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While Biden Gives Ukrainian Army “The Most Lethal Weapon,” War Profiteer BAE Systems Stock Soars
Sending Ukraine a $300 million shipment of powerful M-777 howitzers is a lobbying triumph for BAE Systems, one of the many war industry corporations...
Food Insecurity Increases in the U.S. While it Declines in Nicaragua, Whose Socialist Government Has Defied U.S. Regime Change Designs
Expansion of Public Sector in Nicaragua Has Improved Quality of Life for Everyone
In 2018, 48% of U.S.-based churches had their own food-distribution ministry or...
CovertAction Bulletin Podcast: Will Julian Assange Actually Be Extradited?
United Kingdom Home Secretary Priti Patel approved the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States. Assange faces 18 charges brought against him by the US Justice Department, 17 of which fall under the Espionage Act. All the charges relate to documents WikiLeaks released in 2010 and 2011, which were provided by US Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning.
Top Gun Maverick Sets a New Standard For State-Orchestrated, Pro-Military, Mass Indoctrination
Joseph Goebbels, chief propagandist for Hitler’s Nazi Party, would be in awe of the film’s director, Joseph Kosinski
I saw Top Gun: Maverick yesterday. It...
Is There Really a U.S. Government Agency that Gives Out Awards for Deceiving the Public?
Check out this year’s “Democracy Awards” handed out by the National Endowment for Democracy. They were presented to Ukrainian NGOs that specialize in creating...
UK Government Approves Extraditing Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange To Same Country that “Plotted to Assassinate” Him
UK Home secretary Priti Patel has approved the extradition of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to the United States.
Assange faces up to 175 years...
CovertAction Bulletin Podcast: Activist Interrupts Summit of the Americas, “Luis Almagro you have Blood on Your Hands!”
Activist and journalist Walter Smolarek interrupted General Secretary of the OAS, Luis Almagro, and confronted Almagro about his role in the coup in Bolivia. We interviewed Walter the day after the interruption at the People’s Summit for Democracy which took place from June 8th through 10th in Los Angeles.
While Its Humanities Programs Suffer From Budget Cuts, Purdue University Increases Focus on Military
CAM End of School Year Special on the Military-Industrial Academic Complex
Instead of advancing critical thinking and cultural awareness and compelling students to read great...
War in Ukraine
While Biden Gives Ukrainian Army “The Most Lethal Weapon,” War Profiteer BAE Systems Stock Soars
Sending Ukraine a $300 million shipment of powerful M-777 howitzers is a lobbying triumph for BAE Systems, one of the many war industry corporations...
How Monsters Who Beat Jews To Death in 1944 Became America’s Favorite “Freedom Fighters” in 1945—with a Little Help from their Friends at CIA
Part II of a 3 Part series on Fascism and the CIA in Ukraine
“Terror will be not only a means of self-defense, but also...
How Pre-WW II Ukrainian Fascists Pioneered Brutal Terror Techniques; Later Improved By CIA, Now Ironically Taught to Descendants
“Terror will be not only a means of self-defense, but also a form of agitation, which will affect friend and foe alike, regardless of...
Business Cards of German and Canadian Government Officials Found in Abandoned Azov Battalion Headquarters in Mariupol
Points to wider western involvement in Ukraine war and association with Neo-Nazi Battalion
Left amidst the ruins of the Azov battalion’s headquarters in Mariupol were...
Joe Biden’s Saber-Rattling Threatens World War III—with China and Russia
Fits long pattern of war-mongering and provocations that are a feature of the American Century
When U.S. President Joe Biden speaks about war and peace,...
Former Virginia State Senator and Purple Heart Winner Warns: “We’re at a 1914 Moment”
Says sinking of Russian warship by Ukraine with aid of U.S. intelligence is tantamount to an act of war
Colonel Richard Black has been...
U.S. Increases Aid to Over $100 Million per Day for Ukraine War: A Critique of the West’s Militarized Approach
“Putin only understands the language of strength” has become the unanimous position among elite decision-makers within the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Germany, as...
Calls By Western Socialists For A Russian Retreat From Ukraine Amount To De Facto Support For NATO Aggression
On May 11, the online news journal Mediapart in France interviewed Olivier Besancenot following his recent return from a fact-finding mission to Ukraine. The...
While Biden Gives Ukrainian Army “The Most Lethal Weapon,” War Profiteer BAE Systems Stock Soars
Sending Ukraine a $300 million shipment of powerful M-777 howitzers is a lobbying triumph for BAE Systems, one of the many war industry corporations...
AFL-CIO Complicit in Murder of Palestinian Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh
Shameful behavior fits long history of AFL-CIO support for the Histadrut, an arm of the Israeli state.
Much of the world was horrified in early...
Food Insecurity Increases in the U.S. While it Declines in Nicaragua, Whose Socialist Government Has Defied U.S. Regime Change Designs
Expansion of Public Sector in Nicaragua Has Improved Quality of Life for Everyone
In 2018, 48% of U.S.-based churches had their own food-distribution ministry or...
Top Gun Maverick Sets a New Standard For State-Orchestrated, Pro-Military, Mass Indoctrination
Joseph Goebbels, chief propagandist for Hitler’s Nazi Party, would be in awe of the film’s director, Joseph Kosinski
I saw Top Gun: Maverick yesterday. It...
Is There Really a U.S. Government Agency that Gives Out Awards for Deceiving the Public?
Check out this year’s “Democracy Awards” handed out by the National Endowment for Democracy. They were presented to Ukrainian NGOs that specialize in creating...
Denunciation of Vladimir Putin’s Essay on History of Russia and Ukraine is Unwarranted
Far from condemning the national aspirations of Ukrainians, Putin defends them
In July 2021, Vladimir Putin published a historical essay on Russia and Ukraine on...
Could Icelanders Herald Path to Economic Equality with Prosperity and Peace?
Part II of CAM Correspondent Ron Ridenour’s Perspective on Near-Pristine Island-Nation (Part 1 here)
Little Crime, Murder, Violence—But They Are Increasing
We can learn from the...
Does Iceland Set Benchmark for Peaceful and Politically Engaged People?
CAM Correspondent Ron Ridenour Gives an Insider Perspective on the Pristine Island-Nation
Part I of II
Contradictions in human behavior came through clearly regarding my titular...
CovertAction Bulletin Podcast: Will Julian Assange Actually Be Extradited?
United Kingdom Home Secretary Priti Patel approved the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States. Assange faces 18 charges brought against him by the US Justice Department, 17 of which fall under the Espionage Act. All the charges relate to documents WikiLeaks released in 2010 and 2011, which were provided by US Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning.
CovertAction Bulletin Podcast: Activist Interrupts Summit of the Americas, “Luis Almagro you have Blood on Your Hands!”
Activist and journalist Walter Smolarek interrupted General Secretary of the OAS, Luis Almagro, and confronted Almagro about his role in the coup in Bolivia. We interviewed Walter the day after the interruption at the People’s Summit for Democracy which took place from June 8th through 10th in Los Angeles.
CovertAction Bulletin Podcast: Eyewitness of LA’s Secret Police Spy Network
On this week’s episode, we speak with Mike Rothmiller, former Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officer with the infamous Office of Criminal Intelligence Division (OCID). Mike is a historian and New York Times best-selling author of many different books including the LA Secret Police: Inside the LAPD’s Elite Spy Network and Bombshell: The Night Bobby Kennedy Killed Marilyn Monroe.
CovertAction Bulletin Podcast: International Solidarity Threatens Biden’s Summit of the Americas
On today’s episode, we are joined by Claudia de la Cruz of the People’s Forum in New York City to discuss developments around President Biden’s Summit of the Americas. Scheduled for June 6-10 in Los Angeles, the legitimacy of the gathering and the role of the U.S. in Central & South American is being severely threatened by announcements from Mexico, Bolivia, Honduras, Antigua and Barbuda that they will not attend if the governments of Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua are not invited.
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National Endowment for Democracy Deletes Records of Funding Projects in Ukraine
Deletion needed to preserve big lie of an unprovoked Russian invasion
The National Endowment for Democracy (NED)—a CIA offshoot founded in the early 1980s to advance “democracy...
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...
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’...
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...
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...
“Expect Escalation of Conflict in Donbass and Ukraine Soon,” Says Foreign Correspondent
U.S. and Ukraine are already secretly preparing for the all-out war with Russia that they intend to make happen.
The Syria Deception: The Public Has Been Hoodwinked Yet Again into Supporting a Criminal War of Aggression—and One That Has Been Effectively Lost
United States warmakers have become so skilled at propaganda that not only can they wage a war of aggression without arousing protest; they can...
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...
Various Alleged Instigators of Capitol Riot Finally Indicted For Sedition but Questions Remain About Government Infiltration and Incitement
Leaders of the far-right Proud Boys group, including its national chairman, Enrique Tarrio, have been charged with seditious conspiracy for plotting to storm the...
Diplomacy is Hard Work: We Could Use Some of it Right Now
I’ve been doing a lot of research lately for a new book I’m writing that has nothing whatsoever to do with intelligence or the...
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...
LETTER FROM READER – Re: Bought-And-Paid-For: Biden’s Long History Pandering to the Israeli Lobby
RE: Bought-And-Paid-For: Biden’s Long History Pandering to the Israeli Lobby by Editors – February 13, 2021
Great piece on Joe Biden.
As you are well aware, from its very outset, the Zionist project has been predicated on theft (stealing land), and violence—displacing people while many times injuring and killing the indigenous population.
This effort has been facilitated by...
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