Monthly Archives: August 2025
Government Officials Who Push the Button of Nuclear Weapons Will Die First, As They...
On the 80th Year Commemoration of Deaths in Hiroshima and Nagasaki From U.S. Atomic Weapons
In early August, I was in Hiroshima, Japan speaking at a conference on the 80th Anniversary of the horrific...
CovertAction Bulletin – D.C. Was Just the Start: Trump Targets Cities Nationwide
In a stark escalation, Donald Trump has armed the National Guard members on the streets of Washington, DC, and is looking to send federal troops to other cities...
As Students Go Back to School, What Pivotal Aspects of U.S. History—Including CIA History—Will...
The conservative right has been on a crusade to purge the teaching of critical race theory and aspects of U.S. history that reflect negatively on the country’s past and, hence, might encourage critical thinking...
Stanford Center Gives Journalism Award to CIA-Linked Media Outlet That Helped Provoke Disastrous Regime-Change...
In May, Stanford University’s Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (APARC) announced that the Bangladesh-focused media outlet Netra News was the recipient of the 2025 Shorenstein Journalism Award.
Left unmentioned was that Netra News received funding from the National...
Cuban Flames, Imperialist Tundra
An Ethnographic Portrait of Youth, the Blockade and Survival in Havana Today, on the 72nd Anniversary of the July 26th Attack
Argentinian sociologist Atilio Borón, analyzing the impact of Western sanctions on Nicaragua, Venezuela and...
U.S. Military Budget Tops $1 Trillion
U.S. President Donald Trump has signed off on the first-ever trillion-dollar military budget.
When the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released its budget request for fiscal year 2026 in May, it included...
New Forms of U.S. Interference in Brazil
Trade warfare and interference in the free functioning of the judiciary are the current expressions of United States interventionism in Latin America, particularly in Brazil.
With the largest economy in the region and the eighth-largest...
CovertAction Bulletin: U.S. Makes Threats While China Plans Its Infrastructure
The founder of Tech Buzz China, Rui Ma, posted on X after a recent trip to China about her observations on energy there. “Energy is considered a solved problem...
Ethiopia: Where Political Power Grows From the Barrel of a Gun
There is a brutal civil war being waged in Ethiopia where political power grows from the barrel of a gun. On one side is the Western-backed corrupt, brutal regime of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed,...
U.S. Military Bases in South Korea and Japan Confronted with Persistent Protests
In late June, during public commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Okinawa—one of the bloodiest battles of the Pacific War that resulted in over 240,000 deaths—local authorities called for a reduction...
