Yearly Archives: 2025
CovertAction Bulletin: Dems Pay Influencers to Pretend They Are Grassroots
According to recent reporting by Taylor Lorenz in Wired, a secretive dark money group is funding influencers to post pro-Democratic Party messaging on social media services—paying them up to $8,000 per month...
New Film Explores Rage and Toxic Masculinity Underlying Right-Wing Extremism
Sovereign—distributed by the same company that brought us the 2023 Donald Trump/Roy Cohn biopic The Apprentice—is among 2025’s best theatrically released political features.
The hard-hitting movie dramatizes America’s right-wing terrorist threat, when a...
David Horowitz’s Turn to the Right was Triggered by an Unsolved Murder Linked to...
On April 29, American conservative firebrand David Horowitz died at age 86 after a prolonged battle with cancer.
When the news broke, tributes came pouring in on right-wing social media, with everyone from Dutch Freedom...
The Rebel Girl, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, is a Great Role Model for Budding Social...
Flynn was a gifted orator who was at the heart of U.S. left-wing movements for the first two-thirds of the 20th century
In 1915, legendary folk singer Joe Hill wrote a tribute to Elizabeth Gurley...
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...
