In the Spotlight
CovertAction Bulletin: South Korea Fights Back Martial Law
Calls for the resignation of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol have rung out from civil society and beyond after Yoon declared martial law on December 3rd. The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) called for strikes until Yoon steps down, and groups under and beyond that organization are heeding the call...
The CIA’s Modus Operandi Draws Off British and French Colonial Precedents
The CIA likes to fashion itself as a heroic agency that helps to protect national security and uphold democracy around the world.
However, Hugh Wilford’s...
Lawfare in Argentina: Cristina Kirchner Convicted
"What we are witnessing here today is a practical demonstration of Lawfare in Argentina, carried out by the members of the court," announced Cristina Fernández...
“Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat” is So Good That It May Redefine the Documentary as a Means of Mass Communication
According to its mission statement, “AFI FEST… showcase the best films from across the globe to captivated audiences in Los Angeles.
With a diverse and...
CovertAction Bulletin – Syria: A History of Proxy Wars & U.S. Imperialism
At the end of November, groups aligned with Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) or the “Levant Liberation Committee” and previously known as the Al-Nusra Front, launched significant attacks on the Syrian government in the Idlib and Aleppo regions, taking part of the city of Aleppo. The Syrian Arab Army has mobilized to push back against HTS...
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...
Scandinavians, the World’s Happiest People, Love Killing for the USA
Part II: The Destruction of the Nord Stream Pipeline: We Came We Saw They Died
“If Russia invades—that means tanks or troops crossing the...
William Worthy May Be the Most Important Journalist You’ve Never Heard Of
Blacklisted in the Cold War, Worthy reported on the struggles of Third World people against American neo-colonialism and on oppression within the United States
...
U.S. / Israeli War on Palestine
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...
Latin American Governments Pay a Price For Challenging Israel’s Genocidal War
Governments in Latin America have been at the forefront of opposition to Israel’s genocide in Gaza, and several of those which have done so...
On the One-Year Anniversary of October 7, It is Clear We Were Not Told The Truth
In an impassioned speech before the U.S. Congress in June, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated, “like December 7, 1941, and September 11, 2001,...
Palestinian Journalist and Her Family Are Among Latest Victims of U.S.-Israeli Barbarism
One year after October 7, the Israelis continue to slaughter Gazans, and now Lebanese, en masse with U.S. weaponry.
One of the latest victims of...
CovertAction Bulletin: Tribute to Palestinian Journalist Wafa Al-Udaini
On Monday, September 30th, an Israeli airstrike in Deir al-Balah killed Wafa al-Udaini, her husband and two of her children. Wafa was a founder of the October 16 group, a mentor to young journalists and media professionals in Gaza and especially worked to highlight the voices of women impacted by the Israeli occupation...
Did You Donate to Send Food to Gaza? Think Again
“HUNGER CATASTROPHE IN GAZA—DONATIONS NEEDED” cries Mercy Corps.
“URGENT: STARVATION IN GAZA: ALL GIFTS MATCHED FOR GAZA” shouts Rescue.org.
These and many other appeals from international...
U.S. Officials Can’t Say the Word “Genocide,” But ICC is Pursuing Charges of Genocide Committed by Israel
In a promising move, International Criminal Court Prosecutor Karim Khan decided to file for an application to serve arrest warrants to Israeli and Hamas...
War in Ukraine
Ukrainian Culture is Celebrated in a Ukrainian Restaurant in Moscow, of all Places!
On a recent visit to Russia, I happened to come across a Ukrainian restaurant while walking through Moscow.
Politicians and the media in the West...
Media Distorting North Korean Role in Russo-Ukraine War
Sensationalistic headlines about North Korean engagement in Kursk contradicted by statements of Secretary of Defense
On November 24, Newsweek ran a story by Ellie Cook...
How the United States Drove Russia to Invade Ukraine and the Potential Consequences
The Cold War did not end for the United States with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Instead, the United States set out on...
Russian Artists Being Used By Ukraine to Build Support for U.S. Weapons Pipeline and War
Artists Present Themseves as Antiwar But Are in Fact Pro-War
In early May, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken made a staged appearance in a...
Ukrainian Deal: Exposing CIA/Polish Arms Traders Shadow Schemes
Don’t participate in the unfruitful actions of darkness,instead, reveal the truth about them.
Ephesians 5:11
In August 2017, CIA’s front company Noetic International Inc. signed an...
National Endowment For Democracy Continues to Weaponize Human Rights
The latest example is its pressing for release of John McCain pallbearer from Siberian jail while it ignores a socialist arrested by the Ukrainian...
Why Aren’t Students Protesting U.S. Weapons Sales to Ukraine?
Ukraine will go down in history as the graveyard of neo-conservatism where imperial overreach has led to major world power shifts.
In late April, students...
Nord Stream Insurers Refusal to Pony Up For Damages to Sabotaged Pipeline Is Based on Dubious Legal Grounds, According to International Law Scholar
Lloyd’s of London and Bermuda-based Arch Insurance deny the €400 million claim by Nord Stream AG, arguing their policies do not provide coverage for...
Ukrainian Culture is Celebrated in a Ukrainian Restaurant in Moscow, of all Places!
On a recent visit to Russia, I happened to come across a Ukrainian restaurant while walking through Moscow.
Politicians and the media in the West...
The CIA’s Modus Operandi Draws Off British and French Colonial Precedents
The CIA likes to fashion itself as a heroic agency that helps to protect national security and uphold democracy around the world.
However, Hugh Wilford’s...
Lawfare in Argentina: Cristina Kirchner Convicted
"What we are witnessing here today is a practical demonstration of Lawfare in Argentina, carried out by the members of the court," announced Cristina Fernández...
The Left Returns to Power in Uruguay—How Will the Trump Administration React?
Yamandú Orsi, from the Broad Front (Frente Amplio—FA), is the president-elect of Uruguay. He will take office on March 1, 2025, and lead the...
“Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat” is So Good That It May Redefine the Documentary as a Means of Mass Communication
According to its mission statement, “AFI FEST… showcase the best films from across the globe to captivated audiences in Los Angeles.
With a diverse and...
Political Prisoners Event Shows U.S. Government’s Weaponization of Human Rights
Dissidents in U.S.-allied countries and U.S. political prisoners are ignored while people who try to destabilize their own countries are promoted as heroes
Gonzalo Lira...
Media Distorting North Korean Role in Russo-Ukraine War
Sensationalistic headlines about North Korean engagement in Kursk contradicted by statements of Secretary of Defense
On November 24, Newsweek ran a story by Ellie Cook...
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...
CovertAction Bulletin: South Korea Fights Back Martial Law
Calls for the resignation of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol have rung out from civil society and beyond after Yoon declared martial law on December 3rd. The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) called for strikes until Yoon steps down, and groups under and beyond that organization are heeding the call...
CovertAction Bulletin – Syria: A History of Proxy Wars & U.S. Imperialism
At the end of November, groups aligned with Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) or the “Levant Liberation Committee” and previously known as the Al-Nusra Front, launched significant attacks on the Syrian government in the Idlib and Aleppo regions, taking part of the city of Aleppo. The Syrian Arab Army has mobilized to push back against HTS...
CovertAction Bulletin: What Does the Lebanon Ceasefire Mean?
On Tuesday afternoon, the Israeli security cabinet approved a ceasefire deal with Hezbollah after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the cabinet and then with a pre-recorded video addressed the Israeli public, expressing his support for the deal...
CovertAction Bulletin: Movement Repression and the H.R.9495 Bill
Shortly after we recorded our last episode and mentioned the bill, the House of Representatives tried and failed to vote on HR 9495, the “Stop Terror-Financing and Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act” bill. House Republicans tried to suspend the rules and push a vote through, and got 52 Democrats to vote with them, but weren’t able to get the two-thirds majority they needed under House procedural rules...
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...
The 60-Year U.S. Blockade on Cuba is an Abomination Just as Great as Guantanamo Bay—With no End in Sight
“El Bloqueo” (The Blockade) is what Cubans call it. It is a 60-year-old abomination. It is the U.S. embargo against Cuba.
Imposed by U.S. President John F. Kennedy in 1962, the embargo has and continues to be an utter failure in its objective, that is, trying to fuel a counter-revolution within the island nation; or more politely...
Black Market in Broad Daylight
U.S. school kids, hospital patients, and prison inmates share food poisoning, while food liquidators boast they turn “trash into treasure.”
Operating in the shadows is easy in the United States secondary food market, as few question what happens to food that exceeds its expiration date in leading supermarket chains across the nation. Well, truth be told,...
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...
LBJ Insiders D.H. Byrd and James Ling Bought 132,000 Shares of Stock in Defense Contractor LTV in November 1963 Around Time of the JFK...
Documents accessible at Library of Congress confirm purchase
In November 1963, the month of JFK’s assassination, two of Lyndon B. Johnson’s closest friends, David H. Byrd and James Ling, bought 132,000 shares of Ling-Temco-Vought (LTV) stock at approximately $16 per share through the Alpha Omega Corporation investment vehicle.
Byrd already owned 19,948 shares of LTV stock at this...
The Murder of Juan Lopez, Defender of Life
On the evening of September 14, Delegate of the Word Juan López had just finished leading a Saturday evening service at the Catholic church in Tocoa, Honduras.
Witnesses say that, as he was getting to his car, someone on a motorcycle rode by and shot him multiple times, killing him.
López was a teacher, community leader, and a...
Witness Sketch of Man Seen Entering and Leaving Journalist’s Room on the Day He Was Found Dead Resembles Former CIA Agent
Evidence from Martinsburg, West Virginia, Police report contradicts claims of popular Netflix series
On August 10, 1991, Danny Casolaro, a Fairfax, Virginia-based journalist who was writing a book on a massive CIA corruption scheme that started with the theft of computer software, was found dead lying in a tub of bloody water in room 517 at...
J. Edgar Hoover Coordinated Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.—And James Earl Ray Was a Patsy
New film provides tribute to William Pepper, the King Family Lawyer, Who Cracked the King Case
Conventional wisdom holds that James Earl Ray was a deranged white supremacist who killed Martin Luther King, Jr., on April 4, 1968.
Research carried out by King family attorney William F. Pepper determined, however, that King was really killed in a conspiracy...
Photographs Expose Thomas Merton Murder Cover-up
Thomas Merton was the most influential Catholic writer of the 20th century.
He was almost as well-known in the United States as the author Ernest Hemingway or the popular Bishop Fulton J. Sheen.
He had been raised in France where his American mother and New Zealander father had met in a Paris art school, and he was educated...
Popular
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...
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...
Beltway Pundit Predictions About Putin’s Downfall Are as Wrong as Predictions 100 Years Ago that the Bolsheviks Would Lose the Russian Civil War
When Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin launched a revolt against Vladimir Putin on June 23, Beltway pundits became euphoric, predicting Russia’s descent into a...
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
