Yearly Archives: 2025
Tech Startup—Whose Founder is Close with Julian Assange—Is Seeking to Provide a Voice for...
I have made more than several trips to Iceland over the past several months. I genuinely love the place. The population is small, highly educated, friendly, and welcoming to outsiders. I have been consistently...
CovertAction Bulletin: Billionaires Try To Buy Out Democracy
What do Palantir, DoorDash, Bill Clinton and Michael Bloomberg have in common? They all joined the campaign against candidate Zohran Mamdani, the state Assembly member who exceeded expectations and effectively won the Democratic NYC mayoral primary...
Bolivia: Tutelary Democracy and the Risk of Disaster
President Luis Arce came to power in late 2020 with a leftist discourse and as the chosen successor to Evo Morales.
Five years later, he ends his term without the possibility of running for re-election...
As Conflict in Ukraine Reaches End, Big Question Must Be Answered: What Will Happen...
In the fall, of 2024, I spent a day with the Kyvonos Detachment in the Donbas. This is a volunteer military unit made up entirely of Ukrainian troops who went over to the other...
Stefanik and Cohen are Awful New Additions to House Intelligence Committee
On June 6, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) returned Elise Stefanik (R-NY) to the House Intelligence Committee, and added Steve Cohen (D-TN), expanding the committee’s membership to 27 by unanimous consent.
The addition of Cohen...
A Nicaraguan View from the Frontlines: Revolution, Reconciliation, and Resistance
“Democracy in the U.S. has never been functional. It’s just in some laws, but it has never been implemented. There’s a huge misinformation campaign going on in the U.S., and media is manipulating people...
Los Horcones, Honduras: Reflections on a Massacre and Its Legacy
June 25 marked the 50th anniversary of the Los Horcones massacre, a gruesome and desperate event that still haunts Honduran society and is emblematic of major forces that have shaped much of modern global...
CovertAction Bulletin: Mahmoud Khalil Freed as Anti-War Movement in U.S. Celebrates and Grows
Mahmoud Khalil is free! After spending 104 days unjustly held in an ICE detention center in Jena, Louisiana, he was reunited with his wife Noor, newborn son Deen and community over the weekend...
As Israel Attacked Iran, Multi-National Effort to Bring Last Three Madleen Sailors Out of...
As Israel began its unprovoked attacks on Iran on June 13, the last three of the twelve volunteers of the Gaza Flotilla ship Madleen were still in Israeli prisons.
Marc van Rennes, a Dutch citizen, was in...
Iranian Professor Tells Us Why We Need to Oppose Another Middle East War
In the past couple of days, Donald Trump has been speaking about the possibility of the United States formally entering the Israeli war against Iran. And as of this evening, the U.S. has begun...
