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Gaddafi’s Ghost Haunts French Ex-President Sarkozy

The criminal case of ex-France President Nicolas Sarkozy touches the historical tensions between Muammar Gaddafi's Libya and Western powers, particularly France. In a recent...

CovertAction Bulletin: Nobel Peace Prize Paves Way for War With Venezuela

Donald Trump did not win the Nobel Peace Prize, as he boasted he should for supposedly being the “peace President”—a claim we’ve debunked numerous times on this show...

Denmark/Scandinavia on Permanent War Footing: Russians on the Doorstep

Foreign politics and censorship in Denmark, where I have lived off and on for 35 years, is actually worse than in the United States...

Kansas Gets Its Name From a Native Tribe that White Settlers Robbed and Then Displaced

In August 2023, the Kaw Nation transported a sacred boulder, known as Iⁿ‘zhúje ‘Waxóbe, from Lawrence, Kansas, to ancestral Kaw land near Locust Grove,...

Donald Trump Wants to Take Us Back To a Time When Frontiersmen Who Carried Out Grotesque Acts Were Regarded as Heroes

The barbarism of the North American conquest was exemplified by scalping and mutilation of Native Americans In May, President Donald Trump announced that he...

Slain Journalist Was on Threshold of Exposing Large-Scale CIA-Mafia Drug-Smuggling Operation Using Australian Bank Founded by Special Forces Veteran

Danny Casolaro Was Planning to Meet with Key Figures in Nugan Hand Bank and Members of Australian Government Commission Before He Was Murdered ...

By the Hand of a Spy, Lisbon Forgot the Revolution

Far beyond any notion of solidarity between brotherly nations divided by an ocean, the reception of Brazilian exiles in Portugal during the 1970s was...

CovertAction Bulletin – From Gaza to Portland: A System in Crisis

The Israeli government has waged the latest campaign in its effort to wipe out and destroy the Palestinian people entirely for over two years now, with the full financial, diplomatic and military backing of the United States government...

U.S. / Israeli War on Palestine

CovertAction Bulletin – From Gaza to Portland: A System in Crisis

The Israeli government has waged the latest campaign in its effort to wipe out and destroy the Palestinian people entirely for over two years now, with the full financial, diplomatic and military backing of the United States government...

Gaza Flotilla Attacked By Drones

For the third time in five months, drones carrying explosives have attacked boats in the Gaza flotillas. I was in Tunis when the Familia and...

The Peoples Conference for Palestine: Another Step Forward

The well-organized Palestine conference in Detroit brought more than 4,600 there, with a heavy Palestinian presence. Most of the speakers in the plenaries were genuine...

Giving Voice to Gazans Targeted by the U.S.-Israeli Death Machine

Refaat Alareer, a professor of English literature at the Islamic University in Gaza, was tragically killed in an Israeli air strike on December 6,...

Exterminator Netanyahu in Washington, D.C. Again, Begging For More Bombs

The chief of the Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza and the ethnic cleansing in the West Bank, Exterminator-in-Chief, Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu...

F**k You Alexander Haig, I am resigning; Say the same to Blinken!!!

Resignations from the U.S. war on Vietnam, to the U.S. war on Iraq, to the U.S. complicity in the Israeli genocide in Gaza In the...

Peace Activists Try and Block Arms Supplies to Israel

David Hartsough is a legendary peace activist who first amassed an FBI file in the mid 1950s at the age of 15 when he...

Einstein Opposed Zionist Colonization in Palestine and Predicted the Current Catastrophe

A few weeks before the creation of the State of Israel, Shepard Rifkin, executive director of the Stern Group, requested that representatives of the...

War in Ukraine

Are We Witnessing the Collapse of International Law?

Over the past 30 years, the proponents of the Unipolar World have proceeded to methodically dismantle the norms, principles and diplomatic usages to such...

The Struggle For Power in Ukraine Has Begun

How Ukraine’s illegitimate leadership passes laws in violation of national and international law The failure of diplomatic attempts to reach peace agreements in Ukraine amid...

As Conflict in Ukraine Reaches End, Big Question Must Be Answered: What Will Happen to Ukrainian Soldiers Who Chose to Switch Sides?

In the fall, of 2024, I spent a day with the Kyvonos Detachment in the Donbas. This is a volunteer military unit made up...

Is Peace Possible if Militarization of European Union Continues?

The events of recent months in Ukraine have in many ways marked a shift in priorities in international politics. Despite the horrific consequences of...

CovertAction Bulletin: Does Trump Really Want Peace in Ukraine?

Donald Trump held phone calls with both Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday, then announced that the two countries will “immediately start negotiations toward a ceasefire” in the 3-year-long conflict between the two...

Ukraine Found Complicit in 2014 Massacre By European Court of Human Rights

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ordered the Ukrainian government to compensate the victims of a May 2014 arson attack on the...

Stepan Bandera’s Sinister MI6 Alliance Exposed

October 15, 2024, marked the 65th anniversary of Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN-B) and Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) founder Stepan Bandera’s assassination by the...

U.S. Targeting of Russia Risks Nuclear War

U.S. satellite targeting of Russia risks nuclear war because it makes the U.S. a co-belligerent against another nuclear power. “U.S. to Restore Military Support to...

Gaddafi’s Ghost Haunts French Ex-President Sarkozy

The criminal case of ex-France President Nicolas Sarkozy touches the historical tensions between Muammar Gaddafi's Libya and Western powers, particularly France. In a recent...

Denmark/Scandinavia on Permanent War Footing: Russians on the Doorstep

Foreign politics and censorship in Denmark, where I have lived off and on for 35 years, is actually worse than in the United States...

Kansas Gets Its Name From a Native Tribe that White Settlers Robbed and Then Displaced

In August 2023, the Kaw Nation transported a sacred boulder, known as Iⁿ‘zhúje ‘Waxóbe, from Lawrence, Kansas, to ancestral Kaw land near Locust Grove,...

Donald Trump Wants to Take Us Back To a Time When Frontiersmen Who Carried Out Grotesque Acts Were Regarded as Heroes

The barbarism of the North American conquest was exemplified by scalping and mutilation of Native Americans In May, President Donald Trump announced that he...

Slain Journalist Was on Threshold of Exposing Large-Scale CIA-Mafia Drug-Smuggling Operation Using Australian Bank Founded by Special Forces Veteran

Danny Casolaro Was Planning to Meet with Key Figures in Nugan Hand Bank and Members of Australian Government Commission Before He Was Murdered ...

By the Hand of a Spy, Lisbon Forgot the Revolution

Far beyond any notion of solidarity between brotherly nations divided by an ocean, the reception of Brazilian exiles in Portugal during the 1970s was...

Right Wing Attack Dog Intent on Exposing Left-Wing “Subversion” Follows in Footsteps of Cold War CIA Asset Who Defected From KGB

In early September, Dr. Thomas Alter II—author of the well-regarded book Toward a Cooperative Commonwealth: The Transplanted Roots of Farmer-Labor Radicalism in Texas (University...

Bolivia Turns to the Right

On October 19, Bolivia will have a new president—and he will be from the right. It is confirmed that the country is...

CovertAction Bulletin: Nobel Peace Prize Paves Way for War With Venezuela

Donald Trump did not win the Nobel Peace Prize, as he boasted he should for supposedly being the “peace President”—a claim we’ve debunked numerous times on this show...

CovertAction Bulletin – From Gaza to Portland: A System in Crisis

The Israeli government has waged the latest campaign in its effort to wipe out and destroy the Palestinian people entirely for over two years now, with the full financial, diplomatic and military backing of the United States government...

CovertAction Bulletin – U.S. on Edge: Trump Prepares Domestic Military Crackdown

At a gathering of senior military leaders at Marine Corps Base Quantico on Tuesday, Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth signaled that they’re preparing to imminently expand the scope and size of the U.S. military, both inside and outside the United States...

CovertAction Bulletin – Trump at the U.N.: Rambling, Racist, and Out of Touch

In a rambling speech that lasted nearly an hour at the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday, Donald Trump spent a significant amount of time condemning immigration in the west as well as the use and development of clean energy alternatives to coal and oil...

Mass Incarceration Arose Out of Empire Building Across North America, Carribean and Pacific

The United States today has by far the world’s largest incarceration rate, with nearly two million people living in prisons and jails. The conditions in those facilities are often substandard, with Amnesty International criticizing the dehumanizing practice of holding prisoners in prolonged solitary confinement. Benjamin Weber’s book, American Purgatory: Prison Imperialism and the Rise of Mass Incarceration, shows...

Despite His Law and Order Rhetoric, Trump May Surprise in his Second Term

Donald Trump has a lot of faults. God knows that we have discussed them at length here at CovertAction Magazine and in other venues. But if there is one thing that Trump is right on, it is prison reform. It was Trump, after all, who issued a flurry of pardons and commutations at the end of his...

Draconian Sentencing Guidelines Result in Prison Overcrowding

Prosecutors don’t get promoted by offering shorter sentences Like many Americans, I follow criminal justice developments closely. The arrest and coming prosecution of Sean Combs, also known as P. Diddy, among other things, will likely remain in the headlines for months, and perhaps years, and promises to be fascinating. Prosecutions related to the January 6, 2021, riots...

Deadly Heat in U.S. Prisons Violates Animal Cruelty Laws

The summer of 2013 was my first summer in prison after being incarcerated for blowing the whistle on the CIA’s torture program. When summer arrived in Loretto, Pennsylvania, I had already made a handful of friends, most of whom came from the prison’s “Italian” population. One warm day in the spring, I mentioned to one of the...

Corruption of U.S. Justice Department and the Two-Tiered Justice System: The Case of Whistleblower Bradley Birkenfeld

When this Whistleblower Exposed the Crimes of Obama’s Golf Partner and 12th Largest Campaign Contributor, the U.S. Justice Department Did the Honorable Thing—It Jailed the Whistleblower and Let Obama’s Golf Partner Walk Away Free Bradley Birkenfeld is a former Swiss banker who helped the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) recoup billions of dollars in tax revenues after exposing the...

“The Death Row You Don’t Want to Know:” An Inmate at San Quentin Reveals What Death Row is Really Like

From the date of being arrested (March 4, 1979) in one of the most racist counties in California (Riverside), and enduring one of what would be called by many, “a circus trial” on December 12, 1979, I was brought to the sixth floor of North Block, better known as the original Death Row. I’ll never forget the...

U.S. Leads the World in Solitary Confinement that Destroys Prisoners Mental Health

Anthony Gay is severely mentally ill. And like many Americans who suffer from severe mental illness and who commit a crime, he was placed in solitary confinement after his conviction, rather than in a mental hospital where he could have received treatment for his schizophrenia. Isolated in a six-by-ten foot cell 24 hours a day, seven days...

Massachusetts Bill Would Give Prisoners Time Off Sentences For Organ Donation

Fits into dubious history of medical coercion and experimentation on vulnerable populations in the U.S. Two Democratic members of the Massachusetts state legislature have proposed a bill that would give state prisoners between 60 and 365 days off their sentences if they donate a kidney, bone marrow, skin, or “other organs” to people in the general population...

Mystery of Spook’s Death Persists Forty-Six Years Later

On September 23, 1978, John Arthur Paisley was reported missing after he disappeared from his boat, Brillig, which was equipped with sophisticated communications equipment, in the Chesapeake Bay. Days later, Paisley’s body was identified in the bay, fitted with weighted diver’s belts around the waist. He had been shot in the head...

A Mississippi Woman Was Given Life Sentence For Telling the Truth About a Murder Plot 90 Years Ago Against Louisiana Senator Huey P. Long

Long Was Poised to Challenge Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1936 Democratic Party Primary Before He Was Killed “Times have told us that dirty tricks did not end with Brutus.” – Tom Weiss, brother of alleged assassin, Carl A. Weiss. Jessica Lauren Fields was a beauty shop worker living in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in 1935 who spent 46...

Did the CIA Kill A Top Staff Member of the House Intelligence Committee Twenty Five Years Ago To Try and Protect Its Reputation?

John Millis was poised to release a report exposing CIA involvement in drug trafficking in Central America An investigation into Millis’ death should be reopened along with journalist Gary Webb and others who were privy to info about the CIA’s drug running in Central America during the Reagan-Bush era and died suspiciously On June 4, 2000, John Millis,...

CIA-Linked Website Celebrates Murder of Ukrainian Opposition Politician

Website accused Andriy Portnov of being a traitor On May 22, Andriy Portnov, 51, was assassinated in Madrid, just after dropping off his children at the American School. A lawyer by training, Portnov was a leading opposition figure in Ukraine who was forced to flee the country after the February 2014 U.S.-backed Maidan coup. A top aide to President...

Malcolm X’s Family Lawsuit Accuses the CIA, FBI and NYPD in Icon’s Assassination

In mid-November, three daughters of Malcolm X (aka el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz) accused the CIA, FBI, the New York Police Department and the Department of Justice with involvement in the 1965 assassination of the activist leader. The daughters, spearheaded by Ilyasah Shabazz and represented by Attorney Ben Crump, filed a $100 million lawsuit in conjunction with the Malcolm...

JFK’s Lover Was Among Victims of CIA Murder Machine, According to Son of Former High-Level CIA Official

The ex-wife of CIA agent Cord Meyer, Jr., Mary Pinchot Meyer, was trying to convert JFK to pacifism and was known to make wisecracks at dinner parties about what the CIA was doing in the world. Tragically, she was murdered 60 years ago while taking an afternoon jog by the Potomac River. Mary Pinchot Meyer was a...

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A Company Family: The Untold History of Obama and the CIA

Despite his liberal pretensions, Obama’s foreign policy was dreamed up at Langley—which should not have been surprising given his background In the summer of...

Was the Now-Forgotten Murder of One Man on September 9, 2001 a Crucial Pre-condition for 9/11?

Peter Dale Scott, with assistance from Aaron Good, breaks new ground with this exclusive investigation into the two-decades-old assassination of Ahmed Shah Massoud and...

U.S. Media Decries Brutal Russia Invasion of Ukraine—Yet an Intrepid Reporter Finds that the Russians Were Welcomed as Liberators in the Southern Ukrainian City...

Last week I was embedded with the Russian army and visited two towns in southeastern Ukraine. The first town was called Henichesk, a port...

Ukraine: The CIA’s 75-year-old Proxy

Joe Biden “is fueling the fire in the Ukraine.” -- Roger Waters of Pink Floyd It takes a musical artist to cut through the morass...

More Skeletons in Obama’s Closet: Mass Grave in Lugansk, Ukraine Yields Over 200 Bodies

A Part of Obama’s Legacy that Presumably Won’t Be Celebrated in his $482 Million Presidential Library I recently witnessed the exhumation of human remains from...

Outposts of the U.S. Surveillance Empire: Denmark and Beyond

Data acquired by the NSA has been used to convince the Danish government to buy fighter jets from Lockheed-Martin. Denmark’s military allows the United States’...

War Propaganda About Ukraine Starting to Wear Thin

More and More Are Seeing Through the Lies As Amnesty International confirms the inconvenient truths, which many independent journalists and political observers already knew, about the Ukrainian...

New Evidence Reveals That Senator John McCain and Other High-Ranking Vietnam War POWs May Have Lied to the American Public About Being Tortured

Collusion by the White House, the Pentagon, and the mainstream media resulted in disparagement, denial, and suppression of eyewitness testimony confirming that most POWs...

Joe Biden Wanted To Lock Up My Father, CIA Whistleblower Philip Agee—Just Like He Wants To Lock Up Edward Snowden And Julian Assange

Part 6 in our Biden Series: A Company Man? On May 9, 1981, the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Security and Terrorism was debating the Intelligence...

Escalating the new Cold War with Russia via Ukraine: Biden’s Unprincipled Stands Involving Covert Operations, Blackmail, Corruption, Nepotism and State Terrorism

Part 5 in our Biden Series: The long suppressed facts involving Biden and the Ukraine are clear, documented, and undisputed, even though you will never read them in The New York Times...

Welcome to the Age of Hypocrisy, Where Truth Rots and Lies Thrive

Some truths are harsh, but they must be spoken. Writing these difficult facts aims not to condemn, but to awaken. Repentance must come; if...

If……Then That’s Treason

The Perpetrators This list of perpetrators is not meant to be exhaustive, but it can help us begin a conversation that should lead to indictments...

LETTER FROM READER – Re: Secret COINTELPRO Plot to Infiltrate and Destroy the American Indian Movement: “We Wanted Them to Kill Each Other”—FBI Agent Admits...

Dear Jeremy, Pearl after pearl spews forth from your agitated fingers. Here is one I wish to comment upon: Secret COINTELPRO Plot to Infiltrate and Destroy the American Indian Movement: “We Wanted Them to Kill Each Other”—FBI Agent Admits After 5 Decades of Silence. “In a 2019 documentary that aired on PBS, From Wounded Knee to Standing Rock: A...

LETTER FROM READER – Re: Pathology of GOP is Frighteningly Evident in its Lionization of Navy SEAL Killer Eddie Gallagher

A truly disgusting figure. You may be interested in the way Canada dealt with a unit that ‘went rogue’ in Somalia. After it was proven that a boy had been”executed” by the Regiment the unit was disbanded and is not revered, in fact if it is spoken of at all, it is with shame...

A Good American: Mass Surveillance System Killed by NSA Weeks Prior to 9/11

"A Good American" is a gripping docu-thriller about a groundbreaking surveillance program, the brilliant mastermind behind it and how an alternative to mass surveillance—one which excluded U.S. citizens—was killed by NSA-management, three weeks prior to 9/11.

National Bird: Whistleblowers Tell Disturbing Truths About Drone Warfare

National Bird follows the dramatic journey of three whistleblowers who are determined to break the silence around one of the most controversial current affairs issues of our time: the secret U.S. drone war. At the center of the film are three U.S. military veterans. Plagued by guilt over participating in the killing of faceless people in foreign countries, they decide to speak out publicly, despite the possible consequences.

U.S. Coup d’État via Presidential Assassination? — Many Questions Remain Unanswered Including ‘Why Was JFK Assassinated?’

From the archives: JFK is a 1991 political thriller directed by academy award-winning director Oliver Stone. It examines the events leading to the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy and the alleged cover-up through the eyes of former New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison, played by Kevin Costner.

Collateral Murder: Classified U.S. Military Video Leaked by Whistleblower Bradley Manning Via WikiLeaks

Classified video footage from a U.S. Apache helicopter in 2007 leaked by U.S. Army intelligence analyst and whistleblower Bradley Manning to Wikileaks. The video shows Reuters journalist Namir Noor-Eldeen, driver Saeed Chmagh, and several others as the Apache shoots and kills them in a public square in Eastern Baghdad.

CovertAction Information Bulletin (1988-2)

CAIB-30 (1988:2) From the Archives: Special Back Issue on Israel the Middle East: Israeli State Terror, Arms sales, Occupation, Chemical & nuclear warfare, Israel in Africa & Central America, Disinformation & Libya, CIA’s William Buckley, Afghan contra lobby

CovertAction Information Bulletin (1979-2)

CAIB-4 (1979:2) From the Archives: Spying on allies: Secret Italy cable, CIA in Spain, CIA Africa recruiting, Angola, Subversive academics in Southern Africa, CIA and human rights, CIA firearms authority, Intelligence budgets, In Search of Enemies

CovertAction Information Bulletin (1979-1)

CAIB-3 (1979:1) From the Archives: CIA attacks CAIB, Top Secret Army spy manual, CAIB CIA poster, CIA in Mexico, Australia U.S. spy satellite base, John Paisley mystery death

CovertAction Information Bulletin (1978-2)

CAIB-2 (1978:2) From the Archives: Editorial, CIA recruits diplomats, Researching CIA officers, Cuban double agent in CIA, CIA North Carolina demolitions training base