Rachel Hu and Chris Garaffa

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Chris Garaffa has been an anti-imperialist and social justice organizer since joining the movement against the Iraq war in 2003. Chris is a weekly guest on Sputnik Radio's "By Any Means Necessary," and co-hosts the podcast "The Reboot," focusing on the intersection between technology and human rights. Chris can be reached at: chris.garaffa@gmail.com.
Within days of winning the election, Donald Trump is already making announcements about who will—and won’t—be in his cabinet and influencing his administration...
CovertAction Bulletin – Activists Take on Elections: No Votes for Genocide
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We’re just days out from the US presidential elections. With many polls putting Trump and Harris within just a few points of each other, it’s easy to get caught up in the fear and uncertainty of the race as we continue to see horror after horror unfolding in Gaza...
The devastation of Hurricane Oscar, which hit Cuba on October 18th, has significantly worsened the deep crisis of the island’s electric grid. The U.S. government and its media lackeys are trying to blame the socialist government for supposed mismanagement of the country’s power system, but the reality is that the biggest contributor to the situation is the U.S. blockade of Cuba...
CovertAction Bulletin: A Handful of Billionaires are Causing Climate Chaos for the World
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Hurricane Milton approached the physical limits of what a hurricane can be before it made landfall, and this was driven in part by the fact that 13 major Western corporations are responsible for the deforestation of 17% of the Amazon rainforest over the last few decades...
CovertAction Bulletin: Tribute to Palestinian Journalist Wafa Al-Udaini
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On Monday, September 30th, an Israeli airstrike in Deir al-Balah killed Wafa al-Udaini, her husband and two of her children. Wafa was a founder of the October 16 group, a mentor to young journalists and media professionals in Gaza and especially worked to highlight the voices of women impacted by the Israeli occupation...
CovertAction Bulletin: Israel Ignites Middle East as UN General Assembly Meets
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As the United Nations General Assembly meets this week, world leaders have adopted a Pact for the Future to build towards a multilateral world. But the meeting is happening as regional conflicts could flare up and ignite across many parts of the globe...
CovertAction Bulletin: Debate Shows Harris and Trump are Two Sides of the Same Coin
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The first and maybe only debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris happened just after we recorded our last show on Tuesday, September 10th. Over nearly two hours, the candidates attempted to talk over and through each other, regurgitating some of the same old talking points of each of their campaigns...
CovertAction Bulletin – The Other 9/11: U.S. Involvement in the 1973 Chile Coup
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Fifty-one years ago, a bloody coup in Chile overthrew the democratically-elected president Salvadore Allende, leaving him dead. Sometimes now called “the other 9/11,” it ushered in the brutal dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, which lasted for 17 years...
CovertAction Bulletin: CIA Whistleblower John Stockwell Spills the Beans
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John Stockwell is a former CIA officer who became a whistleblower and outspoken critic of the Agency, the U.S. intelligence community and the imperialist policies of the U.S. government. He left the CIA in 1976 after serving there for 12 years following service in the U.S. Marine Corps...
CovertAction Bulletin: Media Blasts Telegram As Russian Tool As CEO Arrested
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The founder and CEO of social media and communications app Telegram, Pavel Durov was arrested in France on August 24th. The country, one of the Nine Eyes intelligence partners along with the US, UK, Australia and others, claims that the social media app is a hotbed for illegal activity, and Western media coverage blasts it as a tool of the Russian government. But the attack on Telegram is actually a testing ground for future attacks on encrypted messaging platforms and alternative news sources...