Yearly Archives: 2025
License to spy: How USAID acted as a CIA front in Portugal
Between 1975 and 1989, the primary U.S. intelligence agency leveraged various financial assistance programs to shape Portuguese democracy and prevent the country from falling under Soviet influence. Here’s how.
The involvement of the Central...
My Life is a Drain
Our floor is gone in the bathroom, the back deck is falling in, there is a hole in the kitchen floor, the toilet in the basement is broken, the house needs an overhaul, there...
CovertAction Bulletin: Genocidal Ben-Gvir Faces Resistance on U.S. Trip
Israeli Minister of National Security and supporter of extremist, far-right policies Itamar Ben-Gvir visited the United States in late April. From the time he got off his plane in Florida and throughout events in New Haven, CT, New York City and Washington, DC, he was met with opposition, protest and resistance...
Legendary Peace Activist Was Transformed by Experience in Vietnam
Hideous nature of the war exposed him to ugly realities of U.S. and Western imperialism
On September 1, 1987, S. Brian Willson, a Vietnam veteran, was run over by a train outside the Concord...
Undetonated Ordnance Causes Hardship for Cambodian Farmers Half Century After End of Indochina War
April 30, 2025 marked the 50th anniversary of the end of the Indochina War, which lasted roughly from 1962 to 1975.
In the United States, a revisionism has long taken hold in which American soldiers...
When Progressive Laotian Politician Tried to Build Bridges Between Neutralists and Left-Wing Pathet Lao,...
The assassin was in the pay of a police general trained by the CIA who functioned as the hatchet man of another CIA asset.
On April 1, 1963, Quinim Pholsena, Laos’s Foreign Minister and...
CIA Oversaw Hideous Torture in Con Son’s Tiger Cages and Other Prison Facilities in...
Set the groundwork for Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib and torture chambers across the Middle East in the Global War on Terror
In the summer of 1970, Tom Harkin, a U.S. senator from Iowa from 1985-2015,...
American Diplomats Dismissed Vietnamese Scientists Who Reported on Horrific Health and Environmental Effects of...
Called them “propagandists” and “communists trying to discredit the U.S.”
Got off the plane in Vietnam;It didn't seem like war.With all I saw, I started to wonderWhat I had come there for.Oh, the Army tried...
Did Legendary Filmmaker Ken Burns—Whose Documentary Revealed Harsh Truths About the Civil War—Intentionally Hide...
Of course he did. And a look at the film’s funders helps to explain why.
In the fall of 2017, more than 60 million people tuned into PBS to watch Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s...
Reflections on the 50th Anniversary of the End of the Vietnam War
This week marks the 50-year anniversary of the end of the U.S. war against the country and people of Vietnam. Americans refer to the war as the Vietnam War, but it was actually an...
