Yearly Archives: 2020
U.S. Troop Deployments to Poland Shine Light on New Cold War Strategy
On August 15, 2020, the Trump administration announced that it was sending 1,000 troops to Poland as part of the new defense cooperation agreement signed on the anniversary of the victory of Poland in...
Huge Intelligence Agency Scandal Rocks Denmark and Puts its “Deep State” on Trial
Four leading Defense Intelligence Service personnel were suspended on Monday, August 24, pending an independent investigation into serious charges of illegalities—amounting to what Danish daily Politiken is calling the greatest “life scandal in its...
Steve Bannon’s Band of Bookworms: Avatars of the Pre-Modern Promise
A Review of Benjamin Teitelbaum’s new book War for Eternity: Inside Bannon’s Far-Right Circle of Global Power Brokers (New York: Dey Street Books, 2020).
Steve Bannon made headlines this past week when he was arrested...
Underreported New Cold War Battleground in Belarus May Spark Dangerous Conflagration Between U.S. and...
Belarus is looking like a new Cold War battleground since protests broke out following the disputed election of Aleksandr Lukashenko on Sunday, August 9th.
Lukashenko won the election with 80 percent of the vote, though...
Kamala Harris: Progressive or New Cold Warrior?
Much of the American left has become so consumed with identity politics that they have lost sight of the fact that African-Americans or women candidates can be as bad or worse than white males.
Take...
Systemic Racism and Oppression: Networks of White Supremacy in the United States
The United States is experiencing an acute challenge to its system of racism both in terms of police behavior and in its separate and unequal public health systems. This represents what is an ogoing...
CIA Disinformation Campaign: Brennan to Publish Memoir Stoking New Cold War Flames
In October, John Brennan, CIA Director from 2013 to 2017, will release a memoir titled Undaunted: My Fight Against America's Enemies, at Home and Abroad.
Early excerpts from the book, published in The New York...
A Dark Tale of Germany’s Most Powerful Party: Covid-19 and the Resurgence of the...
Part 1: Old Nazi Networks and Cold War Crooks
While voter support for Germany’s most powerful party, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), had been crumbling in the course of the current legislation period (2017-2021), with...
Linking the Right and the Far Right: Marketing Xenophobia 101
In CovertAction Magazine’s prior Paris Dispatches, we explained that the “union of the rights” (UoR) project was a political venture aimed at blurring the barriers between the right and far right.
It is based on...
Golden Dawn’s International Connections: The Case of Irene Dimopoulou
Golden Dawn’s export of neo-Nazism
Although more than 5,223 miles separate Charlottesville, Virginia, from Athens, Greece, the political connections are ominously close. One of the major instigators of the August 11-12, 2017, neo-Nazi demonstration in...
