In December 2022, the Democratic-led House of Representatives voted to allow Puerto Ricans to decide the political future of the territory, the first time the chamber has committed to backing a binding process that could pave the way for Puerto Rico to become the nation’s 51st state or an...
Early on New Year’s Day, a truck drove into a crowd on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, resulting in dozens of injuries and at least 14 deaths. The alleged attacker, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, was killed in a shootout with police. Immediately, the media and government seized on supposed and self-described connections with ISIS with no critical thought towards what they’re calling a terrorist attack...
Part IV: The Yankees Are Coming to All Scandinavia
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen surprised the nation three days after Joe Biden warned Russia it would lose its Nord Stream natural gas connection to Europe if it militarily invaded Ukraine to prevent it from joining NATO.
“Denmark and the USA have...
It may be no surprise that the “mainstream” corporate news media have turned into advertising agencies for U.S. government policy. But it still surprises that what the CIA called a compatible left—those on the left it deemed compatible with maintaining imperialist rule—celebrates another successful U.S. “regime change,” this time,...
The former Georgia governor presided over the largest peacetime increase in the military budget in U.S. history and inspired the growth of Islamic terrorism by arming the Afghan mujahadin in order to provoke a Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
The media predictably sugarcoated Jimmy Carter’s record following his passing on...
Featuring whistleblowers and former FBI & CIA employees
Watch the webinar presentation hosted by CovertAction Magazine on Monday, January 13th at 8PM ET.
We discuss what we can expect from the U.S. intelligence communities as we enter the second Trump administration.
Featuring:
John Kiriakou - Former CIA Counter Terrorism Specialist & Whistleblower
Colleen Rowley...
With little variation, as it was 60 years ago, Brazil’s military and political elite, as well as its big business sector—namely agribusiness—are not fond of what could remotely be perceived as progressive, left-wing politics.
God forbid their country, harboring Portuguese colonial heritage in every nook and cranny, despite failing to...
In the words of the United Nations, “human rights” range from “the most fundamental—the right to life—to those that make life worth living, such as the rights to food, education, work, health, and liberty.” These rights are supposed to be “inherent to us all.” But this lofty ambition has...
Symposium at National Press club designed to mobilize support for a new nuclear weapons freeze movement reminiscent of the one in the 1980s
On December 7th, former United Nations weapons inspector Scott Ritter hosted a panel entitled “No Nuclear War: A Call for Reason” at the National Press Club in...
Complicit in the Israeli Genocide in Gaza, Biden Sowed Misery and Death in Russia and Ukraine, Expanded an Already Ridiculously High Military Budget and Put the World at Risk of Nuclear War
In the June issue of The Nation magazine, editor D.D. Guttenplan claimed that Joe Biden was the most...