Right-wing radicals and neo-fascists have become more powerful in Russia over the past few years. After the Soviet Union collapsed, the new, aggressively anti-communist government of Boris Yeltsin overthrew the weak social-democratic government of Mikhail Gorbachev, and two right-wing Russian structures merged. The émigré anti-communists, who had been nurtured...
The Assassination of Walter Lübcke: A Murky Tale of Germany’s First Political Murder in Over Fifty Years
Ellen Rivera - 2
The recent assassination of the Christian democrat Walter Lübcke,
president of the Kassel governmental district, by right-wing extremists, marks
the first murder of a politician in Germany in over half a century. It comes at
a time in which there is a significant surge of white supremacist and neo-Nazi
groups in Germany and...
Imagined Geographies of Central and Eastern Europe: The Concept of Intermarium
Marlene Laruelle and Ellen Rivera - 3
Like the proverbial cat, some concepts have several lives. Or, like the mythological phoenix, they can be reborn from the ashes. This is certainly the case of the Intermarium, a geopolitical concept that envisaged an alliance of countries reaching from the Baltic Sea over the Black Sea to the...
GOP Forms New House Committee to Investigate Abuses of Intelligence Agencies Modeled on 1970s Church Committee—But Will Use Committee to Advance Nefarious Partisan Agenda
Jeremy Kuzmarov - 7
In September, CovertAction Magazine published an article entitled “We Need a New 'Church Committee' to Curb Massive Intelligence Agency Criminality Ranging From Illegal Surveillance to Torture and Assassination.”
And low and behold, the House-led GOP has set up what they call a new Church Committee—the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization...
CovertAction Bulletin – Privatization and Dollarization: Will Argentina Fall to the Right?
Rachel Hu and Chris Garaffa - 0
In Argentina, the far right-wing Libertarian candidate Javier Milei of the Liberty Advances party won 30% of the country’s presidential primary, calling for an end to “Kirchnerism” - really, a call to end the social programs fought for and won by the Argentinian people. We dive deeper into the analysis of how we got here, and what this surge in popularity of libertarianism really means...
A few days before Remembrance Day, November 11, 2024, the Government of Canada announced that it will not release that portion of a report produced by the Commission of Inquiry into War Criminals in Canada (Deschênes Commission) that names 900 Canadians accused of war crimes committed on behalf of...
Peter Thiel needs no introduction to readers of CovertAction Magazine or to Americans in general. I refer you to Jeremy Kuzmarov’s “Sugar Daddy of Trump’s VP Pick Has Deep Ties to CIA.” I am going to assume all that material as read and deal with another chapter in the...
Athens Dispatch: The Trial of Golden Dawn and the Normalization of the Far-Right Agenda
Andrew Lee - 0
With the dramatic rise of extreme
Rightist, Fascist, and neo-Nazi parties and movements in Europe, attention is
now focusing on the last stages of a profoundly important trial in Greece.
In Athens on September 18, 2013
Pavlos Fyssas, an antifascist rapper, was murdered by Giorgios Roupakias, a member
of a gang from...
Project 2025 bills itself as a comprehensive plan to undo decades of social progress - in its own words, to “dismantle the administrative state” and “return self-governance to the American people.” Democrats have jumped into using it and its connections to the Trump agenda and former staff as a reason to rally behind Joe Biden...
Greece Gives Birth to Another Virulent Neo-Nazi Party — Is the U.S. Ambassador One of Its Proud Godfathers?
Andrew Lee - 0
“Greeks for the Fatherland:” Ilias Kasidiaris and Greece's New Far-Right Party
A new neo-Nazi party, “Greeks for the Fatherland,” has formed in Greece under the leadership of former Golden Dawn (GD) leader Ilias Kasidiaris as the infamous GD Party begins to fade.
Serious fissures in GD began in July 2019 when...









