senate hearings on mk-ultra, the new york times’ front-page story on mk-ultra described it as “a secret 25-year, $25 million effort by the central intelligence agency to learn how to control the human mind.”
the papers of dr. west supported his claim that he “achieved the impossible: he knew how to replace ‘true memories’ with ‘false ones’ in human beings without their knowledge,” using drugs to enhance hypnosis.
charles manson was released on parole in los angeles and, for an unknown reason, was soon transferred from a los angeles parole office to parole officer (po) roger smith in the san francisco bay area in 1967. in an extremely bizarre turn of events, smith, who had a background in criminology and directed the amphetamine research project at the university of california medical center, would then winnow down his caseload “of parolees from forty down to just one: manson.”[
there, smith led manson and his group of growing, mostly underage women to regularly attend a clinic that roger smith started to help run—the haight-ashbury free medical clinic (hafmc). this small clinic appeared to only have three administrators: dr. david e. smith who founded it in june 1967, roger smith, and alan rose. a sign on the side of a building ai-generated content may be incorrect. [source: conditionhealthnews.com]
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the smiths received federal government funds for the clinic and invited cia mk-ultra psychiatrist dr. jolly west to have his own office at the lsd-promoting hafmc. smith received funding from the amphetamine research project to study the drug at the hafmc.[11] this coincidence comes with the fact that studies show methamphetamine is a drug that is most associated with committing murder.
smith wrote a paper outlining his use of drugs with his subjects and the need to protect his subjects from prosecution by police.[12] this fit perfectly with his and dr. west’s possible use of the manson family in this regard. according to ex-cia agent mike baker, when the manson family was regularly visiting the hafmc, they were “part of a study and getting their lsd from there.”
hafmc administrators david and roger smith both wrote about manson getting lsd from their clinic. both tried to hide any malevolent goals in talking about it as a positive development, though david ended up writing that manson “began to develop a number of delusions.o’neill described how charles manson attended hafmc at least weekly and some weeks daily. manson’s growing group of girls often accompanied him to hafmc, reportedly to get treated for their increasing amount of sexually