Digital Literacy and Civics Education are Essential Tools in Era of Disinformation and Surveillance Capitalism
John Kiriakou - 0
Heidi Boghosian delivers a powerful and meticulously researched call to arms for a digitally overwhelmed society grappling with declining civic engagement and the manipulation of truth in the digital age in her new book Cyber Citizens: Saving Democracy with Digital Literacy.
With sharp insight and urgency, Boghosian—the director of the AJ...
On Lockdown: Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange—Dennis Bernstein Interviews John Pilger (Part 1)
Dennis Bernstein - 0
In the USA of 2019, truth itself has become a radical act, and to be motivated by belief, instead of profit and corporate power, is to say the least, rare. Chelsea Elizabeth Manning is indeed one of those rare examples of a 21st century truth teller who has been...
While sitting in my apartment in Caracas, Venezuela, and reading the online edition of Time magazine (5/19/16), I noticed a report asserting that there was not even something as basic as aspirin to be found anywhere in Venezuela: “Basic medicines like aspirin are nowhere to be found.”
I walked out of the...
Beltway Pundit Predictions About Putin’s Downfall Are as Wrong as Predictions 100 Years Ago that the Bolsheviks Would Lose the Russian Civil War
Jeremy Kuzmarov - 0
When Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin launched a revolt against Vladimir Putin on June 23, Beltway pundits became euphoric, predicting Russia’s descent into a civil war and the potential end of Vladimir Putin’s regime.
Michael McFaul, the former U.S. Ambassador to Russia, took to Twitter to declare that Putin had...
CovertAction Bulletin Podcast: Whitewashing Neo-Nazis in Ukraine & Biden’s “Disinformation Governing Board”
Rachel Hu and Chris Garaffa - 1
Biden announced last month the assembly of a team within the Department of Homeland Security with the title: Disinformation Governing Board (DGB). Supposedly this team will be working to combat Russian, Iranian, and Chinese “disinformation.” We dive deeper into the contradictory history of disinformation about Ukraine in 2014 spread by non other than the executive director of the DGB board, Nina Jankowicz.
As Students Go Back to School, What Pivotal Aspects of U.S. History—Including CIA History—Will Not Be Taught?
Jeremy Kuzmarov - 1
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 about the present.
Most academic historians teaching in the Ivy League and at other institutions of...
CIA Director William F. Burns–Capo of World’s Biggest Spreader of Lies and Misinformation–Is Spreading The Big Lie that Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine was “Unprovoked”
Jeremy Kuzmarov - 4
Burns scornfully smears as Russian propaganda evidence that the U.S. deceitfully provoked the invasion to generate a new Cold War
CIA Director Bill Burns testified before the Senate Intelligence committee in early March that Russia and Vladimir Putin were “losing the information war over its war in Ukraine.”
"In all my...
MSNBC Needs a History Lesson: Imperial America is “Greatest Purveyor of Coups” on Earth
Ed Rampell - 4
MSNBC legal analyst Daniel Goldman, Majority Counsel in the first Trump impeachment inquiry, adds to the vast TV disinformation wasteland
Goldman claimed on air that the U.S. routinely works to prevent military coups—when it is a leading perpetrator of them
In the vast wasteland that is cable television “news,” every...
Former CIA Director John Brennan Whitewashes History in Shameless Self-serving Memoir
Jeremy Kuzmarov - 2
During the Vietnam War era, peace activists compared American war planners like Robert S. McNamara and Henry Kissinger to Albert Speer, Hitler’s Minister of War Production and Armaments who stood out for his lack of ideological zeal in supporting the Nazi cause. What motivated Speer, rather, was a cold...
For over two years we have been told Putin’s Russia has interfered with the 2016 U.S. presidential elections. We now find the U.S. government has decided it can unilaterally invalidate the actual presidential elections in Venezuela and recognize a person of its choosing as president. This is one more...









