Generated by All in One SEO v5.0.0.1, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # CovertAction Magazine Exposing Covert Action Since 1978 ## Sitemaps - [XML Sitemap](https://covertactionmagazine.com/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website. ## Posts - [Articles](https://covertactionmagazine.com/articles/) - [CIA Pilot Claims to Have Flown Plane Into Dallas on Day of JFK Assassination as Part of "Abort Mission"](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/06/09/cia-drug-pilot-claims-to-have-flown-jfk-assassins-into-dallas/) - In a February 1985 episode of the hit NBC television series Miami Vice, Eagles singer Glenn Frey played a swashbuckling CIA pilot, Jimmy Cole, who flies ace detective Sonny Crockett (Don Johnson) and Rafael Tubbs (Philip Michael Thomas) to Colombia to conduct a drug deal. Crockett and Tubbs had been recruited by the DEA to - [From the Playbook of the John Birch Society, State Department Report Claiming Cuban “Subversion” Is Filled with Misinformation](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/08/13/from-the-playbook-of-the-john-birch-society-state-department-report-claiming-cuban-subversion-is-filled-with-misinformation/) - Named after a U.S. intelligence agent who was allegedly killed by the Chinese Communists during the Chinese Civil War, the John Birch Society was an extreme right-wing organization that regularly warned about communist subversion of U.S. society from within. According to Republican political operative Roger Stone, Donald Trump’s father Fred was one of the John - [Neo-Nazi-Led Units Earn "E-Points" for Kill Videos that Train a CIA-Seeded AI Weapons Lab](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/08/12/neo-nazi-led-units-earn-e-points-for-kill-videos-that-train-a-cia-seeded-ai-weapons-lab/) - Perverse system represents a 21st century high-tech version of Robert S. McNamara’s infamous body count that led to so many atrocities during the Vietnam War The Ukrainian government operates an “Amazon for the military,” called Brave1 Market, that awards military units “e-points” for uploading videos generated by drone strikes. In return, military units—including the 3rd - [Cuba Is Not Venezuela or Jamaica as It Refuses to Become a U.S. Neo-Colony](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/08/11/cuba-is-not-venezuela-or-jamaica-as-it-refuses-to-become-a-u-s-neo-colony/) - Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) recently issued a memo which states: Cuba is not Venezuela. What does that mean? “The same people who keep ’57 Chevrolets on the road with a coat hanger will wreak havoc against a foreign-imposed regime.” In 1975, Jamaica’s socialist Prime Minister Michael Manley expressed support for Cuba's solidarity with the Angola liberation struggle. - [Wilfred Burchett: One of the Greatest War Correspondents of 20th Century and First Western Journalist to Expose Horrors of Atomic Attack on Hiroshima](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/08/10/wilfred-burchett-one-of-the-greatest-war-correspondents-of-20th-century-and-first-western-journalist-to-expose-horrors-of-atomic-attack-on-hiroshima/) - [This article is part of CAM’s commemoration of the anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb. See previous article here. It is of added relevance in light of the renewed risk of nuclear war caused by the reckless war-mongering of U.S. government leaders of this era—Editors] On September 5, 1945, Australian journalist Wilfred Burchett - [An Appeal to the Consciences of Those Who Are Bombing Iran: Save Your Soul, Your Conscience and Your Sanity—STOP THE BOMBINGS!](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/08/08/an-appeal-to-the-consciences-of-those-who-are-bombing-iran-save-your-soul-your-conscience-and-your-sanity-stop-the-bombings/) - Nineteen years ago—in February 2007, during the Bush administration’s Axis of Evil regime and calls for attacks on Iran from members of Congress, including “Bomb, bomb, bomb Iran” (to the tune of Beach Boys song “Barbara Ann”) recitation by Senator John McCain—I wrote an article entitled “An Appeal to Conscience to Those Who WOULD Bomb - [John Stockwell Was One of the Most Important CIA Whistleblowers](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/08/06/john-stockwell-was-one-of-the-most-important-cia-whistleblowers/) - John Stockwell, a CIA operative in Africa and Asia who resigned from the Agency in December 1976 and wrote a tell-all memoir, In Search of Enemies (1978), died in June 2026. With Philip Agee, Stockwell was among the most important national security and CIA whistleblowers of the Cold War era. Both Agee and Stockwell were - [Confidante of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover Wrote Defamatory Book About Hiroshima Pilot Who Expressed Anguish over Dropping of Atomic Bomb](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/08/06/confidante-of-fbi-director-j-edgar-hoover-wrote-defamatory-book-about-hiroshima-pilot-who-expressed-anguish-over-dropping-of-atomic-bomb/) - In the decades after the U.S. dropping of atomic bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, only one serviceman who participated in the bombing missions came forward to publicly declare that he felt remorse for what he had done and reached out to hibakusha (atomic bomb survivors) by making charitable donations and asking them for forgiveness. The - [Germany, Not Russia, Has Become Europe’s Most Dangerous Nation—Again](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/08/04/germany-not-russia-has-become-europes-most-dangerous-nation-again/) - Never Forget: Germany’s Horrific Past Has No Equal—And Now It Threatens the Future Consider the historical weight: From German soil emerged two world wars in the 20th century that claimed tens of millions of lives—with the Russians paying the heaviest price—alongside the Holocaust in Europe, the genocide of the Herero and Nama in Africa, and - [Whistleblower Exposed Corruption in Department of Justice: Attorney General and Young J. Edgar Hoover then Sent Him to Prison for Life](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/08/03/whistleblower-exposed-corruption-in-department-of-justice-attorney-general-and-young-j-edgar-hoover-then-sent-him-to-prison-for-life/) - The smearing of Gaston Means has continued into the 21st century In the upside-down world in which we live, corrupt government officials are celebrated in the media and given prizes and awards, while whistleblowers who expose their malfeasance face smear attacks and persecution and can be framed for crimes and sent to prison for long - [CAM Spotlight on Whistleblowers:  Red State Whistleblower Was Fired After Reporting on Violation of Prison Rape Elimination Act in Oklahoma Prison](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/07/31/cam-spotlight-on-whistleblowers-red-state-whisteblower-was-fired-after-reporting-on-violation-of-prison-rape-elimination-act-in-oklahoma-prison/) - [CovertAction Magazine was founded by one of the most famous whistleblowers of the 1970s, Philip Agee. In addition to its coverage of U.S. foreign policy and the CIA, it is intent on spotlighting the stories of whistleblowers across the U.S.—and, when possible, the world—who have displayed courage in speaking truth to power and in exposing - [The U.S. State Department Attempts to Rain on Nicaragua’s Parade Again](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/07/30/the-u-s-state-department-attempts-to-rain-on-nicaraguas-parade-again/) - In the wind-up to July 19th festivities celebrating the overthrow of its U.S.-installed puppet dictator Anastasio Somoza, the U.S. State Department issued a dire warning to travelers. Only Washington could twist the concept of a national celebration of freedom into a “demonstration.” Only Washington could project and apply the attacks it makes on its own - [CIA-Linked Terrorist Released by ICE After Serving Only Four Months—Around the Same Time He Spent in Prison for Coordinating Notorious Car Bombing Attack](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/07/29/cia-linked-terrorist-released-by-ice-after-serving-only-four-months-around-the-same-time-he-spent-in-prison-for-coordinating-notorious-car-bombing-attack/) - While thousands of people languish in the ICE gulag under abhorrent conditions and are kidnapped off American streets and subject to deportation, a CIA-linked foreign terrorist is being given preferential treatment in a stark reflection of the double standard and corruption of the U.S. criminal justice system. On July 16, The New York Times spotlighted - [Active Duty Air Force Major Who Calls for the Impeachment of President Trump is One of a Rising Number of U.S. Military Dissidents](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/07/29/active-duty-air-force-major-who-calls-for-the-impeachment-of-president-trump-is-one-of-a-rising-number-of-u-s-military-dissidents/) - Speaking or acting publicly and challenging policies of the U.S. government takes courage from an average citizen of the United States; it is doubly so for those who are employed by the U.S. government, and particularly those in the U.S. military. Under the Biden administration we had seven examples of courageous acts of conscience by - [MIT Professor Was an Important Whistleblower Who Exposed Brutality of U.S. Military Occupation of South Korea After World War II](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/07/27/mit-professor-was-an-important-whistleblower-who-exposed-brutality-of-the-u-s-military-occupation-of-south-korea-after-world-war-ii/) - Richard D. Robinson was forced to flee South Korea and destroy the first draft of a manuscript he wrote, Betrayal of a Nation. [This article marks the first of numerous articles that CAM will be publishing over the next ten days to commemorate national whistleblower week.—Editors] Richard D. Robinson (1921-2009) founded the study of international - [Peter Beinart Discusses Monstrosities, Abuse of Power, and the Universal Desire for Justice](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/06/20/peter-beinart-discusses-monstrosities-abuse-of-power-and-the-universal-desire-for-justice/) - On this planet, monstrosities are everywhere. Champions of social justice are everywhere too. On May 11, journalist and public intellectual Peter Beinart spoke in person to a gathering of concerned citizens at the New Millennium Church in Little Rock, Arkansas. Beinart’s appearance was sponsored by Little Rock Peace for Palestine, a local human rights advocacy - [Would Liberals Have Cheered Nixon’s Resignation Fifty Years Ago If They Knew The CIA Was Behind It?](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/08/09/would-liberals-have-cheered-nixons-resignation-fifty-years-ago-if-they-knew-the-cia-was-behind-it/) - As Bad As Nixon Was, Things Got So Much Worse After He Left the White House Fifty years ago, on August 9, 1974, Richard M. Nixon resigned the presidency in disgrace on the threshold of impeachment as a result of the Watergate scandal. Two years earlier, five men, including a salaried security coordinator for President - [Growing Protests Are Unfolding in Japan Against U.S. and Israeli Policies, Fitting a Worldwide Pattern](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/07/25/growing-protests-are-unfolding-in-japan-against-u-s-and-israeli-policies-fitting-a-worldwide-pattern/) - Although the Japanese were not a presence on the Sumud flotilla to Gaza that was recently seized by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), resulting in the arrest of major political figures from Italy, Spain, France and England, and setting off massive protests in Europe, nevertheless, thousands attended a carefully planned demonstration in downtown Tokyo on - [The $300 Billion AUKUS Security Pact is a Boondoggle for Arms Merchants that Heightens Military Tensions in Asia](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/07/25/the-300-billion-aukus-security-pact-is-a-boondoggle-for-arms-merchants-that-heightens-military-tensions-in-asia/) - AUKUS, an acronym for Australia, United Kingdom and the United States, is a trilateral military partnership established in 2021. Its primary publicized goal is “to promote a free, open, and secure Indo-Pacific region by enhancing collective deterrence and accelerating the joint development of advanced military technologies.”[1] Former Malaysia Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob said he - [Top Broadway Actor Who Abhorred War Founded World Citizen Movement in the 1950s](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/07/23/top-broadway-actor-who-abhorred-war-founded-world-citizen-movement-in-the-1950s/) - In the early 1940s, Garry Davis was a rising Broadway star, understudy to Danny Kaye, until he was drafted into World War II and ordered to bomb the city of Brandenburg. Horrified at the carnage he caused, and mortified by the death of his older brother, Meyer Davis, Jr., whose Navy ship was sunk by - [Free Márcio Nepomuceno](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/07/22/free-marcio-nepomuceno/) - A short list of massacres committed by Brazilian police in Rio de Janeiro favelas just in the past decade. Morro dos Prazeres – 8 deaths [March 2026] Complexo da Maré – 3 deaths [November 2025] Complexo do Alemão and Complexo da Penha - 122 deaths [October 28, 2025] (the largest recorded massacre in Brazilian history) - [CIA Has Run Death Squads in Countries Around the World](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/07/20/cia-has-run-death-squads-in-countries-around-the-world/) - [Written in the spirit of Philip Agee, this article continues CovertAction Magazine’s efforts to spotlight the crimes of the CIA, past and present.—Editors] The March 8, 2026, issue of The New York Times Magazine featured an article by Matthieu Aikins and Wesley Morgan entitled “America’ Secret Veterans: They Fought For the C.I.A. in Afghanistan. Now, - [Since Kidnapping of Maduro, Is Venezuela Capitulating to U.S. Imperialism?](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/07/18/since-kidnapping-of-maduro-is-venezuela-capitulating-to-u-s-imperialism/) - Adelmo Becerra is a Venezuelan trade union activist with the National Institute for Training and Socialist Education (INCES). In mid-June, Adelmo told Truthout that changes to a hydrocarbons law, instituted after the kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro in January, has led Venezuela to “regress more than 100 years, back to the era of Juan Vicente - [What the House Hearing Should Have Told You: MKULTRA's Legacy of Modern-Day Torture](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/07/18/what-the-house-hearing-should-have-told-you-mkultras-legacy-of-modern-day-torture/) - CIA mind-control programs were intimately tied to use in coercive interrogation. Both Gitmo and CIA black-site torture were impossible without MK-ULTRA, but that history is being buried. MK-ULTRA was a CIA program that ran from 1953 to 1973. It had its precursors inside the CIA in the top-secret programs titled “Bluebird” and “Artichoke,” and in - [North Korea Aided African Liberation Movements CIA Tried to Suppress](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/07/16/north-korea-aided-african-liberation-movements-cia-tried-to-suppress/) - North Korea’s historic achievements have been airbrushed amidst a relentless CIA-State Department-media demonization campaign lending support to regime-change efforts North Korea is not a country that most people would invoke favorably in polite company. A relentless CIA-State Department-led demonization campaign over 70+ years has engrained the public with the perception that North Korea is an - [Why Many Hawaiians Did Not Celebrate the 250th Anniversary of the U.S.](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/07/14/why-many-hawaiians-did-not-celebrate-the-250th-anniversary-of-the-u-s/) - On the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States, many in Hawai’i, the 50th territory to “join”/acquire U.S. statehood, decided not to celebrate. When you better know the history of how rich and greedy U.S. citizens, many of them descendants of the missionaries from the 1830s, conducted a coup that overthrew the government of the - [The CIA and Mossad Helped Bring Idi Amin to Power in Uganda in the 1970s](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/07/13/the-cia-and-mossad-helped-bring-idi-amin-to-power-in-uganda-in-the-1970s/) - The two intelligence agencies with Great Britain's later teamed to empower an even worse Ugandan dictator—Yoweri Museveni [This article is part of CovertAction Magazine’s attempts to expose the CIA’s horrible history to younger generations.—Editors] Idi Amin, who ruled Uganda from 1971 to 1979, is known as one of the most brutal dictators of the 20th - [Anglo-American Intelligence Agents Aided in Hitler’s Rise to Power](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/09/20/anglo-american-intelligence-agents-aided-in-hitlers-rise-to-power/) - Their intent was to provoke another world war that would destroy Germany completely and prevent its ability to challenge U.S.-UK global supremacy Ernst “Putzi” Hanfstaengl (1887-1975) was a Harvard graduate and friend of Theodore Roosevelt who was a top aide to Adolf Hitler from 1923 to 1937. Although he loathed Hitler’s persecution of Jews, Hanfstaengl - [U.S. Navy’s “Killer” Submarine Participating in World’s Largest Naval War Game Off the Coast of Hawaii](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/07/09/u-s-navys-killer-submarine-participating-in-worlds-largest-naval-war-game-off-the-coast-of-hawaii/) - As the Trump administration and the U.S. Congress continue to ramp up rhetoric of “China is our enemy,” 2026 is the 30th year that the United States has organized the largest naval war practice in the world, called Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC). For 37 days from June 24 through July 31, the RIMPAC war “games” - [Hawaii Bearing Huge Brunt of U.S. Military Buildup Directed Against China](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/07/07/hawaii-bearing-huge-brunt-of-u-s-military-buildup-directed-against-china/) - Hawai’i functions as head of a vast Pacific network of bases and surveillance systems, though expiration of military base leases in 2029 offers an opportunity to convert its land to more sustainable uses In December 2025, Hawaiian Congressman Ed Case (D) issued a press release announcing his support for the $900 billion National Defense Authorization - [Did the FBI use the Weather Underground to Undermine Black Panthers and the New Left?](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/06/30/did-the-fbi-use-the-weather-underground-to-undermine-the-black-panthers-and-the-new-left/) - Paul Thomas Anderson’s Oscar-winning 2025 film One Battle After Another sparked a spirited debate on the left over its portrayal of a fictional group of revolutionaries known as the French 75. Some read the movie as a call to arms against Trump’s fascistic policies while others interpreted it as a satirical depiction of ultra-left adventurism - [Despite U.S. Hybrid Warfare and Sanctions, Nicaragua’s Socialist Government is Building Infrastructure and Providing Services at Impressive Rate](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/07/08/despite-u-s-hybrid-warfare-and-sanctions-nicaraguas-socialist-government-is-building-infrastructure-and-providing-services-at-impressive-rate/) - Meanwhile, in the U.S., public systems are crumbling or being sold off to private corporations Upon landing in Miami, a TSA agent asked me where I had just come from. “Nicaragua,” I said. “Aren't the people there poor?” he asked. His inquisitiveness surprised me, but I went with it: “Yes, there is poverty in Nicaragua. - [Elusive Language: What is Terrorism Really?](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/07/04/elusive-language-what-is-terrorism-really/) - Actually I have grown tired of explaining to people the deception at the heart of airport security procedures. For years I have tried to show that the explanations given for the increasingly intrusive, not to mention time-consuming, controls to which passengers in international travel and for decades now in domestic movement have nothing to do - [Just About Every War in U.S. History Was Avoidable and Based on Lies—Save Perhaps the Revolutionary War](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/07/02/just-about-every-war-in-u-s-history-was-avoidable-and-based-on-lies-save-perhaps-the-revolutionary-war/) - In early February, as part of its “America 250” campaign, the Trump White House issued a presidential pronouncement commemorating what it called “our victory in the Mexican-American War,” a war that it framed as being a defensive one forced upon an innocent United States. While many recognize this pronouncement as a reversal of reality, standard - [Ship Used to Breed Disease Epidemics in the Korean War Is Discovered!](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/07/01/ship-used-to-breed-disease-epidemics-in-the-korean-war-is-discovered/) - The notorious “Bubonic Plague Ship” of the U.S. Navy has been found beached in Northern California. LSIL 1091 laboratory vessel was used to breed dysentery and cholera epidemics among North Korean and Chinese POWs at the sprawling Koje Island Prison Camp during the Korean War. [This article is part of CAM’s efforts to spotlight the - [Rodney Catsiff: Renegade Investigator Who Feared Code of Silence](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/06/30/rodney-catsiff-renegade-investigator-who-feared-code-of-silence/) - As of spring 2026, the Homicide Bureau of the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department is re-examining the case of the unlicensed private investigator Rod Catsiff, who investigated murders and disappearances in the Antelope Valley until his declared date of death in 2001. On a Friday afternoon in April 2018, retired Lieutenant Ron Shreves of the Los - [Secretary of the Communist Party in Armenia Says Political Repression is Off the Charts Under Close U.S. Ally Nikol Pashinyan](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/06/27/secretary-of-the-communist-party-in-armenia-says-that-political-repression-is-off-the-charts-under-nikol-pashinyan-who-is-becoming-a-closer-u-s-ally/) - Warns that further dark times may await Armenians under Pashinyan’s rule CAM correspondent Nicholas Reed spoke with a representative of the communist movement in Armenia, amid a critical geopolitical point where the government of Nikol Pashinyan is pivoting away from Russia and closer to the European Union. Pashinyan claimed victory in the June 7, 2026 - [The Strange Case of Dr. Jacques: The Vietnam War’s Most Elusive Spy](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/05/19/the-strange-case-of-dr-jacques-the-vietnam-wars-most-elusive-spy/) - Colonel Nguyen Mau was director of the Special Branch of the Republic of Vietnam’s national police force from 1968 to 1972. Created, funded and advised by the CIA, the Special Branch consisted of professional interrogators and agent handlers who maintained informant networks in the hamlets and villages and sought to turn higher-ranking Communist Party members in - [A Two-State Solution to Prevent a Forever War](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/06/12/a-two-state-solution-to-prevent-a-forever-war/) - On May 28, Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) endorsed a Palestinian state, with the West Bank and Gaza to be connected physically. As an advocate for peace, I do not agree that Israel must be defeated for Palestinians to achieve liberation. That is a forever war. It reminds me of the statement by Russell Means - [Despite What U.S. History Books Say, South Korea and the U.S. Started the Korean War—Not North Korea](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/06/25/despite-what-u-s-history-books-say-south-korea-and-the-u-s-started-the-korean-war-not-north-korea/) - June 25th marks the 76th anniversary of the provocation of the Korean War which is referred to in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) as the Fatherland Liberation War or Victorious Fatherland Liberation War. It was a war of a big country against a small country and a racist genocidal war, which saw the - [CIA Governor Betrays Workers of Virginia By Vetoing Collective Bargaining Right Bill](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/06/24/cia-governor-betrays-workers-of-virginia-by-vetoing-collective-bargaining-right-bill/) - Abigail Spanberger follows the model of the CIA throughout the developing world In late May, Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger vetoed collective bargaining rights legislation— Senate Bill 378 and House Bill 1264—that would have allowed half a million Virginia public workers to organize into unions and be able to negotiate their working conditions and pay rates. - [CovertAction Bulletin: Iran Gives the U.S. a Black Eye](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/06/24/covertaction-bulletin-iran-gives-the-u-s-a-black-eye/) - The United States and Iran have signed a 14-point memorandum of understanding after over 100 days of bombing and war by the U.S. and Israel since February... - [Was Dimona Nearly Bombed in 1967?](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/06/23/was-dimona-nearly-bombed-in-1967/) - Those living today are destined to experience a rare Triffin’s Dilemma moment, when one dominant but fading empire transitions uneasily to a more robust one.[1] The end of the Portuguese and Spanish empires can be understood as examples of such turning points, with the defeat of the Spanish Armada in the English (not Spanish) Channel - [U.S. Military Bases Around the World Are Facing Growing Protest From an Emboldened Antiwar Movement](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/06/22/u-s-military-bases-around-the-world-are-facing-growing-protest-from-an-emboldened-antiwar-movement/) - Protests receive scant coverage in the U.S. media In early April, an unidentified Irish man climbed onto the roof of a U.S. C-130 Hercules military transport vehicle parked at Shannon Airport in County Claire, Ireland, and sabotaged its wing and fuselage using a hatchet, causing $75 million in damage. The heroic action was part of - [Cuba’s Real Crime in the Minds of American Elites](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/06/18/cubas-real-crime-in-the-minds-of-american-elites/) - In the eyes of American policy elites Cuba’s most unforgivable crime is not even its socialism, which is now badly frayed, but rather its sovereignty. Cuba’s persistent independence and oppositional survival as a state is an American imperial humiliation. Revolutionary Cuba’s mere existence threatens the cynicism, complacency and defeatism that does so much to maintain imperial - [Gold and Chains: Travel Report From Tibet](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/06/17/gold-and-chains-travel-report-from-tibet/) - Vibrant monasteries, villages, the local language, and a woman I met who had three husbands—places where culture is not merely preserved—not suppressed—but actively lived. Far from the capital, deep in the remote countryside, a Tibetan woman invited me and my Vietnamese friends into her home. She lives with three husbands and is a mother of - [CovertAction Bulletin - Musk: One Trillionaire Too Many](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/06/17/covertaction-bulletin-musk-one-trillionaire-too-many/) - Elon Musk has become the world’s first trillionaire after SpaceX’s public offering last week, the largest in history... - [Head of CIA Cold War Propaganda Offensive Was An Ideological Zealot Who Got Countless People Killed in Futile Covert Operations](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/06/16/head-of-cia-cold-war-propaganda-offensive-was-an-ideological-zealot-who-got-countless-people-killed-in-futile-covert-operations/) - Frank Wisner was a CIA legend from the early Cold War era who earned the nickname “the Mighty Wurlitzer” for his ability to supposedly orchestrate covert operations with the precision and intricacy of a symphony maestro. Wisner, however, got countless of his own agents killed running infiltration missions behind the Iron Curtain using Eastern European - [The Central Intelligence Agency at Swan Island before, during, and after the Bay of Pigs Invasion of Cuba](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/06/15/the-central-intelligence-agency-at-swan-island-before-during-and-after-the-bay-of-pigs-invasion-of-cuba/) - [This article continues CovertAction Magazine’s efforts to illuminate the history of the CIA.—Editors] The CIA’s “Brief History of Radio Swan,” formerly classified SECRET EYES ONLY, begins with this paragraph: "On 17 March 1960, President Eisenhower approved a covert action program to bring about the replacement of the Castro regime. Within the propaganda framework of that - [Russian Spy Was Killed as Part of CIA-MI6 Psychological Warfare Operation Says Former Commander of French Anti-Terrorism Group](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/06/11/russian-spy-was-killed-as-part-of-cia-mi6-psychological-warfare-operation-says-former-commander-of-french-anti-terrorism-group/) - Operation Beluga Helped Condition the Public to Support the New Cold War On November 1, 2006, a former Russian spy turned British MI6 agent, Alexander “Sasha” Litvinenko, was poisoned with polonium while meeting with two alleged Russian agents, Andrey Lugovoy and Dmitry Kovtun, and an Italian security consultant, Mario Scaramella, at the bar of a - [Honduras Gate: The “Próspera” Island of Geopolitics, Foreign Interference, and Drug Trafficking](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/06/10/honduras-gate-the-prospera-island-of-geopolitics-foreign-interference-and-drug-trafficking/) - The island of Roatán is one of the most idyllic places in the Caribbean, with beautiful beaches, crystal-clear waters, and luxurious hotels. Although it belongs to Honduras, English is widely spoken there. In 2024, it was selected as one of the best places in the world by Time magazine and is home to the world’s - [CovertAction Bulletin - Sold Out: How Profit Undermines the World Cup and New York Basketball](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/06/10/covertaction-bulletin-sold-out-how-profit-undermines-the-world-cup-and-new-york-basketball/) - The World Cup is starting on June 11th with matches across the United States, Mexico and Canada... - [One Gaza Flotilla Boat Made it to Gaza—in Pieces](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/06/09/one-gaza-flotilla-boat-made-it-to-gaza-in-pieces/) - Gaza Flotilla Boats Get Their Resilience from Palestinians Gaza flotilla boats have become like Palestinians. They—like Palestinians—have been attacked, beaten, partially destroyed, and thrown to the four winds by a brutal, violent Israeli government. Some of the 2026 Gaza flotilla boats were purposefully damaged so severely by Israeli military forces that they sank, like Palestinians who - [The Battle of Gog and Magog in the Mossad, 1962–66](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/06/06/the-battle-of-gog-and-magog-in-the-mossad-1962-66/) - The investigative journalist Henrik Kruger wrote about the Ben Barka murder in 1980 when it was still unsolved. He said it contained “unexploded fireworks.” Even after it was more-or-less sorted out, with starring roles for the Moroccan king and his security agents, French Gaullist ministers and their gangster operatives, and even Israel’s Mossad under Meir - [U.S.-Israeli Attack on Lebanon Has Resulted in Destruction of a Quarter Million Homes and Killing of at Least 7,000 People Since October 2023](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/06/04/u-s-israeli-attack-on-lebanon-has-resulted-in-destruction-of-a-quarter-million-homes-and-killing-of-at-least-7000-people-since-october-2023/) - On March 22, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz ordered the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) to “accelerate the destruction of Lebanese homes” near the Israeli border based on the “model in Gaza” as part of its campaign against Hezbollah. Since October 2023, the IDF has destroyed 250,000 homes in southern Lebanon, according to Ziad Abu-Rish, associate - [The October 7 Dissenters](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/06/03/the-october-7-dissenters/) - A massive military and intelligence failure, or something else? On October 7, 2023, Hamas and other militant forces crossed from Gaza into southern Israel, attacking military sites, roads, kibbutzim, and the Nova music festival. Roughly 1,200 Israelis and foreign workers or visitors were killed during the attacks, and 251 were taken hostage, making it the - [CovertAction Bulletin: Two Americas at 250](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/06/03/covertaction-bulletin-two-americas-at-250/) - The Trump administration is planning a series of grand patriotic events for the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence... - [CIA Refuses to Release Report From Plane Crash Sixty Years Ago that Claimed Life of Vietnam Counterinsurgency Specialist and Whistleblower](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/06/02/cia-refuses-to-release-report-from-plane-crash-sixty-years-ago-that-claimed-life-of-vietnam-counterinsurgency-specialist-and-whistleblower/) - James B. Wells is a retired criminal justice professor at Eastern Kentucky University who was nine years old on September 27, 1965, when he received the terrible news that his father Jack had died in a small plane crash in Bao Tri, some ten kilometers southwest of Cu Chi, while traveling on an Air America - [EU Imperialism Marching After Hungarian Coup](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/06/01/eu-imperialism-marching-after-hungarian-coup/) - On April 12th, a political earthquake in Hungary upended 16 years of continuous rule by Viktor Orban. It was a period characterized by constant and ever-mounting confrontation between Budapest and the European Commission, the EU’s executive body. Now, Orban’s exit has removed a major barrier to EU federalization, and imperialism. Brussels’ fingerprints are plastered all - [Life for Syrian People is Far Worse Today than Under Assad, Says Award-Winning Journalist Who Covered Syrian War](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/05/31/life-for-syrian-people-is-far-worse-today-than-under-assad-says-award-winning-journalist-who-covered-syrian-war/) - Recipient of the Serena Shim Award for uncompromised integrity in journalism, Vanessa Beeley gained an excellent reputation for first-hand reporting during the Syrian War (2011-2024) that challenged dominant media narratives. In December 2024, Beeley was forced to flee Syria after the overthrow of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, who was replaced by Mohammed al-Jolani, a darling - [Is Zelensky About To Be "Diemed" as the U.S. Plans a New Phase of War on Russia?](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/05/29/is-zelensky-about-to-be-diemed-as-the-u-s-plans-a-new-phase-of-war-on-russia/) - Zelensky’s former press secretary publicly helps lift the veil on Zelensky. Could this be a prelude to him being removed from power? Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has much in common with ill-fated South Vietnam dictator Ngo Dinh Diem (1955-1963). Both were heralded by liberal politicians and the media as democratic saviors and miracle men and - [Cry My Beloved Lebanon](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/05/28/cry-my-beloved-lebanon/) - Reflections on the Carnage...and What Lebanon Used to Be I am an American citizen, born in Beirut, Lebanon, the daughter of a diplomat/spy, which makes me immune from President Trump’s deportation efforts. My father, Daniel Dennett, served as head of counter-intelligence for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and later the Central Intelligence Group (CIG), - [2026 Gaza Flotilla Endures Attacks by Israeli Military and Taunting by Israel’s Security Minister But Wins International Sympathy for its Cause](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/05/27/2026-gaza-flotilla-endures-attacks-by-israeli-military-and-taunting-by-israels-security-minister-but-wins-international-sympathy-for-its-cause/) - The largest civilian flotilla in the history of support for Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank was intercepted at 10:30 a.m. (Turkiye time) on Monday, May 18, 2026, 250 nautical miles from Gaza. Multiple large Israeli warships disgorged a large number of Zodiac boats filled with combat-laden Israeli offensive forces. Some 45 minutes into - [Declassified Government Documents Show Justice Department Indictment of Raúl Castro Advances False Claims](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/05/26/declassified-government-documents-show-justice-department-indictment-of-raul-castro-advances-false-claims/) - On May 20, the U.S. Justice Department announced charges against the 94-year-old former president of Cuba, Raúl Castro. Allegations accuse him of murder and conspiracy to kill three U.S. citizens and one resident, stemming from the fatal downing in February 1996 of two planes by Cuban Air Force jets. Declassified documents show back-door, not to - [The Great Heroin Coup](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/05/22/the-great-heroin-coup/) - [This article is part of a series looking back on the historic double standards and failures of America’s international War on Drugs. The timing is very apt in light of the Trump administration's escalation of this failed war.—Editors] The Unknown Part of the French Connection In 1931 American Mafia leader “Lucky” Luciano united most of - [The U.S. Helps Prop Up 200+ Year Old Monarchy in Oman in Exchange for Access to Military Facilities](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/05/21/the-u-s-helps-prop-up-200-year-old-monarchy-in-oman-in-exchange-for-access-to-military-facilities/) - Jimmy Carter’s administration signed a pivotal military facilities agreement with Sultan Qaboos after he brutally repressed a leftist rebellion In June 2024, Eric Trump announced the Trump administration’s partnership with a luxury real estate developer, DarGlobal, to construct a $500 million luxury hotel scheduled to open in Muscat, the capital of Oman, in December 2028. - [Une Petite Aventure Française](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/05/20/une-petite-aventure-francaise/) - Amid the Cold War, French and Spanish intelligence services recruited terrorists to dismantle a Libyan spy network in Europe. Today, more than three decades later, the case remains shrouded in mystery. And what if I told you that it is highly likely the nation for which you would be willing to lay down your life - [CovertAction Bulletin: Are We in the Middle of a Socialist Revival?](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/05/20/covertaction-bulletin-are-we-in-the-middle-of-a-socialist-revival/) - From the Governor of California to the Mayor of Pensacola and Senate seats in Massachusetts, Ohio and beyond, socialist candidates and ideas are gaining momentum across the country... - [Ben and Jerry’s Co-Founder Spearheads Campaigns to Cut Pentagon Spending and Sustain Company’s Political Activism](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/05/18/ben-and-jerrys-co-founder-spearheads-campaigns-to-cut-pentagon-spending-and-sustain-companys-political-activism/) - At the end of March, Ben Cohen, the co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, carried out an act of guerrilla theater when he installed a statue on the National Mall depicting a tearful Donald Trump holding a hole-riddled golden dome like an umbrella as water streamed from model intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) overhead. The - [JFK’s Last Stand and the Forensic Trail Left in the Vietnam Files](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/05/15/jfks-last-stand-and-the-forensic-trail-left-in-the-vietnam-files/) - This article addresses one of the most consequential and deliberately obscured chapters in American history: President John F. Kennedy’s potentially planned strategic withdrawal from Vietnam, its abrupt reversal under Lyndon B. Johnson, and the documentary evidence suggesting foreknowledge of policy transformation. The focus centers on National Security Action Memorandum (NSAM) 263, its betrayal through NSAM - [Declassified: UK Knew NATO Expansion ‘Would Provoke’ Russia War](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/05/14/declassified-uk-knew-nato-expansion-would-provoke-russia-war/) - On April 15th, Declassified UK published a bombshell investigation exposing how, in the mid-1990s, senior British political and military officials were well aware that NATO expansion into Central and Eastern Europe “would provoke [the] Russians,” and likely trigger all-out war. Hitherto unreported Ministry of Defence files reveal London knew Moscow’s “sensitivities” over a “hostile military - [CIA Brainchild in Thailand Carried Out Grisly Counterinsurgency, Helped Wage Deadly Secret War in Laos, Massacred Student Protesters and Upheld Royalist Rule](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/05/13/cia-brainchild-in-thailand-carried-out-grisly-counterinsurgency-helped-wage-a-deadly-secret-war-in-laos-massacred-student-protesters-and-upheld-royalist-rule/) - The Thai Border Patrol Police was created by the CIA [This article continues CAM’s investigation into the nefarious activities of the CIA during the Cold War.—Editors] In an April 28 interview with The Washington Post, Thai Foreign Minister Sihasak Phuangketkeow expressed his opposition to the war in Iran and noted Thailand’s strengthening ties with Russia and China, a departure from - [CovertAction Bulletin: Close Encounters of the Distraction Kind](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/05/13/covertaction-bulletin-close-encounters-of-the-distraction-kind/) - The Pentagon has released hundreds of declassified files, pictures and videos relating to UAPs—Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena—more popularly known as UFOs... - [Why is Stalin So Popular in Modern Russia?](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/05/12/why-is-stalin-so-popular-in-modern-russia/) - At the turn of the millennium, Russia teetered on a precarious geo-political edge. A nation scarred by the wild 1990s, grappling with whether to cling to the chaotic promises of neo-liberal reform, or reclaim echoes of its ironclad Soviet resolve. The economy was a rotting corpse, being feasted upon by oligarchs, whose loyalty to Moscow’s - [Strategic Imperative Drives U.S. Support For Israel](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/05/11/strategic-imperative-drives-u-s-support-for-israel/) - The conservative media landscape has recently been embroiled in an explosive debate about Israel. One one side, there is former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who has broken with Donald Trump and the MAGA universe over the Iran War, stating that Trump betrayed his anti-war election pledge because of his fealty to Israel and that - [Labor Leader Walter Reuther Was Among 1960s Liberal Leaders Who Appear to Have Been Assassinated By "the Deep State"](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/05/08/labor-leader-walter-reuther-was-among-1960s-liberal-leaders-who-appear-to-have-been-assassinated-by-the-deep-state/) - A full investigation is needed into his and other deaths that paved the way for right-wing ascendancy and devastation of America’s working class On May 9, 1970, United Auto Workers (UAW) President Walter Reuther was killed, along with his wife May and five other people, after the private jet they were flying in crashed during - [Diomer Lopez: A Venezuelan Student in Moscow, Struggling for a Sovereign Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/05/07/diomer-lopez-a-venezuelan-student-in-moscow-struggling-for-a-sovereign-bolivarian-republic-of-venezuela/) - Hello, my name is Diomer Lopez. I am a Venezuelan student in the Russian Federation, studying international relations. I was born in Caracas and lived there for 25 years. I am a young man devoted to the ethical, moral and socialist values ​​of the homeland of Bolívar and Chávez. I am one of those fortunate - [Israeli Navy Goes 700 Miles to Attack Unarmed Gaza Flotilla Boats Near Greek Waters](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/05/06/israeli-navy-goes-700-miles-to-attack-unarmed-gaza-flotilla-boats-near-greek-waters/) - 179 Unarmed International Participants on 21 Boats Kidnapped in International Waters by Israeli Navy On the evening of Wednesday, April 29, 2026, Israeli naval forces attacked the Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) to Gaza. An unknown number of Israeli military ships traveled more than 700 miles to attack a 54-ship flotilla that was headed for Gaza to break - [CovertAction Bulletin: May Day and the Power of the General Strike](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/05/06/covertaction-bulletin-may-day-and-the-power-of-the-general-strike/) - In over 3,500 cities and towns across the United States, workers took to the streets on May 1st for a day of no work, no school, and no shopping on the fourth day this year of mass organized action... - [Witch-hunt Against Chinese Scientists Has Taken a Deadly Turn](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/05/05/witch-hunt-against-chinese-scientists-has-taken-a-deadly-turn/) - Persecution of Chinese scientists is part of anti-China policy that could lead to World War III On March 20, Danhao Wang, a brilliant thirty-year-old Chinese post-doctoral physicist at the University of Michigan, allegedly took his own life after being subjected to hostile questioning by federal agents. China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs afterwards demanded a full - [Meet Ali Mohamed, the CIA's Man Inside Al-Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden's "First Trainer"](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/05/04/meet-ali-mohamed-the-cias-man-inside-al-qaeda-and-osama-bin-ladens-first-trainer/) - [This is the second part of the author’s investigation into the backstory behind 9/11. Part I can be read here.] In August 2025, a federal judge in the Southern District of New York (SDNY) ruled that the perennial lawsuit filed by the families of 9/11 victims against the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) can finally - [Mystery of Spook’s Death Persists Forty-Six Years Later](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/09/23/mystery-of-spooks-death-persists-forty-six-years-later/) - On September 23, 1978, John Arthur Paisley was reported missing after he disappeared from his boat, Brillig, which was equipped with sophisticated communications equipment, in the Chesapeake Bay. Days later, Paisley’s body was identified in the bay, fitted with weighted diver’s belts around the waist. He had been shot in the head with a 9mm - [House CIA Subcommittee Led by Former Special Forces and Navy Veterans, NED Board Members, AIPAC Benefactors, FBI Agents, Conspiracy Theorists and Ukraine/China Hawks](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/04/30/house-cia-subcommittee-is-led-by-former-special-forces-and-navy-veterans-ned-board-members-aipac-benefactors-fbi-agents-conspiracy-theorists-and-ukraine-and-china-hawks/) - No Wonder They Have Betrayed the Legacy of Frank Church The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) was established in 1977 as a consequence of post-Church Committee reforms intended to prevent the perpetuation of CIA abuses that were exposed in the 1975/76 Church Committee.[1] The first chairman of the HPSCI (1977-1985), Edward Boland (D-MA), was known for sponsoring - [U.S Intelligence Fingerprints Can Be Seen in Death of Nirvana Singer Kurt Cobain—Like with Jeffrey Epstein’s Blackmail Network](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/05/01/u-s-intelligence-fingerprints-can-be-seen-in-death-of-nirvana-singer-kurt-cobain-like-with-jeffrey-epsteins-blackmail-network/) - April 5 marked the 32nd anniversary of former Nirvana lead singer Kurt Cobain’s death, supposedly from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. This past year, an unofficial private sector team of forensic scientists that put fresh eyes on Cobain’s autopsy and the crime scene material concluded that Cobain’s death actually resulted from a homicide. A Utah investigator - [New Authoritarianism in Europe is Targeting its Own Citizens](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/04/30/the-new-authoritarianism-in-europe-is-targeting-its-own-citizens/) - From just €560 a month to frozen accounts and prison threats over baby food—how the EU and Germany are imposing total civil death on a German journalist and his family for naming the Gaza genocide. Hüseyin Doğru, a German citizen of Turkish-Kurdish origin with exclusively German nationality, who lives in Berlin, is the first and - [Diplomatic Protection: An Underutilized Tool To Counter Economic Sanctions, Financial Blockades and Other Unilateral Coercive Measures](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/04/28/diplomatic-protection-an-underutilized-tool-to-counter-economic-sanctions-financial-blockades-and-other-unilateral-coercive-measures/) - In the light of the proliferation of unilateral coercive measures (UCMs, wrongly characterized “sanctions”) and the adverse human rights impacts they generate worldwide,[1] the question arises what measures States should adopt to counter the UCM plague. Diplomatic protection on behalf of individuals and corporations harmed by UCMs is an under-utilized foreign policy tool that can - [1980s CIA Off Campus Movement Leader is Running for Santa Cruz Mayor](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/04/27/1980s-cia-off-campus-movement-leader-is-running-for-santa-cruz-mayor/) - In the late 1980s, as a journalism, film and creative writing student at Northwestern University, Ami Chen Mills was a leader in the student movement to remove the CIA from college campuses. Today, more than 35 years later, Mills remains committed to social justice causes and is running to become the next mayor of Santa - [Timothy Leary—1960s Acid Guru—May Have Been Among the CIA’s Greatest Assets](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/04/24/timothy-leary-1960s-acid-guru-may-have-been-among-the-cias-greatest-assets/) - Leary Helped Destroy the 1960s New Left by Turning the Youth onto Drugs [This article follows CAM’s efforts to expose the CIA’s dark and often bizarre history to new generations of people.—Editors] During the mid-1960s, as political activism against the Vietnam War and other social ills skyrocketed, Dr. Timothy Leary, a former University of California - [Living in the Age of Hyperbole or "A Beginners Guide to Identifying Propaganda"](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/04/24/living-in-the-age-of-hyperbole-or-a-guide-to-identifying-propaganda/) - Among the many advantages of my generation, becoming adults in the 1960s and ’70s, was what and how we were taught. Advertising propaganda was new in the 1950s and, instead of using it to manage us, we were then taught how to manage it. Government and industry soon learned better; so, perhaps, we should too. - [“CIA Man” in Kisangani Helped Provide Cover For Regime Change and Genocide](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/04/20/cia-man-in-kisangani-helped-provide-cover-for-regime-change-and-genocide/) - In 1997, Ambassador Robert Houdek was the senior U.S. official in eastern Congo. His job was to assist in the repatriation of Hutu refugees who fled Rwanda after the Tutsi-led Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) took control following Rwanda’s 1990-1994 civil war. A former senior U.S. official characterized Houdek as “our man in Kisangani” who “worked - [Despite Its Liberal Reputation, the University of California at Berkeley Has Long History of Advancing White Supremacy, Militarism and Quashing Student Protests](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/04/22/despite-its-liberal-reputation-the-university-of-california-at-berkeley-has-long-history-of-advancing-white-supremacy-militarism-and-quashing-student-protests/) - The late Mario Savio was a leading light of the Free Speech Movement (FSM) at the University of California, Berkeley. His 1964 speech is now legend: Now, Berkeley loves to boast of its former student. At the time of the undergraduate philosophy major’s speech, however, the university administration did not value him at all. “The - [CovertAction Bulletin - Age Verification: Backdoor to Surveillance & Censorship](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/04/22/covertaction-bulletin-age-verification-backdoor-to-surveillance-censorship/) - Imagine being forced to prove how old you are—and having it verified by a third party—before unlocking your phone or signing up for a social media site. That’s the goal of legislation introduced or passed in some U.S. states, the UK and Australia... - [Another U.S. War Built on Lies: Imperialism, Capitalism, and the Targeting of Iran’s Independence](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/04/21/another-u-s-war-built-on-lies-imperialism-capitalism-and-the-targeting-of-irans-independence/) - 1. Modern Imperialism and the Structural Logic of War In the history of United States foreign policy, wars have rarely been the product of an immediate and unavoidable threat; rather, they have often been the outcome of a complex process of narrative construction, economic interests, and geopolitical calculations. The recent attack by the United States - [Edward Snowden, John Kiriakou and Daniel Hale Top List of Whistleblowers Who Deserve Presidential Pardons in 2026](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/04/16/edward-snowden-john-kiriakou-and-daniel-hale-are-top-list-of-whistleblowers-who-deserve-presidential-pardons-in-2026/) - Bradley Birkenfeld, who exposed one of the largest tax scams in U.S. history, should also be pardoned On February 20, 2025, Donald Trump created the new position of the “Pardon Czar” to recommend “executive clemency” candidates, naming Alice Marie Johnson to that role. Johnson had been sentenced to life imprisonment without parole for non-violent drug - [The Mossad Planned 1965 Assassination of Mehdi Ben Barka in France: Why It Matters Today](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/04/17/the-mossad-planned-1965-assassination-of-mehdi-ben-barka-in-france-why-it-matters-today/) - On November 22, 1963, the same day as the JFK assassination, Mehdi Ben Barka, an anti-colonial politician and head of the left-wing Union of Popular Forces (UNFP) of Morocco, was sentenced to death in absentia for conspiracy to overthrow King Hassan II. The sentence was carried out two years later in Paris, France, with the - [Japan’s World War II Atrocities Are Still Haunting U.S.-Sino-Japanese Relations](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/04/14/japans-world-war-ii-atrocities-are-still-haunting-u-s-sino-japanese-relations/) - [This is the first article of a two-part series on the U.S. cover-up of Japanese war crimes during World War II. Second part here.] On September 3, 2025, the People’s Republic of China held a commemorative military parade to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the Chinese victory over Imperial Japan in the second Sino-Japanese War. - [The U.S. Helped Cover Up Japanese War Crimes in World War II](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/04/16/the-u-s-helped-cover-up-japanese-war-crimes-in-world-war-ii/) - This is the second part of a two-part series, the first of which focused on Japan’s occupation of China prior to and during World War II, the human experimentation that occurred at Unit 731 (Japan’s bioweapons research facility in occupied Manchuria), and the after-effects of the Empire of the Rising Sun’s covert chemical and bacteriological - [CovertAction Bulletin: Secret Court Reauthorizes Secretive Spy Program](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/04/15/covertaction-bulletin-secret-court-reauthorizes-secretive-spy-program/) - Congress is set to vote soon on reauthorization of the Section 702 warrantless surveillance program, part of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA... - [Trump Administration Working Hard to Try to Revive CIA Mystique](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/04/13/trump-administration-working-hard-to-try-to-revive-cia-mystique/) - On April 6, The New York Times ran an article under the headline “CIA’s Deception Plan Helped Divert Iranians from Missing American” by Julian Barnes.[1] The article noted that, when two American pilots ejected from their plane after it was shot down and took refuge in the mountains, the CIA developed a deception plan to - [Leaked: Britain Exports Secret Government Agency’s Dark Arts Overseas](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/04/03/leaked-britain-exports-secret-government-agencys-dark-arts-overseas/) - Documents obtained by CovertAction Magazine reveal how prolific Western government contractor Torchlight, staffed by British military and intelligence veterans, has covertly trained “commercial and government clients” the world over in Government Communications Headquarters’ (GCHQ) digital espionage and cyberwar strategies. Cloak-and-dagger techniques to “discredit, disrupt, delay, deny, degrade, and deter” target adversaries and populations, honed for - [The Iranians Probably Wished to Hell They Had Developed Nuclear Weapons! Just Ask the Russians, Chinese and North Koreans!](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/04/10/the-iranians-probably-wished-to-hell-they-had-developed-nuclear-weapons-just-ask-the-russians-chinese-and-north-koreans/) - Even when the U.S. and Israel fired missiles and dropped bombs on the home of Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his wife and other members of his family, killing more than 40 members of the leadership of Iran, senior Iranian officials had maintained that Iran would never develop a nuclear bomb. The Omani Foreign Minister, - [New Zealand's Surveillance Relationship with Israel and Five Eyes Intelligence Sharing](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/04/10/new-zealands-surveillance-relationship-with-israel-and-five-eyes-intelligence-sharing/) - At the March 4, 2026, Intelligence and Security Committee, Green Party national security and intelligence spokesperson Teanau Tuiono asked the heads of New Zealand’s two primary spy agencies to clarify the country’s intelligence relationship with Israel. “I’ve been thinking about…the U.S.-Israel strikes on Iran,…and I wonder if you could provide us some clarity,” said Tuiono. - [The Korean CIA: A Horrific Creation of the CIA](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/04/09/the-korean-cia-a-horrific-creation-of-the-cia/) - [This article is part of CovertAction Magazine’s attempt to educate readers on the horrific history of the CIA.—Editors] On August 8, 1973, Kim Dae-jung, an opposition leader with the Korean New Democratic Party (KNDP), was kidnapped by the Korean Central Intelligence Agency (KCIA) from the 22nd floor of the Grand Palace Hotel in Tokyo and - [Noted Historian Predicts that Israel Is On the Brink of Implosion and Says that It Cannot Continue Under Its Current Direction](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/04/08/noted-historian-predicts-that-israel-is-on-the-brink-of-implosion-and-says-that-it-cannot-continue-under-its-current-direction/) - On March 14, noted Israeli historian Ilan Pappé spoke to concerned citizens at the Ron Robinson Theater in Little Rock, Arkansas. The event was sponsored by Little Rock Peace for Palestine, a local human rights advocacy group. Ilan Pappé has devoted his academic career to studying the experiences of Palestinian civilians during the “Israeli War - [CovertAction Bulletin: Trump’s Threats Further Destabilize World Order](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/04/08/covertaction-bulletin-trumps-threats-further-destabilize-world-order/) - Just a day after Donald Trump made a national prime-time address on April 1st claiming the US is “winning and winning big” in the war on Iran, an American F-15E Strike Eagle fighter plane was shot down over a mountainous region of eastern Iran, kicking off a frantic search-and-rescue and a covert misinformation operation by the CIA within Iran... - [Even U.S. Generals Recognize that U.S. Boots on the Ground in Iran Would Be Catastrophic](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/04/07/even-u-s-generals-recognize-that-u-s-boots-on-the-ground-in-iran-would-be-catastrophic/) - As public support for the war in Iran dips lower and lower, the Trump administration is not only threatening a massive bombing campaign but appears to be planning a large-scale ground invasion, including (1) seizure of Iran’s main export terminal at Kharg Island, and (2) raids on nuclear facilities. The U.S. Army has deployed part - [Cuba Operating on Fumes While Rubio Smirks and Trump Changes His Mind on the Inhumane and Criminal U.S. Fuel Blockade of Cuba](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/04/07/cuba-operating-on-fumes-while-rubio-smirks-and-trump-changes-his-mind-on-the-inhumane-and-criminal-u-s-fuel-blockade-of-cuba/) - While International Citizen Solidarity Is Strong for Cuba, Nations Turn Their Backs As 700 international solidarity citizens visited Cuba last weekend, Cuban-American Secretary of State Marco Rubio smirked at the humanitarian disaster his and Trump’s policies were wreaking on Cuba, a small island nation of around 11 million people only 90 miles off the tip - [U.S. Israeli Bombing of Iran is Causing an Environmental Catastrophe](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/04/04/u-s-israeli-bombing-of-iran-is-causing-an-environmental-catastrophe/) - Israeli warplanes set Iran’s South Pars gas field ablaze On March 18, 2026, Israeli warplanes struck Iran’s South Pars gas field, igniting fires across one of the most critical energy complexes on Earth. The attack targeted infrastructure at the heart of the global natural gas system, sending flames through facilities that underpin a significant share - [Fabiola Letelier Was a Champion of Human Rights in the Dark Days of Chile’s Pinochet Dictatorship](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/04/03/fabiola-letelier-was-a-champion-of-human-rights-in-the-dark-days-of-chiles-pinochet-dictatorship/) - The election of a Pinochet admirer as Chile’s new president shows that the evils she devoted her life to fighting have not been eradicated The election of José Antonio Kast in Chile, an extreme right-wing admirer of fascist dictator Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990), has brought fears of a return to Chile’s dark age. Under Pinochet’s rule, - [CovertAction Bulletin - Eyewitness Cuba: Solidarity, Not Blockades](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/04/02/covertaction-bulletin-eyewitness-cuba-solidarity-not-blockades/) - Cuba is set to receive oil for the first time in 2026, following the March 31st arrival at Matanzas Bay of the Russian tanker Anatoly Kolodkin with over 730,000 barrels, or 100,000 tons, of crude oil... - [Judge Affirms Venezuela’s Maduro and Flores’ “Right to Defend Themselves is Paramount”](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/04/01/judge-affirms-venezuelas-maduro-and-flores-right-to-defend-themselves-is-paramount/) - The pre-trial conference of kidnapped and incarcerated Venezuelan political prisoners, President Nicolás Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores, was held on March 26 at the Southern District of New York court in Lower Manhattan. The defendants were taken hostage in an early morning raid on January 3 by the U.S. government’s Delta Force during an - [The CIA Used Time and Life Magazine and New York Times For Intelligence Gathering During Cold War](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/03/30/the-cia-used-time-and-life-magazine-and-new-york-times-for-intelligence-gathering-during-cold-war/) - Editors compromised integrity as independent news organizations by sending dispatches from foreign correspondents to CIA The CIA is known to have enjoyed a close relationship with the mainstream media during the Cold War and to have recruited dozens of journalists to help advance CIA propaganda. An article in the November 2024 issue of Diplomatic History - [Russophobic Intellectuals Breed Support For Death and Destruction](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/03/27/russophobic-intellectuals-breed-support-for-death-and-destruction/) - In a classic 1967 essay, “The Responsibility of Intellectuals,” Noam Chomsky argued that faculty at top U.S. universities had betrayed their calling of speaking truth to power by working on military counterinsurgency programs and providing ideological support for the U.S. war in Vietnam whose human costs were incalculable. In the nearly 60 years since this - [Military Gaza War Dissenter Making Run for Congress in North Carolina](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/03/27/military-gaza-war-dissenter-making-a-run-for-congress-in-north-carolina/) - Anthony Aguilar sits in an over-stuffed chair, wearing an orange-ish pullover, jeans and some hiking boots. We’re conducting our interview in a coffee shop that serves gluten-free bagels and mango smoothies. Not exactly the image of a John Wayne Green Beret. But that’s what he is. He’s also embarking on a mission that would make - [UN “Experts” Fueling Washington’s Attacks on Nicaragua](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/03/25/the-un-experts-fueling-washingtons-attacks-on-nicaragua/) - United Nations “experts” on Nicaragua, working to sanitize the effects of a failed, U.S.-inspired coup attempt, have not visited the country since the violence occurred eight years ago. Yet, for them, Nicaragua is “a giant prison” in which the Sandinista government “has effectively taken its own population hostage.” According to lawyer Jan-Michael Simon, the German - [CovertAction Bulletin - Deception, Oppression & Cover-Ups: Mueller Was No Hero](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/03/25/covertaction-bulletin-deception-oppression-cover-ups-mueller-was-no-hero/) - Former FBI Director Robert Muller died on March 20th. He entered into that position on September 4th, 2001. Within eight weeks of the 9/11 attacks, the FBI had arrested over 1,200 people—mostly Muslim men in the United States... - [“Deep State” Researcher Mae Brussell Was a Visionary Who Foresaw the Rise of Fascism in America](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/03/24/deep-state-researcher-mae-brussell-was-a-visionary-who-foresaw-the-rise-of-fascism-in-america/) - Dubbed the “Queen of Conspiracy” and a “modern Sherlock Holmes,” Mae Brussell (1922-1988), the daughter of a prominent Los Angeles rabbi and a Beverly Hills housewife, became one of the 20th century’s foremost researchers of the so-called “deep state.”[1] The latter concept implies a hidden aspect of the U.S. government dominated by the CIA and - [Oklahoma City Bombing: Was Timothy McVeigh a Patsy in a Sinister Black Flag Operation?](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/04/19/oklahoma-city-bombing-was-timothy-mcveigh-a-patsy-in-a-sinister-black-flag-operation/) - Could the detonation of a superbomb within the Murrah Federal Building have provided a blueprint for the destruction of the World Trade Center Buildings on 9/11? At 9:02 a.m. on April 19, 1995—27 years ago today—a bomb reduced to rubble the Alfred A. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, resulting in the deaths of 168 - [War Watch: Not According to Prophecy—or Plan](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/03/23/war-watch-not-according-to-prophecy-or-plan/) - It is Wednesday, March 18, as I write: Coming up to three weeks into what U.S. President Donald Trump was confident—and said so—would be a four-day war that would be over by the Jewish festival of Purim on March 3. Well, the war did not end on March 3 and on this Ides (15th) of - [I Resigned 23 Years Ago from the U.S. Government over the Bush War on Iraq …And Wish I Had More Resignations to Give!](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/03/20/i-resigned-23-years-ago-from-the-u-s-government-over-the-bush-war-on-iraq-and-wish-i-had-more-resignations-to-give/) - On March 19, 2003, I resigned from the U.S. Department of State. I was the Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Ulaan Baatar, Mongolia, and the third U.S. government employee to resign in opposition to the U.S. war on Iraq. I resigned on the day the Bush administration began the ten-year U.S. - [Should Lee Harvey Oswald Be Exonerated?](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/03/19/should-lee-harvey-oswald-be-exonerated/) - Evidence indicates that Oswald was not only set up as a patsy in the JFK assassination but that he was not one of the shooters. If this is indeed the case, then shouldn’t his historical reputation be restored? Following the release of a new batch of JFK assassination documents by the Trump administration, the mainstream - [U.S. Plans to Resume Use of Military Air Base In Northeast Brazil](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/03/19/u-s-plans-to-resume-use-of-military-air-base-in-northeast-brazil/) - In private talks with their Brazilian counterparts, U.S. diplomats have expressed interest in resuming unrestricted access and use of air base installations in Natal, capital of the northeastern state of Rio Grande do Norte, as well as on the island of Fernando de Noronha. Their central argument involves the so-called “historical right of operational return,” - [CovertAction Bulletin: Pentagon, AI Giants Aim for Increased Lethality](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/03/18/covertaction-bulletin-pentagon-ai-giants-aim-for-increased-lethality/) - Swarm Forge. Ender’s Foundry. Project Grant. Open Arsenal. These are the names of just some of the “Pace-Setting Projects” that Pete Hegseth identified in a January memorandum on the “Artificial Intelligence Strategy for the Department of War"... - [The Bleak Energy Future of Ukraine and the European Union](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/03/17/the-bleak-energy-future-of-ukraine-and-the-european-union/) - Ukraine's energy system, as well as storage facilities, oil and gas pipelines, stations, and related infrastructure, which until 2022 supplied the bulk of hydrocarbons and electricity to the European Union, have now effectively ceased to exist. Ukraine is experiencing a significant shortage of gas and oil for its own needs. According to the British news - [Iran: A Colonial War of Reconquest](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/03/16/iran-a-colonial-war-of-reconquest/) - What do Yasser Arafat, Nelson Mandela, and Thomas Sankara have in common? The answer is simple: All three were intent on meeting with the leaders of the Iranian Revolution, Ayatollah Khomeini and Ayatollah Khamenei. All three knew what it meant to liberate a people from colonialism; all three knew imperialism well; and all three recognized - [The Neocolonial Ambitions of NATO Countries](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/03/13/the-neocolonial-ambitions-of-nato-countries/) - The term neo-colonialism first appeared in the mid-20th century and was used to describe the continuing control of colonial powers (Great Britain, France, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Belgium, Italy) over other nominally independent states, especially their colonies in Africa. In the 21st century, the meaning of the term neo-colonialism has expanded and is now used to - [U.S. Intelligence Agents Concocted Scheme to Poison Mexican Revolutionary over a Hundred Years Ago, Establishing the Pattern for the “American Century”](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/03/12/u-s-intelligence-agents-concocted-scheme-to-poison-mexican-revolutionary-over-a-hundred-years-ago-establishing-the-pattern-for-the-american-century/) - Colonel Ralph Van Deman assisted in cover-up with General John J. Pershing In March 1916, General John J. Pershing, the father of U.S. military intelligence who commanded U.S. forces in World War I, led a punitive expedition into Mexico targeting Francisco “Pancho” Villa, a revolutionary who wanted to redistribute land and wealth and expel predatory - [Who Killed Gaddafi’s Son?](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/03/12/who-killed-gaddafis-son/) - Who killed Gaddafi's son? Let’s speak plainly, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi was a threat to the West—not to the everyday citizens of Europe or America, but to the blood-sucking globalist multinational corporate elites who have been plundering Libya’s vast oil reserves and resources since his father, Muammar Gaddafi, was savagely killed by NATO-backed jihadi militants in - [CovertAction Bulletin: Even Soldiers Don't Want War](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/03/11/covertaction-bulletin-even-soldiers-dont-want-war/) - The 82nd Airborne Division has canceled a training exercise to keep the Division ready to deploy with just 18 hours of notification for what it calls “forcible entry parachute assaults”... - [Killing Ali Khamenei: Stupid, Catastrophic and Now No Turning Back](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/03/11/killing-ali-khamenei-stupid-catastrophic-and-now-no-turning-back/) - Forget Kaiser Wilhelm II’s blank check to Austria-Hungary to wage war on Serbia in 1914; forget Adolf Hitler invading the Soviet Union in 1941 and then declaring war on the United States just to complete his imbecility. President Donald Trump’s decision to authorize, on Israeli urging, the assassination of the Supreme Spiritual Guide of Iran, - [Paragon Solutions: The Next Chapter in the Spyware Saga](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/03/10/paragon-solutions-the-next-chapter-in-the-spyware-saga/) - In December 2024, a $500 million private-equity deal quietly transferred one of the world’s most advanced spyware tools from Israeli military-intelligence roots to American ownership. Paragon Solutions, developer of Graphite—the zero-click software that extracts encrypted messages from Signal, WhatsApp, Telegram and others—was acquired by AE Industrial Partners. The official narrative: ethical innovation for democratic governments. - [Journalist Who Exposed CIA Sex Trafficking Networks Heads New Non-Profit Pushing For Congressional Commission on Jeffrey Epstein](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/03/06/journalist-who-exposed-cia-sex-trafficking-networks-heads-new-non-profit-pushing-for-congressional-commission-on-jeffrey-epstein/) - Nick Bryant is a skilled investigative reporter who, in 2009, published a book about a child sex trafficking network in Omaha, Nebraska involving powerful GOP politicians who were flying children to a party house on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., which was wired for blackmail.[1] In 2011, as he continued his investigations into the dark - [Whistleblower Was Ignored After He Provided Information About 9/11 Attacks to CIA](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/03/05/whistleblower-was-ignored-after-he-provided-information-about-9-11-attacks-to-cia/) - In December 1998, Michael Riconosciuto was serving out a 26-year prison sentence at Allenwood Penitentiary in Pennsylvania on drug charges when he was given information by a rabbi close to his family about an al-Qaeda plot to hijack airplanes and crash them into the World Trade Center, Pentagon and U.S. military bases around the Washington, - [The 'Third Republic': Trumpist Costa Rica](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/03/04/the-third-republic-trumpist-costa-rica/) - “The change will be profound and irreversible” asserted Costa Rica’s president-elect, Laura Fernández. The ruling Sovereign People’s Party (PPSO) won the election in the first round with a commanding 48.3% of valid votes cast, nearly 15 percentage points ahead of the National Liberation Party (PLN), the old social democracy. The radical right of President Rodrigo - [CovertAction Bulletin: The U.S. Cannot Win a War Against Iran](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/03/04/covertaction-bulletin-the-u-s-cannot-win-a-war-against-iran/) - The U.S./Israeli war on Iran could easily spark a greater regional conflict if it continues. Donald Trump at first said Tehran would be taken in 3-4 days, then a day later claimed the war would last no more than 4-5 weeks and threatened that the U.S. has enough weapons to fight “forever"... - [Veterans For Peace Calls For Widespread Resistance to Illegal War on Iran](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/03/03/veterans-for-peace-calls-for-widespread-resistance-to-illegal-war-on-iran/) - [As of this writing, the Iranian death toll in the illegal U.S.-Israeli bombing of Iran is estimated to be 550. In one particular strike on Sunday on Nilouf Square, a densely populated residential and commercial district in Tehran, Mehr News Agency reported that 20 people were killed. In the deadliest recorded attack of the war, - [Cuba is Facing Existential Threat in Face of Ramped Up U.S. Regime Change Operations](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/03/03/cuba-is-facing-an-existential-threat-in-the-face-of-ramped-up-u-s-regime-change-operations/) - At a CovertAction Magazine webinar, experts explained the roots of the crisis, while encouraging people to build a campaign to educate the U.S. public and transform U.S. foreign policy While Donald Trump was touting his administration’s foreign policies in his State of the Union address on February 24, CovertAction Magazine hosted a webinar focused on - [While the U.S. Declared War on Drug Cartels, They Forgot to Stop Arming Them](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/03/02/while-the-u-s-declared-war-on-drug-cartels-they-forgot-to-stop-arming-them/) - On February 22, 2026, the Mexican military mounted an operation, assisted by the CIA, that killed Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes, the 59-year-old head of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) who had a $15 million bounty on his head. A few hours later, Donald Trump tweeted “We’re Winning too much, it’s just not fair!” The - [Olof Palme’s Unsolved Murder 40 Years Ago Helped Shift Sweden’s Political Landscape Dramatically to the Right—Just as His Assassins Appear to Have Planned](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/02/27/olof-palmes-unsolved-murder-40-years-ago-helped-shift-swedens-political-landscape-dramatically-to-the-right-just-as-his-assassins-appear-to-have-planned/) - Serious investigations into Palme’s murder point to complicity of right-wing Swedish government officials and possibly the CIA February 28, 2026, marks 40 years since Prime Minister Olof Palme of Sweden left his home to see the film The Brothers Mozart and never came back. As Palme walked home with his wife Lisbeth Palme, he was - [Renegade African-American Soldier Should Be Remembered For Resisting White Supremacy and Colonialism](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/02/26/renegade-african-american-soldier-should-be-remembered-for-resisting-white-supremacy-and-colonialism/) - [This article is part of a series for Black History Month. Other articles in the series can be read here, here, here, here and here.—Editors] In a 1952 song entitled “Bye Bye Big Brass,” anti-war singer Woody Guthrie dreamed up a scenario in which he is shipped off to the Korean War and, rather than kill a Chinese soldier - [The Still Relevant Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/02/25/the-still-relevant-assassination-of-yitzhak-rabin/) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not the only homicidal politician in the Promised Land. On December 29, 2025, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich of the Religious Zionism Party called Israeli Supreme Court President Isaac Amit, who has stood against legalizing Israeli settlements, “a megalomaniac, violent, predatory totalitarian who’s robbing Israel of its democracy” who should be “run - [CovertAction Bulletin: Lessons From Iraq to Stop a War Against Iran](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/02/25/covertaction-bulletin-lessons-from-iraq-to-stop-a-war-against-iran/) - Is the U.S. government preparing to go to war with Iran? Leading up to talks set to happen towards the end of the week in Geneva, the Trump administration has also threatened Iran with war... - [Notorious War Hawk is Facing Prison Time For Mishandling Classified Defense Information](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/02/24/notorious-war-hawk-is-facing-prison-time-for-mishandling-classified-defense-information/) - In a case that seems to have largely dropped out of the mainstream media, John Bolton faces an 18‑count federal indictment for mishandling classified national defense information, a case that tests how aggressively the Espionage Act and related statutes can be used against a former national security adviser whose alleged misconduct blends negligence, personal gain - [New NED Board Member Is Reactionary Kansas Governor Who Left His State in “Carnage and Destruction”](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/02/23/new-ned-board-member-is-reactionary-kansas-governor-who-left-his-state-in-carnage-and-destruction/) - Sam Brownback’s right-wing “Kansas experiment” caused huge budget shortfalls and led to draconian service cuts The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is a CIA offshoot that was founded in the 1980s for the purpose of spreading political propaganda and supporting “civil society” groups in countries targeted by the U.S. for regime change. In late January, - [Minneapolis—Organizing for Protection of the Community](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/02/21/minneapolis-organizing-for-protection-of-the-community/) - Last week I was in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to observe and learn from those who have attempted to protect members of their community from the brutal assaults by ICE and other government agencies and hold those agencies accountable for the violence they are wreaking on the community. ICE in Minneapolis—From Surge to “Surrender” (Kind of) The - [Italian Member of European Parliament Danilo Della Valle: “EU weakness is not caused by USA, but exploited by it”](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/02/20/italian-member-of-the-european-parliament-danilo-della-valle-eu-weakness-is-not-caused-by-usa-but-exploited-by-it/) - Italian Member of the European Parliament Danilo Della Valle criticizes the EU’s non-independent policy in Africa, accusing Brussels of dependence on France, double standards, and losing influence to USA, China and Turkey. [Below is an interview conducted by Arnaud Develay, a CovertAction Magazine contributor and author, with Italian member of parliament Danilo Della Valle of - [Favelados With Guns](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/02/19/favelados-with-guns/) - But 1st A “Healthy Left” Recap By British Agents Toning Down Brazil If the passage of time, in of itself, does not represent change, then most of South America is a prime example of this concept. Just 45 years elapsed between Brazil becoming the last country in the Western Hemisphere to legally abolish chattel slavery - [MIT Weapons Expert and Former Pentagon Adviser Calls Donald Trump’s Golden Dome Missile System “Total Delusion” and “Crazy Idea” with “No Merit.”](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/02/18/mit-weapons-expert-and-former-pentagon-adviser-calls-donald-trumps-golden-dome-missile-system-total-delusion-and-crazy-idea-with-no-merit/) - In January 2025, Donald Trump, the newly inaugurated U.S. president, signed an executive order directing the U.S. armed forces to construct a missile defense system called the “Golden Dome,” aimed at establishing space weapons in orbit for the first time in history. Legitimized in part by the expiry of the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty - [CovertAction Bulletin: ICE Expands the Surveillance State](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/02/18/covertaction-bulletin-ice-expands-the-surveillance-state/) - While border czar Tom Homan announced last week that the surge of federal agents in Minnesota could be winding down, he signaled that other cities could be next... - [Despite Marco Rubio’s Warnings, This is the Time to Go to Cuba in Solidarity Against Latest U.S. Aggressions](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/02/18/despite-marco-rubios-warnings-this-is-the-time-to-go-to-cuba-in-solidarity-against-the-latest-u-s-aggressions/) - I came back from Cuba over last weekend, where I had not been for a year. Despite the warnings from the U.S. State Department and Marco Rubio, now is the time for U.S. citizens to travel to Cuba in solidarity with the Cuban people against the latest U.S. aggressions in the Caribbean and Latin America. You - [For First Time in More Than 50 Years, U.S. and Russia Have No Agreements for the Regulation of Nuclear Weapons](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/02/18/for-first-time-in-more-than-50-years-u-s-and-russia-have-no-agreements-for-the-regulation-of-nuclear-weapons/) - Expiry of New START is set to trigger dangerous new nuclear arms race On February 5, the Trump administration allowed the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) to expire, leaving the U.S and Russia with no agreements for the regulation of nuclear weapons for the first time in more than 50 years. Trump refused to - [Give Shovels, Not Bullets, to the National Guard to “Protect” Washington, DC Residents](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/02/16/give-shovels-not-bullets-to-the-national-guard-to-protect-washington-dc-residents/) - I have been in Washington, D.C., for the past week battling the icy and snow-piled sidewalks and streets one week after the big snow and ice storm that immobilized the city for days. While using the city’s buses and rail, it was apparent that the most probable danger in D.C. is falling on sidewalk ice - [Lithuania’s False Flag Counter-Revolution](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/02/16/lithuanias-false-flag-counter-revolution/) - From January 11 to 13, 2026, Lithuania marks the 35th anniversary of the “January Events.” Three tumultuous days in 1991 culminated in a widely publicized mass shooting of protesters at Vilnius’s TV Tower, with 14 killed and more than 140 injured. Soviet forces purportedly, were responsible. The bloodshed elicited an avalanche of international sympathy for - [60 Years After JFK’s Death It Is More and More Apparent that Kennedy Was a Victim of a Palace Coup—Spearheaded by Vice-President Johnson](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/11/22/60-years-after-jfks-death-it-is-more-and-more-apparent-that-kennedy-was-a-victim-of-a-palace-coup-spearheaded-by-vice-president-lyndon-b-johnson/) - The peaceful succession of presidents is sacrosanct in American democracy and marks the United States as an “exceptional nation” which does not experience the same kind of palace intrigues and coups as other nations. Conventional wisdom holds that President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963, by Lee Harvey Oswald, a deranged lone - [Hollywood screenwriter with former CIA ties possibly murdered by criminal organizations in the California High Desert](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/10/10/cias-hollywood-liaison-may-be-behind-disappearance-of-hollywood-screenwriter-who-knew-too-much/) - Gary Devore was reportedly kidnapped on his way back from finishing a script about the invasion of Panama. Despite rumors about his mysterious background, he may have found his unlucky demise when he traveled through an area known for an ongoing criminal enterprise of meth distributors, powerful motorcycle gangs, and compromised Sheriff’s deputies. Hollywood screenwriter - [CovertAction Bulletin - U.S. Hands Off the Caribbean: Let Cuba Live!](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/02/11/covertaction-bulletin-u-s-hands-off-the-caribbean-let-cuba-live/) - The situation in Cuba is dire as the Trump administration ramps up its campaign to destabilize the country and destroy its revolution... - [AFL-CIO Must Break Ties with U.S. Imperialism](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/02/12/afl-cio-must-break-ties-with-u-s-imperialism/) - The condemnation by local, national and international labor organizations of the illegal January 3, 2026, U.S. attack on Venezuela and the kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, is a welcome development. The AFL-CIO has declared, succinctly and without elaboration, “We join the international labor community in condemning President Trump’s unconstitutional actions - [Black Power Leader Targeted in the FBI’s COINTELPRO Spent Over Thirty Years in Prison For Crimes He Did Not Commit](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/02/11/black-power-leader-targeted-in-the-fbis-cointelpro-spent-over-thirty-years-in-prison-for-crimes-he-did-not-commit/) - H. Rap Brown was charged for instigating a riot that never took place, and was sent to a Supermax prison after being convicted of a murder to which someone else confessed [This article is special for Black History Month. See previous CAM articles for Black History Month here, here, here and here.—Editors] On November 23, - [Harvard Promotes Another War Monger to Its Faculty](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/04/21/harvard-promotes-another-war-monger-to-its-faculty/) - Biden National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan is the inaugural Kissinger Professor of the Practice of Statecraft and World Order On April 1, former National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan started his new job as the inaugural Kissinger Professor of the Practice of Statecraft and World Order at the Harvard Kennedy School. Sullivan's appointment comes at a - [Venezuela Must Resist Neocolonial Occupation](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/02/10/venezuela-must-resist-neocolonial-occupation/) - In the early hours of Saturday morning, January 3, 2026, just three days into the New Year, the United States carried out a Special Forces operation on Venezuelan soil, which kidnapped the sitting President Nicolás Maduro Moro and his wife Cilia Flores. I will not use space to repeat what is already known—that the invasion - [Trump Administration Exploits Backlash over Somali-American Fraud Scheme in Minnesota to Escalate Drone Attacks and U.S. Dirty War in Somalia](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/02/09/trump-administration-exploits-backlash-over-somali-american-fraud-scheme-in-minnesota-to-escalate-drone-attacks-and-u-s-dirty-war-in-somalia/) - The U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) reported that, in January, U.S. military forces launched at least 25 air strikes in Somalia, a country AFRICOM carried out at least 124 air strikes against in 2025, more than the total bombs dropped on Somalia by the administrations of Joe Biden, Barack Obama and George W. Bush combined. A February - [Hope and Resolve](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/02/06/hope-and-resolve/) - In chaotic times like ours, it behooves us to practice proactive optimism, which is far more than infantile hope or pious faith. Conscious, vigorous optimism is visionary and builds on our awareness of our human identity and dignity. It expresses our faith in humanity, our resolve to be morally and intellectually honest, our good will. - [Lyndon B. Johnson Used CIA to Go After Famous Singer After She Criticized Vietnam War](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/02/05/lyndon-b-johnson-used-cia-to-go-after-famous-singer-after-she-criticized-vietnam-war/) - [This article continues CovertAction Magazine’s efforts to expose the CIA’s nefarious history. It is also special for Black History Month. See previous CAM articles for Black History Month here, here and here.—Editors] Eartha Kitt was a magnetic singer, songwriter and actress who starred as Catwoman in the 1967 season of television’s Batman and was known - [Honduran Election Fraud and Trumpian Interference: A Model for How to Break Any Reformist Government](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/02/04/honduran-election-fraud-and-trumpian-interference-a-model-for-how-to-break-any-reformist-government/) - In a December CovertAction Magazine article, I described the Honduran presidential election of November 30 and the accusations of fraud that surrounded it. Since then, the electoral crisis has only deepened. And the widely criticized and blatant interventions of U.S. President Donald Trump in favor of National Party candidate Nasry (Tito) Asfura can be linked - [CovertAction Bulletin - Power, Accountability and Justice: From Minneapolis to Epstein](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/02/04/covertaction-bulletin-power-accountability-and-justice-from-minneapolis-to-epstein/) - As we reported last week, well over 100,000 people shut down Minneapolis on January 23rd in response to the terror of ICE and CBP agents... - [The Snowden Leaks and New Zealand Military and Intelligence Officials](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/02/03/the-snowden-leaks-and-new-zealand-military-and-intelligence-officials/) - In 2013, the year when the Edward Snowden intelligence leaks hit the news, the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) annual report stated that the New Zealand spy agency’s mission was “to inform and enhance the decision-making processes” of the government in pursuit of “an independent foreign policy programme.” This claim was very close to being - [Senate Armed Service Committee Member Profited From Venezuela Invasion](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/02/02/senate-armed-service-committee-member-profited-from-venezuela-invasion/) - Senator Markwayne Mullin bought stock in leading defense and oil companies just five days before Trump ordered the kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro and his wife Mullin follows in the footsteps of his predecessor, James Inhofe, who bought Raytheon stock and profited from illegal wars of aggression that he championed Senator Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) has cultivated - [Trump’s State Capitalism](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/01/30/trumps-state-capitalism/) - The U.S. government has increasingly become a brokerage[1] platform for elite business capital accumulation goals camouflaged under a national security agenda. Anyone who has read my latest book, U.S.-Russian Commercial Relations 1763-1933: Origins of Russophobia (New Delhi: Atlantic, 2025)—see a review in CovertAction Magazine here), would recognize that the U.S. government’s role as facilitator for - [New Political Party in Kentucky Adopts Antiwar, Anti-Corruption Platform](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/01/29/new-political-party-in-kentucky-adopts-antiwar-anti-corruption-platform/) - Chris Campbell, 34, is running to replace Mitch McConnell in the U.S. Senate under the banner of the Kentucky Party, a new political party that ran Jill Stein for president in 2024. Describing himself as a left-leaning liberal, Campbell wants to cut the military budget by two-thirds and establish free medical care for all and - [Donroe Doctrine Extends Into Southeast Asia](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/01/29/donroe-doctrine-extends-into-southeast-asia/) - The United States of America seeks to pretend that it earnestly is focused on enforcing the 1823 Monroe Doctrine toward Central America, Latin America and the Caribbean. Its 2025 National Security Strategy and articles in the U.S. mainstream media seek to impart the perception of an America shifting away from Asia to “protect the homeland.” - [CovertAction Bulletin: Minneapolis Shows the Way](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/01/28/covertaction-bulletin-minneapolis-shows-the-way/) - Rachel was in Minneapolis last week where over 100,000 people took to the streets and reports on the mass action that happened Friday, shutting down businesses, schools and the city in response to the Trump administration’s deployment of ICE to Minneapolis and the brutal killing of Renee Nicole Good earlier this month. The next day, CBP agents killed Alex Pretti, a VA nurse... - [The Political Demise of María Corina Machado](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/01/28/the-political-demise-of-maria-corina-machado/) - After the Trump administration’s kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro, the legitimate president of Venezuela, Trump held a press conference in which he was asked about María Corina Machado, the most visible face abroad of the Venezuelan opposition. He responded: “I think it would be very tough for her to be the leader.” He continued: “She doesn’t - [Election Reporting Leaves Out U.S. Support for Corrupt Ugandan Leader](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/01/26/election-reporting-leaves-out-u-s-support-for-corrupt-ugandan-leader/) - On January 17, Yoweri Museveni was declared the winner of Uganda’s presidential election over Bobi Wine with 71% of the vote, extending a four-decade grip on political power. American news outlets like NPR and The New York Times cast doubt on the legitimacy of the election, noting that the vote took place under a government-imposed - [Twenty Four Years After 9/11, 15 Are Still Imprisoned at U.S. Military Prison in Guantánamo, Cuba](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/01/23/twenty-four-years-after-9-11-15-are-still-imprisoned-at-u-s-military-prison-in-guantanamo-cuba/) - Guantánamo Naval Base Also Used for Migrant Detentions in 2025 On January 11, 2026, thousands of citizens of many countries held vigils for the 15 men still in the U.S. military prison at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantánamo, Cuba. As these citizens have been doing for more than two decades, from London to Washington, - [Special Forces Training Center at Fort Bragg Has Evolved Into Murder Capital and Drug Trafficking Hub](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/01/22/special-forces-training-center-at-fort-bragg-has-evolved-into-hub-of-drug-trafficking-and-murder-capital/) - Shadow operators at the front lines of America’s forever wars come back as damaged goods and often parlay the skills they learned overseas into criminal acts at home In his 2014 retirement speech, Admiral William McRaven, the former commander of the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), called the era of the Global War on Terror - [What Did Germans Know About the Holocaust? What Do We Know About the Gaza Genocide?](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/01/21/what-did-germans-know-about-the-holocaust-what-do-we-know-about-the-gaza-genocide/) - Some eight decades after the end of World War II and the trial of the Nazis before the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, "the Final Solution of the Jewish Question," today known as the Holocaust, remains an almost incomprehensible mega-crime, unique in its nihilism, its mission-like execution, its mechanisms of concealment and secrecy, ultimately in - [Low Cost of Anti-Parasitical Drugs in Nicaragua Compared to U.S. Underscores Difference in Two Social Systems](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/01/20/low-cost-of-anti-parasitical-drugs-in-nicaragua-compared-to-u-s-underscores-difference-in-two-social-systems/) - Nicaragua remains in the crosshairs of U.S. regime-change efforts, along with Cuba and Venezuela, as President Donald Trump boasts of his administration’s goal to remove “Marxists” from Latin America. This inflammatory rhetoric is repeated endlessly despite the fact that Nicaragua actually has a mixed-economy that recognizes, and even encourages, through low interest loans, grants and - [A Mississippi Woman Was Given Life Sentence For Telling the Truth About a Murder Plot 90 Years Ago Against Louisiana Senator Huey P. Long](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/09/08/a-mississippi-woman-was-given-life-sentence-for-telling-the-truth-about-a-murder-plot-90-years-ago-against-louisiana-senator-huey-p-long/) - Long Was Poised to Challenge Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1936 Democratic Party Primary Before He Was Killed “Times have told us that dirty tricks did not end with Brutus.” – Tom Weiss, brother of alleged assassin, Carl A. Weiss.[1] Jessica Lauren Fields was a beauty shop worker living in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in 1935 - [Who Killed Heinz Krug? and Why It Matters: Part II](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/11/18/who-killed-heinz-krug-and-why-it-matters-part-ii/) - [This article is part of a series this week on the JFK assassination coinciding with our November 18 webinar entitled "New Evidence, Old Questions: The Latest Declassified JFK Files." Part 1 can be found here.—Editors] Part 2: When and Why Did Mossad Recruit Nazi Colonel Otto Skorzeny? From the evidence provided by Ralph Ganis and - [Canada Follows U.S. Lead in Preparing For World War](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/01/19/canada-follows-u-s-lead-in-preparing-for-world-war/) - In early November, the Canadian government released its 2025 budget, which detailed plans to increase military spending by $84 billion over the next five years—the largest military expansion in more than 70 years. After his victory over Conservative Pierre Poilievre in April elections, Liberal Mark Carney announced an immediate 17% increase in military spending to - [U.S. Sanctions Are a Flop as North Korea’s Economy Continues to Grow](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/01/16/u-s-sanctions-are-a-flop-as-north-koreas-economy-continues-to-grow/) - On two visits, this author witnessed North Korea’s economic boom first-hand I visited the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) or People’s Korea in April 2024 and then 18 months later in October 2025 after being invited by the Korean Association of Social Scientists (KASS). The trips were organized by the British Group for the Study - [How Human Rights Watch Shattered Yugoslavia](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/01/15/how-human-rights-watch-shattered-yugoslavia/) - On August 25th, this journalist documented how the 1975 Helsinki Accords transformed “human rights” into a highly destructive weapon in the West’s imperial arsenal. At the forefront of this shift were organizations such as Amnesty International, and Helsinki Watch—the forerunner to Human Rights Watch. Supposedly independent reports published by these organizations became devastatingly effective tools - [CIA Trained Spymaster Implicated in War Crimes Appointed Presidential Chief of Staff in Ukraine](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/01/15/cia-trained-spymaster-implicated-in-war-crimes-appointed-presidential-chief-of-staff-in-ukraine/) - Kyrylo Budanov Has Ties to Far-Right Pro-Banderite Groups From the Phoenix Program to Operation Condor and the Contra War to Operation Timber Sycamore and the Global War on Terror, the CIA has a long history of training fascist death-squad operatives, torturers and assassins. The historical pattern has extended to Ukraine, where the CIA has set - [CovertAction Bulletin - Stop ICE Terror: Minneapolis Calls De Facto General Strike](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/01/14/covertaction-bulletin-stop-ice-terror-minneapolis-calls-de-facto-general-strike/) - Mass protests have taken place across the country after an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Good in Minneapolis, executing her in her car as she tried to drive away... - [9/11 Victims' Families Are Suing Saudi Arabia; Why Not the CIA, Too?](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/01/13/9-11-victims-families-are-suing-saudi-arabia-why-not-the-cia-too/) - Shortly before the 24th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, a federal judge in the Southern District of New York denied a motion by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) to dismiss the long-running lawsuit brought by the families of 9/11 victims against the monarchy. Originally filed back in 2003, the civil action alleges the - [CIA Facilitated Drug Trafficking Through Cartel Trump Administration Falsely Accuses Nicolás Maduro of Controlling](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/01/12/cia-facilitated-drug-trafficking-through-cartel-trump-administration-falsely-accuses-nicolas-maduro-of-controlling/) - Following the Trump administration’s kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, on January 3, the Department of Justice (DOJ) revealed an indictment alleging that Maduro “moved loads of cocaine under the protection of Venezuelan law enforcement” and that profits from the illegal activity “flowed” to corrupt officials “who operate in a - [U.S. Regime-Change Efforts in Venezuela: What Happened to Tulsi Gabbard’s Non-Interventionist Principles?](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/01/09/u-s-overthrow-of-venezuelan-government-what-happened-to-tulsi-gabbards-non-interventionist-principles/) - Seven years ago, then U.S. Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard wrote on Twitter: "The United States needs to stay out of Venezuela. Let the Venezuelan people determine their future. We don’t want other countries to choose our leaders—so we have to stop trying to choose theirs.” Now, as Director of National Intelligence in the Trump administration, Tulsi Gabbard - [Gaza Freedom Flotilla Coalition Plans to Increase Gaza Sailings in 2026](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/01/09/gaza-freedom-flotilla-coalition-plans-to-increase-gaza-sailings-in-2026/) - The 18 national campaigns of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla coalition (Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, International Campaign to Break the Siege, Malaysia, New Zealand, Norway, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Türkiye, the United Kingdom, and United States) met in Dublin, Ireland, December 5-7, 2025, to plan for many more vessels to sail to challenge - [CIA/MI6 Lawfare Op Assists Ukrainian Atrocities](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/01/08/cia-mi6-lawfare-op-assists-ukrainian-atrocities/) - On December 28th, The Grayzone exposed how the Commission for International Justice and Accountability (CIJA) concocted a malign scheme to blackmail and intimidate the EU’s European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) and the European Commission. Established in close coordination with CIA and MI6 officials to prosecute Syrian officials for alleged war crimes, CIJA was repeatedly found by - [Leonard Peltier Speaks Out While Living Under House Arrest](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/01/08/leonard-peltier-speaks-out-while-living-under-house-arrest/) - For decades, as one of the longest-serving political prisoners in the United States, Leonard Peltier was a focal point for political activism and symbol of the white man’s injustice toward Native Americans. In April 1977, Peltier was convicted of the murder of FBI agents Jack Coler and Ronald Williams on the Pine Ridge Reservation in - [CovertAction Bulletin - 2025 In Review: Fighting Back Against Trump & the Right-Wing Agenda](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/01/02/covertaction-bulletin-2025-in-review-fighting-back-against-trump-the-right-wing-agenda/) - As 2025 comes to an end and we enter a new year, we’re looking back on the past 12 months that sometimes feel like a never-ending cycle of bad news... - [CovertAction Bulletin: Kidnapping Maduro is Gangster Imperialism](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/01/07/covertaction-bulletin-kidnapping-maduro-is-gangster-imperialism/) - At his first court appearance in New York along with his wife Cilia Flores, Nicolás Maduro told the judge, “I am innocent. I am not guilty. I am a decent man, the constitutional president of my country.”... - [CovertAction Bulletin - Trump Calls For Land War: U.S. Hands Off Venezuela](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/12/03/covertaction-bulletin-trump-calls-for-land-war-u-s-hands-off-venezuela/) - At the final Cabinet meeting of 2025, Donald Trump said that the strikes on fishing boats in the Caribbean would continue, and that “We're going to start doing those strikes on land, too”—signaling that a ground invasion of Venezuela and possibly other countries may be imminent... - [CovertAction Bulletin: NYT Shows Its Imperialist Hand](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/12/10/covertaction-bulletin-nyt-shows-its-imperialist-hand/) - A recent op-ed by the New York Times Editorial Board calls for the U.S. military to reinvent itself and rearm itself in new ways in the face of the Western capitalist order losing its hegemony to rising powers across the world... - [CovertAction Bulletin: Capitalism is the Real AI Slop](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/12/17/covertaction-bulletin-capitalism-is-the-real-ai-slop/) - To protect the huge profits of unregulated AI companies, the Trump administration is trying to bring back a punishment that was stripped from this year’s so-called Big Beautiful Bill... - [U.S. Aims to Reassert Global Dominance By Controlling Venezuelan Oil Reserves](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/01/07/u-s-aims-to-reassert-global-dominance-by-controlling-venezuelan-oil-reserves/) - Like most Americans I was “shocked but not surprised,” as the saying goes, by the Trump administration’s decision to snatch Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro from his bed and render him to New York to face international narcotics trafficking charges. Whether Maduro has committed any crime or not is yet to be seen. But that will - [Israel's Unpredictable Attacks are Causing Increasing Division in the Arab World](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/01/06/israels-unpredictable-attacks-are-causing-increasing-division-in-the-arab-world/) - Israel's recent strikes on Qatar and Yemen have once again demonstrated both the lawlessness of the Jewish state’s leadership and the deep divisions within the Arab world. The latter, in many ways, is responsible for the former. With regard to Israel, everything is crystal clear. Israelis have long since ceased to observe any diplomatic conventions - [Will Arrest of CIA Agent Finally Bring Down the Bush Family and CIA Cabal Behind Iran-Contra?](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/01/06/will-arrest-of-cia-agent-finally-bring-down-the-bush-family-and-cia-cabal-behind-iran-contra/) - Facing years behind bars, Robert M. Sensi might now be compelled to reveal state secrets that would help expose what martyred journalist Danny Casolaro termed “The Octopus” In early December 2025, a former CIA agent named Robert M. Sensi was arrested on narcoterrorism, narcotics distribution, and money-laundering charges. Sensi stands accused, along with Paul Campo, - [Uncovering America’s Gravest Sins and Atrocities](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/01/05/uncovering-americas-gravest-sins-and-atrocities/) - Cover-Up is nothing less than a masterpiece about investigative reporting, co-directed by one of today’s greatest documentarians, Laura Poitras, who earned a Pulitzer and Academy Award for her reportage on NSA leaker Edward Snowden, featured in 2014’s Citizenfour. Following a screening of Cover-Up at the recent AFI Film Festival, Poitras described Cover-Up not as a - [On The Ground in Caracas: Venezuelans Rally to Support Government in Face of Illegal Kidnapping of President](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/01/04/on-the-ground-in-caracas-venezuelans-rally-to-support-government-in-face-of-illegal-kidnapping-of-president/) - Caracas: Saturday, January 3rd: The situation in Venezuela is certainly not easy; we are under attack. And this is a higher stage of that war. The Venezuelan government was warned and prepared for this—that is, there was an awareness that this would happen at some point. What was not known, obviously, was when the U.S. - [CIA Played Instrumental Role in Maduro Kidnapping](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/01/04/cia-played-instrumental-role-in-maduro-kidnapping/) - The financial elite the CIA serves is now salivating over the prospects of U.S. corporations retaking control of Venezuela’s oil industry The Trump administration welcomed the New Year by ordering a brazen Special Forces raid into Venezuela that resulted in the kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, who was brought to the U.S. to face - [Britain’s Secret Role in Yugoslavia’s Destruction](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/01/02/britains-secret-role-in-yugoslavias-destruction/) - December 23rd marks the 35th anniversary of an independence referendum in Slovenia, then a Yugoslav republic. In all, 88.5% of registered voters—95.7% of participants—said “da” to secession from the multi-ethnic socialist federation. The plebiscite prompted Ljubljana’s formal declaration of independence, and ensuing Ten-Day War between Slovenian territorial defense forces and the Yugoslav federal army. This - [Distinguished Human Rights Defender Has Devoted His Life’s Work to Demolishing Neoliberal Ideology](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/01/02/distinguished-human-rights-defender-has-devoted-his-lifes-work-to-demolishing-neoliberal-ideology/) - Walden Bello is a well-known figure in the Philippines who served in its House of Representatives and ran as a vice-presidential candidate on a social democratic ticket in the country’s 2022 elections. For many years, Bello has also been a leading intellectual critic of neo-liberal ideology, showing in books and articles how it has resulted - [Ex-CIA Director Joins Board of Ukraine’s Largest Drone Company](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/12/19/ex-cia-director-joins-board-of-ukraines-largest-drone-company/) - Mike Pompeo, CIA Director and Secretary of State in the first Trump administration, has long been a Ukraine war hawk, calling Russia’s actions genocide, stating that Crimea should be returned to Ukraine (when its people voted overwhelmingly to be part of Russia) and consistently advocating for increased military aid to Ukraine.[1] Pompeo’s tenure as CIA - [There Are Two Narratives on the January 6 Capitol Riots: The Left Calls it a Fascist Coup Attempt. The Right Calls it a Fedsurrection. Which Narrative is Correct? Or Are They Both?](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/05/23/there-are-two-narratives-on-the-january-6-capitol-riots-the-left-calls-it-a-fascist-coup-attempt-the-right-calls-it-a-fedsurrection-which-narrative-is-correct-or-are-they-both/) - The January 6, 2021, Capitol riot was a watershed event in American political history, which raised alarm about the fragility of American democracy and the dangers of right-wing extremism. As Donald Trump gave an inflammatory speech insisting that the November 2020 election was “rigged,” legions of his supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol building and tried - [John Birch Society Tries to Bring Back Cold War Culture](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/12/26/john-birch-society-tries-to-bring-back-cold-war-culture/) - Though alleging to expose “deep-state” machinations against Donald Trump, their publication accuses James Comey and John Brennan of being communist agents and venerates Cold War-Era KGB defectors who advanced CIA disinformation While browsing through the magazine section at Barnes and Noble recently, for fun, I picked up the September issue of the John Birch Society’s - [New Book By Son of Iwo Jima Flag-bearer Explains Why Vietnam Defeated the U.S.](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/12/23/new-book-by-son-of-iwo-jima-flag-bearer-explains-why-vietnam-defeated-the-u-s/) - The son of the Iwo Jima flag-bearer in one of the most iconic photos in U.S history, James Bradley gained fame for his 2000 book Flags of Our Fathers, which was made into a film directed by Clint Eastwood. Offput at how Flags of Our Fathers was used to manufacture nostalgia for World War II - [Netflix Series on the Octopus Murders Continues Cover-up of Reporter’s Death and CIA Crimes He Threatened to Expose](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/03/11/netflix-series-on-the-octopus-murders-continues-cover-up-of-reporters-death-and-cia-crimes-he-threatened-to-expose/) - Series labels bona fide whistleblowers as “out of their mind” and “manipulators” when documented evidence confirms what they are saying In late February, Netflix began airing a four-part docuseries directed by Zachary Treitz called American Conspiracy: The Octopus Murders. It follows journalist Christian Hansen as he investigated the August 1991 highly-suspicious death of journalist Danny - [Denmark Social Democrats’ Suffer Biggest Election Loss in a Century Due to Unhinged Russophobia](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/12/24/denmark-social-democrats-suffer-biggest-election-loss-in-a-century-due-to-unhinged-russophobia/) - Voters are turning against party of Ukraine war hawks as they are doing more and more across Europe Arne Juhl, once a Social Democrat (SD) “eye-catcher”—the proud face of the early retirement reform nicknamed “Arne Pension”—has dropped his support for Mette Frederiksen and the Social Democrats after voting for them for four decades. Recently retired, - [Prison Health Care Continues to Deteriorate Under Donald Trump](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/12/22/prison-health-care-continues-to-deteriorate-under-donald-trump/) - Donald Trump, at the start of both his first and second terms, said that he would order the Department of Justice (DOJ) to clean up its act in the area of prison health care. Trump also pledged to push states to improve health care in their prison systems. That has not happened. And to make - [Obscure Insurance Agent From Silver Springs Maryland May Very Well Hold Clue to JFK Assassination](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/11/19/obscure-insurance-agent-from-silver-springs-maryland-may-very-well-hold-clue-to-jfk-assassination/) - [This article is part of a series this week on the JFK assassination coinciding with our November 18 webinar entitled “New Evidence, Old Questions: The Latest Declassified JFK Files.”—Editors] Don Reynolds is a name forgotten to history, though he appears to hold a key to understanding who was behind the assassination of John F. Kennedy. On November - [The Baltic Roots of Russophobia: Neoliberalism, Revisionism and U.S. Imperialism](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/12/18/the-baltic-roots-of-russophobia-neoliberalism-revisionism-and-u-s-imperialism/) - The European Union (EU) has a population of 450 million people, yet its foreign policy is determined by a country with a population of 1.3 million people—Estonia. The High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy is Kaja Kallas, the former prime minister of Estonia. Her agenda is an Estonian obsession - [Election of CIA Agent as Virginia Governor Points to Growing CIA Involvement in Domestic Politics](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/12/17/election-of-cia-agent-as-virginia-governor-points-to-growing-cia-involvement-in-domestic-politics/) - A bipartisan political movement is urgently needed to fight back against the CIA On November 4, Abigail Spanberger, a CIA case officer in the Middle East from 2006 to 2014, was elected as Virginia’s 75th governor. A Democrat who served in Congress from 2019 to 2025, Spanberger mixed criticism of Donald Trump on the campaign - [The Honduran Election: What Happened?](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/12/16/the-honduran-election-what-happened/) - Honduras held national elections on November 30. At stake were the office of president, 125 seats in the National Congress, and more than 280 mayoral and municipal governments. Three major political parties, including the two traditional National and Liberal parties, and the more recently formed LIBRE Party, ran presidential candidates. By Tuesday, December 9, there - [Petitioning the Inter-American Commission for Human Rights to Find Justice and Stop the Wanton Murder of Civilians on the High Seas](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/12/15/petitioning-the-inter-american-commission-for-human-rights-to-find-justice-and-stop-the-wanton-murder-of-civilians-on-the-high-seas/) - On Tuesday, December 2, 2025, I filed a petition with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) on behalf of the family of Alejandro Carranza—a Colombian fisherman who went out in his boat on the Caribbean Sea, attempting to fish for marlin and tuna, but who never came home. Instead, he was murdered through a - [As Students Go Back to School, What Pivotal Aspects of U.S. History—Including CIA History—Will Not Be Taught?](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/08/26/as-students-go-back-to-school-what-pivotal-aspects-of-u-s-history-including-cia-history-will-not-be-taught/) - 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 higher education are indeed liberals - [Chile, Another Latin American Country Shifting to the Right](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/12/12/chile-another-latin-american-country-shifting-to-the-right/) - The first round of Chile’s presidential election determined that center-left government candidate Jeannette Jara and far-right opposition leader José Antonio Kast will face off in the December 14 runoff. Although Jara won the first round with 26.75%—3,446,854 votes—against Kast’s 23.96%—3,086,963 votes—everything suggests that the right will win the second round and take office on March - [Western Powers Fostered a Theocratic, Sectarian Regime that Now Reigns over Syria](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/12/11/western-powers-fostered-a-theocratic-sectarian-regime-that-now-reigns-over-syria/) - [This is the fourth part of a series on Syria and the effects of CIA intervention there, tied for the one year anniversary of the Syrian "revolution." See Part I, Part II, and Part III.—Editors] How do you sell the idea of a moderate rebellion without alienating the extremists who will do the actual fighting? - [Visionary Left-Wing Congressman Tried to Block the Creation of the CIA](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/12/10/visionary-left-wing-congressman-tried-to-block-the-creation-of-the-cia/) - Beloved by his constituents, Vito Marcantonio spoke out against bankrupt U.S. foreign policies during the Cold War and championed Puerto Rican rights [This article is part of a special CovertAction Magazine series to honor left-wing figures in American history. The first part in the series looked at the career of “the rebel girl,” Elizabeth Gurley - [Syria Was an Important Staging Ground For Some of the CIA’s Earliest Experiments in Covert Action](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/12/09/syria-was-an-important-staging-ground-for-some-of-the-cias-earliest-experiments-in-covert-action/) - [This is one of three articles we are running this week on the 1-year anniversary of the so-called Syrian “revolution.”—Editors] U.S. media accounts of the fall of the Assad dynasty in Syria failed to disclose that the U.S. had engaged in a thirteen-year-long operation that started with the Arab Spring and continued with the launching - [Biden Would Like You to Forget His Enthusiastic Support for Ethnic Cleansing, Mass Murder, Islamic Terrorists and War Criminals](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2021/01/26/biden-would-like-you-to-forget-his-enthusiastic-support-for-ethnic-cleansing-mass-murder-islamic-terrorists-and-war-criminals/) - Part III of our exclusive Biden Series on Joe Biden’s foreign policy positions through the years: The Balkans In his 2008 memoir, Promises to Keep, then Democratic Party presidential candidate Joe Biden touted his leadership on the Balkan conflict as one of his two proudest moments in public life. He pushed a reluctant Clinton administration to - [Operation Timber Sycamore Arming Jihadist Rebels in Syria Was One of the Epic CIA Criminal Covert Operations](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/12/08/operation-timber-sycamore-arming-jihadist-rebels-in-syria-was-one-of-the-epic-cia-criminal-covert-operations/) - Will Congress ever hold the CIA to account for this and other crimes by ordering a Church Committee-type investigation? [This article, coinciding with the one year anniversary of the Syrian “revolution,” is part of a series of articles on Syria that discusses the Syrian “revolution” and U.S. regime-change operations and their disastrous consequences going back - [While Deterrence Is Not a Crime, Pushing Iran to Pursue a Nuclear Weapon Should be Condemned](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/12/08/while-deterrence-is-not-a-crime-pushing-iran-to-pursue-a-nuclear-weapon-should-be-condemned/) - On the 80th anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atom bomb attacks, the world stands in grave danger of nuclear warfare again breaking out—particularly in light of the pattern of Israeli aggression in the Middle East and the perpetuation of the Russia-Ukraine conflict. In the U.S, all mechanisms of diplomacy and nuclear deterrence have been - [American Made Jordanian King Complicit in CIA Torture, Illegal Invasions, War Crimes, Terrorism and Genocide](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/12/05/american-made-jordanian-king-complicit-in-cia-torture-illegal-invasions-war-crimes-terrorism-and-genocide/) - King Abdullah II made a pact with the devil in exchange for more than a billion dollars in annual U.S. support that helps secure his family’s tyrannical rule In early August, Jordan’s King Abdullah II—who has ruled Jordan since 1999—announced his latest Cabinet reshuffle. Growing popular disaffection with his rule has resulted from mounting social - [New “Awards industry” Honors Politicians Who Favor War Over Diplomacy](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/12/04/new-awards-industry-honors-politicians-who-favor-war-over-diplomacy/) - It has become a cliché that award ceremonies serve the award givers more than the laureates. Admittedly, there are many worthy laureates who genuinely care to make sure the prize recipients get merit Recognition, and who could make good use of research and development’s financing. Nonetheless, it is manifest that most award festivities have become - [Trump’s Yokosuka Spectacle: The Pageantry of Power and Japan’s Hidden PFAS Crisis](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/12/04/trumps-yokosuka-spectacle-the-pageantry-of-power-and-japans-hidden-pfas-crisis/) - Beneath the aircraft-carrier ceremony celebrating a “new golden age” in U.S.-Japan relations, ongoing toxic discharges from the Yokosuka naval base reveal a grimmer alliance—one built on secrecy, contamination and a surrender of environmental sovereignty. 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Corporate leaders instruct their teams of managers to create a specific atmosphere at the workplace, and this can influence the attitudes of all employees within the company; from supermarkets to car-makers, the expected - [Operation Splinter Factor: CIA Subversion in the Eastern Bloc](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/12/01/operation-splinter-factor-cia-subversion-in-the-eastern-bloc/) - The CIA has been implicated in many of the murkiest incidents of the latter half of the 20th century. From the Kennedy assassination and Project MK-ULTRA, to what Wikipedia dubs the “alleged” Operation Mockingbird, a clandestine program which recruited prominent American journalists into a CIA propaganda network funded by agency front groups—the list goes on. - [The U.S.–China Tariff Confrontation: From Economic Dispute to Systemic Rivalry](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/12/01/the-u-s-china-tariff-confrontation-from-economic-dispute-to-systemic-rivalry/) - Shifting Power and Strategic Autonomy In global politics, perception shapes power, but China’s current strategy suggests more than perception management. Its refusal to yield to U.S. tariff pressure marks a deliberate assertion of strategic autonomy. When Washington initiated steep tariffs under the Trump administration, many countries sought compromise through dialogue. Beijing instead opted for reciprocity, - [Blackfeet Nation Tries to Overcome Legacy of White Settler Genocide By Bringing Back the Buffalo](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/11/30/blackfeet-nation-tries-to-overcome-legacy-of-white-settler-genocide-by-bringing-back-the-buffalo/) - [This article is specially timed for Thanksgiving week and to commemorate native heritage month. See other recent articles on Native-American history published by CovertAction Magazine here, here and here.—Editors] One of the ugly features of the U.S. Army genocide directed against Native Americans in the 19th century was the systematic slaughter of the buffalo. Native - [James Angleton: JFK Assassination Architect?](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/11/26/james-angleton-jfk-assassination-architect/) - Newly declassified files show President John F. 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In this context, freshly released FBI documents indicating Oswald was removed from Bureau watchlists six weeks before Kennedy’s assassination, despite being judged a - [Who Killed Heinz Krug? and Why It Matters: Part III](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/11/19/who-killed-heinz-krug-and-why-it-matters-part-iii/) - [This article is part of a series this week on the JFK assassination coinciding with our November 18 webinar entitled “New Evidence, Old Questions: The Latest Declassified JFK Files.” See Part 1 and Part II.—Editors] Part 3: Israel’s Greatest Existential Threat Four days after journalists Raviv and Melman presented their engrossing story of the 1962 recruitment of - [CovertAction Bulletin: Trump Calls for Lawmakers to be Hanged](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/11/26/covertaction-bulletin-trump-calls-for-lawmakers-to-be-hanged/) - On November 20th, a group of six Democratic Senators and Representatives released a video addressing American servicemembers, reminding them that they can and must refuse illegal orders that are given to them... - [Jeffrey Epstein’s Brother Mark Points to a Coverup in Jeffrey’s Death](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/11/24/jeffrey-epsteins-brother-mark-points-to-a-coverup-in-jeffreys-death/) - On August 10, 2019, Mark Epstein was eating breakfast at a hotel in Norfolk, Virginia, when he saw a breaking news story on CNN that his older brother, Jeffrey, had supposedly committed suicide while awaiting trial at the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) in Manhattan. Mark is a retired real estate investor and businessman. At the - [Was LBJ a “Serial Killer” Who Advanced His Career By Murdering at Least 6 Other Men Who Stood In His Way?](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/02/06/was-lbj-a-serial-killer-who-advanced-his-career-by-murdering-at-least-6-other-men-who-stood-in-his-way/) - One of those men was Henry Marshall, whose death—he was shot five separate times in the chest with a rifle—was ruled “a suicide.” [This article follows CAM’s series on political assassinations.—Editors] On June 3, 1961, Henry Marshall was found dead on his farm near Bryan in Robertson County, Texas. He had been shot five times - [The U.S. Has Supported Cameroonian Dictator Paul Biya—the World’s Oldest President Who Just Won an Eighth Term in a Rigged Election—Since the Reagan Era](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/11/13/the-u-s-has-supported-cameroonian-dictator-paul-biya-the-worlds-oldest-president-who-just-won-an-eighth-term-in-a-rigged-election-since-the-reagan-era/) - The Gipper praised Cameroonian President Paul Biya’s commitment to free enterprise and openness to U.S. investment, which is the main reason the U.S. still supports him today On February 27, 1986, President Ronald Reagan held a press conference with Cameroonian President Paul Biya on the White House lawn. In his remarks, Reagan praised Biya for - [JFK Assassination Suspect Lied About Going on a Safari at the Time of JFK Assassination](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/11/21/jfk-assassination-suspect-lied-about-going-on-a-safari-at-the-time-of-jfk-assassination/) - [This article is part of a special week of coverage on the continued mystery of the JFK assassination on the 62nd anniversary of the assassination.—Editors] David Harold Byrd was the Texas oil millionaire who owned the building on Dealey Plaza rented by the Texas School Book Depository—the building that became notorious on November 22, 1963. - [Love That Lyndon: AI Has an LBJ Problem](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/11/17/love-that-lyndon-ai-has-an-lbj-problem/) - [This article is part of a series this week on the JFK assassination coinciding with our November 18 webinar entitled “New Evidence, Old Questions: The Latest Declassified JFK Files.”—Editors] On October 5, 2025, JFK researcher Robert Morrow asked X’s AI assistant, Grok: “Did Lyndon Johnson orchestrate the JFK assassination?” Grok answered: “There is no credible evidence that - [CovertAction Bulletin - Epstein and Empire: What Will the Files Say?](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/11/19/covertaction-bulletin-epstein-and-empire-what-will-the-files-say/) - Over 20,000 documents related to the Estate of Jeffrey Epstein have been released by the House Oversight Committee, and an unknown number more may be coming as the House of Representatives voted 427-1 on Tuesday for their release... - [Who Killed Heinz Krug? ...and Why It Matters](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/11/14/who-killed-heinz-krug-and-why-it-matters/) - Part 1: Hitler’s Favorite Commando and Unlikely Mossad Agent Otto Skorzeny was an infamous Viennese Waffen-SS colonel during World War II, recognizable by his dueling scar and famous for a variety of daring commando operations. In November 1938, as an Austrian officer, he participated in burning synagogues during Kristallnacht. In April 1943 he headed an - [Were Donald Trump and Bill Clinton Blackmailed by Jeffrey Epstein Working for Israeli Intelligence?](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/09/17/were-donald-trump-and-bill-clinton-blackmailed-by-jeffrey-epstein-working-for-israeli-intelligence/) - Epstein’s network may have had a major hand in blocking peace initiatives in the Middle East—past and present [For an earlier examination of Jeffrey Epstein’s ties to intelligence agencies, see previous CAM article here.—Editors] Ari Ben-Menashe is an Iranian-born former Israel Defense Forces intelligence operative. In the 1980s, he was involved in the Iran-Contra scandal - [Newly Declassified Report From CIA Inspector General: CIA Operative Paid $68,000 in Bribes to 1963 Coup Group in South Vietnam](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/11/10/newly-declassified-report-from-cia-inspector-general-cia-operative-paid-68000-in-bribes-to-1963-coup-group-in-south-vietnam/) - Lucien Conein was a key figure in coup that set the groundwork for the escalation of the Vietnam War Lucien Conein was a legendary CIA officer known as “Black Luigi,” who ran agents behind the Iron Curtain in the early Cold War, helped organize Iran’s notoriously brutal secret police under the Shah, and coordinated all - [U.S.-Rio de Janeiro Connection: The Machinery of Global Drug Control](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/11/12/u-s-rio-de-janeiro-connection-the-machinery-of-global-drug-control/) - The large-scale operation in Rio de Janeiro carried out on October 28, which has already left at least 121 people dead and once again laid bare the logic of war applied to poverty, should not be understood solely as a local public-security issue. It is part of a global control system that has the United - [CovertAction Bulletin: Mamdani’s Win and the Movement’s Next Steps](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/11/12/covertaction-bulletin-mamdanis-win-and-the-movements-next-steps/) - Over two million New Yorkers voted in the mayoral elections, which saw Zohran Mamdani win with more than one million votes himself... - [A Savage Art: The Life & Cartoons of Pat Oliphant](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/11/12/a-savage-art-the-life-cartoons-of-pat-oliphant/) - New film looks back at one of history’s greatest visual humorists who spoke truth—and mirth—to power. As Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert undergo the slings and arrows of outrageous censorship, a timely new documentary chronicles a sketching scourge of the status quo who skewered the powers that be, lampooning politicians, oligarchs and other tyrannical targets - [Court Filing Exposes 9/11 Coverup](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/11/08/court-filing-exposes-9-11-coverup/) - This year’s anniversary of 9/11 passed with little mainstream mention. Almost two-and-a-half decades on, the media appear to have lost interest in that fateful, world-changing day. This is despite the April 2023 release of a bombshell court filing by the Office of Military Commissions, which concluded at least two of the alleged hijackers were CIA - [Trump’s Decisive Vote in Argentina’s Mid-Term Elections Gives Right-Wing Victory Despite Deteriorating Economic Conditions and Mounting Corruption Scandals](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/11/06/trumps-decisive-vote-in-argentinas-mid-term-elections-gives-right-wing-victory-despite-deteriorating-economic-conditions-and-mounting-corruption-scandals/) - Far-right leader Javier Milei won Argentina’s mid-term legislative elections, strengthening his position for the final two years of his government. President Milei has already announced that he will send regressive and far-reaching bills to Congress: labor, tax and pension reforms. 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King, who served as Trump’s - [CovertAction Bulletin - Tariffs and Tensions: Is Trump Really Shifting on China?](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/11/05/covertaction-bulletin-tariffs-and-tensions-is-trump-really-shifting-on-china/) - After almost a year of an escalating trade war, U.S. President Donald Trump met with Chinese President Xi Jinping in South Korea last week... - [Venezuela is Ready to Stand Firm Against U.S. Aggression](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/11/05/venezuela-is-ready-to-stand-firm-against-u-s-aggression/) - Since September 2, 2025, the United States has bombed thirteen boats, two within twenty-four hours, killing a total of sixty-one people in international waters, under the unproven charge that the boats were carrying drugs headed for the U.S. What is amazing in this unprecedented affair is that the expected public outcry has not been forthcoming; - [The Trump-Netanyahu “Peace” Plan is Incompatible With UN Charter and International Law](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/11/03/the-trump-netanyahu-peace-plan-is-incompatible-with-un-charter-and-international-law/) - The Trump-Netanyahu “Peace” for Gaza does not conform to international law and does not augur well for sustainable regional and international peace and reconciliation. The Trump-Netanyahu construct is incompatible with the UN Charter and with the erga omnes obligation of all UN member States to ensure the enforcement of Security Council Resolutions, including Resolution 242 - [Daughter of CIA’s First Master Spy in the Middle East Says Today’s Wars Have Been Triggered by Great Power Competition to Control Oil and Natural Gas](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/10/29/daughter-of-cias-first-master-spy-in-the-middle-east-says-todays-wars-have-been-triggered-by-great-power-competition-to-control-oil-and-natural-gas/) - Charlotte Dennett is an investigative journalist and lawyer whose father, Daniel Dennett, was considered to be America’s first master spy in the Middle East. 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They were - [The Asia Foundation’s Deep CIA Ties Exposed](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/10/30/the-asia-foundations-deep-cia-ties-exposed/) - Headquartered in San Francisco, The Asia Foundation is a non-profit organization receiving public and private support that coordinates development projects, educational programs and cultural exchanges across Asia, in part with the aim of facilitating better relations with the U.S., according to its website. 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Today, oligarchs like Peter Thiel—a key player in the U.S. security apparatus and founder of Palantir, the taxpayer-funded surveillance and profiling giant built with CIA backing—say competition - [CovertAction Bulletin: A General Strike Can Change Everything](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/10/22/covertaction-bulletin-a-general-strike-can-change-everything/) - Millions of people in over 2,700 cities and towns took part in No Kings Day protests across the country on October 18th... - [If the Jackboot Fits: Big Brother is Still Watching You](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/10/21/if-the-jackboot-fits-big-brother-is-still-watching-you/) - [This article is one of two published by CovertAction Magazine on George Orwell that offer two divergent interpretations about Orwell’s career and legacy. Here is the second, a critical portrait.—Editors] Orwellian Days During his first presidency, Trump told 30,573 lies, yet he calls his privately owned online outlet “Truth Social”—which sounds like it is straight - [CIA Adapted George Orwell’s Animal Farm for Political Purposes in Cold War](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/10/22/cia-adapted-george-orwells-animal-farm-for-political-purposes-in-cold-war/) - [This article is one of two published by CovertAction Magazine on George Orwell that offer two divergent interpretations about Orwell’s career and legacy. Here is the first, a movie review of Orwell: 2+2=5 that just debuted.—Editors] Rather than being some kind of prophet, Orwell was a literary Cold Warrior who plagiarized works and critiqued the - [Leaked: How British Intel Infiltrates Lebanon](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/10/19/leaked-how-british-intel-infiltrates-lebanon/) - In a markedly revealing September 22nd interview with The National, U.S. special envoy to Syria Tom Barrack made a number of stunning admissions about the state of play in Lebanon. Despite Western governments demanding for months that Beirut disarm Hezbollah, he acknowledged the resistance group had “zero” incentive to voluntarily do so, as “Israel is - [Gaza Cease-fire Agreement Furthers Ongoing Age of Imperialism](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/10/16/gaza-cease-fire-agreement-furthers-ongoing-age-of-imperialism/) - On October 9, Israel and Hamas announced the adoption of a cease-fire agreement involving the release of all hostages held by Hamas. Israel, in exchange, agreed to allow for the entry of humanitarian aid, to release Palestinian prisoners, and to withdraw its forces to a so-called “yellow line” from which they will still control all - [Gaddafi’s Ghost Haunts French Ex-President Sarkozy](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/10/15/gaddafis-ghost-haunts-french-ex-president-sarkozy/) - The criminal case of ex-France President Nicolas Sarkozy touches the historical tensions between Muammar Gaddafi's Libya and Western powers, particularly France. In a recent development, a Paris court sentenced Sarkozy to five years in prison for criminal conspiracy, marking a historic conviction for a former French president. The charges? They are allegations that the Libyan - [CovertAction Bulletin: Nobel Peace Prize Paves Way for War With Venezuela](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/10/15/covertaction-bulletin-nobel-peace-prize-paves-way-for-war-with-venezuela/) - Donald Trump did not win the Nobel Peace Prize, as he boasted he should for supposedly being the “peace President”—a claim we’ve debunked numerous times on this show... - [Kansas Gets Its Name From a Native Tribe that White Settlers Robbed and Then Displaced](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/10/13/kansas-gets-its-name-from-a-native-tribe-that-white-settlers-robbed-and-then-displaced/) - [This is the second of two CAM special articles this week in honor of Indigenous Peoples Day.–Editors] In August 2023, the Kaw Nation transported a sacred boulder, known as Iⁿ‘zhúje ‘Waxóbe, from Lawrence, Kansas, to ancestral Kaw land near Locust Grove, Kansas, where Kaw Nation members lived. The Lawrence City Council voted 5-0 to allow - [Denmark/Scandinavia on Permanent War Footing: Russians on the Doorstep](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/10/14/denmark-scandinavia-on-permanent-war-footing-russians-on-the-doorstep/) - Foreign politics and censorship in Denmark, where I have lived off and on for 35 years, is actually worse than in the United States today. Not one of the 16 political parties with members in the 179-seat Danish Parliament (follketing) supports Russia’s reasons for its “Special Military Operation” (SMO) in Ukraine. All support NATO and - [The 1924 Election was Nearly as Bad as the 2024 Election](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/07/17/the-1924-election-was-nearly-as-bad-as-the-2024-election/) - Voters then, too, were faced with the choice of two corporate-backed candidates promoting regressive economic policies In 1924, at least, there was a genuinely progressive third candidate, Robert La Follette The 1924 U.S. election was not much better than 2024’s. In both cases, the Republican and Democratic Party candidates had deep Wall Street ties and - [Donald Trump Wants to Take Us Back To a Time When Frontiersmen Who Carried Out Grotesque Acts Were Regarded as Heroes](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/10/12/donald-trump-wants-to-take-us-back-to-a-time-when-frontiersmen-who-carried-out-grotesque-acts-were-regarded-as-heroes/) - The barbarism of the North American conquest was exemplified by scalping and mutilation of Native Americans [This article is part of a CovertAction Magazine special on Indigenous Peoples Day.—Editors] In May, President Donald Trump announced that he would not recognize Indigenous People’s Day and would bring Columbus Day “back from the ashes.” A few months - [Slain Journalist Was on Threshold of Exposing Large-Scale CIA-Mafia Drug-Smuggling Operation Using Australian Bank Founded by Special Forces Veteran](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/10/10/slain-journalist-was-on-threshold-of-exposing-large-scale-cia-mafia-drug-smuggling-operation-using-australian-bank-founded-by-special-forces-veteran/) - Danny Casolaro Was Planning to Meet with Key Figures in Nugan Hand Bank and Members of Australian Government Commission Before He Was Murdered On August 10, 1991, Danny Casolaro was found lying dead in a tub of bloody water in a hotel room in Martinsburg, West Virginia. The cause of death was ruled a suicide, - [By the Hand of a Spy, Lisbon Forgot the Revolution](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/10/08/by-the-hand-of-a-spy-lisbon-forgot-the-revolution/) - Far beyond any notion of solidarity between brotherly nations divided by an ocean, the reception of Brazilian exiles in Portugal during the 1970s was marked not by warmth, but by strict surveillance, diplomatic intrigue, and covert maneuvers. From the perspective of Brazilian intelligence services, Portugal appeared to waver between the moral duty of sheltering the - [CovertAction Bulletin - From Gaza to Portland: A System in Crisis](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/10/08/covertaction-bulletin-from-gaza-to-portland-a-system-in-crisis/) - The Israeli government has waged the latest campaign in its effort to wipe out and destroy the Palestinian people entirely for over two years now, with the full financial, diplomatic and military backing of the United States government... - [Right Wing Attack Dog Intent on Exposing Left-Wing "Subversion” Follows in Footsteps of Cold War CIA Asset Who Defected From KGB](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/10/07/right-wing-attack-dog-intent-on-exposing-left-wing-subversion-follows-in-footsteps-of-cold-war-cia-asset-who-defected-from-kgb/) - In early September, Dr. Thomas Alter II—author of the well-regarded book Toward a Cooperative Commonwealth: The Transplanted Roots of Farmer-Labor Radicalism in Texas (University of Illinois Press, 2022)—was fired from his tenured position teaching history at Texas State University after he gave an online talk at a socialist conference. Alter’s talk was secretly recorded by - [Bolivia Turns to the Right](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/10/06/bolivia-turns-to-the-right/) - On October 19, Bolivia will have a new president—and he will be from the right. It is confirmed that the country is about to make a sharp ideological turn since the Movement for Socialism (MAS) came to power in January 2006. Broadly speaking, Bolivia has had nearly 20 years of leftist governments, although the current - [Digital Literacy and Civics Education are Essential Tools in Era of Disinformation and Surveillance Capitalism](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/10/03/digital-literacy-and-civics-education-are-essential-tools-in-era-of-disinformation-and-surveillance-capitalism/) - 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 Muste Foundation for Peace and - [Former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage is Alleged to Have Coordinated CIA Drug Trafficking Network in Southeast Asia that Financed Black Operations](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/10/02/former-deputy-secretary-of-state-richard-armitage-is-alleged-to-have-coordinated-cia-drug-trafficking-network-in-southeast-asia-that-financed-black-operations/) - The New York Times and other obituaries predictably left this out Richard Armitage, the number two official at the State Department from 2001 to 2005, died on April 13. The New York Times and other obituaries emphasized that Armitage was a Naval Academy graduate and Bronze Star recipient in Vietnam who served senior roles in - [What Dirty Tricks Does the Grandson of Former CIA Director William Colby—a Key Man Running U.S. Foreign Policy in the Trump Administration—Have in Store for Us?](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/10/01/what-dirty-tricks-does-the-grandson-of-former-cia-director-william-colby-a-key-man-running-u-s-foreign-policy-in-the-trump-administration-have-in-store-for-us/) - Elbridge Colby, President Donald Trump’s Under Secretary of Defense for Policy and the man running the U.S. proxy war against Russia in Ukraine, is the grandson of Nixon’s CIA Director William Colby, son of Jonathan Colby, a manager of the Carlyle Group, and nephew of Carl Colby, alleged to have participated in a covert operation - [CovertAction Bulletin - U.S. on Edge: Trump Prepares Domestic Military Crackdown](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/10/01/covertaction-bulletin-u-s-on-edge-trump-prepares-domestic-military-crackdown/) - At a gathering of senior military leaders at Marine Corps Base Quantico on Tuesday, Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth signaled that they’re preparing to imminently expand the scope and size of the U.S. military, both inside and outside the United States... - [Neo-Colonialism in Africa: From the IMF and World Bank to the International Caucasian Court for Prosecuting Africans](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/09/30/neo-colonialism-in-africa-from-the-imf-and-world-bank-to-the-international-caucasian-court-for-prosecuting-africans/) - [These remarks were delivered at the September 16, 2025, CovertAction Magazine webinar on Neo-Colonialism in Africa.—Editors] I’m honored to be invited to join P.D. Lawton, Jeremy Kuzmarov, Milton Allimadi, Jean-Marie Higiro, and Lawrence Freeman here. I know a bit about most everyone’s particular areas of expertise, but particularly those of Milton and Lawrence, so I’m sure we’ll - [The Book My Grandfather Never Wrote](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/09/30/the-book-my-grandfather-never-wrote/) - When I was young, my parents worked long hours. As a result, I spent much of my childhood with my grandparents, whose outlook on life always fascinated me—though at times, it left me deeply unsettled. Their time was not my own; it always moved more slowly, as if our clocks were never synchronized. A conversation - [Covert U.S. and UK Propaganda Was Crucial to Deadly Regime Change Operation in Syria](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/09/25/covert-u-s-and-uk-propaganda-was-crucial-to-deadly-regime-change-operation-in-syria/) - Public relations machine transformed hard-line jihadists—whom Hillary Clinton famously called “hard men with guns”—into valiant freedom fighters in the eyes of the U.S.-UK public [This is the third part of a series. Part I can be found here and Part II can be found here.—Editors] Imagine if an armed rebellion took place in the United - [CIA Officers Helped Block Investigation into Ukrainian Energy Company that Employed Hunter Biden](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/09/27/cia-officers-helped-block-investigation-into-ukrainian-energy-company-that-employed-hunter-biden/) - New disclosures add weight to theory that Burisma was part of CIA operation On February 21, 2019, a confidential source told the FBI that two CIA officers went with Mykola Zlochevsky, owner of Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company that appointed Hunter Biden to its board, to the office of Yuriy Lutsenko, the prosecutor general of - [Xinjiang as It Really Is](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/09/24/xinjiang-as-it-really-is/) - An on-the-ground account challenging Western propaganda Upon landing in Urumqi, the capital of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (commonly known as Xinjiang), it is evident that the Uyghurs, a Turkic-speaking Muslim minority, call this home. As I exited the airport arrivals hall, I noticed a restaurant sign reading “EGG BOMB.” The moniker cleverly implies that - [CovertAction Bulletin - Trump at the U.N.: Rambling, Racist, and Out of Touch](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/09/24/covertaction-bulletin-trump-at-the-u-n-rambling-racist-and-out-of-touch/) - In a rambling speech that lasted nearly an hour at the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday, Donald Trump spent a significant amount of time condemning immigration in the west as well as the use and development of clean energy alternatives to coal and oil... - [A Victim of Modern-Day Political and Academic Persecution Speaks Out](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/09/22/a-victim-of-modern-day-political-and-academic-persecution-speaks-out/) - I am honored to have the chance to relate in English for a journal with a substantial readership the story of what happened to me as a professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign between 2000 and 2004. My story provides some insights into the establishment of a military government in the United States at - [Welcome to the Age of Hypocrisy, Where Truth Rots and Lies Thrive](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/09/18/welcome-to-the-age-of-hypocrisy-where-truth-rots-and-lies-thrive/) - Some truths are harsh, but they must be spoken. Writing these difficult facts aims not to condemn, but to awaken. Repentance must come; if not, it won’t be the best of times, but the worst of times. “The time is always right to do what is right,” said Martin Luther King, Jr., decades after Winston - [CovertAction Bulletin - Passport Revocations: Trump’s Repression and the New McCarthyism](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/09/17/covertaction-bulletin-passport-revocations-trumps-repression-and-the-new-mccarthyism/) - Gaza is burning. Anyone who’s watched the livestreamed genocide of the Palestinian people over the last 23 months knows that this is true... - [Trump Greenlit a Deadly Covert Operation in 2019 That Further Poisoned U.S.-North Korean Relations](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/09/16/trump-greenlit-a-deadly-covert-operation-in-2019-that-further-poisoned-u-s-north-korean-relations/) - During the 2024 presidential election campaign, Kamala Harris and other Democrats ridiculed Donald Trump for supposedly having cozied up to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. While Trump did meet with Kim, new disclosures reveal that he also ordered an illegal and deadly SEAL Team 6 covert operation into North Korea that further poisoned U.S.-North - [Gaza Flotilla Attacked By Drones](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/09/14/gaza-flotilla-attacked-by-drones/) - For the third time in five months, drones carrying explosives have attacked boats in the Gaza flotillas. I was in Tunis when the Familia and Alma ships were attacked by drones carrying explosives. On the evening of September 8, an explosive dropped from a drone hit Familia,” the lead ship of the Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) anchored in national - [The Peoples Conference for Palestine: Another Step Forward](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/09/12/the-peoples-conference-for-palestine-another-step-forward/) - The well-organized Palestine conference in Detroit brought more than 4,600 there, with a heavy Palestinian presence. Most of the speakers in the plenaries were genuine Palestinian activists tested in battle, not well-known writers or professors. The over 270 journalists who have been targeted and murdered for informing the world of the endless U.S.-Israeli slaughter of - [Chronicle of a Collapse Foretold: The Paradox of World Trade Center 7 and the 9/11 Narrative](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/09/11/chronicle-of-a-collapse-foretold-the-paradox-of-world-trade-center-7-and-the-9-11-narrative/) - As we near the 24th and 25th anniversaries of 9/11, the time is right for soberly re-examining the official narrative of the event that defines our century, not by getting lost in a maze of speculations, but by paying attention to a paradox that can be analyzed with logic and common sense: that of World - [52 Years Later, Chile’s 9/11 Mystery Continues to Surround Deaths of Two Americans](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/09/11/52-years-later-chiles-9-11-mystery-continues-to-surround-deaths-of-two-americans/) - American embassy and CIA were complicit in their killings and the cover-up On September 11, 1973, General Augusto Pinochet launched a fascist coup in Chile that deposed Salvador Allende, a democratically elected socialist who had nationalized Chile’s copper industry and enacted other measures designed to equalize wealth in Chile. Supported by the Nixon administration and - [Bungled 2020 Coup Attempted in Venezuela Was a Pale Version of the Bay of Pigs](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/09/10/bungled-2020-coup-attempted-in-venezuela-was-a-pale-version-of-the-bay-of-pigs/) - New film detailed amateurish plot led by a gang of mercenaries who couldn’t shoot straight As the Trump regime deploys the Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group—including a nuclear-powered attack submarine, P-8A Poseidon maritime surveillance aircraft, three U.S. Navy destroyers equipped with some of the most advanced air defense, ballistic missile defense, and anti-submarine warfare systems, with 4,500 - [How to Navigate Media Madness](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/09/06/how-to-navigate-media-madness/) - By 2016 I had authored four New York Times best-selling non-fiction books about the U.S. government, wars and the American media. Over this time, I had read jillions of pages of research, interviewed more than 1,000 people, met five American presidents, dined in the personal quarters of the White House, and was acquainted with numerous - [United Arab Emirates—A Cancer Spreading in Africa](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/09/09/united-arab-emirates-a-cancer-spreading-in-africa/) - The UAE’s Big Brother Is the Central Intelligence Agency The UAE, the United Arab Emirates, is a cancer spreading in Africa. This cancer has infected much of eastern Africa and is spreading into northern, central and western parts of the continent. The worst outbreak of this disease—the UAE disease, has been in Sudan where the ruling - [Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostock Brings Together Countries Working to Advance a New Multipolar World Order](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/09/06/eastern-economic-forum-in-vladivostock-brings-together-countries-working-to-advance-a-new-multipolar-world-order/) - Despite 30,000 sanctions, Russia is taking a step toward multi-polar world. We are currently witnessing world history unfolding before our eyes. The destruction of the financial and international relations system by Western countries is contributing to global changes in the world economy and the development of a multipolar world order. These circumstances are most actively - [Former USAID Director Samantha Power Admits to Massive U.S. Covert Interference in Moldova](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/09/04/former-usaid-director-samantha-power-admits-to-massive-u-s-covert-interference-in-moldova/) - Rather than advancing democracy, U.S. interference helped empower a Harvard-trained World Bank economist who jailed a political rival and has allowed large-scale arms shipments into Ukraine Former U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Director Samantha Power admitted to Russian pranksters that USAID invested tens of millions of dollars in Moldova to support pro-European Union (EU) - [Canadian Servility to U.S. War Agenda ‘Rewarded’ with 35 Percent Tariffs](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/09/03/canadian-servility-to-u-s-war-agenda-rewarded-with-35-percent-tariffs/) - Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger once said “it may be dangerous to be America’s enemy, but to be America’s friend is fatal.” Canada has been servile to the U.S. war agenda under Prime Minister Mark Carney, a former Governor of the Bank of Canada and Bank of England, whose professional loyalties have been - [CovertAction Bulletin: Dems Pay Influencers to Pretend They Are Grassroots](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/09/03/covertaction-bulletin-dems-pay-influencers-to-pretend-theyre-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](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/09/02/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 so-called “Sovereign Citizen” and his teenage son disastrously face off against the courts, law enforcement, etc. Writer/director Christian Swegal’s screenplay is inspired by - [David Horowitz's Turn to the Right was Triggered by an Unsolved Murder Linked to FBI and CIA Subversion of the New Left](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/09/01/david-horowitzs-turn-to-the-right-was-triggered-by-an-unsolved-murder-linked-to-fbi-and-cia-subversion-of-the-new-left/) - 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 Party leader Geert Wilders to Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, a young Horowitz protégé, eulogizing the radical-turned-reactionary. Formerly a - [The Rebel Girl, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, is a Great Role Model for Budding Social Movement Leaders](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/09/01/the-rebel-girl-elizabeth-gurley-flynn-is-a-great-role-model-for-budding-social-movement-leaders/) - 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 [This article is specially published on labor day to commemorate a great figure in American labor history.—Editors] In 1915, legendary folk singer Joe Hill wrote a tribute to Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, an organizer - [CovertAction Bulletin - D.C. Was Just the Start: Trump Targets Cities Nationwide](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/08/27/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... - [Government Officials Who Push the Button of Nuclear Weapons Will Die First, As They Should—Or Should They Have to Face the Consequences?](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/08/28/government-officials-who-push-the-button-of-nuclear-weapons-will-die-first-as-they-should-or-should-they-have-to-face-the-consequences/) - 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 and unnecessary U.S. atomic bombing of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I also travelled to Nagasaki to participate in an - [CovertAction Bulletin: U.S. Makes Threats While China Plans Its Infrastructure](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/08/20/covertaction-bulletin-u-s-makes-threats-while-china-plans-its-infrastructure/) - The founder of Tech Buzz China, Rui Ma, posted on X after a recent trip to China about her observations on energy there. “Energy is considered a solved problem... - [Stanford Center Gives Journalism Award to CIA-Linked Media Outlet That Helped Provoke Disastrous Regime-Change Operation in Bangladesh](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/08/25/stanford-center-gives-journalism-award-to-cia-linked-media-outlet-that-helped-provoke-disastrous-regime-change-operation-in-bangladesh/) - 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 Endowment for Democracy (NED), a CIA-front organization founded in the 1980s to advance U.S. global geopolitical interests under the guise - [Cuban Flames, Imperialist Tundra](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/08/23/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 Cuba, explains that hunger is more dangerous than any bomb imperialism could drop on the Bolivarian nations. Cuba’s energy grid - [U.S. Military Budget Tops $1 Trillion](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/08/21/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 a base defense request of $892.6 billion, plus a $119.3 billion allocation of additional resources from the Republican-controlled Congress’s budget - [New Forms of U.S. Interference in Brazil](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/08/20/new-forms-of-u-s-interference-in-brazil/) - Trade warfare and interference in the free functioning of the judiciary are the current expressions of United States interventionism in Latin America, particularly in Brazil. With the largest economy in the region and the eighth-largest in the world, Brazil holds a central strategic importance for the United States in its aim to maintain global dominance - [Ethiopia: Where Political Power Grows From the Barrel of a Gun](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/08/19/ethiopia-where-political-power-grows-from-the-barrel-of-a-gun/) - There is a brutal civil war being waged in Ethiopia where political power grows from the barrel of a gun. On one side is the Western-backed corrupt, brutal regime of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, he who was bestowed the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize by the imperialists on the Nobel Committee in Norway. On the other - [U.S. Military Bases in South Korea and Japan Confronted with Persistent Protests](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/08/18/u-s-military-bases-in-south-korea-and-japan-confronted-with-persistent-protests/) - In late June, during public commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Okinawa—one of the bloodiest battles of the Pacific War that resulted in over 240,000 deaths—local authorities called for a reduction of the U.S. military presence in Okinawa, which hosts over 20,000 U.S. troops. Last August, a protest near Marine Corps Air - [U.S. Corporations Made a Killing in Soviet Russia After Lenin Exempted Many of Them From Nationalization Decrees—So Why Was There Ever a Cold War?](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/08/15/u-s-corporations-made-a-killing-in-soviet-russia-after-lenin-exempted-many-of-them-from-nationalization-decrees-so-why-was-there-ever-a-cold-war/) - As Cold War 2.0 heats up and places the world in peril of nuclear war, it is worthwhile to look back at the history of the original Cold War where Russophobia began to metastasize like a cancer in U.S. society. A new book by Gabriela Gavrilov,[1] U.S.-Russian Commercial Relations 1763-1933: Origins of Russophobia shows that - [With Its Former President Gone, Will the Southern Poverty Law Center Return to Its Roots as Genuine Civil Rights Watchdog?](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/08/14/with-its-former-president-gone-will-the-southern-poverty-law-center-return-to-its-roots-as-genuine-civil-rights-watchdog/) - The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) brands itself as a civil rights watchdog. Founded by Morris Dees, Joseph Levin and Julian Bond in 1971 in Montgomery, Alabama, it gained a favorable reputation in liberal circles in the 1980s for filing civil lawsuits for monetary damages on behalf of the victims of violence from the Ku - [The Dulles Brothers](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/08/09/the-dulles-brothers/) - John of State whose cloak snaked around his body the contours of which you had to guess; and, Allan of Intelligence his dagger secreted behind his back waiting to strike enemies of the state. The brothers Dulles John with his cloak and Allan with his dagger decided to overthrow Arbenz, President of Guatemala for giving The United Fruit Company’s unused land to the campesinos. 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The two were admitted to a hospital after they were allegedly found unconscious on a public bench in the center of Salisbury by the - [Contrary to Mainstream Media, Journalist Sees a Different Side of China](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/08/12/journalist-sees-a-different-side-of-china-contrary-to-mainstream-media/) - As legislators across North America continue bashing the People’s Republic of China, some Canadians, including this author, were invited on a tour of three Chinese cities during the spring. 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August 6th was the 80th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima - [Are We Witnessing the Collapse of International Law?](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/08/07/are-we-witnessing-the-collapse-of-international-law/) - Over the past 30 years, the proponents of the Unipolar World have proceeded to methodically dismantle the norms, principles and diplomatic usages to such an extent that contemporary international relations are characterized by social media postings. First, UN resolutions have been construed to provide a veneer of legality to wars of choice against UN Member-States - [The Strength of Peace: Nicaragua Celebrates the 46th Anniversary of the Sandinista Revolution](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/08/08/the-strength-of-peace-nicaragua-celebrates-the-46th-anniversary-of-the-sandinista-revolution/) - This year was different from celebrations since 2021 when there were, perhaps, 5,000 people invited—this year there were about 50,000! It took place in the Plaza de la Fe where the July 19th celebrations were held for many years with open attendance of hundreds of thousands and little organization. That changed in 2020 with Covid. - [During National Whistleblower Day Event, Senator Says Whistleblowers Have Never Been More Urgently Needed](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/08/06/during-national-whistleblower-day-event-senator-says-whistleblowers-have-never-been-more-urgently-needed/) - CovertAction Magazine co-founder Philip Agee was one of the best known whistleblowers of the 1970s, writing a tell-all book exposing CIA crimes and the influence of multi-national corporations in driving illegal covert operations. After the book’s publication, Agee was retaliated against by the CIA, which forced him to live the remainder of his life on - [Japanese People Rally to Retain Leader Resisting Trump and Trying to Prevent Japan’s Involvement in a U.S. War Against China](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/08/05/japanese-people-rally-to-retain-leader-resisting-trump-and-trying-to-prevent-japans-involvement-in-a-u-s-war-against-china/) - Japan is gripped by an unprecedented political crisis that has been entirely obscured in the media around the globe. On July 24, the day after the Upper House elections, all the morning newspapers in Japan featured headlines screaming out that Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba had been pressured by his party, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) - [Top U.S. Foreign Aid Recipient in Africa Has Abhorrent Human Rights Record](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/08/04/top-u-s-foreign-aid-recipient-in-africa-has-abhorrent-human-rights-record/) - The U.S. Claims To Be Embarked on a Global Crusade Against Authoritarianism While It Supports Authoritarian Regimes Like the One in Kenya In mid-April 2025, President Donald Trump offered support for the Multinational Security Support Mission in Haiti, which is led by the National Police Service of Kenya. Financed largely by the U.S., which provides - [Mockingbirds Singing Far and Wide](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/08/01/mockingbirds-singing-far-and-wide/) - Listen to the Mockingbird. Let early birds catch worms, but Mockingbirds sing catchy ear worms. Tone-deaf historians and criminologists continue to neglect music and thereby ignore an important soundtrack to events. Even if our frustration has now reached a boiling point as we long for information that makes sense, dubbing in a voice that sings - [CovertAction Magazine Is Not Funded by Lockheed Martin, BlackRock, Pierre Omidyar, the NED or Any George Soros or CIA-Linked Foundations](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/07/20/covertaction-magazine-is-not-funded-by-lockheed-martin-blackrock-pierre-omidyar-the-ned-or-any-george-soros-or-cia-linked-foundations/) - Get your CAM subscription for just one cup of coffee per month Starting August 1st, 2025, you will need a subscription for new content at CovertAction Magazine (CAM). While we have maintained an "open garden" for 7 years since the online relaunch in 2018, this new requirement is now necessary to generate the revenues needed - [On the One-Year Anniversary of October 7, It is Clear We Were Not Told The Truth](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/10/07/on-the-one-year-anniversary-of-october-7-it-is-clear-we-were-not-told-the-truth/) - In an impassioned speech before the U.S. Congress in June, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated, “like December 7, 1941, and September 11, 2001, October 7 is a date that will forever live in infamy.” In the official version touted by Netanyahu, Hamas fighters on October 7 breached the Israeli security wall and attacked the - [Alger Hiss Spy Case Frame-Up Has Markings of an Intelligence Operation](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/07/21/alger-hiss-spy-case-frame-up-has-markings-of-an-intelligence-operation/) - OSS founder “Wild Bill” Donovan is said to have given orders for covert operation that helped dramatically shift U.S. politics to the right Alger Hiss was a former State Department official accused of being a Soviet spy who was imprisoned for almost four years at the federal penitentiary in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, from March 1951 to - [CovertAction Bulletin - Fund People’s Needs, Not the War Machine: Voices from the streets of D.C. on March 18](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/03/29/covertaction-bulletin-fund-peoples-needs-not-the-war-machine-voices-from-the-streets-of-d-c-on-march-18/) - On March 18, thousands of people from across the country and the world gathered in Lafayette Park, just outside the White House, demanding an end to the endless U.S. wars of the past 20 years and in particular the proxy conflict in Ukraine... - [Behind Bars, Ahead of History: The Case for Marwan Barghouti](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/07/31/behind-bars-ahead-of-history-the-case-for-marwan-barghouti/) - After October 7, Marwan Barghouti called on Palestinian factions to rise up to fight the oppressive Israeli occupation. 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The large-scale political maneuvering is taking place against the background - [Newly Declassified Documents Underscore How Claims of Russian Election Interference in 2016 Were Over-Hyped–Much Like Nonexistent Iraqi WMDs](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/07/28/newly-declassified-documents-underscore-how-claims-of-russian-election-interference-in-2016-were-over-hyped-much-like-nonexistent-iraqi-wmds/) - In mid-July, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard released a trove of documents that, she said, showed evidence that Obama administration intelligence officials “manufactured and politicized intelligence to lay the groundwork” for investigation into alleged Russian election meddling during the 2016 presidential campaign and Russia’s alleged support for Donald Trump. The Russia Gate scandal helped - [A Terrorist Tidal Wave of Dirty Tricks Struck Oceania 40 Years Ago](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/07/25/a-terrorist-tidal-wave-of-dirty-tricks-struck-oceania-40-years-ago/) - From Tahiti to New Zealand to New Caledonia to Palau, the U.S. and France unleashed a reign of terror against the Nuclear-Free and Independent Pacific movement in 1985. The Pacific Islands have often been depicted as idyllic in Western fiction, paintings and movies. But there is another side to “paradise,” where the South Seas is - [Clergy Complicit in U.S.-Israel Genocide and Mass Starvation](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/07/24/clergy-complicit-in-u-s-israel-genocide-and-mass-starvation/) - There was a time when American clergy were the nation’s conscience. In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, many abolitionist Protestant ministers were leaders in the movement to end slavery. Congregationalist Jonathan Edwards, Jr. (1746-1801) was among the many outstanding voices in the Abolition Movement. Since World War I, few members of the clergy have shown - [CovertAction Bulletin: Is Epstein the Final Straw for Trump’s Base?](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/07/23/covertaction-bulletin-is-epstein-the-final-straw-for-trumps-base/) - In 2024, Donald Trump said he’d declassify and release the files the U.S. government has on notorious child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein... - [The Strange Case of Ed O‘Keefe](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/07/22/the-strange-case-of-ed-okeefe/) - In early June 2025, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) released four documents that had been sealed for 50 years. DEA Agent Andrew Tartaglino, a 25-year veteran of federal drug law enforcement, had entered them into public hearings held before the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations in June 1975. The four documents were the - [Palestinians Have Lived as Refugees For 80 Years: It is Time for a Durable Solution to End Their Suffering](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/07/16/palestinians-have-lived-as-refugees-for-80-years-it-is-time-for-a-durable-solution-to-end-their-suffering/) - The ongoing genocide in Gaza has brought greater global attention to the plight of Palestinians, a huge number of whom have been refugees since the founding of the State of Israel in 1948 when they were expelled from their land in what is known as the Nakba. 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[This is a part of CovertAction Magazine's (CAM) coverage illuminating some of the more interesting revelations - [Gaza Flotilla Ship “Handala” Sails to Challenge Israeli Genocide of Palestinians in Gaza](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/07/18/gaza-flotilla-ship-handala-sails-to-challenge-israeli-genocide-of-palestinians-in-gaza/) - As the genocide of Palestinians continues with daily massacres of scores, sometimes hundreds, of starving people being targeted and killed by the Israeli military as they come to attempt to get food, another ship of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla coalition, the Handala, is sailing to bring attention to the criminal actions of the State of Israel and its leadership. - [CovertAction Bulletin: Mahmoud Khalil Freed as Anti-War Movement in U.S. Celebrates and Grows](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/06/25/covertaction-bulletin-mahmoud-khalil-freed-as-anti-war-movement-in-u-s-celebrates-and-grows/) - Mahmoud Khalil is free! After spending 104 days unjustly held in an ICE detention center in Jena, Louisiana, he was reunited with his wife Noor, newborn son Deen and community over the weekend... - [CovertAction Bulletin - Texas Flooding: The Real Culprit Is Capitalism](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/07/16/covertaction-bulletin-texas-flooding-the-real-culprit-is-capitalism/) - 134 people have died and 101 remain missing after the Guadalupe River in central Texas overflowed as a result of 6.5 inches of rain falling over the course of three hours on the morning of July 4th... - [Solzhenitsyn and the Weaponization of Dissidents](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/07/15/solzhenitsyn-and-the-weaponization-of-dissidents/) - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is perhaps the most well-known Soviet dissident. He was the author of The Gulag Archipelago, a three-volume work originally published in 1973 which significantly turned international public opinion against the Soviet Union. Described by Canadian psychologist and right-wing media personality Jordan Peterson as the most important book of the 20th century, the text - [UN Special Rapporteur Issues Report Detailing Corporate Machinery that Profits Off Immiseration of Palestinians](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/07/14/un-special-rapporteur-issues-report-detailing-corporate-machinery-that-profits-off-immiseration-of-palestinians/) - In early July, Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, issued a damning report detailing how large corporations profit from the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza and genocide in Gaza that has taken place since October 7, 2023. Albanese is an - [On Its 30th Anniversary, the “International Community” Continues to Pervert the Truth About “Genocide in Srebrenica”](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/07/11/on-its-30th-anniversary-the-international-community-continues-to-pervert-the-truth-about-genocide-in-srebrenica/) - Important Implications for U.S. Foreign Policy There is the American official story regarding Srebrenica. In addition to that story, any descriptions, explanations and/or fiction have not only been allowed but encouraged. Anything but the truth! From sinister plots by competing secret services to the lizard-people’s human sacrifices, heartbreaking fairy tales[2] and epic religious clashes, betrayals - [Western Soft-Power Agencies Established a Support Front for Armed Insurrection in Syria by Al-Qaeda-Linked Rebels](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/07/10/western-soft-power-agencies-established-a-support-front-for-armed-insurrection-in-syria-by-al-qaeda-linked-rebels/) - [This is the second of a two-part series. Part I can be found here—Editors] From 2011 to 2016, demonstrations in Syria against the Ba’athist government headed by Bashar al-Assad escalated into an armed insurgency and large-scale pitched battles, sieges and counter-sieges in and around major Syrian cities such as Aleppo and Damascus. During that time, - [Lawfare Becomes Reality: Cristina Fernández de Kirchner Imprisoned](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/07/09/lawfare-becomes-reality-cristina-fernandez-de-kirchner-imprisoned/) - The Supreme Court of Justice upheld the sentence against Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) of six years in prison and a lifetime ban from holding public office. The case involves fraudulent administration regarding the awarding of 51 road-construction projects in the southern province of Santa Cruz. The first striking detail was that the major hegemonic - [CovertAction Bulletin: Who Is Musk’s “America Party” A Threat To?](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/07/09/covertaction-bulletin-who-is-musks-america-party-a-threat-to/) - Trump’s so-called Big Beautiful Bill has passed and been signed into law. 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This is a volunteer military unit made up entirely of Ukrainian troops who went over to the other side and are now fighting for Russia. Many Westerners would be surprised to learn of the existence of such a military - [Stefanik and Cohen are Awful New Additions to House Intelligence Committee](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/06/27/stefanik-and-cohen-are-awful-new-additions-to-house-intelligence-committee/) - On June 6, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) returned Elise Stefanik (R-NY) to the House Intelligence Committee, and added Steve Cohen (D-TN), expanding the committee’s membership to 27 by unanimous consent. 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A thorough and well-sourced description of the Los Horcones massacre and its context is provided in Penny Lernoux’s now-classic, Cry - [As Israel Attacked Iran, Multi-National Effort to Bring Last Three Madleen Sailors Out of Israeli Prison](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/06/24/as-israel-attacked-iran-multi-national-effort-to-bring-last-three-madleen-sailors-out-of-israeli-prison/) - As Israel began its unprovoked attacks on Iran on June 13, the last three of the twelve volunteers of the Gaza Flotilla ship Madleen were still in Israeli prisons. Marc van Rennes, a Dutch citizen, was in the detention cell at Ben Gurion Airport when Israeli authorities closed the airport expecting Iranian retaliation to target the airport. He - [Iranian Professor Tells Us Why We Need to Oppose Another Middle East War](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/06/21/iranian-professor-tells-us-why-we-need-to-oppose-another-middle-east-war/) - In the past couple of days, Donald Trump has been speaking about the possibility of the United States formally entering the Israeli war against Iran. And as of this evening, the U.S. has begun bombing Iran. But the reality is the United States has been at war with Iran ever since the victory of the - [The War on Iran Has Been Long in the Making, and the U.S. Is Already a Party to It](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/06/20/the-war-on-iran-has-been-long-in-the-making-and-the-u-s-is-already-a-party-to-it/) - Precipitated by Israel’s deadly bombing operations that have killed top military commanders and nuclear scientists, the U.S. is poised to attack Iran as part of a long-held goal of orchestrating a regime change there. 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A critical part of this story and the degree to which the criminalization of poverty and ideology of fear permeates Brazil, it will be addressed in the following sub-chapter. To date, at least 12 capital cities across the South American giant, including state - [CovertAction Bulletin - Make No Mistake: The U.S. Wants War with Iran](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/06/18/covertaction-bulletin-make-no-mistake-the-u-s-wants-war-with-iran/) - Donald Trump posted to his social media site Truth Social on Monday evening that “Everyone should immediately evacuate Tehran!” as he made an early departure from the G7 summit in Canada to “attend to many important matters,” according to the White House... - [Capitalism in Crisis: Technofascism and Hyper-Imperialism](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/06/17/capitalism-in-crisis-technofascism-and-hyper-imperialism/) - Capitalism Is Rotting from the Inside Out The empire is falling. Not with fireworks or finality—but in slow motion, dragging the world down with it. The dreams sold after World War II—democracy, prosperity and liberty—have curdled into surveillance, austerity and endless war. The U.S., bloated on conquest, finds itself governing not through vision but through - [American Committee on Foreign Relations Miseducates Public and Censors Truth-Telling Analysts](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/06/16/american-committee-on-foreign-relations-miseducates-public-and-censors-truth-telling-analysts/) - Gatekeepers who run groups have links to U.S. intelligence and only allow certain kinds of viewpoints—all while claiming to be promoting education and open debate about U.S. foreign policy On March 17, 2025, the Tulsa Committee on Foreign Relations (TCFR) featured two National Endowment for Democracy (NED) staffers who were there to defend the reputation - [Deportations, Repression and the LA Uprisings](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/06/13/deportations-repression-and-the-la-uprisings/) - On June 9, 2025, I attended a protest in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania led by the local SEIU union (Local 32BJ). The protest, which was quite peaceful I should emphasize, was organized primarily to protest the arrest of SEIU California President David Huerta who was gravely injured and then apprehended by police in Los Angeles in response - [CIA Data Mining Company’s Stock Has Surged Since Trump Took Office](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/06/10/cia-data-mining-companys-stock-has-surged-since-trump-took-office/) - Palantir is a data analytics company founded with CIA seed money, which employed former Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines and former CIA Director George Tenet as consultants. Its AI software, which journalist James Bamford characterized as “the digital equivalent of weapons of mass destruction,” is used by the Israeli Air Force to strike targets in - [Is it the End of the Line for the North Korean Human Rights Gravy Train?](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/06/12/is-it-the-end-of-the-line-for-the-north-korean-human-rights-gravy-train/) - North Korean “human rights” groups exposed as fronts for regime-change operation as Trump administration threatens their funding Headlines in a number of publications decry the precarious situation of North Korean human rights groups caused by the withdrawal of funding by the Trump administration. Under the headline “Another U.S. Funding Cut Threatens Human Rights in North - [CovertAction Bulletin: LA Uprising and Trump’s Authoritarian Agenda](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/06/11/covertaction-bulletin-the-la-uprising-and-trumps-authoritarian-agenda/) - Over the weekend, ICE agents invaded Los Angeles and its suburbs, kidnapping dozens of people on Friday and threatening more near a Home Depot on Saturday. These masked and heavily-armed forces are part of Trump’s promised 30-day surge in anti-immigrant attacks in the LA area... - [Gaza Freedom Flotilla Sailboat Madleen Intercepted by Israeli Commandos: Crew/Participants Put onto Israeli Military Ship](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/06/10/gaza-freedom-flotilla-sailboat-madleen-intercepted-by-israeli-commandos-crew-participants-put-onto-an-israeli-military-ship/) - The Freedom Flotilla Coalition’s (FFC) sailboat, Madleen was intercepted in international waters by the Israeli military at 3:02 am CEST at 31.95236° N, 32.38880° E. The ship was unlawfully boarded, its 12 unarmed civilian crew and participants abducted, and its life-saving cargo—including baby formula, food and medical supplies—confiscated, as well as personal possessions taken. To - [Deserving of an Emmy?](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/06/09/deserving-of-an-emmy/) - The 2024 Netflix documentary American Conspiracy: The Octopus Murders has been nominated for three Emmy Awards. The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) nominated the four-part series in the following categories: Outstanding Lighting Direction Outstanding Investigative Documentary Outstanding Documentary The Emmy Awards for News and Documentaries are scheduled to be held on June - [One Hundred Years Ago, the Klu Klux Klan Had Control Over Schools in Oklahoma and Other Red States](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/06/06/one-hundred-years-ago-the-klu-klux-klan-had-control-over-schools-in-oklahoma-and-other-red-states/) - Klan norms, values, and ideals continue to shape and influence state public policy Jenks Public Schools, in Tulsa County, Oklahoma, suffered a significant budget shortfall in February 1922. Approximately $9,000 suspiciously disappeared from the public coffers. Teachers’ salaries were in jeopardy and general operating expenses threatened to end the nine-month school year abruptly. Under much pressure - [Eighty Years of Lies: President Franklin Roosevelt Told Public Pearl Harbor Was A Surprise Attack—However There Is Considerable Evidence Demonstrating Government Foreknowledge](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/12/07/eighty-years-of-lies-president-franklin-roosevelt-told-public-pearl-harbor-was-a-surprise-attack-however-there-is-considerable-evidence-demonstrating-government-foreknowledge-2/) - “The war that we have carefully for yearsprovokedCatches us unprepared, amazed and indignant.Our warships are shotLike sitting ducks and our planes like nest-birds,both our coasts ridiculously panicked,And our leaders make orations. This is thepeopleThat hopes to impose on the whole planetaryworldAn American peace.” - Robinson Jeffers, “Pearl Harbor.” “This Pearl Harbor business has - [Detained and Deported during a Genocide](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/06/05/detained-and-deported-during-a-genocide/) - Deeply inspired, with a heart full of empathy and rage at almost two years of a colonial Holocaust, I returned to Palestine. My initial visit motivated me to pursue a deeper, more comprehensive connection with the historic Palestinian people who have been resisting 76 years of apartheid and genocide. I wanted to show solidarity with - [Did the CIA Kill A Top Staff Member of the House Intelligence Committee Twenty Five Years Ago To Try and Protect Its Reputation?](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/06/04/did-the-cia-kill-a-top-staff-member-of-the-house-intelligence-committee-twenty-five-years-ago-to-try-and-protect-its-reputation/) - John Millis was poised to release a report exposing CIA involvement in drug trafficking in Central America An investigation into Millis’ death should be reopened along with journalist Gary Webb and others who were privy to info about the CIA’s drug running in Central America during the Reagan-Bush era and died suspiciously On June 4, - [CovertAction Bulletin: Palantir, Surveillance and Technofascism](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/06/04/covertaction-bulletin-palantir-surveillance-and-technofascism/) - Big data and surveillance tech firm Palantir is working with the U.S. government to bring its software into multiple government agencies under the Trump administration... - [Is Peace Possible if Militarization of European Union Continues?](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/06/04/is-peace-possible-if-the-militarization-of-the-european-union-continues/) - The events of recent months in Ukraine have in many ways marked a shift in priorities in international politics. Despite the horrific consequences of this conflict, many European leaders are eager for the continuation of the war and more bloodshed of Ukrainian soldiers. According to various Ukrainian, European and American sources,[1] the number of wounded - [“I Had All Sorts of Dirty Tricks to Hurt Their Circulation and Financing,” CIA Operative Said of Ramparts Magazine, Beacon of 1960s Movements](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/06/03/i-had-all-sorts-of-dirty-tricks-to-hurt-their-circulation-and-financing-cia-operative-said-of-ramparts-magazine-beacon-of-1960s-movements-that-published-important-cia-exposes/) - [This article continues CovertAction Magazine’s efforts to expose the CIA’s sordid history.—Editors] Ramparts magazine was a beacon of the 1960s social movements: an anti-establishment muckraking magazine that published important exposés of the CIA, including its involvement in the murder of Ché Guevara, its infiltration of the National Student Association (NSA), and its support for clandestine - [Did the CIA Covertly Support Chechen Separatist Terrorism? — Part II](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/05/30/did-the-cia-covertly-support-chechen-separatist-terrorism-part-ii/) - [See Part I here.] Part II: “Humanitarian Aid” In February, corporate media went ballistic when the new administration of U.S. President Donald Trump announced the dismantling of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The uproar claimed the dismantling of the foreign aid agency would not only result in massive government layoffs but cause - [The American “Foreign Aid” Agency, USAID, Funded Attacks Against Me](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/05/29/the-american-foreign-aid-agency-usaid-funded-attacks-against-me/) - Why? Because I’m a human rights activist and I get in the way of U.S. foreign policy. Your tax dollars well spent. And you thought that USAID’s purpose was foreign aid and humanitarian assistance. Then again, Americans are used to pumping money into the U.S. foreign interventionist and war machine and not minding that they - [CovertAction Bulletin: NATO Dayton Assembly Exposes Outrageous War Spending](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/05/29/covertaction-bulletin-nato-dayton-assembly-exposes-outrageous-war-spending/) - NATO held its 2025 Parliamentary Assembly in Dayton, Ohio between May 22 and 26. Though it promotes itself as a force in defense of peace and security, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s history exposes its true purpose: propping up Western imperialism and hegemony... - [Oxford Students Vote to Hold Weapons Industry Responsible For War Crimes](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/05/28/oxford-students-vote-to-hold-weapons-industry-responsible-for-war-crimes/) - On May 8, 2025, I was honored to speak at the Oxford Union debates on the topic: “This House Would Hold The Arms Industry Responsible For War Crimes.” My partner speaking in favor of the motion was Katie Gallagher, an excellent attorney with the remarkable Center for Constitutional Rights in New York. The following is my - [CovertAction Bulletin: Does Trump Really Want Peace in Ukraine?](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/05/28/covertaction-bulletin-does-trump-really-want-peace-in-ukraine/) - Donald Trump held phone calls with both Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday, then announced that the two countries will “immediately start negotiations toward a ceasefire” in the 3-year-long conflict between the two... - [Trump Administration’s Suspending Enforcement of Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Will Undoubtedly Pave the Way For Greater Global Corruption](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/05/27/trump-administrations-suspending-enforcement-of-foreign-corrupt-practices-act-will-undoubtedly-pave-the-way-for-greater-global-corruption/) - In a world increasingly marred by corporate misconduct and political complicity, the Trump administration’s decision to effectively suspend the enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) stands out as a staggering abdication of moral leadership. By retreating from this critical anti-corruption framework, Washington sent a clear and troubling message: Multinational corporations could engage in - [CIA-Linked Website Celebrates Murder of Ukrainian Opposition Politician](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/05/26/cia-linked-website-celebrates-murder-of-ukrainian-opposition-politician/) - Website accused Andriy Portnov of being a traitor On May 22, Andriy Portnov, 51, was assassinated in Madrid, just after dropping off his children at the American School. A lawyer by training, Portnov was a leading opposition figure in Ukraine who was forced to flee the country after the February 2014 U.S.-backed Maidan coup. A - [Highlights from the Newly Declassified JFK/RFK/MLK Assassination Files](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/05/26/highlights-from-the-newly-declassified-jfk-rfk-mlk-assassination-files/) - Much excitement has accompanied the Trump administration’s release of declassified documents in the John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr., files. While these documents have not yielded any smoking guns, they do provide important documentation of CIA and other secretive government activities during the 1960s. CovertAction Magazine (CAM) is busy rummaging - [Who Are the Real Terrorists? Haiti, the United States and the Political Geography of Cocaine](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/05/24/who-are-the-real-terrorists-haiti-the-united-states-and-the-political-geography-of-cocaine/) - On May 2, the State Department announced “the designation of [Haitian paramilitary gangs] Viv Ansanm and Gran Grif (Big Claws) as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) and Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs).” Such legislation opens the door for the Trump administration and his colonial underling, the president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, to potentially imprison Haiti’s - [Peace Activists Continue to Try to Block Arms Shipments to Israel from Travis Air Force Base](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/05/16/peace-activists-continue-to-try-to-block-arms-shipments-to-israel-from-travis-air-force-base/) - On April 9, a collection of peace activists affiliated with the People’s Arms Embargo returned to Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield, California, one hour north of San Francisco to stage a protest to try to block entry into the base. Armed with Palestinian flags and banners, the group displayed the names and ages of - [Giving Voice to Gazans Targeted by the U.S.-Israeli Death Machine](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/05/22/giving-voice-to-gazans-targeted-by-the-u-s-israeli-death-machine/) - Refaat Alareer, a professor of English literature at the Islamic University in Gaza, was tragically killed in an Israeli air strike on December 6, 2023, along with his brother, sister and four of his nephews and nieces. OR Books has put out a collection of his writings, If I Must Die, which offers a window - [Canada Has Become Gripped By New McCarthyism Just Like U.S.](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/05/21/canada-has-become-gripped-by-new-mccarthyism-just-like-u-s/) - A Canadian MP has been forced into political retirement because he did not tow the anti-China party line, and now the candidate who replaced him is coming under extreme scrutiny. Former Liberal MP Paul Chiang represented the Markham-Unionville federal riding between 2021 to 2025. Chiang was caught suggesting that people could turn in Joe Tay, - ["Anti-Correísmo" is the Leading Electoral Force in Ecuador](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/05/20/anti-correismo-is-the-leading-electoral-force-in-ecuador/) - In Ecuador’s presidential runoff, it once again became clear that the main political force is “anti-Correísmo”—those who oppose former President Rafael Correa. Regardless of who the candidates are, the same side has consistently won in recent elections: the right-wing opponents of the Citizen Revolution (RC), Correa’s party. This time, the winner was current President Daniel - [The U.S.A.’s Longest “Democracy” Project in Syria Has Resulted in the Empowerment of Al-Qaeda](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/05/19/the-u-s-a-s-longest-democracy-project-in-syria-has-resulted-in-the-empowerment-of-al-qaeda/) - Part 1 of a series exposing the farce of so-called U.S. “democracy promotion” If Americans know anything about U.S. involvement in Syria, they probably think of the recent Syrian Civil War (2011 to 2024). However, U.S. intervention in Syrian affairs goes back almost to Syrian independence from French colonialism in 1946. These U.S. interventions in - [Under the Guise of Charity: CIA’s Hidden Money Laundering Network Exposed](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/05/15/under-the-guise-of-charity-cias-hidden-money-laundering-network-exposed/) - We are diving deeper into our investigation of CIA actions that contradict U.S. national interests. Today, we uncover another CIA-affiliated company using taxpayer money to supply Ukraine with weapons and military equipment—outside the scope of official aid packages. Typically, money-laundering scandals involve substantial sums, ranging from tens of millions to billions of dollars. In such - [NATO: Watchdog of Imperialism and Global Finance Capital](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/05/14/nato-watchdog-of-imperialism-and-global-finance-capital/) - The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is often portrayed as a defender of democracy and freedom. However, its true purpose lies in safeguarding the interests of global finance capital and maintaining imperialist domination. While NATO’s founding was justified as a countermeasure to communist influence, this explanation obscures the organization’s deeper role as a military arm - [CovertAction Bulletin: Trump Advances Right-Wing Agenda At Home and Abroad](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/05/14/covertaction-bulletin-trump-advances-right-wing-agenda-at-home-and-abroad/) - On Tuesday, UnitedHealth Group announced that CEO Andrew Witty was stepping down. The announcement came from Witty as the company suspended its full-year financial outlook—because it believes that medical costs will be higher than forecast. UnitedHealth’s revenue was over $400 billion... - [CIA Cold War Experiments Shattered the Minds of Countless Unwitting Victims](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/05/14/cia-cold-war-experiments-shattered-the-minds-of-countless-unwitting-victims/) - MK-ULTRA continued to operate under the cover of religious cults after its formal shutdown in 1973 In June 1956, Dr. Sidney Gottlieb, who headed the CIA mind-control experiments known as MK-ULTRA, authorized a sub-project involving the testing of LSD on prisoners at the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary. The sub-project was headed by Dr. Carl Pfeiffer, the - [Wife of CIA Officer Edward Lansdale Positively Identified Lansdale in Picture Taken at Dealey Plaza After JFK Assassination](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/05/09/wife-of-cia-officer-edward-lansdale-positively-identified-lansdale-in-picture-taken-at-dealy-plaza-after-jfk-assassination/) - Lansdale looks like he was part of wider regime change operation quarterbacked by Lyndon B. Johnson [Founded in the late 1970s by CIA whistleblower Philip Agee, Covert Action Information Bulletin (CAIB) was way ahead of its time in pointing to a conspiracy in the JFK assassination, which now has become widely recognized. This article is - [UK Activists Challenge Return of U.S. Nuclear Weapons with Two-Week Encampment at Royal Air Force Base Lakenheath](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/05/13/uk-activists-challenge-return-of-u-s-nuclear-weapons-with-two-week-encampment-at-royal-air-force-base-lakenheath/) - In anticipation of U.S. nuclear weapons returning to UK soil after their removal 18 years ago, activists from around the world gathered at the Lakenheath Peace Camp from April 14 to 25, 2025, with a 24-hour-a-day, 7-day-a-week vigil at the main entrance to the Royal Air Force (RAF) Lakenheath base. Organized by Lakenheath Alliance for Peace and - [Imperialist Aggression and the Rise of Extremism in Bangladesh](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/05/10/imperialist-aggression-and-the-rise-of-extremism-in-bangladesh/) - On August 5, 2024, the government of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, leader of the purported progressive Awami League, was overthrown in a movement publicly framed as a student-led uprising. However, evidence suggests that this event bore the hallmarks of a U.S.-backed color revolution, strategically supported by Western imperialist interests. While portrayed as a grassroots democratic - [License to spy: How USAID acted as a CIA front in Portugal](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/05/08/license-to-spy-how-usaid-acted-as-a-cia-front-in-portugal/) - Between 1975 and 1989, the primary U.S. intelligence agency leveraged various financial assistance programs to shape Portuguese democracy and prevent the country from falling under Soviet influence. Here’s how. The involvement of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in Portugal is widely acknowledged. In fact, it was primarily thanks to this magazine’s founder, Philip Agee, that - [My Life is a Drain](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/05/08/my-life-is-a-drain/) - [Editor’s Note: CovertAction Magazine has been among those outlets to detail the ever more rightward shift in U.S. politics and attendant growth of the U.S. warfare state and how this has resulted in widening domestic inequalities, a fraying of the U.S. middle class and unbearable lives for many people saddled with huge bills and debt. - [CovertAction Bulletin: Genocidal Ben-Gvir Faces Resistance on U.S. Trip](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/05/07/covertaction-bulletin-genocidal-ben-gvir-faces-resistance-on-u-s-trip/) - Israeli Minister of National Security and supporter of extremist, far-right policies Itamar Ben-Gvir visited the United States in late April. From the time he got off his plane in Florida and throughout events in New Haven, CT, New York City and Washington, DC, he was met with opposition, protest and resistance... - [Undetonated Ordnance Causes Hardship for Cambodian Farmers Half Century After End of Indochina War](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/05/05/undetonated-ordinance-causes-hardship-for-cambodian-farmers-half-century-after-end-of-indochina-war/) - [This article continues CAM’s commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War.—Editors] April 30, 2025 marked the 50th anniversary of the end of the Indochina War, which lasted roughly from 1962 to 1975. In the United States, a revisionism has long taken hold in which American soldiers have been imagined as - [Legendary Peace Activist Was Transformed by Experience in Vietnam](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/05/06/legendary-peace-activist-was-transformed-by-experience-in-vietnam/) - Hideous nature of the war exposed him to ugly realities of U.S. and Western imperialism [This article continues CAM’s commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War.—Editors] On September 1, 1987, S. Brian Willson, a Vietnam veteran, was run over by a train outside the Concord Naval Weapons Station in Northern - [When Progressive Laotian Politician Tried to Build Bridges Between Neutralists and Left-Wing Pathet Lao, He Was Gunned Down on Steps of His Vientiane Home](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/05/02/when-a-progressive-politician-in-laos-tried-to-build-bridges-between-the-neutralists-and-left-wing-pathet-lao-he-was-gunned-down-on-the-steps-of-his-vientiane-home/) - The assassin was in the pay of a police general trained by the CIA who functioned as the hatchet man of another CIA asset. [This article continues CAM’s commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War. Additionally, it follows CovertAction Magazine’s investigation into historic CIA crimes and into the CIA’s role - [CIA Oversaw Hideous Torture in Con Son’s Tiger Cages and Other Prison Facilities in Vietnam](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/05/01/cia-oversaw-hideous-torture-in-con-sons-tiger-cages-and-other-prison-facilities-in-vietnam/) - Set the groundwork for Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib and torture chambers across the Middle East in the Global War on Terror [This article continues CAM’s commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War.—Editors] In the summer of 1970, Tom Harkin, a U.S. senator from Iowa from 1985-2015, was a congressional staffer - [American Diplomats Dismissed Vietnamese Scientists Who Reported on Horrific Health and Environmental Effects of Agent Orange as Late as the Early 2000s](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/04/30/american-diplomats-dismissed-vietnamese-scientists-who-reported-on-horrific-health-and-environmental-effects-of-agent-orange-as-late-as-the-early-2000s/) - Called them “propagandists” and “communists trying to discredit the U.S.” [This article continues CAM’s commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War.—Editors] Dr. Ton That Tung was a world-renowned doctor who performed the first heart surgery in Vietnam in 1958 and invented a new liver surgery method that minimized internal bleeding - [Did Legendary Filmmaker Ken Burns—Whose Documentary Revealed Harsh Truths About the Civil War—Intentionally Hide Harsh Truths About the Vietnam War to Whitewash the CIA?](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/04/29/did-legendary-filmmaker-ken-burns-whose-documentary-revealed-harsh-truths-about-the-civil-war-intentionally-hide-harsh-truths-about-the-vietnam-war-to-whitewash-the-cia/) - Of course he did. And a look at the film’s funders helps to explain why. [April 30 marks the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War. To commemorate that anniversary, CovertAction Magazine has developed a series of articles that can help younger generations understand the war’s horrors and nobility of those who tried - [Reflections on the 50th Anniversary of the End of the Vietnam War](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/04/28/reflections-on-the-50th-anniversary-of-the-end-of-the-vietnam-war/) - This week marks the 50-year anniversary of the end of the U.S. war against the country and people of Vietnam. Americans refer to the war as the Vietnam War, but it was actually an American war. This war had a huge impact on me, my generation and, of course, the Vietnamese. Growing up in the - [Did the CIA Covertly Support Chechen Separatist Terrorism? Of Course They Did](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/04/24/did-the-cia-covertly-support-chechen-separatist-terrorism-of-course-they-did/) - Part I in a two-part series In December, the rapid fall of the Syrian government to Western-backed jihadists stunned the world and sparked a wide range of reactions amid the fallout. Unsurprisingly, the collective West was quick to celebrate the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad, a long-time U.S. foreign policy objective billions of dollars in the - [Duterte’s Arrest: The Performative Paradox of the Western World](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/04/26/dutertes-arrest-the-performative-paradox-of-the-western-world/) - For years, the global narrative has been saturated with relentless propaganda targeting former Filipino President Rodrigo Roa Duterte. He has been vilified as a monster, a tyrant and a symbol of cruelty—portrayed as a leader despised by most Filipinos. This orchestrated campaign successfully swayed the unsuspecting, idealistic voices of the Western World. The culmination of - [Israeli Conscientious Objectors Endure Jail and Social Ostracism For Principled Stand](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/04/25/israeli-conscientious-objectors-endure-jail-and-social-ostracism-for-principled-stand/) - Similar to the way American conscientious objectors were treated in World War I On December 26, 2023, Tal Mitnick, then 18, entered an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) enlistment center in Tel Aviv and publicly announced that he would refuse military service. Subsequently, he was forced to serve 185 days in a military prison and was - [CovertAction Bulletin - Earth Day: War and Climate Change Threaten the Planet](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/04/24/covertaction-bulletin-earth-day-war-and-climate-change-threaten-the-planet/) - April 20th marked the fifteenth anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, the largest oil spill in U.S. history, which killed 11 workers and spilled 134 million gallons of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico. For those who rely on fishing and related industries off the Gulf Coast, as well as for those who were involved in the recovery and cleanup efforts, real relief is still yet to come... - [The Gabriel Boric Lesson: The Chilean Obama, Traitor of la Patria Grande ](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/04/22/the-gabriel-boric-lesson-the-chilean-obama-traitor-of-la-patria-grande/) - [Certain names and details have been changed to protect the on-the-ground organizers who met with the author.] Black America has the term “Uncle Tom” for sellouts. In South America, a “vendepatria” is someone who is willing to sell their homeland to the highest bidder. Simón Bolívar, José Marti and Jan-Jak Dessalin conceived of a united, - [Ukraine Found Complicit in 2014 Massacre By European Court of Human Rights](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/04/18/ukraine-found-complicit-in-2014-massacre-by-european-court-of-human-rights/) - The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ordered the Ukrainian government to compensate the victims of a May 2014 arson attack on the Trade Unions Building in Odessa. The attack was carried out by fascist thugs who were empowered in the U.S.-NATO-backed Maidan coup in Ukraine. Some 42 people were killed during the burning - [Netflix Film Shines Light on How Manson Family Murders Appear To Have Been Tied to CIA Mind Control Project](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/04/17/netflix-series-shines-light-on-how-manson-family-murders-appear-to-have-been-tied-to-cia-mind-control-project/) - As detailed in his book, CHAOS: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties, and the new Netflix documentary, CHAOS: The Manson Murders, Premiere magazine writer Tom O’Neill turned a feature-article assignment into a 20-year investigation, revealing a mass of evidence that a CIA doctor—Jolyon West—helped create Charles Manson and his “Family” - [Famed Whistleblower Philip Agee Among CIA Officers Who Worked Under State Department Cover](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/04/16/famed-whistleblower-philip-agee-among-cia-officers-who-worked-under-state-department-cover/) - Recently released documents as part of JFK dump show how CIA took charge of American embassies around the world operating under State Department cover Revealed in the recent document dump from the President John F. 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The study laid bare what CovertAction Magazine co-founder Philip Agee detailed throughout his career: how U.S. military and covert interventions - [CovertAction Bulletin: Kilmar Garcia Disappearance Triggers Constitutional Crisis](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/04/16/covertaction-bulletin-kilmar-garcia-disappearance-triggers-constitutional-crisis/) - Mahmoud Khalil, likely days away from the birth of his first child, is still being held in Louisiana as his lawyers fight for his freedom after a judge ordered that he can be deported. Just Monday, Columbia student Moshen Mahdawi was detained by ICE during a regular interview as part of the citizenship process. Hundreds of students from more than 90 institutions across the country have had their student visas revoked... - [Republic of Oruam (Part 01): Theft And Persecution Fuels Resistance Inside Brazil](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/04/10/republic-of-oruam-part-01-theft-and-persecution-fuels-resistance-inside-brazil/) - Preface Evidence related to local Rio de Janeiro intelligence operations in these matters have not been ascertained. Incidents are fairly new and ongoing. Two separate arrests of the main subject of this investigative series occurred over a two-week period in February 2025: One was for reckless driving; the other involved an authorized police raid on - [Exterminator Netanyahu in Washington, D.C. Again, Begging For More Bombs](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/04/14/exterminator-netanyahu-in-washington-d-c-again-begging-for-more-bombs/) - The chief of the Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza and the ethnic cleansing in the West Bank, Exterminator-in-Chief, Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu jumped on his plane and jetted from one International Criminal Court (ICC) denier, authoritarian leader, Victor Orban of Hungary, to another ICC denier in Washington, D.C., Donald Trump. Trump is the - [Who Will Watch the Watchmen?](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/04/11/who-will-watch-the-watchmen/) - The ATF is among the federal law enforcement agencies that has run amuck I saw a tee-shirt for sale on Facebook last week that made me laugh. It was from a libertarian group and it said, “Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms should be offerings at a convenience store, not a government agency.” I couldn’t agree more. - [Trump Administration’s Affinity For Salvadoran Dictator Shows Authoritarian Nature](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/04/10/trump-administrations-affinity-for-salvadoran-dictator-shows-authoritarian-nature/) - El Salvador is a human rights nightmare comparable to the 1980s death squad era In late March, the Trump administration made headlines for dusting off an 18th century war-time act to justify deporting 200 Venezuelan immigrants who were sent to El Salvador’s notoriously brutal Center for the Confinement of Terrorism (CECOT). The Venezuelan deportees were - [CovertAction Bulletin - Negotiations Set: What do Trump & Netanyahu want with Iran?](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/04/09/covertaction-bulletin-negotiations-set-what-do-trump-netanyahu-want-with-iran/) - Talks are set to begin on April 12th in Oman between the United States and Iran about Iran’s nuclear program. The announcement was made as Benjamin Netanyahu left the White House after his second visit to DC in as many months... - [Why Did Canada Try to Take in Uygurs Deported from Thailand?](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/04/09/why-did-canada-try-to-take-in-uygurs-deported-from-thailand/) - Why was Canada trying to take Uygurs who were deported from Thailand to China? A failed anti-Chinese government policy, triggering a later cost of nearly $1 million CAD, is the elephant in the room. British newspaper The Guardian reported that Canada and the United States had offered to take in all 48 Uygurs held in - [With Trump Invoking William McKinley as Great American President, Progressives Should Revitalize Early 1900s Anti-Imperialist League](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/04/07/with-trump-invoking-william-mckinley-as-great-american-president-progressives-should-revitalize-early-1900s-anti-imperialist-league/) - During his inaugural address, Donald Trump said that he would “restore the name of a great president, William McKinley,” who “made our country very rich through tariffs and through talent—he was a natural businessman—and gave Teddy Roosevelt the money for many of the great things he did including the Panama Canal.” McKinley also sent U.S. - [Global Over-Stretch: Red Sea, Black Sea, Panama, South and East China Seas](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/04/04/global-over-stretch-red-sea-black-sea-panama-south-and-east-china-seas/) - “Stupid, asinine, insane” was Scott Ritter’s description of President Donald J. Trump’s decision to launch massive bombing attacks on Yemen on March 15. The Ansar Allah movement (also known as the Houthis) resumed its blockade of Israel-bound ships in the Red Sea after Israel re-launched its war and siege of Gaza. Trump chose not to - [The U.S.-Israeli Alliance Has Sowed Disaster For Israel](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/04/03/the-u-s-israeli-alliance-has-sowed-disaster-for-israel/) - Without U.S. support Israel’s leaders could have been compelled to seek a just resolution of the Israel-Palestine conflict instead of pursuing a Greater Israel In his 1983 book The Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel & the Palestinians, Noam Chomsky argued against the grain that the Israelis had compromised their country’s security in choosing to - [Syria's Genocide, Claiming Over 10,000 Lives, Is Not a Sectarian Conflict But a Deliberate Western Strategy to Dominate the Entire Region](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/04/02/syrias-genocide-claiming-over-10000-lives-is-not-a-sectarian-conflict-but-a-deliberate-western-strategy-to-dominate-the-entire-region/) - Framed as sectarian war, the Syrian genocide and assaults on Gaza and Yemen are part of a long-standing UK-U.S.-Israeli-Western strategy to dominate the region via the erasure of the Axis of Resistance. Syria’s massacres can be defined by nothing less than genocide, having exceeded the slaughter of more than 10,000 dead souls. The killings have been - [CovertAction Bulletin - Movement at a Turning Point: All Out for Palestine!](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/04/02/covertaction-bulletin-movement-at-a-turning-point-all-out-for-palestine/) - After breaking the ceasefire deal, Israel is continuing its ongoing genocide of Palestinians in Gaza and beyond, and threatening to further ignite wider conflict by bombing Syria and Lebanon. In just one 48-hour period after the end of the ceasefire, a combination of bombings from the air and a ground invasion killed over 500 Palestinians in just 48 hours... - [Under the Bright Poppy Fields a Valley of Darkness](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/04/01/under-the-bright-poppy-field-a-valley-of-darkness/) - Investigating a possible link between the cold murder cases in the Antelope Valley of Hollywood screenwriter Gary Devore and Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputy Jonathan Aujay Sprawling poppy fields, aerospace, and secret military bases, California’s Antelope Valley is known for these landmarks. Over the past decades, the Antelope Valley became more than a significant geographical - [When Will the AFL-CIO Leadership Finally Repudiate Its Dark Cold War History and Pact with the CIA?](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/04/01/when-will-the-afl-cio-leadership-finally-repudiate-its-dark-cold-war-history-and-pact-with-the-cia/) - Reckoning with the past is crucial to establishing greater effectiveness in the present At their July 2004 state convention, the California State American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) passed a resolution demanding that AFL-CIO leaders “clear the air” about AFL-CIO’s history of trying to undercut radical labor unions in foreign countries, - [Western Imperialism and Islamism—Joined at the Hip](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/03/30/western-imperialism-and-islamism-joined-at-the-hip/) - Turkey and the West’s Covert War Against Asian Development Western imperialism once had a “civilizing mission.” The enlightenment and modernity were its buzzwords. The Europeans and Americans were in the game of railroads and reason. Or so the world was led to believe. Africans and Asians aimed West. But not today. They aim East now. - [Genocide in Syria](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/03/25/genocide-in-syria/) - As this article was written, Syria experienced the worst days of violence since Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS)—formerly the al-Nusra Front of al-Qaeda—took power from President Bashar al-Assad. Friday, March 7, 2025, is the date it may be said a genocide began in earnest in Syria. Reports published on social media and accompanied by gruesome videos—filmed - [U.S. Backed Regime Change Operation Has Resulted in Reign of Terror in Bangladesh under Darling of the Clinton Foundation, Mohammed Yunus](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/03/28/u-s-backed-regime-change-operation-has-resulted-in-reign-of-terror-in-bangladesh-under-darling-of-the-clinton-foundation-mohammed-yunus/) - Though branded in Western media as a success story, Bangladesh shows eery parallels to Syria [See CovertAction Magazine’s previous coverage of the August 2024 color revolution in Bangladesh here.—Editors.] In 2024, The Economist magazine named Bangladesh as its “country of the year,” stating that it had “improved the most” of any other country in the - [Who Will Be The Next President of Ukraine?](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/03/27/who-will-be-the-next-president-of-ukraine/) - A presidential election was supposed to be held in Ukraine on March 31, 2024. However, due to the extension of martial law for 90 days in February 2025 (until May 9, 2025), the scheduled election was postponed for the 14th time. Ukrainian citizens are well aware that, in fact, Ukraine is currently led by an - [Senate Intelligence Committee Hearing Turns Ugly with McCarthy-Style Lies About CODEPINK: Women for Peace](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/03/26/senate-intelligence-committee-hearing-turns-ugly-with-mccarthy-style-lies-about-codepink-women-for-peace/) - On March 25, at the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on global threats with the five heads of intelligence agencies of the U.S. government, Senator Tom Cotton, accused on national TV a group I have worked with for over 20 years, CODEPINK: Women for Peace, of being funded by the Communist Party of China. During - [CovertAction Bulletin - Signal Leaks & JFK Files: What’s Happening Behind Closed Doors](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/03/26/covertaction-bulletin-signal-leaks-jfk-files-whats-happening-behind-closed-doors/) - Tens of thousands of new and newly-unredacted documents related to the killings of JFK Jr, his brother RFK and Martin Luther King Jr have been released over the past week. While historians and journalists are still pouring over the files to see what new historical information can be learned from them... - [Democracy Promotion Unmasked: NED and USAID Complicity in anti-Democratic Coups of 1991 and 2004 in Haiti](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/03/24/democracy-promotion-unmasked-ned-and-usaid-complicity-in-anti-democratic-coups-of-1991-and-2004-in-haiti/) - U.S. democracy-promotion institutions were key to destroying any hope for democratic development in Haiti after the Cold War. In 1986, when popular uprisings kicked out the nearly 29-year-long dictatorships of François “Papa Doc” Duvalier and his son Jean-Claude “Baby Doc,” the U.S. could have become a partner to improve liberty and prosperity in Haiti. Instead, - [Center-right Demokraatit Party Surprisingly Comes Out on Top in Greenland Historic Election](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/03/23/center-right-demokraatit-party-surprisingly-comes-out-on-top-in-greenland-historic-election/) - Greenland’s center-right, pro-business, opposition Demokraatit Party surprisingly won the most votes with 29.5% during March 11 parliamentary elections—a totally unexpected result as the island went to the polls amidst Donald Trump’s threats to take Greenland “one way or another.” The Demokraatit Party was followed by the Naleraq Party (Breakpoint), which won 25%. This centrist party - [October Surprise: CIA Director William Casey Committed Treason to Help Ronald Reagan Win the 1980 Election](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/03/21/october-surprise-cia-director-william-casey-committed-treason-to-help-ronald-reagan-win-the-1980-election/) - Ronald Reagan is heralded by conservatives today as a heroic figure who rejuvenated American society after the malaise of the 1970s. Reagan’s worshippers, however, fail to acknowledge the rise of massive inequality in the 1980s, Reagan’s support for death squad operations in Central America, and the fact that Reagan only won the 1980 election after - [Stepan Bandera’s Sinister MI6 Alliance Exposed](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/03/20/stepan-banderas-sinister-mi6-alliance-exposed/) - October 15, 2024, marked the 65th anniversary of Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN-B) and Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) founder Stepan Bandera’s assassination by the KGB in Munich, in then-West Germany. The date passed without mention anywhere. This may reflect how prior public commemorations of the life and death of Nazi collaborator Bandera—widely credited as the - [Xinjiang: From Intensive Struggle for Stability Towards a Positive Future](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/03/19/xinjiang-from-intensive-struggle-for-stability-towards-a-positive-future/) - In the summer of 2024, this author participated in a media tour of China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR), at the invitation of the State Information Council Office of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). And what was found? That despite the Western narrative of genocide, cultural repression and forced labor, the people of Xinjiang - [CovertAction Bulletin: Israel and U.S. Resume Genocide of Palestinians](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/03/19/covertaction-bulletin-israel-and-u-s-resume-genocide-of-palestinians/) - The Israeli government, with the full backing of the White House, has completely thrown out the January ceasefire and negotiations and resumed the genocidal bombing campaign against Palestinians in Gaza, which may be followed up by a full-scale ground invasion... - [U.S. Targeting of Russia Risks Nuclear War](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/03/18/u-s-targeting-of-russia-risks-nuclear-war/) - U.S. satellite targeting of Russia risks nuclear war because it makes the U.S. a co-belligerent against another nuclear power. “U.S. to Restore Military Support to Ukraine After it Agrees to Ceasefire” and “immediately lift a pause on intelligence sharing.” (The Wall Street Journal, March 12, 2025) “Intelligence pauses like this severely hinder Ukraine’s ability to plan - [Trudeau Recalls Colonial History in Last Hurrah Effort to Support War in Ukraine with British Prime Minister](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/03/17/trudeau-recalls-colonial-history-in-last-hurrah-effort-to-support-war-in-ukraine-with-british-prime-minister/) - When history repeats itself, it is not always a farce. When Justin Trudeau headed off to London on the invitation of British Prime Minister Keir Starmer for the summit on the war in Ukraine, Canada’s soon-to-be ex-Prime Minister, in spite of himself, brilliantly recalled Canada’s British colonial and military history. His meeting with Charles III, - ["$Libra: The Scam of Milei"](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/03/15/libra-the-scam-of-milei/) - “At 18:38 Argentina time on February 14, 2025, one billion units of the cryptocurrency $Libra were created. At 18:51, the market where $Libra could be bought and sold [known as the liquidity pool] was established. From that moment on, trading was possible, but no one had done it yet. The first transactions began at 19:01:00. - [Trump Gives the World the Middle Finger ](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/03/14/trump-gives-the-world-the-middle-finger/) - On a motorized float designed and built several weeks into the Trump administration for the Rose Monday celebration before Lent in Cologne (Köln), Germany, the likeness of President Donald Trump vividly illustrates what is becoming more of his view toward the world and toward citizens of the United States. Trump Giving the Middle Finger to the - [FBI and CIA Mounted Illegal Surveillance Operation on Progressive Student Activists in Southern States in 1960s](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/03/13/fbi-and-cia-mounted-illegal-surveillance-operation-on-progressive-student-activists-in-southern-states-in-1960s/) - New study based on declassified records reveals paranoia about subversion in conservative states that resulted in serious constitutional violations [This article follows CovertAction Magazine’s efforts to spotlight the history of the CIA and other intelligence agencies and their participation in illegal and unethical activities.—Editors] In April 1967, legendary Black Power activist Stokely Carmichael gave a - [CIA: From Power Icon to Symbol of Corruption and Criminal Incompetence](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/03/13/cia-from-power-icon-to-symbol-of-corruption-and-criminal-incompetence/) - Ladies and gentlemen, meet Liam Daniel Hayden. 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Daniel Chapo has replaced President Filipe Nyusi who served two terms. Current events though are volatile and, at the time of writing, it appears that Venâncio Mondlane from the opposition, right wing, RENAMO, could take - [CIA Escalates Role in Failed Mexican Drug War Under Donald Trump](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/03/10/cia-escalates-role-in-failed-mexican-drug-war-under-donald-trump/) - Donald Trump has found a new mission for the CIA—ramping up secret drone flights over Mexico to track and hunt down leaders of Mexico’s drug cartels. The New York Times reported in mid-February that the CIA’s covert drone program over Mexico, first initiated by the Biden administration, has proved useful in helping the Mexican government - [Revolt of the Rich: Wealthy Elites Have Waged A Fifty Year Class War—and Won](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/03/07/revolt-of-the-rich-wealthy-elites-have-waged-a-fifty-year-class-war-and-won/) - The 2024 election between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump makes clear that the U.S. has two right-wing parties and no effective left-wing opposition. Trump and the GOP support regressive tax policies and fervent anti-immigrant measures while the Democrats offer a Republican-light domestic economic program combined with hawkish foreign policies that earned Kamala Harris the endorsement - [China’s Silky Future in a Realigned World](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/03/06/chinas-silky-future-in-a-realigned-world/) - China’s future looks increasingly bleak, but it has great counter-cyclical expansion potential via domestic and international rebalancing In a daring thought experiment, imagine just for a moment that you are the powerful president of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). You are sitting next to a cozy fireplace in a mountain retreat, looking out of - [Roger Winter Was a Shadowy Figure at the Heart of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/03/06/roger-winter-was-a-shadowy-figure-at-the-heart-of-the-1994-rwandan-genocide/) - Winter operated as an intelligence agent under cover of the U.S. Committee for Refugees and served as a paid propagandist for the Rwandan Patriotic Front, a criminal organization that developed open-air crematoria to dispose of all the bodies of the people they killed. Much has been written on the Rwanda Crisis of 1990-1994. However, some - [CIA Documents Prove the Agency Was Lying to Public About Germ Warfare in Korea for Decades](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/03/04/cia-documents-prove-the-agency-was-lying-to-the-public-about-germ-warfare-in-korea-for-decades/) - In 2019, the CIA proved that it had been lying to the public for decades about germ warfare in Korea when it released a trove of signals intelligence documents from the Korean War in a publication called Baptism by Fire: CIA Analysis of the Korean War. The documents detail communications from CIA listening posts around - [CovertAction Bulletin: Trump’s “Peace” in Ukraine Prepares U.S. for War with China](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/03/05/covertaction-bulletin-trumps-peace-in-ukraine-prepares-u-s-for-war-with-china/) - Following up on last week's show where we discussed the quickly-changing dynamics of U.S.-European relationships under Donald Trump, we look at the “peace deal” Trump has penned with Ukraine that reportedly includes significant mineral rights for the U.S... - [Arresting Truth: Canadian Journalist Yves Engler Charged and Held in Montreal](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/03/03/arresting-truth-canadian-journalist-yves-engler-charged-and-held-in-montreal/) - On Thursday morning, February 20, 2025, Yves Engler—who has written for CovertAction Magazine—presented himself to Montreal police for arrest, as ordered. Though facing multiple charges, the Canadian author, journalist and activist had no reason to believe he would not be bailed out in time to spend the weekend with his wife and young children. But - [CIA Has Played Instrumental Role in Development of Ukrainian Drone Industry](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/02/28/cia-has-played-instrumental-role-in-development-of-ukrainian-drone-industry/) - Ukrainian drones have carried out terrorist strikes extending into Russia designed to cripple its oil and gas industry and been deployed to attack Russian journalists On one of its last days in office, the Biden administration declassified an account of its once-secret support for Ukraine’s drone industry. U.S. officials said they had made big investments—sending - [The Right and Left, Vote by Vote in Ecuador](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/02/27/the-right-and-the-left-vote-by-vote-in-ecuador/) - Ecuador’s current president, Daniel Noboa, and the left-wing opposition candidate, Luisa González, will face off in a head-to-head runoff election on April 13. With more than 99.96% of the votes counted, the ruling party secured 44.31%, while the candidate aligned with banned and self-exiled former president Rafael Correa obtained 43.97%, a difference of less than - [Denmark Prepares for Russian "Invasions of NATO Lands"](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/02/26/denmark-prepares-for-russian-invasions-of-nato-lands/) - Continues Supporting Ukraine War and Tripling War Budget “We have decided to offer Ukraine NATO membership. But it is also clear that we must all agree on it if it is to happen,” said Denmark’s Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen following the Ukraine Defense Contact Group meeting at NATO headquarters in Brussels on February 13. - [CovertAction Bulletin: The U.S., Europe and the Growing Right-Wing Threat](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/02/26/covertaction-bulletin-the-u-s-europe-and-the-growing-right-wing-threat/) - As the Trump administration openly threatens historic American allies in Europe, weighs in on German elections in favor of the far-right, and pushes the idea of MEGA—Make Europe Great Again—it’s becoming increasingly clear that the relationships and dynamic between the U.S. and Western Europe is changing at a scale we haven’t seen in almost a century... - [CIA Offshoot, the National Endowment for Democracy, Faces Significant Budget Cuts in Age of Trump](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/02/24/cia-offshoot-the-national-endowment-for-democracy-faces-significant-budget-cuts-in-age-of-trump/) - As part of its evisceration of government agencies, the Trump administration imposed a funding freeze for the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a CIA offshoot that meddles in elections and pushes regime change around the world in the name of “promoting democracy.” On February 12, Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) issued an order - [Is USAID a "Criminal Organization?”—In Nicaragua, the Evidence Suggests It Is](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/02/25/is-usaid-a-criminal-organization-in-nicaragua-the-evidence-suggests-it-is/) - U.S. President Donald Trump has just closed down USAID after Elon Musk branded it “a criminal organization,” adding “it’s time for it to die.” Is there any truth to Musk’s allegation? One “beneficiary” of USAID is Nicaragua, a country with one of the lowest incomes per head in Latin America. Between 2014 and 2021, USAID - [Regarding Operation "USAID Sacrificial Offering”](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/02/24/regarding-operation-usaid-sacrificial-offering/) - A chorus stretches to the horizon that praises the Trump administration for shutting down USAID. I feel only deep revulsion when I hear their hymns. I smell a sickening stench when I dig into their fallacious arguments. Could it be that it is considered to be perfectly okay for politicians, journalists and so-called “truth tellers” - [Malcolm X’s Family Lawsuit Accuses the CIA, FBI and NYPD in Icon’s Assassination](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/02/21/malcolm-xs-family-lawsuit-accuses-the-cia-fbi-and-nypd-in-icons-assassination/) - [Today marks the 59th anniversary of the assassination of Malcolm X. See CovertAction Magazine’s in-depth exploration of the crime as an addendum to this piece.—Editors] In mid-November, three daughters of Malcolm X (aka el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz) accused the CIA, FBI, the New York Police Department and the Department of Justice with involvement in the 1965 - [Real Life Mr. X in Oliver Stone’s JFK Participated in Pioneering Covert Operations](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/02/20/real-life-mr-x-in-oliver-stones-jfk-participated-in-pioneering-covert-operations/) - New Documentary Explores Life and Legacy of Fletcher Prouty, who wrote about CIA covert operations in his classic book The Secret Team In a famous scene in Oliver Stone’s epic 1992 film JFK, Kevin Costner’s character confers with a shadowy CIA operative played by Donald Sutherland known as Mr. X who tells him about the - [Exposed: CIA Balkan Terror Exported to Haiti](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/02/19/exposed-cia-balkan-terror-exported-to-haiti/) - On December 19, James Foley, U.S. ambassador to Haiti 2003-2005, published an explosive op-ed in the rabidly anti-Communist Miami Times. He lamented how the country had become a “ticking time bomb,” with hundreds of thousands of refugees threatening to emigrate stateside, “mounting gang violence,” withdrawal of “humanitarian relief organizations” due to “threats,” and “criminal” entities - [CovertAction Bulletin: Will Trump and McMahon Dismantle Public Education?](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/02/19/covertaction-bulletin-will-trump-and-mcmahon-dismantle-public-education/) - Donald Trump has nominated Linda McMahon, a former executive with World Wrestling Entertainment and twice-failed Senate candidate as well as the Administrator of the Small Business Administration under his first term, to lead the Department of Education. Speaking about her nomination in early February, Trump said he wants her to put herself out of a job—to shutter the US Department of Education... - [October 7 and Its Aftermath Were the Intended Result of Israel’s Long-Term Planned Policies and Strategies](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/02/18/october-7-and-its-aftermath-were-the-intended-result-of-israels-long-term-planned-policies-and-strategies/) - Contrary to Israel’s carefully constructed façade, the record shows that Tel Aviv has long supported Hamas for purposes of destabilization and peace-wrecking, only one of the many strategic expedients deployed by Israel to achieve a long-term goal: denying Palestinian statehood and expanding its own borders. It has been now more than a year since “Hamas’s - [Why is Canada Conniving with Trump against Mexico?](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/02/18/why-is-canada-conniving-with-trump-against-mexico/) - In order to buy a 30-day reprieve from Trump tariffs on Canada, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made a few concessions: Canada would name a drug-fighting “czar” and put extra border watchers in place. Nothing surprising, though disappointing and humiliating. Giving way to U.S. bullying will only bring more, as everyone understands. “The whining dog gets kicked,” - [Fear and Loathing in the “New” Syria](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/02/15/fear-and-loathing-in-the-new-syria/) - During her confirmation hearing for Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard was grilled about having been a purveyor of “Putin’s talking points” about the U.S. supporting al-Qaeda in Syria. Of course, Gabbard responded, there can be no doubt about the veracity of such claims. Thus, Gabbard cited the fact that the CIA, beginning - [Curtis Yarvin is Among the Crazed Pseudo-Fascist Thinkers Influencing J.D. Vance](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/02/13/curtis-yarvin-is-among-the-crazed-pseudo-fascist-thinkers-influencing-j-d-vance/) - Yarvin is a cheerleader for “neocameralism,” a system where states operate like corporations, prioritizing efficiency and governance by technocrats or capable leaders rather than elected officials Meet Curtis Yarvin: whose seemingly crazed ideas have found fertile ground among technocrats and oligarchs who have never quite shaken entitled Ayn Rand’s “greed is good” sensibility. Essentially, the - [MIT—The Pentagon on the Charles—is Deeply Complicit in Israeli Genocide and Ukraine War Atrocities that Threaten World War III](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/02/13/mit-the-pentagon-on-the-charles-is-deeply-complicit-in-israeli-genocide-and-ukraine-war-atrocities-that-threaten-world-war-iii/) - Known as the “Pentagon on the Charles,” the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a poster child for the military-industrial-academic complex that was a well-known hub for student anti-war activism in the 1960s and early 1970s. Campus protests against the Vietnam War at that time got MIT to disassociate itself from the Draper Laboratory, which - [CovertAction Bulletin: Trump, Netanyahu Threaten Gaza](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/02/12/covertaction-bulletin-trump-netanyahu-threaten-gaza/) - After Hamas submitted a two-page report documenting multiple violations of the tense ceasefire in place since January 19, and said it would on its end delay the release of some hostages until the issues are resolved, the Israeli government is now ramping up for another phase of all-out war against the Palestinian people. Benjamin Netanyahu threatened that if all Israeli hostages are not released by Saturday the 15th, he would “let all hell break loose.” ... - [American Carnage and the Establishment of a Military Dictatorship](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/02/10/american-carnage-and-the-establishment-of-a-military-dictatorship/) - Immediate impeachment is the only option, but we must bring criminal charges against all the collaborating politicians, Democratic and Republican alike It breaks the heart to see so many lost souls congratulating themselves on the impending approval of Gabbard and Kennedy by the Senate, two corrupt and gutless politicians who have not said a word - [The Next NATO-Russia Proxy War Could Be in a Country You've Never Heard Of](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/02/11/the-next-nato-russia-proxy-war-could-be-in-a-country-youve-never-heard-of/) - The New Year’s Day decision by Ukraine to suspend a five-year gas transit agreement with Moscow has triggered an energy crisis in Europe and threatened to spill its ongoing conflict with Russia over into neighboring countries. The termination of Russian gas exports to the continent via Ukrainian pipelines has already impacted several European nations reliant - [Trump’s Greenland Takeover Threat Could Cause Denmark, and Other European Countries, To Reclaim their Sovereignty](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/01/30/trumps-greenland-takeover-threat-could-cause-denmark-and-other-european-countries-to-reclaim-their-sovereignty/) - “Today was January 7, 2025. The day when Denmark learned that we can no longer trust the United States. I will NEVER forget that day.” So wrote political commentator, right-wing influencer Jarl Cordua on social media. This statement reflects what Denmark’s mass media are communicating in their editorials, and quoting influencers and experts on the - [The Munich Olympics: Tim Fehlbaum’s Gripping September 5](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/02/07/the-munich-olympics-tim-fehlbaums-gripping-september-5/) - According to its mission statement, “AFI FEST… showcase[es] the best films from across the globe to captivated audiences in Los Angeles. With a diverse and innovative slate of programming, the film festival presents a robust lineup of fiction and nonfiction features and shorts… along with panels and conversations featuring both master filmmakers and new cinematic - [Scandinavians, the World’s Happiest People, Love Killing for the USA, Part VI](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/02/06/scandinavians-the-worlds-happiest-people-love-killing-for-the-usa-part-vi/) - Part VI: The West Wants No Sovereignty for Russia and Palestine [This is the final part of a six part series by veteran journalist and political activist Ron Ridenour who has lived in Denmark since the 1980s. See Parts I, II, III, IV, V—Editors.] Britain and the United States have had Russia (and the Soviet - [Silent Propaganda on U.S. Imperialism Breeds Confused Americans](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/02/05/silent-propaganda-on-u-s-imperialism-breeds-confused-americans/) - The basic fact that the United States is an empire is perhaps the most systematically taboo subject within mainstream American information systems and public discourse. U.S. imperialism is almost never discussed in depth, critically or intelligently, within corporate media or the educational system. It is never mentioned by candidates of the two dominant political parties, - [CovertAction Bulletin: USAID Should Be Shut Down - For Real](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/02/05/covertaction-bulletin-usaid-should-be-shut-down-for-real/) - Over the weekend and early into this week, Elon Musk’s so-called DOGE, Department of Government Efficiency, effectively shut down the US Agency for International Development on a temporary basis. Musk, Donald Trump and their lackeys attacked USAID because they claim it’s a “viper’s nest of radical-left [m]arxists who hate America,” to quote a Musk post on X, saying it’s a corrupt organization that promotes so-called DEI across the world and is used to waste money... - [Immigration and its Discontents: The Coming Struggle](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/02/04/immigration-and-its-discontents-the-coming-struggle/) - [This is the second of a two-part article. Part I is available here.—Editors] Obstacles to Change Attempts to change the United States immigration system faces the serious problem that the current system is a very lucrative business for some powerful interests. Corporations benefit with an influx of cheap labor into the U.S. Corporations also benefit - [Keith Harmon Snow Was a Courageous Investigative Journalist Who Exposed Lies Regarding the Rwandan Genocide](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/02/03/keith-harmon-snow-was-a-courageous-investigative-journalist-who-exposed-lies-regarding-the-rwandan-genocide/) - Snow followed in the footsteps of CovertAction Information Bulletin founder Philip Agee in his attempt to expose the close connections between the CIA and multi-national corporations and in his analysis of the political-economy of U.S. imperialism. Keith Harmon Snow, after suffering from cancer, died in early December at the age of 64. He was a - [American Indian Movement Leader Leonard Peltier Finally Freed from Prison in Last-Minute Move by Biden Administration](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/02/01/american-indian-movement-leader-leonard-peltier-finally-freed-from-prison-in-last-minute-move-by-biden-administration/) - Biden, however, refused to pardon Peltier despite evidence that he never shot and killed FBI agents whose murders he was charged with In a last-minute move before his departure from office, President Joe Biden commuted the life sentence of American Indian Movement (AIM) leader Leonard Peltier, who was convicted of killing two FBI agents, Jack - [Donald Trump Revokes Security Clearances of 51 CIA Officers Who Got It Wrong About Hunter Biden Laptop—and So Much Else](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/01/31/donald-trump-revokes-security-clearances-of-51-cia-officers-who-got-it-wrong-about-hunter-biden-laptop-and-so-much-else/) - Disinformation artists have repeatedly misled the public in order to demonize American enemies and support more war President Donald Trump on his first day in office revoked the security clearances of all 51 former CIA officers who had signed an open letter in 2020 claiming that the contents of the Hunter Biden laptop “carried all - [Rwanda Invades DRC on Behalf of Corporate Critical Minerals Supply Chains](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/01/30/rwanda-invades-drc-on-behalf-of-the-corporate-critical-minerals-supply-chains/) - Rwanda invaded the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on January 26, 2025. The Rwandan Defense Force (RDA) crossed sectors 12 and 13 of the Congolese border adjacent to Goma, a city of two million and the capital of North Kivu Province in eastern Congo. The DRC Minister of International Co-Operation and Foreign Affairs, Thérèse Kayikwamba - [CovertAction Bulletin - LA Fires: Natural Disaster Made Worse By Capitalism](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/01/29/covertaction-bulletin-la-fires-natural-disaster-made-worse-by-capitalism/) - Donald Trump’s inauguration on Monday was met with protests around the country. 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The prosecution of the “merchants of death” was coordinated by Brad Wolf, a former Pennsylvania-based prosecutor, and - [Women in the Biden Administration Complicit in the Israeli Genocide of Gaza](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/01/27/women-in-the-biden-administration-complicit-in-the-israeli-genocide-of-gaza/) - As people in the United States sat down to Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners this past holiday season, Palestinians in Gaza on Day 419 of the Israeli genocide of Gaza—and U.S. complicity in that genocide—were facing starvation, lack of water, tents purposefully destroyed by U.S. bombs dropped by Israeli warplanes and drones, and rain and cold - [An Exclusive Interview with Hamas](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/01/24/an-exclusive-interview-with-hamas/) - In late August, I traveled to Doha, Qatar, to meet and interview Hamas political bureau members Dr. Basem Naim and Osama Hamdan. After nearly four months of planning and coordinating, I was finally approved to come and conduct the interview at their diplomatic headquarters in Qatar. Given the security situation, the details were carefully orchestrated. - [Tom Cotton As New Head of Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Is Frank Church’s Worst Nightmare](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/01/23/tom-cotton-as-head-of-senate-select-committee-on-intelligence-is-frank-churchs-worst-nightmare/) - The arch neo-conservative wants the CIA to become “bolder and more innovative in covert action” The U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence was established in the late 1970s as a watchdog designed to ensure greater transparency for CIA operations in the wake of the 1975-76 Church Committee hearings. The Church Committee had alerted the public - [Unmasked: The Secret Life of the Deadliest Arms Dealer Operating with CIA Cover](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/01/22/unmasked-the-secret-life-of-the-deadliest-arms-dealer-operating-with-cia-cover/) - Over recent decades, a clandestine network of weapons tycoons has been silently enabling global conflicts. The resulting covert operations, often hidden from public view, have profound impacts on international stability and human lives. Today, these figures continue to arm warring factions, perpetuating violence and bloodshed. With close ties to intelligence agencies, they operate with near-impunity, - [CovertAction Bulletin: Trump Inauguration Met With Nationwide Protests](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/01/22/covertaction-bulletin-trump-inauguration-met-with-nationwide-protests/) - Donald Trump’s inauguration on Monday was met with protests around the country. As he immediately launched attacks on immigrants, the environment, LGBTQ people, labor and beyond, people took to the streets in opposition, pledging to continue organizing to defend the oppressed against the onslaught of attacks from Trump and the billionaires... - [Who Was Antony Sutton?](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/01/21/who-was-antony-sutton/) - The late historian Antony C. Sutton is one of the most influential thinkers in the current American populist movement. The Mises Institute has repeatedly promoted his work, as has the Cato Institute, and his books are steady sellers on Amazon (an impressive feat given that most of their content is now available for free on - [Scandinavians, the World’s Happiest People, Love Killing for the USA - Part V](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/01/20/scandinavians-the-worlds-happiest-people-love-killing-for-the-usa-part-v/) - [This is part 5 of a 6-part series on Denmark and its support for the U.S. empire. See Parts I, II, III, and IV.—Editors] Part V: War Costs and Profits When Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen met with President Donald Trump, December 2019, Trump was threatening less support for NATO and European conflicts if they did - [Canada and Ukraine: The Suppression of a Shameful History](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/01/16/canada-and-ukraine-the-suppression-of-a-shameful-history/) - 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 the Nazis. Canada admitted these people - [Immigration and its Discontent: Past and Present](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/01/16/immigration-and-its-discontent-past-and-present/) - [This is the first of a two-part article.—Editors] Immigration has been a “hot issue” in the United States for a long time. In the 1700s, Benjamin Franklin complained about the influx of German immigrants. In the mid-1800s, there was a strong nativist movement against European immigrants, especially Catholics and Jews. In the 1880s, it was - [LIVE Webinar - January 13: Intelligence Agencies and Trump – What can we expect?](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/01/06/live-webinar-january-13-intelligence-agencies-and-trump-what-can-we-expect/) - 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 - - [North Korea Has Survived 75 Years of Barbaric Imperial Attack Under the Stewardship of the Much Maligned Kim Dynasty](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/01/15/north-korea-has-survived-75-years-of-barbaric-imperial-attack-under-the-stewardship-of-the-much-maligned-kim-dynasty/) - Development of nuclear weapons has enabled North Korea to avoid the fate of Libya, Syria and Iraq Over the last 75 years, North Korea has been invaded and bombed back to the stone age by the United States, subjected to unprecedented economic warfare, vilified in the international media and had its population targeted in a - [The Plain Truth About “The Man from Plains” and Jimmy Carter’s BIG Lie](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/01/12/the-plain-truth-about-the-man-from-plains-and-jimmy-carters-big-lie/) - Carter’s Canonization: Saint Jimmy Once again Americans have been inundated by a tsunami of one-sided “news” coverage and an officially sanctioned mourning period and state funeral were exploited (at taxpayers’ expense) for political purposes, as we were subjected to a hagiographies of former President Jimmy Carter. We endured hours of propagandistic MSM radio and TV - [Mass Incarceration Arose Out of Empire Building Across North America, Carribean and Pacific](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/01/11/mass-incarceration-arose-out-of-empire-building-across-north-america-carribean-and-pacific/) - The United States today has by far the world’s largest incarceration rate, with nearly two million people living in prisons and jails. The conditions in those facilities are often substandard, with Amnesty International criticizing the dehumanizing practice of holding prisoners in prolonged solitary confinement. Benjamin Weber’s book, American Purgatory: Prison Imperialism and the Rise of - [Revival of the UN Command—a Pacific NATO—Brings the Danger of a Revitalized Korean War Closer](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/01/11/revival-of-the-un-command-a-pacific-nato-brings-the-danger-of-a-revitalized-korean-war-closer/) - Few people know of the existence of the so-called UN Command in South Korea. Fewer still realize that it is actually an active entity. Most who do recognize it associate it with the Korean War (1950 to 1953). Described by Wikipedia as “a multinational military force established to support the Republic of Korea (ROK) during - [Scandinavians, the World’s Happiest People, Love Killing for the USA](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/01/08/scandinavians-the-worlds-happiest-people-love-killing-for-the-usa-4/) - Part IV: The Yankees Are Coming to All Scandinavia [See Parts 1, 2 and 3 of veteran journalist and political activist Ron Ridenour's look into Denmark and its ties to the U.S. empire—Editors] Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen surprised the nation three days after Joe Biden warned Russia it would lose its Nord Stream natural gas - [Puerto Rican Independence is Long Overdue](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/01/09/puerto-rican-independence-is-long-overdue/) - 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 independent country. The measure, which had the - [Compatible Left Joins Imperialism in Celebrating Defeat of Syria](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/01/08/compatible-left-joins-imperialism-in-celebrating-defeat-of-syria/) - 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, in Syria. Portside, which assembles daily - [CovertAction Bulletin: The Media’s Real Agenda On The Alleged ISIS Attack](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/01/08/covertaction-bulletin-the-medias-real-agenda-on-the-alleged-isis-attack/) - 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... - [Jimmy Carter Was Not a Peacemaker When He Was President, Only After](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/01/07/jimmy-carter-was-not-a-peacemaker-when-he-was-president-only-after/) - 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 December 28, 2024. The New York - [Noted Brazilian Journalist Sheds New Light on 1964 CIA Backed Coup in Brazil](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/01/05/noted-brazilian-journalist-sheds-new-light-on-1964-cia-backed-coup-in-brazil/) - 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 eliminate First-Nation Indigenous populations, ends - [How the Human Rights Industry Manufactures Consent for "Regime Change"](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/01/02/how-the-human-rights-industry-manufactures-consent-for-regime-change/) - 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 become distorted, not only by the - [Will Warnings of A Nuclear War Go Unheeded?](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/01/02/will-warnings-of-a-nuclear-war-go-unheeded/) - 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 the nation’s capital. The three-part - [Joe Biden Gets a big Fat F For His Foreign Policy](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/01/01/joe-biden-gets-a-big-fat-f-for-his-foreign-policy/) - 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 progressive U.S. president since Lyndon - [Zionism's Colonial Heritage and Transatlantic Reach](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/12/29/zionisms-colonial-heritage-and-transatlantic-reach/) - The mainstream media and almost all of the American political elite class refuse to acknowledge reality: The crisis in Gaza did not begin on October 7, 2023. Neither did the annihilation of Native Americans begin following the battle of the Little Bighorn. There is a continuous 120-year history of Zionism, whose foundational belief from the - [When Journalist Humiliated CIA in 1980s by Scooping Them, They Retaliated by Falsely Accusing Him of Being KGB Agent](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/12/28/when-journalist-humiliated-cia-in-1980s-by-scooping-them-they-retaliated-by-falsely-accusing-him-of-being-kgb-agent/) - Dusko Doder’s case has ominous reverberations in the era of Cold War 2.0 Late one February night in 1984, Dusko Doder, The Washington Post’s Soviet correspondent, noticed hundreds of lights blazing at the Soviet Defense Ministry and KGB offices in Moscow. He surmised that the Soviet leader, Yuri Andropov, who had been ill for a - [China's Economy is Developing Tremendous Strategic Strength Instead of Collapsing as the Western Media Falsely Claim](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/12/27/chinas-economy-is-developing-tremendous-strategic-strength-instead-of-collapsing-as-the-western-media-falsely-claim/) - [The article can be watched as a video here] In their reporting on China, the Western mainstream media conjure up a massive real estate crisis, enormous youth unemployment and a severe economic crisis. But the collective West is harming itself with illusions about China's economy, as you will see below. “China is in the midst - [Despite His Law and Order Rhetoric, Trump May Surprise in his Second Term](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/12/26/despite-his-law-and-order-rhetoric-trump-may-surprise-in-his-second-term/) - Donald Trump has a lot of faults. God knows that we have discussed them at length here at CovertAction Magazine and in other venues. But if there is one thing that Trump is right on, it is prison reform. It was Trump, after all, who issued a flurry of pardons and commutations at the end - [U.S. Media Ignored How CIA’s Operation Timber Sycamore Paved the Way For the Syrian “Revolution”](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/12/23/u-s-media-ignored-how-cias-operation-timber-sycamore-paved-the-way-for-the-syrian-revolution/) - Part of a pattern of media omissions and deception in its coverage of Syria On December 8, 2024, Syria’s long-standing ruler Bashar al-Assad fled to Russia after being deposed by Sunni militia forces in what New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman called the “biggest…most game-changing event in the Middle East in the last 45 - [F**k You Alexander Haig, I am resigning; Say the same to Blinken!!!](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/12/22/fk-you-alexander-haig-i-am-resigning-say-the-same-to-blinken/) - Resignations from the U.S. war on Vietnam, to the U.S. war on Iraq, to the U.S. complicity in the Israeli genocide in Gaza In the November 21, 2024, weekly newsletter of the Association of Diplomatic Studies and Training (ADST), the editors included a 1995 oral history interview with William Watts, White House Staff Secretary for the - [U.S. Corporate Land Grab in Ukraine Underlies War With Russia](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/12/19/u-s-corporate-land-grab-in-ukraine-underlies-war-with-russia/) - Heralded as a hero in Western media, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has allowed foreign private interests to steal his country’s best land In early November, Barbara Bonte, a Belgian member of the European Union (EU) parliament, raised concern about the sell-off of Ukrainian land on a massive scale to U.S. private equity firms along with - [CovertAction Bulletin - Deny, Delay, Depose: The Tragedy of Health Insurance in the U.S.](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/12/18/covertaction-bulletin-deny-delay-depose-the-tragedy-of-health-insurance-in-the-u-s/) - When UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was killed on December 4th in New York, the casings of the bullets used to kill him had “deny”, “delay” and “depose” written on them. These so-called “three Ds” of the insurance industry describe how companies go out of their way to get out of paying claims... - [Old Documents Reveal Roots of Modern-Day American Surveillance State](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/12/17/old-documents-reveal-roots-of-modern-day-american-surveillance-state/) - Church League of America developed a surveillance network, in collaboration with FBI offshoot Wackenhut, of American leftists during the Cold War. It was December 10, 1992, and we were inside a cavernous warehouse picking through the discarded detritus of an out-of-business organization known as the Church League of America (CLA). For nearly a half-century it - [Tulsi Gabbard Was Right to Question Official Narrative About Syrian Chemical Weapons Attacks](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/12/16/tulsi-gabbard-was-right-to-question-official-narrative-about-syrian-chemical-weapons-attacks/) - Letter by group of national security officials expressing alarm at Gabbard’s appointment as Director of National Intelligence, falsely accuses her of advancing a “conspiracy theory.” This same group expresses satisfaction with appointment as Secretary of State of right-wing coup plotter and warmonger. On December 4, a group of current and former National Security officials penned - [U.S. Sanctions Do Grave Damage and Should Be Target of Greater Political Activism](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/12/16/u-s-sanctions-do-grave-damage-and-should-be-target-of-greater-political-activism/) - How can a country with a degree of democracy put sanctions on various countries resulting in wide impoverishment while it brags that it is spreading democracy and freedom worldwide? A country that has the rule of capital as its main objective. True, there are other systems with negative characteristics. But capitalism is inherently geared toward - [Scandinavians, the World’s Happiest People, Love Killing for the USA](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/12/12/scandinavians-the-worlds-happiest-people-love-killing-for-the-usa-3/) - Part III Media Brainwashing [See Parts 1 and II in veteran journalist and political activist Ron Ridenour’s series on Denmark and its alliance with U.S. imperialism.—Editors] Midway in Wimbledon’s championship last July, Denmark’s favorite son, Rune Holger, bashed a forehand over to his senior by 16 years, the seven-time Wimbledon champion Novak Djokovic, who had - [Ukrainian Culture is Celebrated in a Ukrainian Restaurant in Moscow, of all Places!](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/12/11/ukrainian-culture-is-celebrated-in-a-ukrainian-restaurant-in-moscow-of-all-places/) - On a recent visit to Russia, I happened to come across a Ukrainian restaurant while walking through Moscow. Politicians and the media in the West wanted us to believe that Russia intended to annex Ukraine and eradicate its culture. I was therefore both amazed and delighted that this centre of Ukrainian culture is flourishing in - [CovertAction Bulletin: South Korea Fights Back Martial Law](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/12/11/covertaction-bulletin-south-korea-fights-back-martial-law/) - Calls for the resignation of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol have rung out from civil society and beyond after Yoon declared martial law on December 3rd. The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) called for strikes until Yoon steps down, and groups under and beyond that organization are heeding the call... - [Scandinavians, the World’s Happiest People, Love Killing for the USA](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/11/11/scandinavians-the-worlds-happiest-people-love-killing-for-the-usa/) - [This article is part of a six-part series providing an overview of the world’s happiest people living in five Scandinavian countries’ love affair with US-ARMEs wars (United States of America Racist Military Empire). I focus on the current proxy war in Ukraine with their aim of “taking out” Russia. U.S./NATO’s war is an existential threat - [The CIA’s Modus Operandi Draws Off British and French Colonial Precedents ](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/12/10/the-cias-modus-operandi-draws-off-british-and-french-colonial-precedents/) - The CIA likes to fashion itself as a heroic agency that helps to protect national security and uphold democracy around the world. However, Hugh Wilford’s book, The CIA: An Imperial History (Basic Books, 2024), shows that the CIA draws directly from British and French colonial precedents, and adopts the same modus operandi as imperial intelligence - [Lawfare in Argentina: Cristina Kirchner Convicted](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/12/09/lawfare-in-argentina-cristina-kirchner-convicted/) - "What we are witnessing here today is a practical demonstration of Lawfare in Argentina, carried out by the members of the court," announced Cristina Fernández de Kirchner as she was about to be convicted in the first instance. Now, the Federal Criminal Court of Cassation—the highest criminal court in the country—has upheld the sentence against the - [The Left Returns to Power in Uruguay—How Will the Trump Administration React?](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/12/07/the-left-returns-to-power-in-uruguay-how-will-the-trump-administration-react/) - Yamandú Orsi, from the Broad Front (Frente Amplio—FA), is the president-elect of Uruguay. He will take office on March 1, 2025, and lead the country until 2030. This marks a consolidation of progressive forces as the majority in Latin America, including notable popular governments in Mexico, Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia and Chile. On the other side - ["Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat" is So Good That It May Redefine the Documentary as a Means of Mass Communication](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/12/07/soundtrack-to-a-coup-detat-is-so-good-that-it-may-redefine-the-documentary-as-a-means-of-mass-communication/) - According to its mission statement, “AFI FEST… showcase[es] the best films from across the globe to captivated audiences in Los Angeles. With a diverse and innovative slate of programming, the film festival presents a robust line-up of fiction and non-fiction features and shorts… along with panels and conversations featuring both master filmmakers and new cinematic - [Political Prisoners Event Shows U.S. Government’s Weaponization of Human Rights](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/12/06/political-prisoners-event-shows-u-s-governments-weaponization-of-human-rights/) - Dissidents in U.S.-allied countries and U.S. political prisoners are ignored while people who try to destabilize their own countries are promoted as heroes Gonzalo Lira was a Chilean journalist who was arrested in Ukraine in May 2023 for “producing and publishing material that tried to justify the ongoing Russian invasion,” which is illegal under Ukrainian - [Media Distorting North Korean Role in Russo-Ukraine War](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/12/03/media-distorting-north-korean-role-in-russo-ukraine-war/) - Sensationalistic headlines about North Korean engagement in Kursk contradicted by statements of Secretary of Defense On November 24, Newsweek ran a story by Ellie Cook with the headline “Russian and North Korean Troops Shrink Ukraine’s Gains in Kursk.” The title made it seem like North Korea was fighting on the front-lines with the Russians to - [CovertAction Bulletin - Syria: A History of Proxy Wars & U.S. Imperialism](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/12/04/covertaction-bulletin-syria-a-history-of-proxy-wars-u-s-imperialism/) - At the end of November, groups aligned with Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) or the “Levant Liberation Committee” and previously known as the Al-Nusra Front, launched significant attacks on the Syrian government in the Idlib and Aleppo regions, taking part of the city of Aleppo. The Syrian Arab Army has mobilized to push back against HTS... - [Peace Activists Try and Block Arms Supplies to Israel](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/12/02/peace-activists-try-and-block-arms-supplies-to-israel/) - David Hartsough is a legendary peace activist who first amassed an FBI file in the mid 1950s at the age of 15 when he organized a vigil outside a Nike missile plant where he grew up near West Chester, Pennsylvania. On November 20, Hartsough was one of 75 protesters who tried to block weapons shipments - [Scandinavians, the World’s Happiest People, Love Killing for the USA](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/12/01/scandinavians-the-worlds-happiest-people-love-killing-for-the-usa-2/) - Part II: The Destruction of the Nord Stream Pipeline: We Came We Saw They Died [This is part 2 of a larger series on Scandinavia. Part I can be read here.—Editors] “If Russia invades—that means tanks or troops crossing the border of Ukraine—then there will be no longer a Nord Stream 2. We will bring - [William Worthy May Be the Most Important Journalist You’ve Never Heard Of](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/12/01/william-worthy-may-be-the-most-important-journalist-youve-never-heard-of/) - Blacklisted in the Cold War, Worthy reported on the struggles of Third World people against American neo-colonialism and on oppression within the United States [In light of recent social media shutdowns of the pan-African media outlet, African Stream, we should take note of William Worthy's great contributions and the ensuing repression. In roughly a two-week - [The Uhuru Three Trial Was the Inevitable Outcome of Russiagate](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/11/27/the-uhuru-three-trial-was-the-inevitable-outcome-of-russia-gate/) - On September 12th, the federal trial of three members of the African People’s Socialist Party (APSP) concluded in St. Petersburg, Florida. While the more serious charges of acting as unregistered foreign agents of the Russian government were dismissed by the jury, the trio of Uhuru Movement activists were still found guilty of the lesser offense - [Radical Change in the USA: Prospects for Domestic Revolution](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/11/30/radical-change-in-the-usa-prospects-for-domestic-revolution/) - It is safe to say that a growing number of Americans realize that radical change is needed in the United States. Millions of Americans know there is something deeply wrong with our endless wars and the trillions of dollars we waste on them. Millions of Americans know there is something deeply wrong with our economy, - [CovertAction Bulletin: What Does the Lebanon Ceasefire Mean?](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/11/27/covertaction-bulletin-what-does-the-lebanon-ceasefire-mean/) - On Tuesday afternoon, the Israeli security cabinet approved a ceasefire deal with Hezbollah after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the cabinet and then with a pre-recorded video addressed the Israeli public, expressing his support for the deal... - [“Humanitarian Intervention” in Sierra Leone that Was Heralded as a Model in Western Media Was Really Another Horror Show](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/11/25/humanitarian-intervention-in-sierra-leone-that-was-heralded-as-a-model-in-western-media-was-really-another-horror-show/) - Documentary made by Cinema Libre Studio founder Philippe Diaz punctures Western narrative and shows weakness and corruption of UN The disastrous record of Western military interventions over the last half-century has left pundits grasping at straws to find something positive to point to. Some have come up with Sierra Leone, arguing that the U.S./UK intervention - [CovertAction Bulletin: Movement Repression and the H.R.9495 Bill](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/11/20/covertaction-bulletin-movement-repression-and-the-h-r-9495-bill/) - Shortly after we recorded our last episode and mentioned the bill, the House of Representatives tried and failed to vote on HR 9495, the “Stop Terror-Financing and Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act” bill. House Republicans tried to suspend the rules and push a vote through, and got 52 Democrats to vote with them, but weren’t able to get the two-thirds majority they needed under House procedural rules... - [CovertAction Bulletin: Struggle Continues Under Trump](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/11/14/covertaction-bulletin-struggle-continues-under-trump/) - 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](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/10/30/covertaction-bulletin-activists-take-on-elections-no-votes-for-genocide/) - 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... - [JFK’s Lover Was Among Victims of CIA Murder Machine, According to Son of Former High-Level CIA Official](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/11/22/jfks-lover-was-among-victims-of-cia-murder-machine-according-to-son-of-former-high-level-cia-official/) - The ex-wife of CIA agent Cord Meyer, Jr., Mary Pinchot Meyer, was trying to convert JFK to pacifism and was known to make wisecracks at dinner parties about what the CIA was doing in the world. Tragically, she was murdered 60 years ago while taking an afternoon jog by the Potomac River. [This article, timed - [LBJ Insiders D.H. Byrd and James Ling Bought 132,000 Shares of Stock in Defense Contractor LTV in November 1963 Around Time of the JFK Assassination](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/11/21/lbj-insiders-d-h-byrd-and-james-ling-bought-132000-shares-of-stock-in-defense-contractor-ltv-in-november-1963-around-time-of-the-jfk-assassination/) - [This article, timed for the 61st anniversary of the JFK assassination, discusses the importance of David H. Byrd, one of Lyndon B. Johnson’s closest friends, in helping to orchestrate the JFK assassination. Founded in the 1970s, CovertAction Information Bulletin was among the few publications to publish critical research into the JFK assassination. Last year on - [Trump Appoints Narrow Minded Baptist Preacher and Christian Hypocrite, Mike Huckabee, Arkansas’ Former Governor as U.S. Ambassador to Israel](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/11/20/trump-appoints-narrow-minded-baptist-preacher-and-christian-hypocrite-mike-huckabee-arkansas-former-governor-as-u-s-ambassador-to-israel/) - Donald Trump has selected Mike Huckabee, Governor of Arkansas from 1996 to 2007 and a right-wing evangelical preacher with a messianic view about Israel, as U.S. ambassador to Israel. Huckabee has voiced strong support for Israel’s war on Gaza even though it has engaged in egregious war crimes, and acts of ethnic cleansing and genocide. - [Einstein Opposed Zionist Colonization in Palestine and Predicted the Current Catastrophe](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/11/19/einstein-opposed-zionist-colonization-in-palestine-and-predicted-the-current-catastrophe/) - A few weeks before the creation of the State of Israel, Shepard Rifkin, executive director of the Stern Group, requested that representatives of the group meet with Albert Einstein in the United States, “the greatest Jewish figure of the time” according to I.F. Stone. Einstein’s response was unequivocal: “When a real and final catastrophe should - [Marco Rubio: An Abhorrent Choice for Secretary of State](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/11/19/marco-rubio-an-abhorrent-choice-for-secretary-of-state/) - He is part of a group of extreme right-wing hawks devoid of ethics set to run Trump’s foreign policy team President-elect Donald Trump named Florida Senator Marco Rubio as his nominee for Secretary of State, an abhorrent choice that shows Trump’s claim to be a peace candidate to be a complete illusion. The New York - [CIA Democrats and Other Party Hawks Win Races in 2024 Election](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/11/17/cia-democrats-and-other-party-hawks-win-races-in-2024-election/) - They embody a party that crossed over to the dark side years ago In March 2018, Patrick Martin of the World Socialist Web Site published a political pamphlet entitled “The CIA Democrats.” In it, he wrote that “an extraordinary number of former intelligence and military operatives from the CIA, Pentagon, National Security Council and State - [The Trial of Charles Onana: Will Rwandan History Be Criminalized as Hate Speech?](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/11/15/the-trial-of-charles-onana-will-rwandan-history-be-criminalized-as-hate-speech/) - [This article is part of a series by P.D. Lawton, a South African based writer, on Rwanda and U.S.-UK imperialism in Central Africa—Editors] Charles Onana`s most recent book Holocaust in Congo: the International Community`s Omerta (2019) has caused a stir. What his book entails is well defined in the word 'omerta' which means: “A rule - [Progressive Stalwart Dennis Kucinich Sees in 2024 Vote a Rejection of Globalist Agenda and Democratic Party War Mongering](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/11/13/progressive-stalwart-dennis-kucinich-sees-in-2024-vote-a-rejection-of-globalist-agenda-and-democratic-party-war-mongering/) - In an era of right-wing ascendancy and endless wars, Dennis J. Kucinich has stood out as one of the few respectable figures in American politics. During his 16 years in Congress between 1997 and 2013, Kucinich (D-OH) was consistently anti-war—opposing even wars like Kosovo, Serbia, Syria and Libya orchestrated by Democrats that most of his - [What Was CIA Director William Burns Doing in Armenia?](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/11/11/what-was-cia-director-william-burns-doing-in-armenia/) - Armenia is another battleground of the new cold war In July 2022, CIA Director William Burns made a surprise visit to Yerevan in Armenia. He was there officially to support his Agency’s financing of “non-profit organizations” whose stated purpose is to “spread democratic values.” The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) at the time - [Maria Butina: Russia’s Iron Lady](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/11/09/maria-butina-russias-iron-lady/) - Arnaud DEVELAY caught up with elected Member of the Russian State Duma and Ranking Member of the Duma’s Commission for International Affairs, Maria BUTINA. Q: Let us start with what has been a crackdown on free speech around the world with the raid on Scott Ritter’s house, the arrest of individuals in the UK for - [How Should the Left in the U.S. View China?](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/11/07/how-should-the-left-in-the-u-s-view-china/) - As a progressive socialist country whose economic rise is helping to put an end to 500 years of Western imperialism, or as a capitalist-imperial rival to the U.S.? The Biden administration has disappointed many of its supporters by adopting policies and rhetoric with regards to the People’s Republic of China (PRC) similar to Trump’s and - [Runoff in Uruguay: Will it be the Left or the Right "Radish"?](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/11/07/runoff-in-uruguay-will-it-be-the-left-or-the-right-radish/) - There were no surprises in Uruguay's presidential elections held on October 27: there will be a runoff on November 24 to choose the new president who will replace Luis Lacalle Pou (National or Blanco Party). The leftist Broad Front, with Yamandú Orsi and Carolina Cosse, was the most voted ticket, receiving 43.94% of the votes, - [Nuked: The Submarine Fiasco that Sank Australia’s Sovereignty](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/11/06/nuked-the-submarine-fiasco-that-sank-australias-sovereignty/) - Andrew Fowler’s book Nuked: The Submarine Fiasco That Sank Australia’s Sovereignty (Melbourne University Press, 2024) was not written by a member of the peace movement. That is both a strength and a weakness. A strength, because Andrew Fowler is an award-winning investigative journalist, who has worked in mainstream Australian current affairs TV. So, it can’t - [How an Obscure Michigan State Professor Who Worked For the CIA Played a Leading Role in Facilitating U.S. Intervention in Vietnam](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/11/04/how-an-obscure-michigan-state-professor-who-worked-for-the-cia-played-a-leading-role-in-facilitating-u-s-intervention-in-vietnam/) - Ngo Dinh Diem, South Vietnam’s premier from 1954 to 1963, was a Cold War version of Volodymyr Zelensky, an American-subsidized ruler who was fawned upon by leading U.S. politicians and the U.S. media despite causing the ruin of his own country. Lyndon B. Johnson at one point compared Diem to Winston Churchill—though privately admitted: “Shit, - [Latin American Governments Pay a Price For Challenging Israel’s Genocidal War](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/11/01/latin-american-governments-pay-a-price-for-challenging-israels-genocidal-war/) - Governments in Latin America have been at the forefront of opposition to Israel’s genocide in Gaza, and several of those which have done so suddenly face new threats, even including attempted coups. Adrienne Pine, a professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies, said during a recent webinar hosted by the Nicaragua Solidarity Coalition that - [Failure of U.S. Leaders Should Precipitate More Efforts at People’s Diplomacy—Like in the Vietnam War Era](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/10/31/failure-of-u-s-leaders-should-precipitate-more-efforts-at-peoples-diplomacy-like-in-the-vietnam-war-era/) - On September 19, the Vietnam Peace Commemoration Committee hosted a webinar focused on the significant impact of women in the Vietnam era anti-war movement. The first speaker, Vivian Rothstein, who was drawn to anti-war activism after participating in the Mississippi Freedom Summer, spoke about her participation in a conference in 1967 in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, with - [Children Are Suffering Sexual Abuse, Disabled People Are Being Waterboarded, and Prisoners Being Put in Cages—But Where? Oklahoma, USA](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/10/26/children-are-suffering-sexual-abuse-disabled-people-are-being-waterboarded-and-prisoners-being-put-in-cages-but-where-oklahoma-usa/) - [This article is part of CovertAction Magazine (CAM)’s series on abuses within the U.S. criminal justice system. It also spotlights the plight of whistleblowers. CAM managing editor Jeremy Kuzmarov lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma and has covered criminal justice issues in the state for the last decade as a freelancer.—Editors] Oklahoma’s Bible-quoting Governor Kevin Stitt seems - [The Economic War Against China Has Backfired](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/10/29/the-economic-war-against-china-has-backfired/) - Just 15 years ago, Chinese consumers were flocking to Western brands. Now they prefer Chinese ones. The fate of the Starbucks Group is telling: Sales and profits in its current 7,300 stores in China are declining. The Chinese are not drinking less coffee, but prefer Chinese brands, partly because they offer more for less money. - [Cuba Becomes Associate Member of BRICS](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/10/28/cuba-becomes-associate-member-of-brics/) - Repeating role as member of Cold War Non-Aligned Movement Cuba was accepted with 12 other countries as an associate member of BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) at the 16th BRICS summit in Kazan, Russia in late October. The other new associate members, which bring the BRICS grouping to over 4.6 billion people, or - [Celebrating the 70th Anniversary of Salt of the Earth](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/10/24/celebrating-the-70th-anniversary-of-salt-of-the-earth/) - The Film was one of the most pro-union movies in American history In many ways, 1954’s Salt of the Earth is a singular, cinematic phenomenon, one of the most unique American movies ever made. At a time when star-driven Hollywood was cranking out widescreen biblical epics, technicolor musicals, sci-fi and horror B pictures for drive-ins, - [Functioning as a U.S. Proxy, Taiwan Continues Interference in Politics of Small Pacific Island Nation of Kiribati](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/10/23/functioning-as-a-u-s-proxy-taiwan-continues-interference-in-politics-of-small-pacific-island-nation-of-kiribati/) - [This article is the second in a series covering how the tiny Pacific Island nation of Kiribati has become enmeshed in the new Cold War. The country has a forthcoming election on October 25 and the U.S. and its allies are advancing a covert regime change operation designed to unseat President Taneti Maamau, who has - [The U.S. and Taiwan Are Supporting a Regime Change Operation in the Tiny Pacific Island of Kiribati Says Opposition Party Staffer](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/09/03/the-u-s-and-taiwan-are-supporting-a-regime-change-operation-in-the-tiny-pacific-island-of-kiribati-says-opposition-party-staffer/) - Seek to unseat pro-Chinese leader and restore Kiribati’s diplomatic relations with Taiwan Americans familiar with the history of the Pacific War know all about the Tarawa atoll in Micronesia, where the U.S. military suffered heavy casualties on “annihilation beach” in November 1943 after carrying out a botched amphibious invasion/landing. To win the battle after their - [CovertAction Bulletin: U.S. Blockade Threatens Cuba’s Electric Grid](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/10/23/covertaction-bulletin-u-s-blockade-threatens-cubas-electric-grid/) - 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... - [Honduran President Xiomara Castro Accuses Biden Administration of Plotting Against Her](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/10/22/honduran-president-xiomara-castro-accuses-biden-administration-of-plotting-against-her/) - “The interference and interventionism of the U.S., as well as its intention to direct Honduran politics through its Embassy and other representatives, is intolerable.” The categorical post by the President of Honduras, Xiomara Castro, exposed foreign interventionism in her country, which is not new but has intensified during her administration. As detailed by social leader - [Class of 2018 CIA/Pentagon Democrats Continue to Advance Hawkish Policies in Congress](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/10/21/class-of-2018-cia-pentagon-democrats-continue-to-advance-hawkish-policies-in-congress/) - In March 2018, Patrick Martin of the World Socialist Web Site published a political pamphlet entitled “The CIA Democrats.” In it, he wrote that “an extraordinary number of former intelligence and military operatives from the CIA, Pentagon, National Security Council and State Department” were “seeking nomination as Democratic candidates for Congress in the 2018 midterm - [Draconian Sentencing Guidelines Result in Prison Overcrowding](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/10/18/draconian-sentencing-guidelines-result-in-prison-overcrowding/) - Prosecutors don’t get promoted by offering shorter sentences Like many Americans, I follow criminal justice developments closely. The arrest and coming prosecution of Sean Combs, also known as P. Diddy, among other things, will likely remain in the headlines for months, and perhaps years, and promises to be fascinating. Prosecutions related to the January 6, - [Is Brazilian Democracy Stunted By its Military and Intelligence Apparatus?](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/10/17/is-brazilian-democracy-stunted-by-its-military-and-intelligence-apparatus/) - Private interests and foreign influence helped to pave the path toward Brazil’s military dictatorship (1964-1985). The armed forces is not an institution separate from society...It’s a reflection of that violent and authoritarian society. However, they are more dangerous because they have the prerogative to legally use firearms. —Priscila Brandão An Interview with Priscila Brandão, author - [American Political History Might Have Turned Out Differently if a Louisiana Congressman’s Plane Hadn’t Mysteriously Vanished Out of Thin Air 51 Years Ago](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/10/16/american-political-history-might-have-turned-out-differently-if-a-louisiana-congressmans-plane-hadnt-mysteriously-vanished-out-of-thin-air-51-years-ago/) - The man who tipped off New Orleans D.A. Jim Garrison about the corruption of the Warren Commission was poised to be the next Speaker of the House before his plane went down in October 1972 and could have potentially been president. [This article follows CAM’s series on political assassinations—Editors] On October 16, 1972, a Cessna - [The Murder of Juan Lopez, Defender of Life](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/10/16/the-murder-of-juan-lopez-defender-of-life/) - On the evening of September 14, Delegate of the Word Juan López had just finished leading a Saturday evening service at the Catholic church in Tocoa, Honduras. Witnesses say that, as he was getting to his car, someone on a motorcycle rode by and shot him multiple times, killing him. López was a teacher, community - [Witness Sketch of Man Seen Entering and Leaving Journalist’s Room on the Day He Was Found Dead Resembles Former CIA Agent](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/10/16/witness-sketch-of-man-seen-entering-and-leaving-journalists-room-on-the-day-he-was-found-dead-resembles-former-cia-agent/) - Evidence from Martinsburg, West Virginia, Police report contradicts claims of popular Netflix series On August 10, 1991, Danny Casolaro, a Fairfax, Virginia-based journalist who was writing a book on a massive CIA corruption scheme that started with the theft of computer software, was found dead lying in a tub of bloody water in room 517 - [CovertAction Bulletin: A Handful of Billionaires are Causing Climate Chaos for the World](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/10/16/covertaction-bulletin-a-handful-of-billionaires-are-causing-climate-chaos-for-the-world/) - 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... - [Peter Thiel: Donald Trump’s Favorite “Kiwi” Billionaire](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/10/10/peter-thiel-donald-trumps-favorite-kiwi-billionaire/) - 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 Thiel saga that may not be - [CIA Cutout Welcomes Infamous Neo-Conservative Warmonger Victoria Nuland to Its Board, Showing Its True Colors](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/10/09/cia-cutout-welcomes-infamous-neo-conservative-warmonger-victoria-nuland-to-its-board-showing-its-true-colors/) - On September 13, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) announced that it was appointing Victoria Nuland to its Board of Directors, effective immediately. Covert Geopolitics has called Nuland the “queen of chicken hawks” and “Lady Macbeth of perpetual war,” as she has “promoted a foreign policy of intervention, coups, proxy wars, aggression, and occupation…in Afghanistan, - [Twenty Three Years Ago, the U.S. Invaded Afghanistan Over an Oil Pipeline](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/10/08/twenty-three-years-ago-the-u-s-invaded-afghanistan-over-an-oil-pipeline/) - Unmasking media’s Incomplete Narrative: The true cause of the Afghan War lies beyond what you've heard in the media. It is rooted in a gas pipeline that the Taliban obstructed in 1998. The media’s portrayal of the conflict suggests that 9/11 was the sole catalyst, while consistently hiding a crucial piece of the puzzle. The - [John F. Kennedy’s Rejection of UN Plan For Repatriating Arab Refugees Marked a Historical Turning Point in Deadly Israel-Palestine Conflict](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/09/23/john-f-kennedys-rejection-of-un-plan-for-repatriating-arab-refugees-marked-a-historical-turning-point-in-deadly-israel-palestine-conflict/) - President John F. Kennedy is heralded in some circles as a pacifist anti-imperialist whose assassination was triggered by neo-conservative hawks intent on escalating the war in Vietnam and supporting Israel to the hilt in its wars with neighboring Arab states and the Palestinians. There may be some plausibility to this thesis related to who was - [The CIA’s Goal is to Create a “Depleted Population of Compliant Zombies” So a Narrow Capitalist Elite Can Rob and Exploit, According to former Carter White House Official and NASA Whistleblower](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/10/03/the-cias-goal-is-to-create-a-depleted-population-of-compliant-zombies-so-a-narrow-capitalist-elite-can-rob-and-exploit-according-to-former-carter-white-house-official-and-n/) - Richard C. Cook is a retired U.S. federal analyst who served with the Carter White House, NASA, and the U.S. Treasury and as an aide to U.S. Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH). He has just published a thoughtful book, Our Country Then and Now, which provides a sweeping economic history of the U.S. intermeshed with his - [Palestinian Journalist and Her Family Are Among Latest Victims of U.S.-Israeli Barbarism](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/10/05/palestinian-journalist-and-her-family-are-among-latest-victims-of-u-s-israeli-barbarism/) - One year after October 7, the Israelis continue to slaughter Gazans, and now Lebanese, en masse with U.S. weaponry. One of the latest victims of U.S.-Israeli barbarism is Wafa Aludaini, a Gazan journalist, who was killed along with her husband, Munir, and two children, Balsam and Tamim, in an Israeli air strike in Deir al-Balah, - [American Taxpayers Are Funding Putin’s Money Launderers Through the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/10/05/american-taxpayers-are-funding-putins-money-launderers-through-the-european-bank-for-reconstruction-and-development/) - I am the exiled whistleblower from the largest bank collapse in Latvian history, fighting for years to publicize evidence of a cover-up organized by the government of Latvia and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, which protects Russian President Vladimir Putin’s central money-laundering system. The EBRD is based in London and funded by 74 - [Deadly Heat in U.S. Prisons Violates Animal Cruelty Laws](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/10/04/deadly-heat-in-u-s-prisons-violates-animal-cruelty-laws/) - The summer of 2013 was my first summer in prison after being incarcerated for blowing the whistle on the CIA’s torture program. When summer arrived in Loretto, Pennsylvania, I had already made a handful of friends, most of whom came from the prison’s “Italian” population. One warm day in the spring, I mentioned to one - [CovertAction Bulletin: Tribute to Palestinian Journalist Wafa Al-Udaini](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/10/02/covertaction-bulletin-tribute-to-palestinian-journalist-wafa-al-udaini/) - 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... - [Nixon Aide Said CIA Murdered Dorothy Hunt, Wife of Watergate Burglar E. Howard Hunt Who Knew Too Much About the CIA’s Role in Watergate and Other Crimes](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/12/11/nixon-aide-said-cia-murdered-dorothy-hunt-wife-of-watergate-burglar-e-howard-hunt-who-knew-too-much-about-the-cias-role-in-watergate-and-other-crimes/) - Hunt Was Among Victims of a United Airlines Flight That Crashed in Chicago on December 8, 1972, Soon After Richard Nixon’s Re-Election Dorothy Hunt’s life of adventure and privilege came to a tragic end at the age of 52 on December 8, 1972, when United Airlines Flight 553 crashed into a suburban home near Chicago’s - [Will Donald Trump’s Efforts to Sow Chaos After He Lost the 2020 Election Provide a Preview For 2024?](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/10/01/will-donald-trumps-efforts-to-sow-chaos-after-he-lost-the-2020-election-provide-a-preview-for-2024/) - New HBO Series Looks Back at Stop the Steal Campaign by Trump and His Acolytes As Americans prepare to go to the polls, a new HBO documentary is a cautionary tale warning against Donald Trump’s treachery and dishonesty in his efforts to hold and seize power. In the 1919 book Ten Days That Shook the - [Rage Against the Machine Guitarist Honored With Woody Guthrie Prize](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/09/30/rage-against-the-machine-guitarist-honored-with-woody-guthrie-prize/) - Tom Morello Has Nobly Carried on the American Protest Music Tradition On September 25, former Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello was honored with the Woody Guthrie Prize in Tulsa, Oklahoma, for using his music to support social justice causes. Morello received the prize from Woody Guthrie’s granddaughter Anna Canoni, who said that “Tom - [How British Intelligence ‘Blacklisted’ Subversives](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/09/28/how-british-intelligence-blacklisted-subversives/) - The latest hearings of Britain’s long-ongoing Undercover Policing Inquiry have shined further light on the ruthless, long-running conspiracy between British business and security services to identify, monitor and neutralize “subversives” in workplaces. For example, manual laborers who raised health and safety concerns on building sites, or engaged in political activism, or were trade unionists. These - [Unveiling Saudi Network Behind 9/11—Former FBI Agent's Revelations](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/09/27/unveiling-saudi-network-behind-9-11-former-fbi-agents-revelations/) - The 9/11 attack has been shrouded in secrecy by the U.S. government for 23 years, leading to much speculation and questions among the public. Despite numerous investigations and official reports, the full picture of those tragic events has never been fully revealed. Following another anniversary of this tragedy, we decided to publish a confidential FBI - [Human Migration Results From Economic Imperialism and Reflects System of Global Apartheid Dividing North and South, Says Brooklyn College Professor](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/09/26/human-migration-results-from-economic-imperialism-and-reflects-system-of-global-apartheid-dividing-north-and-south-says-brooklyn-college-professor/) - For years now, Fox News and other right-wing media have warned about an invasion of “illegal aliens” into the United States that supposedly threatens national security. Donald Trump catapulted himself to the presidency in 2016 by vowing to crack down on illegal immigration and to build a border wall, which the Biden administration has extended. - [CovertAction Bulletin: Israel Ignites Middle East as UN General Assembly Meets](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/09/25/covertaction-bulletin-israel-ignites-middle-east-as-un-general-assembly-meets/) - 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... - [Ex-diplomat’s Cuban Espionage Case Isn’t the Biggest U.S. “Spyfail”](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/09/24/ex-diplomats-cuban-espionage-case-isnt-the-biggest-u-s-spyfail/) - Mainstream media outlets reacted with astonishment when they reported earlier this year that a former American diplomat had confessed to being a Cuban spy for more than four decades. It was indeed shocking when Victor Manuel Rocha, U.S. Ambassador to Bolivia under Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, suddenly came clean to FBI investigators that - [Thirty Five Years Ago, 270 People Were Killed When Pan Am Flight 103 Crashed: Evidence Indicates that CIA Was Behind It](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/12/21/thirty-five-years-ago-270-people-were-killed-when-pan-am-flight-103-crashed-evidence-indicates-that-the-cia-was-behind-it/) - On the evening of December 21, 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 traveling from Frankfurt to New York crashed over Lockerbie, Scotland, after a stopover at London’s Heathrow Airport, killing all 243 passengers and 16 crew along with 11 civilians on a residential street. Following a three-year joint investigation by Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary and the U.S. Federal Bureau - [J. Edgar Hoover Coordinated Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.—And James Earl Ray Was a Patsy](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/09/23/j-edgar-hoover-coordinated-assassination-of-martin-luther-king-jr-and-james-earl-ray-was-a-patsy/) - New film provides tribute to William Pepper, the King Family Lawyer, Who Cracked the King Case Conventional wisdom holds that James Earl Ray was a deranged white supremacist who killed Martin Luther King, Jr., on April 4, 1968. Research carried out by King family attorney William F. Pepper determined, however, that King was really killed - [Kamala Becomes a Stockholm Syndrome Convert](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/09/19/kamala-becomes-a-stockholm-syndrome-convert/) - Jim Taiclet, CEO of Lockheed Martin, flashed a big smile for the cameras as he walked with Vice President Kamala Harris outside of Orlando’s Hellfire missile factory this month. Orlando is home to more U.S. war contractors than any other U.S. city save Washington, D.C., where the Fountain of Plenty is located. With Orlando’s Disney - [The Smoke and Mirrors Game of War in Eastern Congo](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/09/18/the-smoke-and-mirrors-game-of-war-in-eastern-congo/) - “Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things”–Isaac Newton “And simple truth miscalled simplicity” – William Shakespeare [This article is Part 2 of “Sun City: How the Anglo American Networks Took Power in Rwanda and DRC Using Tutsi Supremacy and Minority Rights”—Editors] Paul Kagame`s Rwanda Fabricated - [CovertAction Bulletin: Debate Shows Harris and Trump are Two Sides of the Same Coin](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/09/18/covertaction-bulletin-debate-shows-harris-and-trump-are-two-sides-of-the-same-coin/) - 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... - [Argentina’s Far Right Wing Experiment is Proving To Be a Disaster](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/09/17/argentinas-far-right-wing-experiment-is-proving-to-be-a-disaster/) - Rather than growing wealth, conservative economic policies have led to a lack of money in the country The country has changed in the last eight months; it is different. Since Javier Milei took office on December 10, 2023, Argentinians have only heard austerity, devaluation, recession, layoffs, poverty, repression, privatizations and “zero deficit.” The pre-existing problems - [African Protests Target U.S. Client Governments](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/09/16/african-protests-target-u-s-client-governments/) - Declining influence in Africa puts U.S. foreign policy establishment in a state of worry. In late June, protests erupted across Kenya against the government led by William Ruto after it enacted an IMF-dictated finance bill imposing hikes in a regressive sales tax, unloading the full burden of the country’s economic crisis on the backs of - [Government Overreach Exposed in Split Verdict in Case of Socialist Group Accused of Being Russian Agents](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/09/16/government-overreach-exposed-in-split-verdict-in-case-of-socialist-group-accused-of-being-russian-agents/) - On September 12, a jury came back with a split verdict, finding three members of the African People’s Socialist Party (APSP), known as the Uhuru 3, not guilty of acting as Russian agents, though guilty of conspiring to act as Russian foreign agents. The verdict was welcomed by the Uhuru 3 and their supporters since - [British Support for Iran Revolution Exposed](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/09/15/british-support-for-iran-revolution-exposed/) - Citizens of West Asia—and the world—are waiting with baited breath for a widely anticipated backlash to Israel’s assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran from Iran and Lebanon’s Hezbollah. The scale and form of that counterattack are a matter of intense speculation. So too is how—and whether—the Zionist entity’s Western allies will become formal - [“There’s Something Rotten in Denmark”: Frank Olson and the Macabre Fate of a CIA Whistleblower in the Early Cold War](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/11/28/theres-something-rotten-in-denmark-frank-olson-and-the-macabre-fate-of-a-cia-whistleblower-in-the-early-cold-war-2/) - “Frank Olson is flying and it’s a long way down” - David Clewell, “CIA in Wonderland.” In September 1994, the NBC hit show Unsolved Mysteries aired an episode on Dr. Frank Olson, a CIA biochemist at the Fort Detrick laboratory on germ warfare. Olson had supposedly jumped to his death from the 13th floor of - [The Israeli and U.S. Governments Know the Name of the Israeli Soldier who Assassinated Peace Activist Aysengur Eygi](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/09/12/the-israeli-and-u-s-governments-know-the-name-of-the-israeli-soldier-who-assassinated-peace-activist-aysengur-eygi/) - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the U.S. was working to “gather the facts” about the killing by Israeli military forces of U.S. citizen Aysenur Eygi. They Know Blinken does not need time to “gather the facts.” The facts are already known to the Israeli military, the U.S. military and the U.S. government. They know exactly - [CovertAction Bulletin - The Other 9/11: U.S. Involvement in the 1973 Chile Coup](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/09/11/covertaction-bulletin-the-other-9-11-u-s-involvement-in-the-1973-chile-coup/) - 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... - [Confirmed: New Evidence Shows CIA Worked Alongside Al Qaeda Sympathizers in Somalia](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/09/11/confirmed-new-evidence-shows-cia-worked-alongside-al-qaeda-sympathizers-in-somalia/) - Just over a year ago we reported on Chanda Creasy, a courageous yoga coach, who had previously managed to work with militants in Africa, making her way up to the position of special assistant to CIA director on global operations. Recently, we found new details of Chanda’s trip to Somalia in 2009, corroborating our assumptions - [Election Year Talk of Open Borders is a Joke in Light of Dramatic Increase in Border Spending](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/09/09/election-year-talk-of-open-borders-is-a-joke-in-light-of-dramatic-increase-in-border-spending/) - Sadly, Democrats Are Vowing to Be as Tough as Republicans and Support Draconian Surveillance Apparatus During the GOP convention in Milwaukee in July, speaker after speaker made it seem like the U.S.-Mexico border was as porous as a leaking sieve and that the Biden administration had allowed the U.S. to be overrun by illegal immigrants. - [Brazil: Internal and Regional Crossroads To Traverse](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/09/06/brazil-internal-and-regional-crossroads-to-traverse/) - “This pact exists throughout Brazil. It’s not privileged to Rio de Janeiro. Truth be said, it’s a very organic, structured relationship between Rio de Janeiro politicians, militia groups and the police. How does it function? Militias control growing amounts of territory. Approximately one million to 1.9 million people (in Rio de Janeiro) reside under the - [Sham-A Lot: Putting the Cringe Into Fringe](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/09/05/sham-a-lot-putting-the-cringe-into-fringe/) - When I Confronted RFK Jr. About Trump Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s backing of the Republican presidential candidate and disloyalty to the Democrats, the party his family has been so closely identified with for decades, came on the 85th anniversary of one of history’s most shocking acts of backstabbing. But the astute observer could see Kennedy’s - [CovertAction Bulletin: CIA Whistleblower John Stockwell Spills the Beans](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/09/04/covertaction-bulletin-cia-whistleblower-john-stockwell-spills-the-beans/) - 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... - [CIA Cutout Promotes Unverified Claims That North Korea Executed People For Watching South Korean Soap Operas](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/09/02/cia-cutout-promotes-unverified-claims-that-north-korea-executed-people-for-watching-south-korean-soap-operas/) - In late July, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a CIA cutout that specializes in regime-change propaganda, hosted a set of conferences where panelists alleged that North Korea had executed a 22-year-old man for watching South Korean soap operas. The allegations had earlier been reported in the New York Post and other media outlets, which - [Palestinian Pastor Calls for an End to Colonialism, Empire, and Apartheid from MLK’s Pulpit](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/08/31/palestinian-pastor-calls-for-an-end-to-colonialism-empire-and-apartheid-from-mlks-pulpit/) - On April 4, 1967, from the pulpit of Manhattan’s storied Riverside Church, the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered one of his most powerful sermons. Titled “Beyond Vietnam—A Time to Break Silence,” it was the first time King had publicly denounced the Vietnam War. He had long avoided doing so in the past, but - [DNC Convention Features Former CIA Director Who Was in Charge of Drone Programs that Killed Thousands](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/08/29/dnc-convention-features-former-cia-director-who-was-in-charge-of-drone-programs-that-killed-thousands/) - Leon Panetta was drowned out by anti-war activists when he spoke at 2016 convention, but not this time Former CIA Director Leon Panetta (2009-2011) was among the featured speakers on the final day of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Chicago on August 22 when Kamala Harris accepted the party’s nomination as its presidential candidate. - [CovertAction Bulletin: Media Blasts Telegram As Russian Tool As CEO Arrested](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/08/28/covertaction-bulletin-media-blasts-telegram-as-russian-tool-as-ceo-arrested/) - 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... - [The Spy Who Went into Rehab](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/08/27/the-spy-who-went-into-rehab/) - Spy Spoof: The Spy Who Shrinked Me As I entered Los Angeles’ Pacific Resident Theatre’s smaller “co-op space,” Herb Alpert’s jaunty, trumpet-y instrumental piece “Casino Royale” was playing on the P.A. system. In fact, this clever choice was a perfect mood-setter that (literally) set the stage for Gregg Ostrin’s The Spy Who Went into Rehab, - [CovertAction Bulletin - Eyewitness: Venezuela’s Election](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/08/14/covertaction-bulletin-eyewitness-venezuelas-election/) - Venezuela’s elections took place on July 28th. Nicolás Maudro defeated the right-wing candidate Edmundo González Urrutia by over a million votes. The imperialist machine immediately jumped into action to denounce the elections, condemning Maduro as a dictator and calling the results undemocratic... - [CovertAction Bulletin - Eyewitness DNC: Democracy in the Streets](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/08/21/covertaction-bulletin-eyewitness-dnc-democracy-in-the-streets/) - The Democratic National Convention is taking place in Chicago this week. Amidst the fanfare and extravagance, there’s very little actual democracy inside as big-name politicians and those trying to make a name for themselves attempt to make the case for Kamala Harris to be the next president... - [Protests/Color Revolution in Bangladesh Brings to Power Tax Evading Banker Who Plunged Poor People Into Debt Through Micro-finance Loan Scheme](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/08/27/protests-color-revolution-in-bangladesh-brings-to-power-tax-evading-banker-who-plunged-poor-people-into-debt-through-micro-finance-loan-scheme/) - Muhammad Yunus awarded Nobel Peace Prize and given Medal of Freedom by Barack Obama despite screwing over poor On August 8, Muhammad Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank and a pioneer in the issuance of micro-finance credit loans, was sworn in as Bangladesh’s Prime Minister after protests forced the resignation of Sheikh Hasina, who had - [Waihopai is a Secret U.S. Spy Base in New Zealand Designed for War-fighting](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/08/24/waihopai-is-a-secret-u-s-spy-base-in-new-zealand-designed-for-war-fighting/) - The news that the Waihopai spy base was going to be built led to the birth of the Anti-Bases Campaign (ABC) in 1987. ABC has campaigned for the closure of Waihopai ever since (our most recent protest there was in 2023). We have consistently said that it is a U.S. spy base in all but - [Defense Secretary’s Abrogation of Plea Deal For 9/11 Suspects Will Extend Life of Guantanamo Bay Prison](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/08/23/defense-secretarys-abrogation-of-plea-deal-for-9-11-suspects-will-extend-life-of-guantanamo-bay-prison/) - Biden administration wants to look tough in an election year Late on August 3, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin threw out a plea deal, without comment, that would have seen three of the most notorious September 11 terror suspects at Guantánamo imprisoned without parole for the rest of their lives. The deal was that they - [Crash the DNC’s Party](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/08/12/crash-the-dncs-party/) - Two college professors who studied and lived the 1960s, Peter Dreier and Maurice Isserman, recently had published an opinion piece in the Los Angeles Times urging dissidents not to protest at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. The first paragraph is a stark example of uber-liberals suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome: A collection of fringe - [The U.S. Supports Horrific Atrocities in Indian-Occupied Kashmir—Where is the Outcry?](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/08/15/the-u-s-supports-horrific-atrocities-in-indian-occupied-kashmir-where-is-the-outcry/) - The Biden administration has ratcheted up weapons supplies to India’s quasi-fascist government as part of a dangerous anti-China policy In early February, the U.S. State Department approved nearly $4 billion in drone sales to India, adding to the $20 billion worth of U.S.-origin defense material the U.S. had sold to India since 2008. State Department - [For Over 150 Years, Democratic Party Operatives Have Infiltrated, Coopted and Destroyed Independent Political Movements in the U.S.](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/08/17/for-over-150-years-democratic-party-operatives-have-infiltrated-coopted-and-destroyed-independent-political-movements-in-the-u-s/) - When will people on the left get smart and build the wherewithal to prevent this from happening yet again? William A. A. Carsey was a covert operative working for the Democratic Party in the late 19th century, who infiltrated labor organizations and other independent political groups with the goal of sabotaging them, coopting their messaging, - [Biden Says U.S. Should Not Have “Killing Fields,” While He is Complicit in the Israeli “Killing Fields” in Gaza](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/08/19/biden-says-u-s-should-not-have-killing-fields-while-he-is-complicit-in-the-israeli-killing-fields-in-gaza/) - As Israel continued its relentless genocide on steroids of Palestinians in Gaza with hundreds killed in past weeks, imprisonment without charges of thousands of Palestinians in the West Bank and destruction of the hospitals, universities, schools (8 UNRWA schools bombed in the past 10 days), cultural centers and indiscriminate bombing of markets, soccer fields and - [Victims of Guardianship Exploitation and Racism in U.S. Marshall Services Speak Out at 12th Annual Whistleblowers Summit](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/08/20/victims-of-guardianship-exploitation-and-racism-in-u-s-marshall-services-speak-out-at-12th-annual-whistleblowers-summit/) - Laura Martinez was living an idyllic life in an upscale San Antonio suburb with her common-law husband Charlie Thrash, 78, when, on March 6, 2019, Charlie was taken by police from their home and placed in an assisted living facility. Charlie was declared to be incapacitated and placed under guardianship by unscrupulous individuals whose aim - [Harris-Walz Ticket Looks to Be as Bad as Trump-Vance on Foreign Policy](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/08/22/harris-walz-ticket-looks-to-be-as-bad-as-trump-vance-on-foreign-policy/) - Harris’ VP choice embellished his military record, and voted to fund war after war even when claiming to be against some of them Kamala Harris’s selection of Tim Walz as her running mate has garnered rave reviews in various liberal media outlets. However, during his 12 years in Congress, Walz voted to fund war after - [Clergy Day at An Assassination Base](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/08/16/clergy-day-at-an-assassination-base/) - On June 4, 2024, the 174th Attack Wing of the United States Air Force held a Clergy Day for about 100 clergy members at Hancock Field Air National Guard Base in Syracuse, New York. The event started at 9:00 a.m. and ended at 1:00 p.m., with a free lunch provided. The clergy were greeted at an entrance - [A Condensation of Military Incompetence](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/07/05/a-condensation-of-military-incompetence/) - With all the glorification of our “heroes” in uniform—a glorification that seems to grow in inverse proportion to the real need for them—a person could begin to feel afraid to utter aloud the sort of jokes that people used to make. For instance, you might feel the need to look over your shoulder before you - [A Coup is Taking Place in Venezuela Aided by the United States](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/08/13/a-coup-is-taking-place-in-venezuela-aided-by-the-united-states/) - The United States is at it AGAIN!! The current social unrest in Venezuela aided and abetted by the United States is not the first time, and undoubtedly not the last time, it will interfere in the domestic affairs of other countries. On December 22, 2016, Ari Shapiro, the NPR Host of All Things Considered, had - [Heralded As a Beacon of Democracy by Biden Administration, Kyiv Regime Bans Political Parties, Assassinates Rivals and Oppresses Muslims](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/08/08/heralded-as-a-beacon-of-democracy-by-biden-administration-kyiv-regime-bans-political-parties-assassinates-rivals-and-oppresses-muslims/) - Muslims Are Linked to Islamic Terrorism U.S. political officials continuously justify spending billions of taxpayer dollars on arms shipments to Ukraine by claiming they are supporting a struggle of democracy versus autocracy. The Zelensky government in Ukraine, however, has banned 12 opposition parties and assassinated political rivals. Newly disclosed documents reveal that Zelensky’s government also - [Declassified: Kenyan Police Unit Complicit in Slaughter of Protestors Was Trained by British Army](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/08/07/declassified-kenyan-police-unit-complicit-in-slaughter-of-protestors-was-trained-by-british-army/) - As details of state security violence and abuses by British soldiers deployed on training continue to emanate from Kenya, recently declassified files shed light on the historical impact and legacy of the British Army’s presence in the nation. On July 7, 1990, protesters in Nairobi took to the streets to demand free elections and political - [We Are Volunteers of America: Got to Revolution](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/08/06/we-are-volunteers-of-america-got-to-revolution/) - If you are appalled by Columbia University students occupying an iconic campus building made famous by 1960s anti-war student protests, patriotic thoughts of the Boston Tea Party must terrify you. Columbia protesters broke a few windows in their continuing demonstrations against the Israeli/American genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. Tea Party insurrectionists rallied revolutionaries across 13 - [U.S. Backed a Royalist Coup and Massacre in Nepal in 2001](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/08/05/u-s-backed-a-royalist-coup-and-massacre-in-nepal-in-2001/) - American Author Who Lived in Nepal Has Evidence Indicating That CIA and/or U.S. Special Forces Operatives Coordinated Slaughter of King and His Family and Then Covered It Up [This article is part of CovertAction Magazine’s efforts to uncover the true history of the CIA that has been suppressed from the American public—Editors.] On the night - [NEWLY DECLASSIFIED! How the CIA Sponsored Terrorist Raids and Then Secretly Murdered 150,000 Cambodian Civilians in Paving the Way for Country’s “Decade of Genocide”](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/08/05/newly-declassified-how-the-cia-sponsored-terrorist-raids-and-then-secretly-murdered-150000-cambodian-civilians-in-paving-the-way-for-countrys-decade-of-genocide/) - CIA Destabilized the Country by Supporting Invasions from Thailand by Exiled Politician Son Ngoc Thanh That Were Designed to Overthrow Neutralist Prince Norodom Sihanouk Who Allied with Communist China and Supported the Vietcong Around the time of former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger’s 100th birthday, The Intercept ran a series of articles by investigative journalist - [How the United States Drove Russia to Invade Ukraine and the Potential Consequences](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/08/02/how-the-united-states-drove-russia-to-invade-ukraine-and-the-potential-consequences/) - The Cold War did not end for the United States with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Instead, the United States set out on a systematic 30-plus year effort to undermine, humiliate and threaten the Russian state. This has ultimately led to the tragedy of the war in Ukraine. Of course this is nothing new. - [A Proposal For a Set of International Treaties For Arms Control, Disarmament, the Control of Emerging Technologies and International Security](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/08/01/a-proposal-for-a-set-of-international-treaties-for-arms-control-disarmament-the-control-of-emerging-technologies-and-international-security/) - The following three sets of international treaties for arms control, disarmament, the control of emerging technologies, and international security are absolutely essential to reverse the covert drive for war, even world war, that is taking place at every level in human society, that has accelerated over the last 20 years, and has spun out of - [CovertAction Bulletin: ICJ Ruling Lays Out Case Against Israeli Occupation](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/07/31/covertaction-bulletin-icj-ruling-lays-out-case-against-israeli-occupation/) - In a ruling on July 19, the International Court of Justice issued an advisory opinion that confirmed what Palestinians have been saying for over 7 decades: That the Israeli occupation is illegal, that the way Palestinians are treated by Israel is a form of apartheid, and that the occupation must end... - [CIA Cutout Honors Congressional War Hawks in Annual Award Ceremony](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/07/31/cia-cutout-honors-congressional-war-hawks-in-annual-award-ceremony/) - National Endowment for Democracy Recognizes Unelected Heads of State and Honors Russian Traitor Who Lobbied for Sanctions on His Own Country in Alliance with Billionaire Con Man Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), both war hawks and advocates of regime change around the world, were among the honorees at the - [Venezuelans Re-Elect President Maduro Despite U.S. Organized Coup Attempt](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/07/30/venezuelans-re-elect-president-maduro-despite-u-s-organized-coup-attempt/) - Sanctions are a misnomer when it comes to Venezuela. Here, the U.S. isn’t “just” illegally punishing a nation-state to effect regime change by withholding necessary resources and key inputs that cause food shortages, grave illness, death and economic instability. In Venezuela, the United States is also committing racketeer-level crimes against its people for not handing - [Mother Nature Says Adios to Rube Goldberg U.S. Military Pier in Gaza](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/07/26/mother-nature-says-adios-to-rube-goldberg-u-s-military-pier-in-gaza/) - Sea delivery of U.S. humanitarian aid will be transferred to the Israeli port of Ashdod to never be delivered in Gaza Well, I told you so. Mother Nature with her not-so-big wind and waves tore apart the multimillion-dollar temporary pier that took the U.S. military two months to be transported from a U.S. Army base - [American Indian Movement Leader Will Likely Die in Prison After Being Denied Parole](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/07/24/american-indian-movement-leader-will-likely-die-in-prison-after-being-denied-parole/) - On July 2, Leonard Peltier (Turtle Mountain Ojibwe), a leader of the American Indian Movement (AIM) in the 1970s, was denied parole by the U.S. Parole Commission, ensuring that he will most likely die in federal prison. Suffering from serious health issues as he nears 80, Peltier is serving two consecutive life sentences for killing - [New Evidence Implicates CIA, LAPD, FBI and Mafia as Plotters in Elaborate “Hit” Plan to Prevent RFK From Ever Reaching White House](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/06/05/new-evidence-implicates-cia-lapd-fbi-and-mafia-as-plotters-in-elaborate-hit-plan-to-prevent-rfk-from-ever-reaching-white-house-2/) - Yet even after over 50 years, high government officials like Vice President Kamala Harris are still trying to cover up the truth about his murder. [California parole commissioners recommended on August 27th, 2021 that Sirhan Sirhan should be freed after spending more than 50 years in prison for assassinating Robert Kennedy. Governor Gavin Newsom (D), - [CovertAction Bulletin: Will Kamala Harris Really Save Democracy?](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/07/24/covertaction-bulletin-will-kamala-harris-really-save-democracy/) - Just over 100 days away from the 2024 election, Joe Biden has dropped out of the race and endorsed Kamala Harris, signaling to the Democratic Party that there should be no debate, no other nominations and certainly no floor fight over delegates at the upcoming Democratic National Convention next month... - [For United States Rulers—Not Just for the Military Industrial Complex—Being AT War is Far More Important than Winning a War](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/07/20/for-united-states-rulers-not-just-for-the-military-industrial-complex-being-at-war-is-far-more-important-than-winning-a-war/) - “The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous...The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects and its object is not the victory over either Eurasia or East Asia, but to keep the very structure of society intact.” George Orwell in Nineteen Eighty-Four. George Orwell was right. - [45 Years After Its Revolution, Nicaragua Offers the World a Better Way Forward](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/07/23/45-years-after-its-revolution-nicaragua-offers-the-world-a-better-way-forward/) - Despite Continued U.S. Destabilization Efforts, Egalitarian and Just Principles Flourish On July 19th, the people of Nicaragua and more than 700 international guests and official delegations from nations around the world celebrated the 45th anniversary of its revolution against the United States-installed puppet dictator, Anastasio Somoza, and the re-assertion of its sovereignty and independence. President - [Activists Risk Prison in An Attempt to Stop U.S. Drone War](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/07/22/activists-risk-prison-in-an-attempt-to-stop-u-s-drone-war/) - On April 19, six peace activists—including three military veterans—were arrested for trying to block the entrance to a U.S. Air Force base in Holloman, New Mexico, where drone pilots are trained. One member of the so-called Holloman 6, Denise Sellers, 80, pleaded “no contest” to her charges and was given community service, another, Virginia Haufaire, - [Lancet Study Places Gazan Death Toll at Possibly Over 186,000](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/07/19/lancet-study-places-gazan-death-toll-at-possibly-over-186000/) - Staggering Figure Amounts to 8% of Population of Gaza August 7 marks the ten-month anniversary of the Israeli attack on Gaza. A study by The Lancet, the prestigious British peer-reviewed medical journal, warns that the death toll could be 186,000 or more, almost five times the “official” figure of just over 38,000 and a staggering figure which - [How the Anglo American Network Took Power in Rwanda and DRC Using Tutsi Supremacists and Minority Rights](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/07/18/how-the-anglo-american-network-took-power-in-rwanda-and-drc-using-tutsi-supremacists-and-minority-rights/) - “Rwanda is not defined by a geographical space; it is a state of mind." – Rwandan Patriotic Army (RPA) Brigadier General Frank Rusagara.[1] The eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have been in a state of permanent war, depopulation and plunder since 1996 when the DRC (then Zaire) was invaded. During the - [Is Revival of Draft the Only Way to Revive Mass Antiwar Protests Capable of Ending America’s Forever Wars?](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/07/11/is-revival-of-draft-the-only-way-to-revive-mass-antiwar-protests-capable-of-ending-americas-forever-wars/) - About ten years ago, I attended a lecture by noted anti-war author Andrew Bacevich, a professor of international relations at Boston University and former Army colonel whose son died in Iraq. Bacevich provided critical commentary on U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East and then advocated for restoring the draft which, he said, was the - [CovertAction Bulletin: The Trump Assassination Attempt & the Legacy of Political Violence in the U.S.](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/07/18/covertaction-bulletin-the-trump-assassination-attempt-the-legacy-of-political-violence-in-the-u-s/) - The attempted assassination of Donald Trump on July 13th changed the political situation in the United States and especially surrounding the 2024 election in an instant. The Biden campaign canceled events and advertisements, while the Trump campaign began preparing for the Republican National Convention happening this week... - [Sugar Daddy of Trump’s VP Pick Has Deep Ties to CIA](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/07/16/sugar-daddy-of-trumps-vp-pick-has-deep-ties-to-cia/) - Vance’s top funder, Peter Thiel, co-founded the data-analytics company Palantir, which has the CIA as a client, and was an early investor in Facebook, the CIA’s “wet dream.” Surging in the polls after surviving an assassination attempt, Donald Trump boosted his prospects of becoming the next president by nominating J. D. Vance as his vice - [Cyberattacks: A New ‘False Flag’ Frontier](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/07/16/cyberattacks-a-new-false-flag-frontier/) - At the start of June, Admiral Robert Bauer, head of NATO’s military committee, announced that the military alliance had finalized plans to recognize state-backed cyberattacks on its members as a dedicated pretext for activating Article 5. Reportedly “a joint decision of all allies,” from now on, foreign hacking blitzes can be countered with a collective - [The CIA and FBI Were Never “Heroes”](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/07/15/the-cia-and-fbi-were-never-heroes/) - Confronted with an incoherent assertion, an exasperated Bertrand Russell once sighed, “Statements of this kind, I must confess, leave me gasping, and I hardly know where to begin.”[1] I found myself repeatedly having the same thought while making my way through a delusional new book about the intelligence community. Big Intel: How the CIA and - [For 75 Years, NATO Has Been Terrorizing the Globe](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/07/13/for-75-years-nato-has-been-terrorizing-the-globe/) - Will a formidable peace movement ever emerge that can succeed in stopping it? This past week, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) celebrated its 75th anniversary by hosting a summit in Washington, D.C., where its founding treaty was signed. A declaration issued at the summit made clear NATO’s intent to continuously confront Russia in Ukraine, - [Without Evidence Serb “Genocide” at Srebrenica Has Been Invoked by Western Leaders to Justify “Humanitarian” Intervention](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/07/11/without-evidence-serb-genocide-at-srebrenica-has-been-invoked-by-western-leaders-to-justify-humanitarian-intervention/) - Lack of evidence can never be acknowledged, because it would undercut the rationale for military intervention. [This article is published on the 29th anniversary of the so-called Srebrenica massacre, whose context has been distorted by Western media and governments with the purpose of supporting renewed military interventions allegedly undertaken to stop human rights abuses and - [The Case for Resolution 943: A Plan to Cure an Imperial Addiction](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/07/01/the-case-for-resolution-943-a-plan-to-cure-an-imperial-addiction/) - In Part 1 of this article, a brief outline of the evolution of the Monroe Doctrine makes clear how utterly destructive that doctrine and its descendants have become to the nations of Latin America and the United States, both to its relationship to Latin America and to the fundamental principles of democracy, freedom and human - [Venezuela Shows Solidarity For Bolivia After Failed Coup Attempt](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/07/09/venezuela-shows-solidarity-for-bolivia-after-failed-coup-attempt/) - Venezuela has itself experienced multiple U.S.-backed coup attempts On June 27, 2024, the Venezuelan government condemned the failed military coup attempt that sought to unseat Bolivia’s left-wing government. Venezuela’s government has itself survived repeated coup attempts backed by the United States since the country’s Bolivarian Revolution in the late 1990s. The major purpose of the - [CovertAction Bulletin: Project 2025 and the Far Right’s Agenda](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/07/10/covertaction-bulletin-project-2025-and-the-far-rights-agenda/) - 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... - [When Star Gossip Columnist Began to Dig Deep Into JFK Assassination, She Turned Up Dead: Now TV Legal Analyst Appears to Have Cracked Case](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/03/05/when-a-star-gossip-columnist-began-to-dig-deep-into-the-jfk-assassination-she-turned-up-dead-now-a-tv-legal-analyst-appears-to-have-cracked-the-case/) - On January 31, New York City councilman Robert Holden wrote a letter to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg calling for reopening of the investigation into the death of Dorothy Kilgallen. Described by Ernest Hemingway as “one of the greatest women writers in the world,” Kilgallen was a regular on the CBS game show What’s My - [Photographs Expose Thomas Merton Murder Cover-up](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/07/08/photographs-expose-thomas-merton-murder-cover-up/) - [This article follows two earlier CAM exposés of Thomas Merton’s murder. See here and here—ed.] Thomas Merton was the most influential Catholic writer of the 20th century. He was almost as well-known in the United States as the author Ernest Hemingway or the popular Bishop Fulton J. Sheen. He had been raised in France where - [Father of Six, an Ex-Marine Corps Pilot, is Facing 60 Years in Prison for Allegedly Assisting the Chinese](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/06/25/father-of-six-an-ex-marine-corps-pilot-is-facing-60-years-in-prison-for-allegedly-assisting-the-chinese/) - Charges Appear to Be Ridiculous The Justice Department has made something of a sport of attacking people on “national security” grounds. Just look at what has happened in recent years to Tom Drake, Chelsea Manning, Jeffrey Sterling, Daniel Hale, and this writer. The Justice Department’s attack dogs told Tom Drake and Chelsea Manning that they - [Is NATO Taking Over the Pacific?](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/06/27/is-nato-taking-over-the-pacific/) - 30% of Rim of the Pacific Naval Forces Are from NATO Europe As the United States increases its military confrontation with China through new military bases on Guam and the Philippines and more land, sea and air exercises with countries in the Asia-Pacific, the world’s largest naval war exercises are going to be held in - [The U.S. Has Imposed Sanctions on Georgia and Nicaragua for Instituting Laws that Copy U.S. Legislation and Were Designed to Ward Off Coups](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/06/28/the-u-s-has-imposed-sanctions-on-georgia-and-nicaragua-for-instituting-laws-that-copy-u-s-legislation-and-were-designed-to-ward-off-coups/) - Politicians in the small Caucasian nation of Georgia have been sanctioned by Washington for “undermining democracy” and depriving Georgian people of “fundamental freedoms,” simply because its parliament has passed a law to control foreign influence over Georgian politics. Politicians in another small country, Nicaragua, were subjected to U.S. sanctions for doing the same. Although the - [Israeli Military Institute, Technion, is at the Heart of the Military-Industrial Academic Complex](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/07/02/israeli-military-institute-technion-is-at-the-heart-of-the-military-industrial-academic-complex/) - Like other campuses during the spring, Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, was roiled by student protests over the Israel-Gaza War. One of the demands of the protesters was that Cornell divest from Technion, an Israeli science and technology research and development center that lies at the heart of the Israeli military-industrial-academic complex and also - [CovertAction Bulletin: The U.S. Government is Spying on Your Mail](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/07/03/covertaction-bulletin-the-u-s-government-is-spying-on-your-mail/) - The U.S. government is spying on you through your mail. The little-known program called mail covers lets law enforcement request that an investigative bureau inside the Postal Service track and report on all the mail you’re getting. And it’s done without a warrant, without any real oversight or transparency, and at the request of agencies like the IRS, FBI, Department of Homeland Security and ICE... - [The Case for Resolution 943: Why Annulling the Monroe Doctrine Is Important](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/06/27/the-case-for-resolution-943-why-annulling-the-monroe-doctrine-is-important/) - Last December, U.S. Representative Nydia Velázquez (D-NY) introduced Resolution 943 in Congress, to have the United States formally renounce and annul the Monroe Doctrine. Meanwhile, the government of Honduran President Xiomara Castro has withdrawn Honduras from an arbitration mechanism in the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) that allows foreign corporations to sue countries such - [CovertAction Bulletin: Global Movement Frees Julian Assange](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/06/26/covertaction-bulletin-global-movement-frees-julian-assange/) - After 1,901 days in Belmarsh Prison, and many more years fighting for his freedom, Julian Assange has agreed to a plea deal with the United States and is back in Australia. There, he’ll reunite with his wife, Stella, and his children who have only seen him in jail... - [Russian Artists Being Used By Ukraine to Build Support for U.S. Weapons Pipeline and War](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/06/24/russian-artists-being-used-by-ukraine-to-build-support-for-u-s-weapons-pipeline-and-war/) - Artists Present Themseves as Antiwar But Are in Fact Pro-War In early May, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken made a staged appearance in a Kyiv bar to play a rendition with a Ukrianian punk jazz band of Neil Young’s song “Rockin’ in the Free World.” Blinken’s appearance was designed to shore up public support - [National Bar Association and Civil Rights Groups Say Feds Targeted State's Attorney Mosby For Trying Corrupt Cops](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/06/19/national-bar-association-and-civil-rights-groups-say-feds-targeted-states-attorney-mosby-for-trying-corrupt-cops/) - The Congressional Black Caucus, the NAACP, the National Bar Association and more than a dozen civil rights groups have sent letters to Joe Biden asking him to pardon convicted Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby. These groups describe her conviction as political targeting for her exposure of mass corruption amongst the Baltimore Police. On May 23, - [CIA Has a Long History of Empowering Monsters](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/06/20/cia-has-a-long-history-of-empowering-monsters/) - On May 26, The New York Times Magazine ran a feature story by Matthieu Aikins entitled “America’s Monster: Uncovering the Brutal Career of Abdul Raziq—And the Hidden Truths of the War in Afghanistan.” The story detailed the U.S. military and CIA’s support for Abdul Raziq, a police commander in Spin Boldak on the border of - [CovertAction Bulletin: Pentagon Anti-Vax Propaganda Targets Philippines](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/06/21/covertaction-bulletin-pentagon-anti-vax-propaganda-targets-philippines/) - In 2020 and 2021, a secret Pentagon program deployed fake social media accounts to sow distrust among people in Southeast Asian countries, particularly the Philippines, around China’s Sinovac vaccination for COVID-19. Clusters of accounts identified as having ties to U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) made posts with the hashtag #ChinaAngVirus - or “China is the virus” in Tagalog suggested that the coronavirus is real, but China’s vaccinations were not to be trusted... - [What U.S. Foreign Policy Experts Do Not Get About Palestinian Politics](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/06/20/what-u-s-foreign-policy-experts-do-not-get-about-palestinian-politics/) - The core barrier to peace in Israel/Palestine is that key actors are content with conflict management. This prevents the necessary dedication to power through conflict resolution. Palestinians know that empirically, for they are the ones paying the highest price from the status quo. This predicament, not religion or nationalism, guides their choices when they have - [Did You Donate to Send Food to Gaza? Think Again](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/06/19/did-you-donate-to-send-food-to-gaza-think-again/) - “HUNGER CATASTROPHE IN GAZA—DONATIONS NEEDED” cries Mercy Corps. “URGENT: STARVATION IN GAZA: ALL GIFTS MATCHED FOR GAZA” shouts Rescue.org. These and many other appeals from international relief organizations have motivated untold numbers of compassionate and generous souls to open their purses. You may be among them. If so, you may have thought that these organizations - [The Game is Up](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/06/18/the-game-is-up/) - However much Western commentators want to sustain the age of empire, a new multipolar world order has already begun to take root In September, I attended a talk sponsored by the Tulsa Committee on Foreign Relations by an inside-the-beltway pundit named Ali Wyne,[1] a former senior fellow at the pro-NATO Atlantic Council and David Rockefeller - [Ukrainian Deal: Exposing CIA/Polish Arms Traders Shadow Schemes](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/06/17/ukrainian-deal-exposing-cia-polish-arms-traders-shadow-schemes/) - Don’t participate in the unfruitful actions of darkness,instead, reveal the truth about them. Ephesians 5:11 [Parts 1 and 2 of our “Noetic Continental” series can be found here] In August 2017, CIA’s front company Noetic International Inc. signed an agreement with RKW Strategic Services LLC, a U.S.-based “waste-to-energy” (WTE) firm headed by a Polish immigrant. - [Joe Biden’s Mentor, Father of Original Cold War, Was Traitor to U.S.: Family Company Sold Fuel Additive to Nazi Air Force](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/06/12/joe-bidens-mentor-father-of-original-cold-war-was-traitor-to-u-s-family-company-sold-fuel-additive-to-nazi-air-force/) - Harriman helped lay the groundwork for Biden in his support for imperialistic foreign policies worldwide Joe Biden has established a reputation over his long political career as a neo-conservative war hawk. He will be remembered as the president who supported Israeli genocide in Gaza and triggered a new Cold War with Russia while funneling billions - [U.S. and South Korea Are Scheduled to Conduct 130 Military Exercises this Year](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/06/15/u-s-and-south-korea-are-scheduled-to-conduct-130-military-exercises-this-year/) - Exemplifies serious war crisis whose roots are being twisted in the U.S. media In early April, the United States and South Korea conducted joint naval exercises in the Sea of Japan near the coast of Pohang, 262 kilometers southeast of Seoul. The exercise—in which the U.S. dispatched an expeditionary sea base along with two other - [The Empire’s Fake News Machine: The Strange Case of Korean Peninsula’s Very Own “Bellingcat”](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/06/13/the-empires-fake-news-machine-the-strange-case-of-korean-peninsulas-very-own-bellingcat/) - Years ago I read a book, edited by CovertAction Magazine founders Philip Agee and Louis Wolf, entitled Dirty Work: The CIA in Western Europe, about the CIA in Western Europe. All the articles and essays were very interesting but one had a distinctive title “The CIA Makes the News,” by Steve Weissman. This is still - [CovertAction Bulletin: When Biden Won’t Draw a Red Line, The People Will](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/06/12/covertaction-bulletin-when-biden-wont-draw-a-red-line-the-people-will/) - Over 100,000 people surrounded the White House on Saturday, June 8th, wearing red and carrying a 2-mile long banner with the names of the tens of thousands of Palestinians who have died since the renewed Israeli assault began eight months to the day before.... - [As Gaza Starves, We Cannot Be Comfortable](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/06/11/as-gaza-starves-we-cannot-be-comfortable/) - A Hunger Strike for Gaza I am on day nine of a voluntary hunger strike while Palestinians in Gaza are being starved to death. It is estimated that 3,500 children are at risk of death in the coming weeks due to starvation. Two million people are trapped in the besieged Gaza Strip, half of them under - [Intelligence Services Have Penetrated and Corrupted Human Rights NGOs, Says Former Senior Lawyer with the Office of the UN High Commissioner](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/06/07/intelligence-services-have-penetrated-and-corrupted-human-rights-ngos-says-former-senior-lawyer-with-the-office-of-the-un-high-commissioner/) - On April 7, 2022, the UN General Assembly voted to exclude Russia from the UN Human Rights Council. The resolution received the required two-thirds majority of those voting, minus abstentions, in the 193-member Assembly, with 93 nations voting in favor and 24 against.[1] The vote was highly politicized and reflected the success of the - [CIA Collaborated with New Zealand Intelligence Service to Spy on Peace Activists Who Protested Expansion of U.S. Military Base Network in New Zealand in the 1970s](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/06/05/cia-collaborated-with-new-zealand-intelligence-service-to-spy-on-peace-activists-who-protested-expansion-of-u-s-military-base-network-in-new-zealand-in-the-1970s/) - Legendary Peace Researcher Owen Wilkes Was a Target Owen Wilkes (1940-2005) was a legendary New Zealand peace researcher and activist who devoted a considerable portion of his life to fighting against the creeping and corrupt presence of the U.S. military around the globe. Not surprisingly, Wilkes found himself in the crosshairs of the New Zealand - [Today New Zealand is a Willing Accomplice of Israeli Genocide: But 20 Years Ago It Busted Mossad Op, Jailing & Deporting Agents](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/06/06/today-new-zealand-is-a-willing-accomplice-of-israeli-genocide-but-20-years-ago-it-busted-mossad-op-jailing-deporting-agents/) - In 2024, New Zealand leaves no doubt where it stands on the Gaza War. It is firmly on Israel’s side, having said nothing beyond general tut-tutting about the genocide being inflicted on the Palestinians by Israel. New Zealand government leaders have repeatedly condemned Hamas, with no equivalent condemnation of Israel’s vastly disproportionate overkill (quite literally, - [CovertAction Bulletin: Congo “Coup”? What’s Imperialism Got To Do With It?](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/06/05/covertaction-bulletin-congo-coup-whats-imperialism-got-to-do-with-it/) - On May 19, forces calling themselves the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo launched what appears to be a failed coup attempt, attacking the home of the Deputy Prime Minister of Economy Vital Kamerhe, as well as the Congo’s presidential palace, Palais de la Nation... - [Declassified: BBC and MI6 Kosovo War Propaganda Blitz](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/06/05/declassified-bbc-and-mi6-kosovo-war-propaganda-blitz/) - On March 24th, this journalist exposed how London was at the forefront of efforts to launch a ground invasion of Yugoslavia, during NATO’s illegal March-May 1999 bombing campaign. Mercifully, this noxious project never came to pass, but declassified files show there was a further, secret component to Britain’s war effort in Kosovo. MI6 covertly sought - [Asian Literary Scholar, Emanuel Pastreich, is Running for President to Raise Awareness About State Crimes and Criminality of U.S. Governing Class](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/06/03/asian-literary-scholar-emmanuel-pastreich-is-running-for-president-to-raise-awareness-about-state-crimes-and-criminality-of-u-s-governing-class/) - On May 7, The New York Times ran an article comparing Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to independent candidates in past elections like Ross Perot in 1992, Gary Johnson in 2016, and John Anderson in 1980, who functioned as spoilers or gave people the option of a protest vote.[1] Previous Times pieces on the upcoming 2024 - [Growing Sinophobia Leads to Stifling of Free Speech in Chinese-Canadian Communities](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/06/02/growing-sinophobia-leads-to-stifling-of-free-speech-in-chinese-canadian-communities/) - Censorship and persecution of anti-war and anti-imperialists in the U.S. have extended to Canada where members of the country’s ruling elite—which increasingly align with U.S. foreign policies—have displayed utter hostility and contempt for immigrants who dissent against Canadian foreign policy. A Cold War climate was on display at a recent foreign interference inquiry on Parliament - [Paintings of Guantanamo Inmates Display Humanity of Those Locked Up](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/05/30/paintings-of-guantanamo-inmates-display-humanity-of-those-locked-up/) - Guantánamo Bay prison is a monstrosity where hundreds of suspected terrorists have been held and tortured for years, many without being charged of any crime. To keep their humanity, many of the inmates produced paintings that were featured at a May 2 screening premiere event in Beverly Hills of I Am Gitmo, a feature film - [The Plot to Intern Homeless Americans](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/05/30/the-plot-to-intern-homeless-americans/) - The CIA-linked Cicero Institute’s campaign to make it illegal to be homeless. A confluence of horrific policies is converging that threatens the freedom of homeless people in the United States. Governors and big city mayors across the western United States are demanding the “right” to drive the homeless from view and have pushed for the - [CovertAction Bulletin: Thousands in Detroit Open Next Phase of Palestine Struggle](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/05/29/covertaction-bulletin-thousands-in-detroit-open-next-phase-of-palestine-struggle/) - Over 3,500 people gathered in Detroit, Michigan for a three-day People’s Conference for Palestine on May 24, 25 and 26. Led by the Palestinian Youth Movement, the conference highlighted the work that has already been done over the last 8 months but also the historical work done over years and decades in the struggle to end Zionist occupation... - [U.S. Officials Can’t Say the Word “Genocide,” But ICC is Pursuing Charges of Genocide Committed by Israel](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/05/27/u-s-officials-cant-say-the-word-genocide-but-icc-is-pursuing-charges-of-genocide-committed-by-israel/) - In a promising move, International Criminal Court Prosecutor Karim Khan decided to file for an application to serve arrest warrants to Israeli and Hamas leaders. As published in Al Jazeera, Khan was quoted as saying that there are “reasonable grounds” to serve warrants to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for - [How Much Longer Will the CIA and MI6 Be Able to Employ Their Dirty Tricks Together Without Retribution?](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/05/28/how-much-longer-will-the-cia-and-mi6-be-able-to-employ-their-dirty-tricks-together-without-retribution/) - “Remarkable Intelligence Collaboration” Highlighted by CIA Director Has Spawned Great Injustices On July 1 2023, CIA Director William F. Burns gave a speech in Oxfordshire at the Ditchley Foundation, a force of British intelligence founded in 1958 to promote Anglo-American collaboration, in which he boasted about the “remarkable intelligence partnership between the U.S. and UK.” - [Did Western Forces Try to Assassinate Slovakia’s Prime Minister Fico?](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/05/28/did-western-forces-try-to-assassinate-slovakias-prime-minister-fico/) - Accusations range from his pro-Russian stance to his anti-WHO Pandemic Treaty stance On May 15, 2024, a gunman shot Slovakia Prime Minister Robert Fico outside of a meeting he had attended. Given their track record and the political stakes involved, many people suspect that U.S. and other Western forces orchestrated this assassination attempt. Attempted Political - [Why Did the U.S. Spend $320 million on a Rube Goldberg Pier For Gaza?](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/05/22/why-did-the-u-s-spend-320-million-on-a-rube-goldberg-pier-for-gaza/) - When in the U.S. Army and Army Reserves for 29 years, I thought I had seen some pretty stupid things that politicians told the military to do. It always begins with politicians deciding the easiest, most sensible solution to a problem would have too much political baggage and cost them votes in the next election. So, - [Nicaragua: The Good Shepherd](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/05/16/nicaragua-the-good-shepherd/) - Yesterday I attended mass. Instead of a priest, the mass was celebrated by Nicaraguan children—10 fourth- and fifth-grade students. The kids led the congregation in prayers, passing of the peace, read the gospel and shared a homily. They invited congregants to share reflections on the reading—the Good Shepherd—and they blessed wine and soda crackers and - [Britain’s Covert Support for Paramilitary Group that Bombed Dublin Fifty Years Ago](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/05/17/britains-covert-support-for-paramilitary-group-that-bombed-dublin-fifty-years-ago/) - Declassified files detail the British government’s secret meetings with loyalist paramilitary group The Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) in 1974, and the political support afforded the organisation during its ongoing campaign of violence. Meetings would occur both at the home of the Northern Ireland Office (NIO), Stormont Castle, and a secluded government owned property known as - [National Endowment For Democracy Continues to Weaponize Human Rights](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/05/20/national-endowment-for-democracy-continues-to-weaponize-human-rights/) - The latest example is its pressing for release of John McCain pallbearer from Siberian jail while it ignores a socialist arrested by the Ukrainian intelligence services and another socialist who was murdered On April 9, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a CIA offshoot specializing in political propaganda, hosted an event to showcase its solidarity - [CIA’s Hong Kong Agitators Now Living It Up on Mainland](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/05/21/cias-hong-kong-agitators-now-living-it-up-on-mainland/) - Numerous Hong Kong residents who participated in violent protests against Chinese Communist Party rule just a few years ago are now living and working in China, according to a recent article by Bloomberg. Among the “record number of [Hong Kong] residents” who are “flocking to Shenzhen for cheap food and a good time” are former - [LAPD’s Failure to Protect Peaceful Protesters at UCLA from Right-Wing Mob Shows Real Priorities](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/05/06/lapds-failure-to-protect-peaceful-protesters-at-ucla-from-right-wing-mob-shows-real-priorities/) - In 1991, Frank Donner, former director of the ACLU’s Project on Political Surveillance, published a book entitled Protectors of Privilege, which provided a history of police suppression of left-wing and labor protests in the United States. A key chapter in the book focused on the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), whose reactionary political function was - [Why Aren’t Students Protesting U.S. Weapons Sales to Ukraine?](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/05/16/why-arent-students-protesting-u-s-weapons-sales-to-ukraine/) - Ukraine will go down in history as the graveyard of neo-conservatism where imperial overreach has led to major world power shifts. In late April, students at universities across the United States set up tent encampments and occupied buildings, protesting their campuses’ complicity in the Israeli war in Gaza. The chant “from the river to the - [CovertAction Bulletin - Eyewitness: Police Repression of Students for Gaza](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/05/15/covertaction-bulletin-eyewitness-police-repression-of-students-for-gaza/) - Student encampments and street protests for Palestine have been hit with a heavy wave of police violence and repression from coast-to-coast. In some cases, it’s the same police departments whose staff and leaders get training from the Israeli Defense Forces that are attacking peaceful events calling for divestment and justice. In Salt Lake City, police viciously attacked students at the University of Utah on April 29th, and then arrested student organizers the next day before a demonstration at the President’s Circle... - [MCA: Shining the Spotlight on the Octopus’s Hollywood Tentacle](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/05/14/mca-shining-the-spotlight-on-the-octopuss-hollywood-tentacle/) - The Octopus Murders docuseries about the suspicious death of journalist Danny Casolaro in August 1991 has caused quite the sensation since it was released February 28 on Netflix. Casolaro’s goal to uncover “the Octopus”—a cabal of CIA and Mafia figures who corrupted American government—was so all-consuming that it enveloped his physical life and his legacy - [What Three Letters of the Alphabet Link John Lennon’s Murder to the Murders of John F. Kennedy and Robert Kennedy?](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/12/08/what-three-letters-of-the-alphabet-link-john-lennons-murder-to-the-murders-of-john-f-kennedy-and-robert-kennedy/) - A noted historian says those three letters are C-I-A. And even more, that Lennon was betrayed by Yoko Ono. Far-fetched? Before you scoff, look at the evidence this respected professor has finally decided to release after sitting on it for 41 years. The Sixties era officially ended just before 11:00 p.m. EST on December 8, - [How a Billionaire Con Man Has Been a Key Driver Behind the Barrage of Anti-Russian Propaganda that Could Lead Us Into World War III](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/05/13/how-a-billionaire-con-man-has-been-a-key-driver-behind-the-barrage-of-anti-russian-propaganda-that-could-lead-us-into-to-world-war-iii/) - Bill Browder, who was convicted in absentia for tax evasion in Russia, has suspected links to British and/or American Intelligence After the death of Alexei Navalny in late February, The New York Times ran an article quoting from William F. Browder, “an American-born British financier who has campaigned against human-rights abuses in Russia,” who said - [1970s Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme Compared U.S. Crimes in Vietnam to those of the Nazis and then was Assassinated Under Mysterious Circumstances](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/05/09/swedish-prime-minister-olof-palme-compared-u-s-crimes-in-vietnam-to-those-of-the-nazis-in-the-1970s-and-then-was-assassinated-under-mysterious-circumstances/) - A Noted Swedish Historian Interviews the Author of a New Book on Palme In October of 1972, National Security Advisor Henry A. Kissinger reached a tentative peace agreement with North Vietnamese diplomat Le Duc Tho. No matter that this agreement would become official the following January, President Richard M. Nixon ordered the Christmas Bombings of - [CovertAction Bulletin: As Rafah Invasion Looms, Students and Workers Boost Solidarity & Resistance](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/05/08/covertaction-bulletin-as-rafah-invasion-looms-students-and-workers-boost-solidarity-resistance/) - Hamas on Monday accepted a ceasefire deal that Israel has effectively rejected, instead moving forward with their invasion plans for Rafah, taking control of the Palestinian side of the Rafah gate that separates Palestine from Egypt, and making incursions into Rafah with tanks and shelling from the air. Over 100,000 Palestinians have been told to evacuate from Rafah, but are left with very few places to go... - [Why China Has Little Reason To Trust the U.S.](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/05/08/why-china-has-little-reason-to-trust-the-u-s/) - In the last decade xenophobic tropes intended to stoke fear and loathing of Chinese have accelerated ominously in the American mainstream media as many public officials of both parties label China as our “adversary” or even our “enemy.” This last formulation is deep cause for growing alarm, especially because many decisions have been made to - [The Iron Heel of the State at UCLA: Eyewitness Account](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/05/07/the-iron-heel-of-the-state-at-ucla-eyewitness-account/) - “Biden Biden, Whattaya Say? How Many Kids You Kill Today?” This was one of the militant chants of hundreds of students on May 1 at UCLA. I went to the university after covering the May Day rally in Hollywood, arriving around 4:00 p.m., and this is what I witnessed at the front lines of the class - [CovertAction Bulletin: Student Encampments Resist for Palestine](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/04/24/covertaction-bulletin-student-encampments-resist-for-palestine/) - Student protests in solidarity with Palestine have set up protests and encampments on campuses across the country from Columbia, NYU and the New School in New York to Berkeley, Stanford and Cal Poly Humboldt in California. Students are demanding that their universities—many of them among the most elite in the country with giant endowments—divest from weapons manufacturers and Israeli companies. They’re being met with fierce repression by police, but along with solidarity from faculty and supporters in their cities, the movement is continuing and growing... - [Houthi Causing Headaches For the White House](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/05/03/houthi-causing-headaches-for-the-white-house/) - Group That is Widely Vilified in U.S. Media Has Large Popularity in Yemen On April 7, the U.S. Central Command issued a press release boasting about their destruction of a mobile surface-to-air missile system in the Houthi-controlled territory of Yemen. Since commencing a bombing operation on January 12, the U.S. and Great Britain have carried - [Marielle’s Charging Bulls: An Abrupt End To Brazil’s Six-Year Long Homicide Investigation](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/05/03/marielles-charging-bulls-an-abrupt-end-to-brazils-six-year-long-homicide-investigation/) - “Blindness that affects the other side also affects us.” — Mano Brown The saying goes: Um negócio pra boi dormir.” Literally, the Brazilian aphorism means: (To give) something for the bull to sleep. In practical layman’s terms it pre-figures social interactions where somebody, a group of people or an entity, says something—not necessarily a lie—to - [U.S. Intelligence Operatives Appear to Have Intentionally Groomed Mass Murderer Charles Manson](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/05/01/u-s-intelligence-operatives-appear-to-have-intentionally-groomed-mass-murderer-charles-manson/) - Status As a Police Informant Raises Suspicion That He Was an FBI and CIA Asset Out to Discredit the 1960s Counterculture The Sharon Tate murders were as bizarre as they were bloody, and the story behind the story is even stranger. Journalist Tom O’Neill spent 20 years researching, interviewing and digging in his effort to - [Nord Stream Insurers Refusal to Pony Up For Damages to Sabotaged Pipeline Is Based on Dubious Legal Grounds, According to International Law Scholar](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/04/30/nord-stream-insurers-refusal-to-pony-up-for-damages-to-sabotaged-pipeline-is-based-on-dubious-legal-grounds-according-to-international-law-scholar/) - Lloyd’s of London and Bermuda-based Arch Insurance deny the €400 million claim by Nord Stream AG, arguing their policies do not provide coverage for the 2022 underwater explosions that ruptured the natural gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea because the damage was inflicted by “a government.” But “the defendants’ argument is prima facie irrelevant,” says - [Jewish Prophets Who Predicted Nightmarish Escalation of Israeli-Palestine Conflict Were Blacklisted and Ignored](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/04/29/jewish-prophets-who-predicted-nightmarish-escalation-of-israeli-palestine-conflict-were-blacklisted-and-ignored/) - Israel’s Claim To Be a Great Democracy is Undermined By Its Mistreatment Not Only of the Palestinians But Also of Jewish Writers and Intellectuals Who Exposed the Ugly Truth Behind Israeli Policies and Strove For Peaceful Cohabitation with the Palestinians On September 22, 1967, three months after Israel’s stunning victory over Egypt in the 6-Day - [Fifty Five Years Ago, Toronto College Students Enacted a Covert Operation That Led the Canadian Government to Admit Vietnam War Deserters Into Canada](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/04/26/fifty-five-years-ago-toronto-college-students-enacted-a-covert-operation-that-led-the-canadian-government-to-admit-vietnam-war-deserters-into-canada/) - Who Says That Young People Cannot Affect Change The war in Vietnam was a defining event from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s for university students in Canada, especially young men, including those of us at Glendon College. We watched as our American contemporaries were drafted and sent to fight in a war that killed almost - [Psyops Regarding 1994 Rwanda Genocide Continues With 30th Anniversary Commemoration](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/04/26/psyops-regarding-1994-rwanda-genocide-continues-with-30th-anniversary-commemoration/) - Rwandan regime and Western intelligence agencies and their media and academic assets have spread disinformation for three decades On April 7, Rwandan President Paul Kagame commemorated the 30th anniversary of the 1994 Rwandan genocide by lighting a flame in honor of the victims in front of foreign dignitaries, and giving a speech in which he - [Martin Scorsese: When the FBI came a-calling](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/04/24/martin-scorsese-when-the-fbi-came-a-calling/) - Ah, Killers of the Flower Moon! An intriguing and brutal story that offers a window into early efforts of J. Edgar Hoover to kick over the murderous rocks and uncover the plot that plagued the Osage Indian Nation in the 1920s. It is an enthralling tale of crime, greed and the pursuit of justice—with Martin - [Eighty-Six Percent of Guantanamo Bay Inmates Were Sold to American Troops in Response to $5,000 Bounty Offer](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/04/22/eighty-six-percent-of-guantanamo-bay-inmates-were-sold-to-american-troops-in-response-to-5000-bounty-offer/) - I Am Gitmo spotlights the story of an Egyptian man who was incarcerated in notorious torture chamber for a decade after being wrongfully accused of being part of 9/11 plot Gamel Sadek was living a quiet life as a school teacher in Kandahar in March 2002 when his life was suddenly shattered. While eating lunch - [Reckoning With the Soviet Role in the Creation of Israel](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/04/23/reckoning-with-the-soviet-role-in-the-creation-of-israel/) - Since October 7th, global attention has largely shifted away from Ukraine toward the Middle East amid Israel’s ongoing slaughter of thousands of innocent Palestinian civilians in Gaza following Operation Al-Aqsa Flood. At the same time, the world has seen unprecedented mass protests in support of the Palestinians and calls for a cease-fire by the international - [Famed War Correspondent Takes on Rise of Right-Wing Militia Movement in Latest Documentary](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/04/18/famed-war-correspondent-takes-on-rise-of-right-wing-militia-movement-in-latest-documentary/) - Sebastian Junger and Charlie Sadoff’s gripping new documentary poses a bone-chilling prospect: Is America poised to descend into a second civil war? And, if so, will U.S. military veterans form a sort of Praetorian Guard for legions of assorted right-wing and gun-rights zealots, MAGA denizens, white nationalists, paramilitaries, neo-Nazis, insurrectionists, et al.? The phrase that - [U.S. Preparing for New Pacific War Against China that Could Be As Deadly as the Last One Against Japan](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/04/17/u-s-preparing-for-new-pacific-war-against-china-that-could-be-as-deadly-as-the-last-one-against-japan/) - In March, the House of Representatives passed a measure to ban the online app TikTok unless its owners found a new buyer. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) accused TikTok of being “an espionage tool of the Chinese Communist government,” though The Intercept reported that U.S. intelligence had produced “no evidence that TikTok had ever coordinated with - [CovertAction Bulletin - Iran and Israel: Is A Regional War Imminent?](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/04/17/covertaction-bulletin-iran-and-israel-is-a-regional-war-imminent/) - Iran carried out a strike over the weekend of April 13 and 14 in retaliation for the Israeli bombing on April 1 of the Iranian embassy in Damascus, Syria. Embassies are the sovereign territory of the country represented, effectively making it an Israeli attack on Iran... - [The United States—A Nation of Law (Breaking)](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/04/16/the-united-states-a-nation-of-law-breaking/) - Terry Lodge of Ohio, an award-winning environmental and nuclear accountability attorney, spent weeks researching U.S. and international laws broken by the U.S. through its involvement in the Gaza genocide. Lodge had his work reviewed by Marjorie Cohn, a respected American legal scholar working as a professor of law at the Thomas Jefferson School of Law - [L.A. Based Investigator Who Draws Inspiration from Famed Journalist Gary Webb Claims To Have Exposed O.J. Simpson’s Murder Accomplice](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/04/15/l-a-based-investigator-who-draws-inspiration-from-famed-journalist-gary-webb-claims-to-have-exposed-o-j-simpsons-murder-accomplice/) - Like Webb, Chris is being suppressed by the mainstream media Chris Todd is an L.A.-based investigator who has been featured on Court TV, NewsNation and CineMills TV. He delivered an O.J. Simpson bombshell inside his 2020 book Ron’s Revenge: For the dead, it’s never over. Chris claims that O.J. Simpson had an accomplice—named Charlie—who was a Mob - [Brother of 9/11 Victim Presses Forward in Demand For Justice](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/04/12/brother-of-9-11-victim-presses-forward-in-demand-for-justice/) - Faulty 2013 inquest incriminates UK government in an ongoing 9/11 cover-up On September 11, 2001, Geoff Campbell, 31, was attending a business meeting at the Risk Waters Group publishing company on the 106th floor of the North Tower of the World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan when a plane struck the tower, causing its collapse, - [CovertAction Bulletin: Why were there protests in Cuba on March 17?](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/04/10/covertaction-bulletin-why-were-there-protests-in-cuba-on-march-17/) - The Biden Administration is pursuing a policy of “energy chasing,” where U.S. regulators put pressure on foreign-owned fuel supply companies, shippers and even financial insurers so that they back out of deals to bring “fuel to our ports.” On March 17, there were significant protests in eastern Cuba against the blackouts. The president says the authorities have gone to dialogue with them and explain the country’s energy problems... - [CARICOM and the Imperialists are Aiding in the “Recolonization” of Haiti](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/04/11/caricom-and-the-imperialists-are-aiding-in-the-recolonization-of-haiti/) - The “Plantation” Mentality of Some Black Leadership is helping to facilitate this process The late Malcolm X commenting in one of his speeches on the state of Black leadership at the time said: “These negroes do not want to build any nation; they want to crawl back on the plantation.” On March 11, 2024, the - [Tribunal Holds Defense Contractors Accountable For Murder of Iraqi Civilians](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/04/10/tribunal-holds-defense-contractors-accountable-for-murder-of-iraqi-civilians/) - Kathy Kelly is a peace activist from Chicago who was in Iraq in March 2003 when the Bush administration illegally invaded Iraq. She directly observed the shock-and-awe bombing campaign, which deployed overwhelming destructive air power in an attempt to paralyze the will of the Iraqi people to fight. More than 20 years later Kelly is - [Occupied Nation: How the CIA Created Modern Germany](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/04/09/occupied-nation-how-the-cia-created-modern-germany/) - On February 4th, The Economist published a devastating analysis—or perhaps, “pre-mortem”—on the collapse of the German Social Democratic Party (SPD) under Olaf Scholz’s stewardship. Elected in what the Western media contemporaneously branded a “shock” result in September 2021, hopes for his coalition government in many quarters were high. Today, he enjoys the worst approval ratings - [Active Duty Air Force Airman on White House Hunger Strike for Starving Children of Gaza](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/04/08/active-duty-air-force-airman-on-white-house-hunger-strike-for-starving-children-of-gaza/) - Demands End to U.S. Arms Sales to Israel and an Immediate Cease-Fire On Easter Sunday, March 31, 2024, active-duty Air Force Senior Airman Larry Hebert began a hunger strike in front of the White House to highlight the plight of the starving children of Gaza. Hebert’s act of protest was set amidst the backdrop of - [Workers Parliaments Saved Cuban Revolution After Collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1990s and Can Save it Again](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/04/03/workers-parliaments-saved-cuban-revolution-after-collapse-of-the-soviet-union-in-the-1990s-and-can-save-it-again/) - Cuba is currently facing what National Public Radio (NPR) called its worst economic crisis in decades, fueled by the U.S. blockade, diminished access to Venezuelan oil and the lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Power cuts, due to the lack of oil supplies, are common and can sometimes last up to 8 hours. The shortage - [CIA Front Companies Play Crucial Role in Arms Pipeline to Ukraine and Profit From the Human Misery it Generates](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/04/01/cia-front-companies-play-crucial-role-in-arms-pipeline-to-ukraine-and-profit-from-the-human-misery-it-generates/) - [CIAGate is a new website set up on substack that draws on information from an anonymous CIA whistleblower to publicize and expose criminal conduct being carried out by the CIA. Its mission statement reads: “We the people. We oppose all wars and military conflicts. Our purpose is to abolish the CIA and military-industrial deep state. - [The Ghosts of Gaza Are Whispering Every Night](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/04/06/the-ghosts-of-gaza-are-whispering-every-night/) - Israeli military young men and women are not the first to have recurring nightmares of what they have seen and done. They are not the first to dissolve into the abyss of war. American military from World War I, World War II, the war on Viet Nam, the wars on Iraq and Afghanistan have suffered from - [U.S. War Against Yemen Heats Up](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/04/05/u-s-war-against-yemen-heats-up/) - The U.S. war against Yemen is slowly but surely heating up. With more and bigger bombs the U.S. is doing the only thing it knows how to do when what it is doing is not working, something even Joe Biden has admitted. Some might think this story started on October 7, 2023, when the Palestinian - [Did J. Edgar Hoover Order the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr?](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/04/04/did-j-edgar-hoover-order-the-assassination-of-martin-luther-king-jr-4/) - Powerful new evidence of a government-abetted conspiracy has prompted King family members to demand a reopening of the investigation into his murder. [This is an updated article published special on the 56th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination.—Editors] Everyone knows that James Earl Ray shot Martin Luther King, Jr., right? The U.S. government says - [CovertAction Bulletin - Seven Decades of War and Occupation: End the Korean War!](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/04/03/covertaction-bulletin-seven-decades-of-war-and-occupation-end-the-korean-war/) - The Korean War has never ended: Despite the U.S. government’s attempts to portray it as a long-ago victory, it has never signed a peace agreement with North Korea. Tens of thousands of U.S. troops continue to be stationed on the Korean peninsula, first as part of the Cold War and now as part of the New Cold War encirclement of China... - [U.S. Ramps up Regime Change Efforts in Solomon Islands in Advance of Upcoming Election](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/04/02/u-s-ramps-up-regime-change-efforts-in-solomon-islands-in-advance-of-upcoming-election/) - U.S. Seeking to Dominate Chain of Pacific Islands in Preparation for Potential War with China As the primary agency responsible for U.S foreign assistance programs, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is keen to meddle in other countries’ election activities. The U.S. believes that only like-minded regimes can defend its democratic principles and national - [Gaza War: Deceptions, Distortions, Misperceptions. What are the Relevant Actual Facts?](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/03/29/gaza-war-deceptions-distortions-misperceptions-what-are-the-relevant-actual-facts/) - Responses to the current violence in, and from, Gaza vary as follows: Israeli leaders, much of the Israeli public, and Zionists in the West, thirsting for vengeance, call for genocidal mass murder and/or wholesale ethnic-cleansing operations against the people of Gaza. Israel and its Western imperial allies (U.S., et al.) evade the actual causes (Palestinian - [Did J. Edgar Hoover Order the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr?](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/01/16/did-j-edgar-hoover-order-the-assassination-of-martin-luther-king-jr-3/) - Powerful new evidence of a government-abetted conspiracy has prompted King family members to demand a reopening of the investigation into his murder. [This is an updated article published special on the 46th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination.—Editors] Everyone knows that James Earl Ray shot Martin Luther King, Jr., right? The U.S. government says - [CIA Cutout Appoints Counterterrorism Czar Who Supported Massive Human Rights Abuses](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/03/28/cia-cutout-appoints-counterterrorism-czar-who-supported-massive-human-rights-abuses/) - Juan Zarate’s contempt for human rights was reflected in his criticism of Barack Obama for trying to close down Guantánamo Bay Zarate also helped sow misery as a chief architect of modern financial warfare The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is a CIA offshoot that was founded in 1983 to promote propaganda and finance opposition - [Christian Preachers in U.S. Senate Show Their Hypocrisy By Voting For Military Aid to Israel to Commit Genocide](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/03/27/christian-preachers-in-u-s-senate-show-their-hypocrisy-by-voting-for-military-aid-to-israel-to-commit-genocide/) - The February 12, 2024, Senate vote on sending another $14 billion to Israel shows the depravity of most of the members of the U.S. Senate. In particular, it showed the hypocrisy of the two Senators who are pastors of Christian denominations as well as the shallowness of the few Senators who called for a cease-fire - [The Truth Was Almost Killed in Nicaragua](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/03/26/the-truth-was-almost-killed-in-nicaragua/) - Survivor of Radio Station Attack By U.S. Backed Criminals During 2018 Coup Attempt Recounts Harrowing Ordeal Carlos Alfaro León, 46, is a sports journalist who covers baseball and boxing matches for La Nueva Radio Ya, Nicaragua’s top rated radio station. León has served as a press aide for Nicaragua’s national baseball team, covered the Pan - [The National Archives is So Underfunded that It Will Take 600 Years to Fulfill Some FOIA Requests](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/03/25/the-national-archives-is-so-underfunded-that-it-will-take-600-years-to-fulfill-some-foia-requests/) - Prioritization of funding for the Pentagon and intelligence agencies decimates vital government agencies that are needed for functioning democracy For the fifth time since October 2023, the federal government faced yet another shutdown, thanks to congressional squabbling over the federal budget. The government has been running on a series of Continuing Resolutions, which keep federal - [NATO & New Zealand: European War Machine Comes to the Pacific](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/03/22/nato-new-zealand-european-war-machine-comes-to-the-pacific/) - What does NATO have to do with New Zealand and vice versa? The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is what it says on the tin, and New Zealand is about as far away from the North Atlantic as possible. NATO was set up as a united European and North American military counter to the former - [U.S. Inks Deal to Build New Military Bases that Can Serve as Launching Point For Attacks on Yemen and Potentially Iran](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/03/21/u-s-inks-deal-to-build-new-military-bases-that-can-serve-as-launching-point-for-attacks-on-yemen-and-potentially-iran/) - On February 15, the Biden administration signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Government of Somalia to construct up to five military bases for the Somali National Army in the name of bolstering the army’s capabilities in the ongoing fight against the militant group al-Shabaab. According to statements by U.S. officials, the bases are - [Israel’s Censorship: The Repression of Pro-Palestinian Voices](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/03/20/israels-censorship-the-repression-of-pro-palestinian-voices/) - Besides the Israeli military’s mass murder of Palestinians in Gaza (the West Bank as well), there have been repressive measures by Israel to silence the dissent of pro-Palestinian voices. In a sane world, Israel would be sanctioned and deprived of U.S. military aid. Its right-wing leaders would be charged by the International Court of Justice - [CovertAction Bulletin: Why the U.S. Really Wants to Ban TikTok](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/03/20/covertaction-bulletin-why-the-u-s-really-wants-to-ban-tiktok/) - Far from being in the interests of advancing data privacy or the security of working-class people in the United States, banning TikTok would be a boon to American social media companies who routinely spy on their users and collaborate with intelligence and other government agencies. Instead, the bill is just part of the U.S. attack on China’s growing influence across the world... - [Twenty-Two Years After It Was Created, Guantanamo Bay Prison Remains a Monstrosity](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/03/19/twenty-two-years-after-it-was-created-guantanamo-bay-prison-remains-a-monstrosity/) - In 2020 Campaign Biden Promised to Close Facility, But Has Actually Upgraded It During the 2020 election campaign, Joe Biden followed Barack Obama in promising to close the prison at Guantánamo Bay, which had become an embarrassing symbol of human rights violations. The move made sense geo-strategically as the Biden administration was intent on scaling - [Is America’s Top-Selling Movie, Bob Marley, About a CIA Murder Victim?](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/03/18/is-americas-top-selling-movie-bob-marley-about-a-cia-murder-victim/) - On its opening weekend, the movie Bob Marley: One Love sold more tickets than any other movie in the United States, far outpacing other films in the theaters. While the film appeared to stay away from U.S.’s involvement in Marley’s death in order to get wider distribution, the question as to whether the CIA orchestrated - [U.S. Steps Up Intervention in Somalia](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/03/15/u-s-steps-up-intervention-in-somalia/) - With the announcement by the U.S. Defense Department of the creation of five new bases in Somalia, the U.S. has made it clear it is stepping up its intervention in the country. The previous government in Somalia had run the U.S. military out of Somalia, pretty much, but when the new, U.S.-backed Somali president was - [Why Did Obama, Trump and Biden Bend Over Backwards to Support Narco-Dictator Who Said He Would “Stuff Drugs Right up the Noses of Gringos”?](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/03/14/why-did-the-obama-trump-and-biden-administrations-bend-over-backwards-to-support-a-narco-dictator-who-said-he-would-stuff-drugs-right-up-the-noses-of-gringos/) - The answer is capitalism: Hernández opened Honduras to U.S. investors who value profits over people, including the American people On March 8, an American jury in Federal District Court found former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández (JOH) guilty of conspiring to import cocaine into the United States and possessing and conspiring to possess “destructive devices,” - [Gaza Airdrops: Propaganda and Possibilities](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/03/13/gaza-airdrops-propaganda-and-possibilities/) - The airdrops in Gaza began as a Jordanian project to resupply its small field hospital, established in 2009 in Tel al-Hawa in northern Gaza in early November, 2023. Toward the end of November, Jordan established a second field hospital in Khan Younis in southern Gaza, also supplied by airdrops. At least 21 airdrops have been - [CovertAction Bulletin - No Space for Other Voices: U.S. “Democracy” Silences Third Parties](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/03/13/covertaction-bulletin-no-space-for-other-voices-u-s-democracy-silences-third-parties/) - For the so-called “greatest democracy on Earth,” elections in the United States are a mess of regulations and laws that differ by state... - [British Doctor Trying to Save Lives of Gazan Civilians Severely Injured by Israeli Bombs](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/03/12/british-doctor-trying-to-save-lives-of-gazan-civilians-severely-injured-by-israeli-bombs/) - [Warning: This interview features graphic images.—Editors] The Israeli tactic of hiding the ongoing genocide is to suppress the truth in the media. This includes pressuring mainstream media outlets like CNN to filter and/or distort reports to suit Israel’s interests, preventing journalists from reporting from Gaza, or simply killing them—a fate that has befallen dozens of - [Coordinator For Sanctions From Hell Appointed to Head Spook Agency that Supports Color Revolutions](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/03/08/coordinator-for-sanctions-from-hell-appointed-to-head-spook-agency-that-supports-color-revolutions/) - She also aided in manipulation of Arab Spring protests. Since the outbreak of the Ukraine War, the Biden administration has applied sanctions on more than 15,000 Russian entities and individuals, marking Russia as among the most heavily sanctioned countries in history. One analyst has likened the sanctions to the “economic carpet bombing of Russia,” and - [A Counterintelligence Spy Vs Spy Ring In Brazil](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/03/07/a-counterintelligence-spy-vs-spy-ring-in-brazil/) - BRAZIL—As if: questions shrouding the loyalty of Brazil’s armed forces toward the country’s federal government did not persist; the potential of being affected by a colonial-inspired conflict involving Venezuela and Guyana over the oil-rich region of Essequibo; and Operation Shield, a police offensive following the death of a military policeman in Guarujá, São Paulo, that - [Was Russia’s Top Figure Skater Drugged at 2022 Beijing Olympics as Part of Campaign to Turn World Opinion Against Russia?](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/03/06/was-russias-top-figure-skater-drugged-at-2022-beijing-olympics-as-part-of-campaign-to-turn-world-opinion-against-russia/) - The U.S. scored a public relations coup with Kamila Valieva’s humiliation In the winter of 2021-22, while figure skaters were competing in North America and Europe and preparing for the Beijing Winter Olympics, the tensions around Ukraine were building. NATO-trained Ukrainian troops were intensifying attacks on the border of the breakaway Donetsk and Lugansk provinces - [The King of Morocco is Wearing No Pants](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/03/01/the-king-of-morocco-is-wearing-no-pants/) - In a controversial, circuitous and secret ballot, in January, 2024 Omar Zniber from Morocco gained the position of president of the United Nations Human Rights Council. Zniber proclaims that this is a global endorsement of Morocco’s constructive approach and unifying leadership on critical issues such as tolerance, and racial hatred prevention¹. He also expressed his - [CovertAction Bulletin: Millions Mobilize for Palestine](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/03/06/covertaction-bulletin-millions-mobilize-for-palestine/) - Millions of people took to the streets around the world on March 2nd in solidarity with the people of Gaza as Israel is reportedly preparing an invasion of Rafah later this week, just before the start of Ramadan. In New York City, Havana, Albuquerque, Caracas, British Columbia, Kuala Lumpur, Seoul and beyond, the massive day of mobilization shows that the movement against the Israeli genocide in Palestine will not slow down until the attacks are over... - [Twenty Five Years Ago, the Clinton Administration Used a Fake Massacre at Račak to Justify the Illegal Bombing of Belgrade for 78 Days](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/03/04/twenty-five-years-ago-the-clinton-administration-used-a-fake-massacre-at-racak-to-justify-the-illegal-bombing-of-belgrade-for-78-days/) - The Lies About the Killing at Račak Continue in the West to This Day January 15th marked the 25th anniversary of an alleged massacre in Račak, Kosovo, then a core component of what remained of Yugoslavia. The alleged killing of Albanian civilians by Serbian security forces provided the trigger for NATO’s illegal 78-day-long bombing of - [U.S. Intelligence’s Covert War on Blacks Targeted Activists and Rappers Transforming Gangs in Chicago, Head of Revolutionary Black Panther Party Says](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/02/26/u-s-intelligences-covert-war-on-blacks-targeted-activists-and-rappers-transforming-gangs-in-chicago-head-of-new-black-panther-party-says/) - [This article is part of a special for Black History Month that looks at the intelligence agency's war on Black American activists, which the corporate media never spotlights.—Editors] Activist leaders and rappers have tried to help convert drug-dealing gangs into activist organizations since the 1960s. U.S. intelligence has tried to hijack these efforts and undermine - [According to his Son, Civil Rights Icon Paul Robeson Was a Victim of CIA’s MK-ULTRA](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/02/25/according-to-his-son-civil-rights-icon-paul-robeson-was-a-victim-of-cias-mk-ultra/) - [This article follows CAM’s attempts to expose the criminal history of the CIA and is also part of a special for Black History Month that looks at the intelligence agency's war on Black American activists, which the corporate media never spotlights.—Editors] A celebrity performer who devoted his life to social justice struggles, Paul Robeson is - [Fifty Five Years Ago, the FBI Murdered Black Panther Party Leader Fred Hampton in a “Northern Lynching.”](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/02/29/fifty-five-years-ago-the-fbi-murdered-black-panther-party-leader-fred-hampton-in-a-northern-lynching/) - Could the Same Thing Happen Again Today If the Black Lives Matter Movement Grows Stronger and More Focused? Fred Hampton was the charismatic leader of the Black Panther Party in Chicago in the late 1960s who, by the age of 21, had already developed a reputation as a brilliant orator and courageous social justice activist. - [CIA Spills the Beans About Deep Involvement in Ukraine: Part of Ploy to Undercut Republican Congressional Opposition to War](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/02/28/cia-spills-the-beans-about-deep-involvement-in-ukraine-part-of-ploy-to-undercut-republican-congressional-opposition-to-war/) - Makes a Point of Slipping in Disinformation About Russia to Further Propaganda Campaign The New York Times on February 25 published an explosive story of what purports to be the history of the CIA in Ukraine from the Maidan coup of 2014 to the present. The story, “The Spy War: How the C.I.A. Secretly Helps - [CovertAction Bulletin - Ukraine and the Growing Anti-War Movement: Lessons after 2 Years](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/02/28/covertaction-bulletin-ukraine-and-the-growing-anti-war-movement-lessons-after-2-years/) - February 24 marked the second anniversary of the Russian military invasion of Ukraine. With tens of thousands dead and more wounded on both sides and no end in sight to the conflict, it’s important to remember that the history of this conflict did not begin on February 24, 2022, nor on February 22, 2014, when the Russian military took control of the Crimean Peninsula... - [Why Would Anyone Kill One’s Self In an Attempt to Stop A War?](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/02/26/why-would-anyone-kill-ones-self-in-an-attempt-to-stop-a-war/) - “My name is Aaron Bushnell. I am an active duty member of the United States Air Force and I will no longer be complicit in genocide. I'm about to engage in an extreme act of protest, but compared to what people have been experiencing in Palestine, at the hands of their colonizers, it's not extreme - [Diamond Magnate With Deep Ties to U.S. Intelligence, Who Was Behind Imperial Machinations in Central Africa, is Left Out of the History Books](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/02/27/diamond-magnate-with-deep-ties-to-u-s-intelligence-who-was-behind-imperial-machinations-in-central-africa-is-left-out-of-the-history-books/) - Few People Know Who Maurice Tempelsman Is Despite the Outsized Influence That He Has Played on U.S. Foreign Policy in Africa Maurice Tempelsman is a billionaire Democratic Party power broker and donor in his 90s who is chairman of the board of directors of Lazare Kaplan International Inc. (LKI), the largest diamond company in the U.S., and partner - [CovertAction Bulletin - Day X: Julian Assange and Press Freedom Under Attack](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/02/21/covertaction-bulletin-day-x-julian-assange-and-press-freedom-under-attack/) - It’s Day X. Hearings are happening in the United Kingdom to determine whether Julian Assange will be extradited to the United States. His lawyers are trying to convince the UK’s High Court of Justice to permit an appeal hearing. If the court declines, it’s very likely that Assange will be extradited within days and face trial here... - [Essequibo Means No Escape For Brazil In The Event Of Conflict ... And More](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/02/23/essequibo-means-no-escape-for-brazil-in-the-event-of-conflict-and-more-2/) - [This is Part II of a series on the conflict in Essequibo. Part I is accessible here.—Editors] Flashbacks, possibly nightmares, haunt the ghost of an old empire. In December 2023, 57 years after the sun and Union Jack descended over British Guiana, Britain’s HMS Trent, a Royal Navy patrol vessel, was spotted sailing into a - [IS THE THIRD WORLD WAR ALREADY UNDERWAY?](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/02/22/is-the-third-world-war-already-underway/) - The escalating frequency of global military conflicts, the flouting of international laws by various actors, the swift dissemination of information from battlefronts enabling ordinary individuals to virtually participate in conflicts on the other side of the world — all contribute to heightening public apprehension about an imminent Third World War and a growing sense of its inevitability. - [Bolivarian Revolution Celebrates 25th Year Anniversary](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/02/22/bolivarian-revolution-celebrates-25th-year-anniversary/) - Revolution Has Survived and Flourished Despite U.S. Attempts to Destroy It February 2 marked the 25th anniversary of the Bolivarian Revolution. On that day in 1999, Hugo Chávez, a left-wing Venezuelan army officer, assumed power and initiated a socialist revolution that had ripple effects across the region and world. Invoking the legacy of Simón Bolívar, - [Death of Navalny Being Exploited to Try and Sustain U.S. Military Aid to Ukraine](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/02/20/death-of-navalny-being-exploited-to-try-and-sustain-u-s-military-aid-to-ukraine/) - Media comparisons of Navalny to Nelson Mandela are totally off-base The death of Alexei Navalny at a remote Arctic penal colony is being used to try to sustain U.S. military aid to Ukraine at a time of growing congressional opposition and after the Russians have taken control of Avdiivka, a key battleground in eastern Ukraine. - [What Happened to Alexei Navalny This Time](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/02/20/what-happened-to-alexei-navalny-this-time/) - Since a pack of lies about Alexei Navalny won last year’s Oscar for the best documentary film of the year when he was alive, there is little doubt he can win another Oscar when he is dead. But alive or dead, the prize-winning propaganda surrounding Navalny’s story bears no resemblance to the truth. This is - [Hugh Aynesworth: CIA Media Asset, FBI Informer, Friend of Lyndon Johnson White House and Media's Darling JFK Assassination "Lone Nutter" Journalist Dies at 92](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/02/13/hugh-aynesworth-cia-media-asset-fbi-informer-friend-of-lyndon-johnson-white-house-and-medias-darling-jfk-assassination-lone-nutter-journalist-dies-at-92/) - In 1967, the CIA issued a memo to its army of media “assets” instructing them on how to counter so-called “conspiracy theorists” who challenged the veracity of the Warren Commission report, which determined that Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone assassin of President John F. Kennedy.[1] One of the CIA’s “assets” is believed to have - [Judgment Day For Julian](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/02/19/judgment-day-for-julian/) - Fate of Wikileaks Founder Will be Decided by UK Court The UK’s High Court will hold a two-day hearing on February 20 and 21 on the U.S. request to extradite Wikileaks cofounder Julian Assange to the notorious Eastern District of Virginia (EDVA) to face 17 felony counts of espionage and one count of misuse of - [German Protests Are Being Manipulated To Focus on Mythic Anti-Semitism at Time of Growing Popular Anger Over Germany’s Support For Israel’s War on Gaza and U.S. Proxy War in Ukraine](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/02/17/german-protests-are-being-manipulated-to-focus-on-mythic-anti-semitism-at-time-of-growing-popular-anger-over-germanys-support-for-israels-war-on-gaza-and-u-s-proxy-war-in-ukraine/) - The U.S. border problem, like everything else, it seems, has its mirror image in Germany. It is not as uncontrolled as it is in the U.S., but is still a problem, caused by the open-door policy on refugees. It is complicated because Germany actually lacks skilled workers, but the immigrants we are getting are not - [Poisoning Gaza](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/02/16/poisoning-gaza/) - The buildings and the people in them are burning while the soil, sea, air, and groundwater are being poisoned in Gaza. Joshua Frank’s article, Making Gaza Unlivable ought to be read by everyone. Frank is the managing editor of CounterPunch. He describes the collapsing infrastructure and dire circumstances of Gaza in this January 12 story: - [Winston Peters, a Great Political Survivor, Political Chameleon and Most Loyal Servant of the U.S. Empire, is Back in Power in New Zealand](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/02/15/winston-peters-a-great-political-survivor-political-chameleon-and-most-loyal-servant-of-the-u-s-empire-is-back-in-power-in-zew-zealand/) - And Surprise, Surprise: He’s Pushing for New Zealand to Join AUKUS, an Anti-China Military Security Partnership of the U.S., Australia and Great Britain New Zealand held its triennial general election in October 2023 and the result was what had been predicted by the polls all along—the Labour Party, which had been in power since 2017, - [Protests Erupt in South Korea Over Plans to Increase Work Day](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/02/14/protests-erupt-in-south-korea-over-plans-to-increase-work-day/) - Part of mounting popular disaffection against South Korea’s conservative leader whom the RAND Corporation branded as a “perfect partner” for the U.S. South Korea is hitting the headlines again but not for the reasons that its leaders would like. Protests have erupted in the wake of a new law supported by South Korean President Yoon - [CovertAction Bulletin - Nancy Pelosi: Funding Israel, Betraying Workers](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/02/14/covertaction-bulletin-nancy-pelosi-funding-israel-betraying-workers/) - Nancy Pelosi’s been in office for 37 years. She’s an ardent supporter of capitalism and imperialism, telling a college student who asked her in 2017 that “I have to say, we’re capitalist - and that’s just the way it is” at a time when 51% of 18-29 year olds said they didn’t support capitalism. She was part of the push on Obama to bomb Syria in 2013, she’s a hawk on Iran and she’s said that U.S. support for Israel is “ironclad.” ... - [CIA Whistleblower Given Draconian Sentence After Being Found Guilty of Leaking Documents to Wikileaks](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/02/12/cia-whistleblower-given-draconian-sentence-after-being-found-guilty-of-leaking-documents-to-wikileaks/) - Joshua Schulte was given a forty year sentence for allegedly passing documents that exposed nefarious CIA practices Has been kept under brutal solitary confinement conditions in New York Metropolitan Correctional Center that violate human rights A federal judge in New York in early February sentenced CIA whistleblower Joshua Schulte to a draconian 40 years in - [For God’s Sake Joe, What the Hell Are You Doing?](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/02/10/for-gods-sake-joe-what-the-hell-are-you-doing/) - Biden’s policies in bombing Syria, Iraq and Yemen and supporting Israel’s genocide in Gaza and settler violence in the West Bank are deeply immoral and endanger U.S. national security. It is 3:00 a.m. and I can’t sleep again. All of us concerned about Gaza and the West Bank are spending sleepless nights and busy days - [Ukraine 2014: The Tipping Point of Terror](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/04/02/ukraine-2014-the-tipping-point-of-terror/) - Part I of a CAM investigation into the origins of the Ukraine War: U.S. and NATO involvement in the February 2014 Coup and Maidan Massacre, and their historical antecedents As I write, the world is on the edge of nuclear and humanitarian crises after a year of the Ukraine “proxy” war with Russia. No single - [Biden Administration Prolongs Economic Warfare on Cuba](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/02/09/biden-administration-prolongs-economic-warfare-on-cuba/) - No Significant Change in U.S. Policy Toward Cuba As the Biden Administration Concedes That It “Has Not Even Begun the Review Process” to Remove Cuba from the List of State Sponsors of Terrorism The U.S.-enforced embargo on Cuba is now more than 60 years old. First introduced by the Kennedy administration in February 1962, it - [CovertAction Bulletin - On the Ground in Texas: From Eagle Pass to Pro-Palestine Protest in Austin](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/02/07/covertaction-bulletin-on-the-ground-in-texas-from-eagle-pass-to-pro-palestine-protest-in-austin/) - Thousands of people marched through the streets of Austin, TX on February 4th, calling for a ceasefire and for the state government to withdraw all state funding from Israel. According to the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights, Texas’ share of the annual funding the U.S. gives Israel is $298.367,616... - [Contrary to Dominant Folklore, Evidence Indicates that, Like Oswald, John Wilkes Booth Was Part of Wider Conspiracy](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/11/26/contrary-to-dominant-folklore-evidence-indicates-that-like-oswald-john-wilkes-booth-was-part-of-wider-conspiracy/) - In popular lore, John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of Abraham Lincoln, was the first lone deranged gunman—preceding Lee Harvey Oswald. A stage actor from a famous theatrical family from Maryland and Confederate sympathizer who was as “handsome as a Greek God,”[1] Booth shot Lincoln in the back of the head while Lincoln and his wife, - [Guyana Is Being Used As A “Pawn” Against Venezuela](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/02/08/guyana-is-being-used-as-a-pawn-against-venezuela/) - The current border impasse between Guyana and Venezuela is yet another example of United States imperialism’s design to expand and usurp countries’ natural resources around the world and reinforce its geopolitical agenda. The hegemonic stranglehold of the United States and its multinationals are challenged by China and Russia mainly, with Saudi Arabia following as “runner - [Biden Administration is Silent as Former Pakistani Prime Minister is Sentenced to 10 Years For Revealing How the U.S. Pushed For His Removal](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/02/07/biden-administration-is-silent-as-former-pakistani-prime-minister-is-sentenced-to-10-years-for-revealing-how-the-u-s-pushed-for-his-removal/) - The Biden administration claims that U.S. foreign policy works to uphold human rights and democracy while containing rising authoritarian powers such as Russia and China. Biden administration officials routinely condemn the jailing of opposition figures in Russia like Alexey Navalny and by socialist governments like Nicaragua and Venezuela. But the Biden administration has voiced no - [If You Want to Understand Why the War on Drugs Failed, There is No Better Place to Look Than Arkansas When Clinton Was Governor](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/02/05/if-you-want-to-understand-why-the-war-on-drugs-failed-there-is-no-better-place-to-look-than-arkansas-when-clinton-was-governor/) - Clinton Covered Up for the Mena Affair and a Corrupt Old-Boy Smuggling Network That Helped Flood the Country with Cocaine in the 1980s [The War on Drugs is now widely recognized as a failed public policy that has resulted in mass incarceration and the over-militarization of American police forces. This article provides a historical lens - [The “Human Rights Industry” and Nicaragua](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/02/06/the-human-rights-industry-and-nicaragua/) - Why do United Nations human rights bodies focus on some countries, but not others? Why do organizations like Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International appear to ignore important evidence presented to them? And why do the media repeat stories of human rights abuses without questioning their veracity? These issues and more are examined in one - [250 U.S. Cargo Planes and At Least 20 Ships Have Delivered More Than 10,000 Tons of Armaments and Military Equipment to Israel Since War on Gaza Started](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/02/02/250-u-s-cargo-planes-and-at-least-20-ships-have-delivered-more-than-10000-tons-of-armaments-and-military-equipment-to-israel-since-war-on-gaza-started/) - Unfazed by the International Court of Justice’s Genocide Case Brought by South Africa, Even More Deadly Weapons Are on the Way A Times of Israel report on January 25 noted that more than 250 U.S. cargo planes and 20 ships have delivered more than 10,000 tons of munitions and military equipment to Israel since its - [Misunderstood in the West, the Juche Idea Has Helped North Korea Survive U.S. Wars and Sanctions and Even Thrive](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/02/01/misunderstood-in-the-west-the-juche-idea-has-helped-north-korea-to-survive-u-s-wars-and-sanctions-and-even-thrive/) - The Juche idea or Juche ideology has been the guiding idea of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) for many decades. Juche is synonymous with the DPRK. Without understanding the Juche idea, it is impossible to have any understanding of the DPRK. However, much of the media in the West and some so-called academic - [Disaster Capitalists Ready to Descend on Ukraine](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/01/31/disaster-capitalists-ready-to-descend-on-ukraine/) - Ukrainian Reconstruction Bank Set Up by BlackRock and JPMorgan Chase Has Secured at Least $500 Million in Capital A key purpose underlying the Ukraine War was made clear at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos in January when Philipp Hildebrand, vice chairman of BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, announced the - [U.S.-Israeli Aggression, Yemen and the Coming War with Iran: The Fantastic Achievements of Propaganda](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/01/30/u-s-israeli-aggression-yemen-and-the-coming-war-with-iran-the-fantastic-achievements-of-propaganda/) - During the last two months or so, the media have been deluged with fury over the Houthi—de facto rulers of Yemen—either capturing or bombing ships outside Yemeni coasts headed toward Israel. The Houthis’ actions were provoked by Israel’s ethnic cleansing in Gaza and the Israeli occupation of the southern coastal parts of Yemen, and has - [New Legislation Supports Doling Out Money to CIA Drug Runners from Indochina War](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/01/29/new-legislation-supports-doling-out-money-to-cia-drug-runners-from-indochina-war/) - In the 1990 movie, Air America, Mel Gibson and Robert Downey, Jr., play two Air America pilots who smuggle heroin while supporting U.S. proxies in the Vietnam War. Air America was an airline run by the CIA previously called Civil Air Transport (CAT), which had been formed by General Claire Chennault and Whiting Willauer[1] to - [Top Gun Mentality Among Drone Operators Led to Slaughter of Civilians](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/01/26/top-gun-mentality-among-drone-operators-led-to-slaughter-of-civilians/) - On February 21, 2010, 25 Afghan civilians, including four women and a child, were killed when Boeing helicopters fired Hellfire missiles made by Lockheed Martin on a convoy of SUVs traveling in the Uruzgan province in the center of Afghanistan on their way to Kabul. The helicopter pilots received intelligence from drone operators based at - [Exclusive Interview with a Survivor of the Gaza Ghetto](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/01/25/exclusive-interview-with-a-survivor-of-the-gaza-ghetto/) - While the neighborhood was bombed and wiped out, Antoun Ananias lived on, alone in a partially dysfunctional house, along with countless rats and other disease carriers. When he fell seriously ill he lacked the right medicine and, in the absence of water, he had to wash his hands with fresh urine, which is said to - [Troubadour of 1960s New Left is Celebrated in New Exhibit At Woody Guthrie Museum](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/01/24/troubadour-of-1960s-new-left-is-celebrated-in-new-exhibit-at-woody-guthrie-museum/) - The Woody Guthrie Museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma where I live has opened up a new exhibition about Phil Ochs, one of the most popular anti-war folk singers during the 1960s and early 1970s. The exhibition includes videos of some of Ochs’s performances at anti-war rallies, along with memorabilia from his shows, posters, pictures and even - [Bombshell: Sixty Years After Her Death, New Evidence Suggests Marilyn Monroe Was Murdered and LAPD Covered Up Murder](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/08/04/bombshell-sixty-years-after-her-death-new-evidence-suggests-marilyn-monroe-was-murdered-and-lapd-covered-up-murder/) - Loose-lipped pillow talk may have sealed the fate of the sex goddess who had affairs with both Bobby Kennedy and John F. Kennedy. Mafia godfather Sam Giancana claims to have ordered the hit and then tried to frame Bobby who had been at Marilyn's house the day of her killing trying to retrieve diary which - [Spy Chief’s Efforts to Hold Talks With Rwandan Dictator Paul Kagame as His Forces Terrorize the Democratic Republic of Congo is a Joke, says Central African Expert](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/12/18/spy-chiefs-efforts-to-hold-talks-with-rwandan-dictator-paul-kagame-as-his-forces-terrorize-the-democratic-republic-of-congo-is-a-joke-says-central-african-expert/) - In late November, Avril Haines, the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), traveled to Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) for meetings with Rwandan President Paul Kagame and DRC President Felix Tshisekedi. The stated purpose of the meetings was to try to de-escalate tensions in eastern DRC, which has seen stepped up attacks by - [Tigray Was Literally Destroyed by the U.S., Says Former Ethiopian Diplomat](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/01/22/tigray-was-literally-destroyed-by-the-u-s-says-former-ethiopian-diplomat/) - Mohamed Hassan Tells Tribunal on U.S. Imperialism That the U.S. Encouraged the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) to Launch an Insurgency Against the Ethiopian Government in November 2020 and Gave Diplomatic and Media Cover for Their Aggression The Motive Was to Use the TPLF to Control the Horn of Africa Region Mohamed Hassan is a - [Latest Wonder Weapon Being Provided to Ukraine Unlikely to Turn the Tide in War](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/01/23/latest-wonder-weapon-being-provided-to-ukraine-unlikely-to-turn-the-tide-in-war/) - But It Will Widen the Conflict and Represents Another Escalation Directed Against Russia On January 6, Denmark announced that it would be transferring 19 American-made F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine in the second quarter of 2024. Last August, the Biden administration approved sending F-16s—which are made by Lockheed Martin—to Ukraine from Denmark and the Netherlands. - [Jewish Youth Are Indoctrinated From a Young Age in Jewish Day School to Blindly Support Israel and View Palestinians With Contempt](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/01/20/jewish-youth-are-indoctrinated-from-a-young-age-in-jewish-day-school-to-blindly-support-israel-and-view-palestinians-with-contempt/) - But Now, More and More Young Jews Are Waking Up and Learning to Think for Themselves If you talk to an ordinary American, or, in my experience, if you talk to an average Israeli, for that matter, they don’t know anything about who the Palestinians are. They don’t know where they come from, they don’t - [U.S. is Painting Itself Into a Corner in the Red Sea](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/01/19/u-s-is-painting-itself-into-a-corner-in-the-red-sea/) - Joe Biden, amidst his mental confusion, must think he is John McCain reincarnated. I bet he is humming, “Bomb, Bomb, Bomb; Bomb, Bomb Iran.” You know how it is: Iranians, Yemenis, they all look alike. While the bombs are causing some damage in Yemen, Yemen has seen it before and is unfazed. In fact, the - [To Avoid Catastrophe, Israel Must Integrate Gazans Into Israel and Grant Them Equal Rights](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/01/19/to-avoid-catastrophe-israel-must-integrate-gazans-into-israel-and-grant-them-equal-rights/) - To date, there has been negligible attention given to what will be the ultimate fate of the approximately 2.3 million people living in the Gaza Strip enclave in Palestine. In response to the October 7 Hamas attacks, Israel, with the full backing of the United States, has undertaken a military campaign to destroy all infrastructure - [Laudatory Commemorations of Kissinger Reveal Systemic Bias in U.S. Media, Academia and Think Tanks](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/01/16/laudatory-commemorations-of-kissinger-reveal-systemic-bias-in-u-s-media-academia-and-think-tanks/) - Huge Human Costs of Many of His Policies Go Ignored Along with Their Impact on the Global South The passing of Henry Kissinger on November 29, 2023, has sparked an intense debate over the legacy of the controversial statesman, with the remarkable persistence of laudatory comments. Echoing similar notes in mainstream media, George Beebe at - [U.S. Planning to Establish New Drone Bases in Ghana, Ivory Coast and Benin](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/01/18/u-s-planning-to-establish-new-drone-bases-in-ghana-ivory-coast-and-benin/) - The Wall Street Journal reported on January 4 that talks were under way as the Biden administration was seeking to establish drone bases at airfields in Ghana, Ivory Coast and Benin following a coup in Niger over the summer that jeopardized the U.S. military position there. Stars and Stripes magazine reported in December that the - [CovertAction Bulletin - On the Ground: 400,000 March for Gaza in DC](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/01/17/covertaction-bulletin-on-the-ground-400000-march-for-gaza-in-dc/) - Four-hundred thousand people rallied and marched in Washington, DC on Saturday the 13th, marking 100 days since the Palestinian liberation movement and the international solidarity movement gained renewed energy. On the same day, half a million people marched in London, and other events took place across the world... - [U.S. Policy in Korea is Stuck in a Time Warp With Little Having Changed Since 1950](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/01/15/u-s-policy-in-korea-is-stuck-in-a-time-warp-with-little-having-changed-since-1950/) - The DPRK Has Thwarted U.S. Designs to Control the Korean Peninsula in a Major Historical Accomplishment. On August 15, 1945, Korea was liberated from Japanese imperialist colonial rule thanks to the arduous armed struggle waged by the anti-Japanese partisans led by the guerrilla leader Kim Il Sung. Japanese imperialist rule, which had appeared so strong - [American-Israeli Anthropologist Suggests that “We Are All Being Palestinized”](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/12/28/american-israeli-anthropologist-suggests-that-we-are-all-being-palestinized/) - Israel’s Expertise in Pacifying the Palestinians Is in High Demand by Capitalist Elites As Populations Around the World Grow Restive As the world watches in horror Israel’s military assault on the people of Gaza, people are left to wonder why world leaders are not doing more to censure Israel and are allowing Israel to get - [Union Activists Need to Break From Pro-Imperialist Leadership and Undermine U.S. Support for Israeli Genocide](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/01/10/union-activists-need-to-break-from-pro-imperialist-leadership-and-undermine-u-s-support-for-israeli-genocide/) - "The U.S. Labor Movement Calls for Cease-fire in Israel and Palestine." That is the name of the resolution that many members of a variety of unions have signed on to, believing that this would bring peace to the Middle East, by having the guns go silent." The U.S. labor movement decided it was finally necessary - [In One of Last Interviews, John Pilger Calls For an "Insurrection of Banned Knowledge"](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/01/12/in-one-of-last-interviews-john-pilger-calls-for-an-insurrection-of-banned-knowledge/) - Since his death on December 30, tributes have been pouring in for John Pilger, an Australian journalist who gave voice to the voiceless and had a talent for putting human tragedies into a political context. Starting his career in the late 1950s working for daily newspapers in his native Sydney, Pilger became an investigative reporter - [New Film Depicting Slaughter of Natives in Chile Resonates in Time of Israel-Gaza War](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/01/11/new-film-depicting-slaughter-of-natives-in-chile-resonates-in-time-of-israel-gaza-war/) - Just as the Israeli settler state is engaged in fierce warfare with Palestine’s Native people, director/co-writer Felipe Gálvez’s has produced a timely film called The Settlers, which offers an unsettling look at the colonization of Tierra del Fuego in Chile circa 1900. The film features a British soldier Alexander MacLennan (Mark Stanley), an American mercenary - [CovertAction Bulletin - “They See it as One and the Same:” U.S. and ISIS Attack Iran](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/01/10/covertaction-bulletin-they-see-it-as-one-and-the-same-u-s-and-isis-attack-iran/) - The Islamic State has taken credit for an attack that killed 84 people and left dozens wounded in Kerman, in southern Iran. The bombing was significant because it was on the anniversary of the assassination by the United States of Qasem Soleimani, who was the commander of the Iranian Quds force 1998 until he was killed on January 3rd, 2020 by a U.S. drone strike under the orders of Donald Trump. At the time, Soleimani was on his way to meet with the Prime Minister of Iraq and in fact he was killed in Iraq, near Baghdad International Airport... - [Pentagon Aims to Create a Human-Machine Soldier as Part of Dangerous New Artificial Intelligence Race](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/01/09/pentagon-aims-to-create-a-human-machine-soldier-as-part-of-dangerous-new-artificial-intelligence-race/) - “In 1962, J.C.R. Licklider created the US Information Processing Techniques Office at the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA). His vision, published two years earlier in his seminal work Man–Computer Symbiosis (Licklider 1960), heralded an ambitious, and ultimately successful, push to develop artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. The Agency, now called DARPA with the D emphasizing its - [Head of CIA Counter-Terrorism Boasted After 9/11: “When We Are Through With Them, They Will Have Flies Walking Across Their Eyeballs.”](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/01/08/head-of-cia-counter-terrorism-boasted-after-9-11-when-we-are-through-with-them-they-will-have-flies-walking-across-their-eyeballs/) - And Sadly, This Ghastly Boast Came True On September 13, 2001, Cofer Black, the head of CIA counter-terrorism, had a conversation with President George W. Bush in which he boasted: “When we are through with them [referring to Afghans and others supporting terrorism], they will have flies walking across their eyeballs.” Sadly, Black’s boast essentially - [Nineteen Years Ago Today, Journalist Gary Webb Was Murdered After Exposing CIA Drug Trafficking](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/12/10/nineteen-years-ago-today-journalist-gary-webb-was-murdered-after-exposing-cia-drug-trafficking/) - On December 10, 2004, the body of journalist Gary Webb, 49, was discovered in his home near Sacramento after a moving company worker found a note posted to his front door that read: “Please do not enter. Call 911 and ask for an ambulance.” Webb’s death was listed as a suicide, but Webb was found - [Essequibo Means No Escape For Brazil In The Event Of Conflict...And More](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/01/05/essequibo-means-no-escape-for-brazil-in-the-event-of-conflict-and-more/) - BRAZIL—Over the past few days and weeks, rumors of war, as if global conflict were an inevitable contagion bound to reach Indoamerica (South or Latin America), swirled at an uncanny, feverish pitch. The case for armed conflict has subsided only slightly. An unspoiled, beautiful region known as Essequibo has taken center stage in a geopolitical - [All Is Permitted: A Failed Coup in Serbia?](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/01/04/all-is-permitted-a-failed-coup-in-serbia/) - On December 17th, Serbian voters went to the polls in a snap general election. The result was President Aleksandar Vucic’s ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) coalition regained its parliamentary majority. Immediately, pro-Western, liberal opposition party Serbia Against Violence (SPN) declared widespread fraud in the government’s favor, and committed to convening protests around government buildings in - [CovertAction Bulletin - Assassinations and Bombings: Will There Be Regional War in the Middle East?](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/01/03/covertaction-bulletin-assassinations-and-bombings-will-there-be-regional-war-in-the-middle-east/) - The U.S. and Israel are quickly escalating the conflict in the Middle East. On December 31st, the Navy sank three Yemeni boats in the Red Sea. Ten Yemenis were killed in this attack. The boats were part of the Yemeni Armed Forces grouping that have been preventing passage of Israeli ships, or those heading to Israeli ports, through the Red Sea. While the Yemeni Armed Forces have been largely successful in this mission, they have not caused any casualties on the ships that they are redirecting, making this provocation by the US even more egregious... - [Welcome To The Slaughterhouse](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/01/03/welcome-to-the-slaughterhouse/) - At a Scranton courthouse rally for Palestine shortly after the massive Israeli government attack on Gaza in October 2023, it was suggested by a Veterans For Peace (VFP) speaker that the better place to protest was several blocks away at the Army Ammunition Plant, where its operator General Dynamics had been stepping up production of 155mm shells for Ukraine and where - [Fake Intellectuals Working For Think Tanks Funded By the Arms Industry Are Driving Support For War After War After War](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/01/02/fake-intellectuals-working-for-think-tanks-funded-by-the-arms-industry-are-driving-support-for-war-after-war-after-war/) - Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Ukraine, Russia, China, and Now Iran A few days after the October 7 attacks in northern Israel, The Atlantic Council ran an inflammatory article on its website by Jonathan Panikoff, a former deputy national intelligence officer, entitled “It doesn’t matter whether Iran planned the Hamas attack—Tehran is still to blame.”[1] The - [In an Age of Forever Wars, American Popular Culture Has Reimagined Its Veterans as Victims Rather than Agents of Empire](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/12/30/in-an-age-of-forever-wars-american-popular-culture-has-reimagined-its-veterans-as-victims-rather-than-agents-of-empire/) - Long Forgotten Is the Role that Veteran Anti-War Activists Played in Ending the Vietnam War In 1995, Massachusetts Governor William Weld pardoned Joseph Yandle who was then serving a life sentence for first degree murder, stating that Yandle had gone to “serve his country in Vietnam” and “returned a scarred man, and he has served - [Henry Kissinger Facilitated Genocide and War Crimes](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/12/27/henry-kissinger-facilitated-genocide-and-war-crimes/) - On November 29, 2023, former National Security Adviser and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger died at his home in Connecticut; he was 100 years old. Like a well-rehearsed orchestra, the corporate media immediately subjected the public to rendition after rendition of what a model “statesman” and exemplary human being he was. True to form, the - [With Failure of Counter-Offensive in Ukraine, U.S. Looks to Step Up Regime Change Efforts in Georgia](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/12/26/with-failure-of-counter-offensive-in-ukraine-u-s-looks-to-step-up-regime-change-efforts-in-georgia/) - On December 1, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) hosted a forum by female lawmakers in Georgia who favored its integration into the European Union (EU) and embrace of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) membership, and who were fiercely hostile to Russia. One of the panelists, Khatia Dekanoidze, was the former chief of the national - [An Old CIA Intellectual Continues to Promote Fake Atrocity Stories and Advance War Propaganda in Retirement](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/12/13/an-old-cia-intellectual-continues-to-promote-fake-atrocity-stories-and-advance-war-propaganda-in-retirement/) - From 1983 until 2021, Carl Gershman served as director of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), which was established by Congress to take over the CIA’s covert propaganda initiatives. The NED packages itself as a champion of human rights, though it finances groups that primarily publicize the atrocities—both real and imagined—of U.S. government enemies in - [Zelensky’s White House Visit Comes Amidst Escalation of Mafia Style Assassination Campaign Resulting in Murder of Ukrainian Socialist Party Leader](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/12/25/zelenskys-white-house-visit-comes-amidst-escalation-of-mafia-style-assassination-campaign-resulting-in-murder-of-ukrainian-socialist-party-leader/) - On December 12, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was again given the red-carpet treatment of a rock star as he made one of his regular visits to Washington, D.C. to plead for more U.S. military aid. This time, however, the act of the former comedian had begun to grow thin as President Joe Biden was hamstrung - [BIDEN IS TRUMP’S POODLE on Case of Journalist Julian Assange and Bogus Espionage Charges](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/12/22/biden-is-trumps-poodle-on-case-of-journalist-julian-assange-and-bogus-espionage-charges/) - Attorney General Merrick Garland Must Tell President Biden that Trump Espionage Charges Against WikiLeaks Journalist Julian Assange Are Without Merit…or Indict New York Times Publisher with Same Charges Biden, you defeated Trump, yet your administration has NOT rolled back all of the evil caused by Trump. Take the case of journalist Julian Assange. Under the - [Ex-Colonel Calls CEOs of Defense Contractors Predatory Capitalists and Arch-Criminals of Empire at War Crimes Tribunal](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/12/20/ex-colonel-calls-ceos-of-defense-contractors-predatory-capitalists-and-arch-criminals-of-empire-at-war-crimes-tribunal/) - Born in Gaffney, South Carolina, Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson achieved the rank of full Colonel during a distinguished 31-year career in the U.S. Army from 1966 to 1997 in which he served as an assistant to Colin Powell when he was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Wilkerson later served as Powell’s chief of staff - [Arrest in Tupac Shakur Murder Case Extends the U.S. Intelligence Cover-up](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/12/19/arrest-in-tupac-shakur-murder-case-extends-the-u-s-intelligence-cover-up/) - In late September 2023, police arrested a man they say ordered the murder of rap icon Tupac Shakur in 1996. This arrest comes after decades of murders and cover-up of the globally loved rapper and film star whose work at bringing peace between rival gangs threatened the CIA’s racist, imperialist drug-trafficking agenda. After the September - [Arrest in Tupac Shakur Murder Case Extends the U.S. Intelligence Cover-up](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/12/19/arrest-in-tupac-shakur-murder-case-extends-the-u-s-intelligence-cover-up/) - In late September 2023, police arrested a man they say ordered the murder of rap icon Tupac Shakur in 1996. This arrest comes after decades of murders and cover-up of the globally loved rapper and film star whose work at bringing peace between rival gangs threatened the CIA’s racist, imperialist drug-trafficking agenda. After the September - [Barbara Lee, the Sole Member of Congress to Vote Against the War on Terror, Sadly Allies With Forces of Evil in U.S. Politics](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/12/15/barbara-lee-the-sole-member-of-congress-to-vote-against-the-war-on-terror-sadly-allies-with-forces-of-evil-in-u-s-politics/) - Serves As an Award Presenter at 40th Anniversary Gala of CIA Cutout Barbara Lee (D-CA), 77, is rightly revered in progressive circles as the sole member of Congress—House or Senate—to have voted against a resolution that gave the president power to wage aggressive war indefinitely in the Middle East after 9/11.[1] On November 14, however, - [Russia, China, and North Korea Did Not Fall Into a Trap Set By the U.S., But 120 Other Nations Did!](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/12/14/russia-china-and-north-korea-did-not-fall-into-a-trap-set-by-the-u-s-but-120-other-nations-did/) - And be warned: Encryption is unsafe and cyber-security is a myth! For Crypto AG, the Swiss company that, according to The Economist, "rose to dominate the global market for cipher machines after the Second World War" and was for decades the leading manufacturer of cipher equipment for voice communications and digital data networks, Hans Bühler - [CovertAction Bulletin: U.S. Targets Venezuela on Behalf of ExxonMobil](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/12/13/covertaction-bulletin-u-s-targets-venezuela-on-behalf-of-exxonmobil/) - The United States government is inserting itself into a border dispute between Venezuela and Guyana on behalf of ExxonMobil. The oil-rich Essequibo region has the world’s biggest reserves per capita of crude oil and in May of this year, a “significant discovery” by ExxonMobil was announced in the area’s 6.6-million acre Staborek Block oil field... - [Consortium News Performs Service to Humanity By Filing Lawsuit Against Media Watchdog Organization Run By Ex-Spooks that Promotes Censorship Under Guise of Combatting “Disinformation”](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/12/12/consortium-news-performs-service-to-humanity-by-filing-lawsuit-against-media-watchdog-organization-run-by-ex-spooks-that-promotes-censorship-under-guise-of-combatting-disinformation/) - In early November, the leadership and board of Consortium News, the independent news site, filed a major lawsuit against the federal government and NewsGuard Technologies, Inc. NewGuard at first glance looks like a media watchdog organization, a group that seeks to keep misinformation and disinformation out of the mainstream. That notion is quickly dispelled, however, - [Nicaragua’s Finance Minister Details How U.S. Sanctions Impact Nicaragua’s Poor](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/12/06/nicaraguas-finance-minister-details-how-u-s-sanctions-impact-nicaraguas-poor/) - Is it true that 50% of Nicaraguans want to leave their country owing to a climate of repression and economic decline, supposedly resulting from socialist policies? This was the allegation in a report published by AmericasBarometer, a research agency based at Vanderbilt University, which failed to note that it's previous forecast, that 30% of Nicaraguans would - [Sweden’s Joining NATO Was Set in Motion in the 1980s in a False Flag Attack Orchestrated by the CIA](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/09/11/swedens-joining-nato-was-set-in-motion-in-the-1980s-in-a-false-flag-attack-orchestrated-by-the-cia/) - U.S. and British Intelligence Staged a Soviet Naval Incursion in Swedish Waters in Order to Turn Sweden Against Russia and Draw It Closer to the U.S. At the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit in Vilnius in early July, Sweden was admitted into NATO together with Finland, pending ratification by Turkey’s Grand National Assembly. Turkish - [CovertAction Bulletin: True Horror of the Israeli Assault](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/12/06/covertaction-bulletin-true-horror-of-the-israeli-assault/) - The U.S. House of Representatives recently passed HR 888, reaffirming the State of Israel’s right to exist by a vote of 412-1. And HR 894, which says the House “clearly and firmly states that anti-Zionism is anti-semitism” has passed by a vote of 311-14 with 92 abstentions... - [IT ARMY OF UKRAINE: How U.S. Intelligence Agencies Have Elevated Cybercrime in Ukraine into a Freedom-Fighting Cult](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/12/05/it-army-of-ukraine-how-u-s-intelligence-agencies-have-elevated-cybercrime-in-ukraine-into-a-freedom-fighting-cult/) - As we know, freedom ends where the freedom of another begins. That is why today, more than ever before, everyone simply needs to develop within themselves a self-control tuning fork—an analytical tool that allows them to evaluate what is happening in a sensible way. The battle for minds and souls is in full swing. This - [Boeing CEO David Calhoun Made $22.5 Million in 2023 While Boeing’s Weapons Kill Civilians in Senseless U.S. Wars](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/12/04/boeing-ceo-david-calhoun-made-22-5-million-in-2023-while-boeings-weapons-kill-civilians-in-senseless-u-s-wars/) - Calhoun Also Received $15 Million in Extra Stock Shares! He and Other Top Defense Contractor Executives Are Being Put on Trial by Citizen-Peace Group Holding Them Accountable for Their Crimes Life is great for Boeing CEO David Calhoun,[1] who was paid a salary of $22.5 million in 2023 and received a bonus of $15 million - [Israel’s Government Attacks Ordinary Jews as Well as Palestinians](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/11/27/israels-government-attacks-ordinary-jews-as-well-as-palestinians/) - The purpose of this article is to create unity instead of the current animosity between the good and decent people who identify as “pro-Israel” and the good and decent people who identify as “pro-Palestine.” How? By demonstrating that the PURPOSE of Israeli government violence against Palestinians—including one of its openly declared purposes of enlarging Israel geographically while making the Palestinian population in it - [CovertAction Bulletin: Students Lead the Way for Palestine](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/11/29/covertaction-bulletin-students-lead-the-way-for-palestine/) - On November 26, three young Palestinian men were shot in Burlington, Vermont. Hisham Awartani, a junior at Brown University, released a statement that was read at a campus vigil saying, “This hideous crime did not happen in a vacuum. As much as I appreciate the love of every single one of you here today, I am but one casualty in a much wider conflict.” ... - [Traveling to Prove China Is Not Our Enemy](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/12/01/traveling-to-prove-china-is-not-our-enemy/) - “China Is Not Our Enemy” was the theme of a ten-day visit to China in early November. The visit was designed to find and highlight a path to common prosperity and a shared future between China, the United States, and the rest of the world. Visiting China made me believe peace is possible. 1. Taiwan - [U.S. Extends Economic Carpet Bombing of Russia with Yet More Sanctions on Most Sanctioned Country in the World](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/11/30/u-s-extends-economic-carpet-bombing-of-russia-with-yet-more-sanctions-on-most-sanctioned-country-in-the-world/) - This When It Is Known That Sanctions Have Not Worked On November 2, the Biden administration announced a sweeping new round of sanctions on Russia, which was already the most sanctioned country in the world.[1] According to Reuters, the new sanctions targeted 90 entities and individuals, including a liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in Siberia - [The Political Inquisition of Rashida Tlaib](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/11/29/the-political-inquisition-of-rashida-tlaib/) - Another example of the United States, as an empire, fully supporting Israel in its attempted genocide against Palestinians was decided with the vote to censure Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) on November 7, 2023. Tlaib, a Palestinian-American, had the courage to call out Israel for its militaristic debacle in Gaza, as well as the West Bank, - [The U.S. Is Quietly Expanding Its Influence in Macedonia—to the Detriment of the Population](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/11/24/the-u-s-has-its-eyes-on-expanding-nato-into-north-macedonia-and-is-quietly-expanding-its-influence-in-the-country-to-the-detriment-of-the-population/) - One-Tenth of the Parliament is Facing Charges Under Another Repressive Regime Backed by the U.S. A comprehensive report by Macedonian Human Rights Movement International details the complete control by the United States over Macedonia's judiciary, resulting in tremendous suffering by dissidents, in particular political prisoners, and the Macedonian population as a whole. The United States - [Corruption of U.S. Justice Department and the Two-Tiered Justice System: The Case of Whistleblower Bradley Birkenfeld](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/11/22/corruption-of-u-s-justice-department-and-the-two-tiered-justice-system-the-case-of-whistleblower-bradley-birkenfeld/) - When this Whistleblower Exposed the Crimes of Obama’s Golf Partner and 12th Largest Campaign Contributor, the U.S. Justice Department Did the Honorable Thing—It Jailed the Whistleblower and Let Obama’s Golf Partner Walk Away Free Bradley Birkenfeld is a former Swiss banker who helped the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) recoup billions of dollars in tax revenues after - [Down in Dallas Town, From JFK to K2 Review](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/11/21/down-in-dallas-town-from-jfk-to-k2-review/) - New Doc Curiously Commemorates the Greatest Whodunit in American History This November 22 marks a grim milestone: The 60th anniversary of the assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy in Dallas. JFK’s liquidation has left an indelible scar on the psyche of America, one that has arguably never healed. Compounding the loss of the youthful, handsome - [Corporate War Profiteers Finally Put on Trial](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/11/20/corporate-war-profiteers-finally-put-on-trial/) - In early January 2009, a thirteen-year-old girl named Almaza Samouni watched in horror as 30 members of her family were killed while her home in Gaza was shelled by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) during Operation Cast Lead. Among the victims was her brother, who was struck by a missile while exiting the house to - [Geography and History Render the U.S. the Most Defensible Country in the World—Indeed It Spends Far More Than Any Other Country On Its Military](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/11/17/geography-and-history-render-the-u-s-the-safest-country-in-the-world-yet-it-spends-far-more-than-any-other-country-on-its-military/) - This Military Paradox Could Very Well Lead to Nuclear Armageddon In 1949 the U.S. War Department changed its name. Branches of the armed forces were then administered under a new name: the Department of Defense. This newly defined mandate of defending the United States should have been a relatively easy and inexpensive task. Geography and history render the - [“The Death Row You Don’t Want to Know:” An Inmate at San Quentin Reveals What Death Row is Really Like](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/11/09/the-death-row-you-dont-want-to-know-an-inmate-at-san-quentin-reveals-what-death-row-is-really-like/) - From the date of being arrested (March 4, 1979) in one of the most racist counties in California (Riverside), and enduring one of what would be called by many, “a circus trial” on December 12, 1979, I was brought to the sixth floor of North Block, better known as the original Death Row. I’ll never - [What Happened to the Liberals?](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/11/16/what-happened-to-the-liberals/) - A New Biography of Frank Church Sheds Light on a Lost Breed of Liberal Crusader Whose Investigation into the Abuses of the Intelligence Agencies Resonates Today In his 1966 song “Love Me, I’m a Liberal,” Phil Ochs mocked the pretensions of liberal Democrats of his era who supported the purge of communists from the AFL-CIO; - [CovertAction Bulletin: Media Lies, Palestinians Die](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/11/16/covertaction-bulletin-media-lies-palestinians-die/) - Malcolm X might have said it best: “The press is so powerful in its image-making role, it can make the criminal look like he’s the victim and make the victim look like he’s the criminal. This is the press, an irresponsible press. It will make the criminal look like he’s the victim and make the victim look like he’s the criminal. If you aren’t careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing”... - [New Investigation Exposes CIA Role in 1975 Coup Against Australian Government which Wanted to Remove U.S. Spy Base](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/11/15/new-investigation-exposes-cia-role-in-1975-coup-against-australian-government-which-wanted-to-remove-u-s-spy-base/) - British Prime Minister Harold Wilson, Queen Elizabeth and U.S. President Gerald Ford Sanctioned an Operation to Bring Left-Leaning Prime Minister Gough Whitlam Down by Having an Arms Company and Bank Run by CIA Assets Trick His Deputy Prime Minister into Accepting an Illegal Loan Danny Casolaro was a maverick investigative reporter who was on the - [Play Commemorating 60th Anniversary of JFK Assassination Recreates Interrogation of Oswald by Dallas Police Captain William Fritz](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/11/14/play-commemorating-60th-anniversary-of-jfk-assassination-recreates-interrogation-of-oswald-by-dallas-police-captain-william-fritz/) - Was Lee Harvey Oswald a “Lone Nut”? “Lone Gunman”? “Hitman”? “Conspirator”? Or, As He Claimed, “A Patsy”? To try to get the answers to the above questions about the man accused of shooting President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, I attended a reading at Theatre 40 in Beverly Hills of Dennis Richard’s gripping docu-play Oswald—The Actual Interrogation, - [The Intelligence Community’s Latest Novelty, Spy Underwear, Puts Us Closer to the Totalitarian Dystopia Described in Science Fiction Novels](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/11/13/the-intelligence-communitys-latest-novelty-spy-underwear-puts-us-closer-to-the-totalitarian-dystopia-described-in-science-fiction-novels/) - In 1921, just after the Russian Revolution, Yevgeny Zamyatin published a dystopian science fiction novel, We, in which a spacecraft engineer lives in a futuristic city made of glass enabling government authorities to track everything that people do at every moment of the day. The novel influenced George Orwell and Aldous Huxley who wrote prophetic - [Does a Now Not So Secret U.S. Military Base in Israel Portend a Wider U.S. War in the Middle East?](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/11/10/does-a-now-not-so-secret-u-s-military-base-in-israel-portend-a-wider-u-s-war-in-the-middle-east/) - In August, two months before the Tribe of Nova Music Festival massacre, the Pentagon awarded a $35.8 million contract to build U.S. troop facilities for a secret base it maintains deep within Israel’s Negev desert, just 20 miles from Gaza, code-named “Site 512.” Procurement records describe the secret base, located off Mt. Qeren, as a - [CovertAction Bulletin: Building Social Media Inspired by Openness & Transparency](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/11/08/covertaction-bulletin-building-social-media-inspired-by-openness-transparency/) - While most social media platforms spy on us, manipulate our emotions with hidden algorithms, feed our data to governments on request and censor with no notice or transparency, can there be an alternative that’s friendly for everyone to use? We talk with John Kiriakou and Sean O’Brien about Pancake, a new messaging technology being built to address that question... - [Anyone Who Believes in the Hollywood Image of the CIA Should Come to Serbia—Where the Agency Has Long Aligned with One of the Country’s Most Notorious Criminal Gangs](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/11/11/anyone-who-believes-in-the-hollywood-image-of-the-cia-should-come-to-serbia-where-the-agency-has-long-aligned-with-one-of-the-countrys-most-notorious-criminal-gangs/) - Most people tend to believe that the CIA is just an intelligence service, gathering information to enable better public policy. However, CAM readers know that its real purpose is to engage in political skullduggery and subvert or destabilize other countries in order to help facilitate the goal of U.S. global domination. Below is an interview - [Finally, A School that Teaches Kids to Protest War and Support Peace](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/11/07/finally-a-school-that-teaches-kids-to-protest-war-and-support-peace/) - The Maine-Endwell School District in Upstate New York Set a Wonderful Precedent By Hosting a Peace Day on September 21 Children around the world need to be taught that killing brothers and sisters, and fellow humans anywhere is murder and should never be allowed. In the United States, the vast majority of teachers hide that - [With All Other Reasons Having Run Out, Biden Now Urging Support For Ukraine War on Spurious Economic Grounds](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/11/06/with-all-other-reasons-having-run-out-biden-now-urging-support-for-ukraine-war-on-spurious-economic-grounds/) - With Ukraine’s global image having taken a hit because of its identification with Naziism along with the failings of its summer counteroffensive, the Biden White House is now urging lawmakers in both parties, according to Politico, to sell the war effort in Ukraine as a job creator and economic stimulus in the U.S. In an - [Yigal Amir is Israel’s Oswald](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/11/03/yigal-amir-is-israels-oswald/) - Amir Was Convicted for the 1995 Assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin But Was Clearly Set Up Twenty-eight years ago, the Israeli nation went into mourning after the assassination of Labor Party Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin on November 4, 1995, allegedly by a right-wing West Bank settler named Yigal Amir. A law student at - [Will David Again Slay Goliath?](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/11/02/will-david-again-slay-goliath/) - A Palestinian boy living on Israel’s West Bank rolled a rubber truck tire toward an already burning fire. Wearing a mud-smeared T-shirt and a determined expression, he dumped the tire and ran for another. “There’s my column,” I said to my wife, Stephanie, pointing to the TV screen as we watched morning BBC news. “Him, - [Notorious “Secret Team” Headed by CIA Agent Theodore Shackley Was Involved in the Kidnapping and Assassination of Italian Premier Aldo Moro, Italian Parliamentary Investigations Show](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/10/27/notorious-secret-team-headed-by-cia-agent-theodore-shackley-was-involved-in-the-kidnapping-and-assassination-of-italian-premier-aldo-moro-italian-parliamentary-investigations-show/) - The Secret Team was a group of CIA agents run by CIA's “Blond Ghost” Theodore Shackley that was involved in the most scandalous U.S. foreign policy interventions throughout the 1970s and 1980s, including the “October Surprise” and Iran-Contra affair. Now, Shackley’s “secret team” has been found to have had extensive connections to the assassination of - [Washington Post Lifts the Veil on CIA’s Shadow War Against Russia Waged Since 2014](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/11/01/washington-post-lifts-the-veil-on-cias-shadow-war-against-russia-waged-since-2014/) - In August 2022, Ukrainian security service (SBU) operatives hid explosives in a crate intended for a cat in a car driven by a woman and her twelve year old daughter. After the car passed through the Russian border, the SBU planted the bomb in the SUV of Russian journalist Darya Dugina, the daughter of well - [CovertAction Bulletin: Largest Pro-Palestine Protest in U.S. History](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/11/01/covertaction-bulletin-largest-pro-palestine-protest-in-u-s-history/) - November 4th has been declared an International Day of Solidarity with Palestine. Over 100 demonstrations will take place that day around the world in solidarity with Palestine, from Johannesburg to São Paulo, Berlin to Kuala Lampur, Athens to Algiers... - [American Weapons Leftover in Afghanistan After U.S. Forces Withdrew Fell Into Hands of Terrorist Organizations and Are Now Surfacing in Israel, Kashmir and Pakistan](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/10/31/american-weapons-leftover-in-afghanistan-after-u-s-forces-withdrew-fell-into-hands-of-terrorist-organizations-and-are-now-surfacing-in-israel-kashmir-and-pakistan/) - Officials from Pakistan, India, and Israel have confirmed—after the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan—U.S. weapons left behind have been found in the hands of terrorist groups. This issue gained significant attention when, on October 7, 2023, Hamas launched attacks on Israel. British politician Jim Ferguson wrote on X—formerly Twitter—and shared a link from Aamaj News, along - [The Saga of Richard M. Taus](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/10/30/the-saga-of-richard-m-taus/) - There are no coincidences. I can attest to that. I am now a true believer that certain things were meant to be and others were not. And the ones that were not meant to be have made all the difference. My dream of being a rock star journalist never came true. My time in investigative - [The Surveillance State vs. Whistleblower: Reality…What A Bummer!](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/10/26/the-surveillance-state-vs-whistleblower-realitywhat-a-bummer/) - Director/co-writer Tina Satter’s movie Reality often has a documentary-like vibe. As we’re informed via an onscreen title, the film’s dialogue is mostly taken from the “voluntary” June 3, 2017 interview of Reality Winner (Sydney Sweeney of HBO’s Euphoria) conducted by Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents at her home in Augusta, Georgia. That’s where Winner, - [Joe Biden Gives Speech Justifying U.S. Support for Ukraine and Gaza Wars that Was Totally Detached from Reality](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/10/25/joe-biden-gives-speech-justifying-u-s-support-for-ukraine-and-gaza-wars-that-was-totally-detached-from-reality/) - Right Out of a George Orwell Novel As the U.S. escalates its involvement in wars in Ukraine and Gaza, Joe Biden gave a speech at the Oval Office on October 19 that was totally detached from reality. The speech was designed to legitimize a $106 billion budget request to Congress for Ukraine, Israel, Gaza, Taiwan - [CovertAction Bulletin: Palestinian Resistance and Censorship](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/10/25/covertaction-bulletin-palestinian-resistance-and-censorship/) - Protests across the world in solidarity with Palestine are building a support movement for the Palestinian resistance and cause, showing leaders that people from the U.S. to the UK to Yemen and Jordan and beyond stand with the Palestinian people in their fight against the U.S.-backed Israeli occupation. These protests are changing the shape of media coverage and influencing popular opinion and the debate over the issue.... - [Biden Claims CIA and Pentagon Determined Gaza Hospital Strike Originated in Gaza—But Where’s the Proof?](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/10/24/biden-claims-cia-and-pentagon-determined-gaza-hospital-strike-originated-in-gaza-but-wheres-the-proof/) - On October 17, an explosion took place immediately adjacent to the al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza, the result of what appears to have been a rocket attack. Between 200 and 500 people were killed, all of them Palestinians. Gazans and many in the international community immediately blamed the Israeli military for the attack. Israel, however, blamed - [Israel Should Know: “What Thou Sowest, Thou Shall Also Reap”](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/10/23/israel-should-know-what-thou-sowest-thou-shall-also-reap/) - On Saturday October 7, 2023 the military section of Hamas in Gaza, one of the National Liberation organizations of Palestine, initiated a military incursion inside Israel, killing many Israeli civilians. The corporate media, politicians, and some in the international community, are desperately trying to convince us that this was an “unprovoked” attack. This characterization is - [Ted Hall Deserves a Nobel Peace Prize For Helping to Prevent a Nuclear Holocaust in the 1950s](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/10/23/ted-hall-deserves-a-nobel-peace-prize-for-helping-to-prevent-a-nuclear-holocaust-in-the-1950s/) - Ted Hall Helped the Soviet Union to Counterbalance the U.S. Monopoly on Atomic Weaponry After World War II, Which Acted as a Deterrent Against Aggressive U.S. War Plans Dave Lindorff initiated the documentary film A Compassionate Spy, following a correspondence with Ted Hall’s 87-year-old widow, Joan Hall. Lindorff had written an article in 2017 proposing - [The Praising of a Ukrainian Nazi-Linked Veteran in Canada’s Parliament: The Legacy of Ukrainian Nazis Has Reemerged](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/10/20/the-praising-of-a-ukrainian-nazi-linked-veteran-in-canadas-parliament-the-legacy-of-ukrainian-nazis-has-reemerged/) - It was an embarrassing event in the Canadian Parliament in late September as Ukrainian Nazi-linked veteran Yaroslav Hunka was honored as a World War II “hero.” Upon finding this out, Canadian officials scrambled to save face. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau expressed that this was “deeply embarrassing.” House of Commons Speaker Anthony Rota, after getting more - [Code Pink Co-Founder Accuses The New York Times of Spreading a “Packet of Lies” at Webinar Hosted by CovertAction Magazine](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/10/19/code-pink-co-founder-accuses-the-new-york-times-of-spreading-a-packet-of-lies-at-webinar-hosted-by-covertaction-magazine/) - Jodie Evans Said That Peace Group Has Not Accepted Any Money From China or Any Other Foreign Government At a webinar on “The New McCarthyism” hosted by CovertAction Magazine in collaboration with The Canada Files on October 9, Code Pink co-founder Jodie Evans accused 11 New York Times journalists of spreading a “packet of lies” - [CovertAction Bulletin - Zionism is Racism: A History of Occupation](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/10/18/covertaction-bulletin-zionism-is-racism-a-history-of-occupation/) - As the IDF continues its bombardment of Palestine and prepares for a possible ground invasion, protests across the world continue to oppose the apartheid Israeli government and those who are complicit or active in supporting it—like the United States with its $3.8 billion in aid as well as immeasurable political and media support... - [Russia and China Must Prevent Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in Palestine](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/10/18/russia-and-china-must-prevent-genocide-and-ethnic-cleansing-in-palestine/) - Will justice prevail for the first time in the new multicentric world order? A short manual for damage control in the Middle East Humankind is on the edge of an extremely dangerous military and moral precipice. It faces the prospect of internationally approved and widely applauded genocide (the destruction of an ethnic group) and radical - [Hamas’ Attack on Israelis Strengthens, Not Weakens, Israel’s Right Wing Political Elite](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/10/17/hamas-attack-on-israelis-strengthens-not-weakens-israels-right-wing-political-elite/) - While many people are deeply saddened by the escalation of violence in the Arab-Israeli conflict, what’s commonly under-reported is the origin and funding of Hamas. The Hamas attack on Israeli non-combatant civilians was not at all a blow to Israel’s ruling elite, but, on the contrary, an attack that strengthens their rule that came at - [Florida International University Hires Failed Venezuelan Coup Plotter as Visiting Professor at Adam Smith Center For Economic Freedom](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/10/13/florida-international-university-hires-failed-venezuelan-coup-plotter-as-visiting-professor-at-adam-smith-center-for-economic-freedom/) - The CIA has long had a presence on American college campuses—whether as recruiters or in political science and Russian Studies Departments. Foreign CIA assets or political leaders or intellectuals receiving funding from the National Endowment For Democracy (NED), which finances propaganda, have been frequently appointed to faculty positions at prestigious universities. Kanan Makyia, author of - [Widening the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Yellow Journalism Stoking Potential War on Iran](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/10/11/widening-the-israeli-palestinian-conflict-yellow-journalism-stoking-potential-war-on-iran/) - The Wall Street Journal Blames Iran For Helping to Plot Tribe of Nova Massacre When This is Uncorroborated During the late 1800s, the Hearst yellow press ran stories falsely accusing Spain of sinking the U.S.S. Maine in order to help mobilize public opinion in support of the Spanish-American War that resulted in the U.S. colonization - [France’s Anti-Pension Reform Protests Follow a Long Revolutionary Tradition and Pick Up Where the Yellow Vests Left Off](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/10/12/frances-anti-pension-reform-protests-follow-a-long-revolutionary-tradition-and-pick-up-where-the-yellow-vests-left-off/) - “Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living.” — Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire - [CovertAction Bulletin - Eyewitness Gaza: Why the Resistance is Justified](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/10/11/covertaction-bulletin-eyewitness-gaza-why-the-resistance-is-justified/) - On October 7th, the Palestinian resistance launched its Al-Aqsa Flood uprising against the decades-long occupation by Israel. Despite $3.8 billion every year in military aid from the US and a vast military and surveillance state, the Israeli government seemingly had no warning to this carefully-planned advance... - [U.S. Taxpayers Are Funding Their Own Conditioning for a War that Would Entail National Suicide](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/10/09/u-s-taxpayers-are-funding-their-own-conditioning-for-a-war-that-would-entail-national-suicide/) - CIA Cutout Spends $5 Million Per Year to Spread Anti-China Propaganda While Congress Chips in at Least $500 Million In 2021, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a CIA cutout provided $5 million in grants to anti-Chinese government groups. The main purpose was to try to destabilize China and spread propaganda to isolate it while - [How the Fossil Fuel Industry Came to Love Climate Change](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/10/06/how-the-fossil-fuel-industry-came-to-love-climate-change/) - Has Carbon Taxation Become an Expedient Way to Redistribute Wealth, Cover Up Environmental Crimes, Promote Hazardous Energy Policies, and Control the Working Class and Developing Nations? Does the Threat of Climate Change Misdirect the Anti-War Movement? During the early 2000s, only a few left-wing magazines with limited circulation warned about the threat of Global Warming. - [Indictment Against Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chair Offers Window Into Corruption Underlying U.S. Foreign Policy](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/10/05/indictment-against-senate-foreign-relations-committee-chair-offers-window-into-corruption-underlying-u-s-foreign-policy/) - Raises Questions Also As to Why the Democratic Party Would Choose Someone So Far to the Right to Become the Party’s Effective Foreign Policy Spokesperson The jaw-dropping three-count federal indictment against Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chair Robert Menendez (D-NJ), his wife, and three businessmen with close ties to the authoritarian Egyptian regime is truly jaw - [Was the Pentagon and CIA Behind the COVID-19 Pandemic?](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/02/27/was-the-pentagon-and-cia-behind-the-covid-19-pandemic/) - Bioterrorism expert and whistleblower alleges that CIA secretly collaborated in supporting unethical gain of function research that resulted in the manufacture of the COVID-19 virus, which was then leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Dr. Andrew G. Huff is an Iraq War veteran and infectious disease epidemiologist with a Ph.D. from the University of - [Biden Administration Provides $80 Million Worth of High Performance Helicopters to Right-Wing Government in Zambia While It Carries Out Campaign of Repression Against Country’s Socialist Party](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/10/05/biden-administration-provides-80-million-worth-of-high-performance-helicopters-to-right-wing-government-in-zambia-while-it-carries-out-campaign-of-repression-against-countrys-socialist-party/) - Socialist Party Leader Fred M’membe Has Been Arrested Numerous Times by Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema. He Received the Helicopters As a Reward for Allowing U.S. Corporations to Plunder Zambia’s Copper Wealth The Biden administration has gifted Zambia with four state-of-the-art high-performance Bell helicopters, valued at approximately $80 million (1.5 billion kwacha), alongside a comprehensive three-year - [CovertAction Bulletin - UN Intervention in Haiti: What’s Really Happening?](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/10/04/covertaction-bulletin-un-intervention-in-haiti-whats-really-happening/) - The United Nations voted on October 2nd to authorize a military intervention in Haiti, led by the Kenyan government. But a long history of foreign intervention and occupation in Haiti has led to disastrous results for the Haitian people, whether at the hands of the United States, France or overseen by the United Nations... - [Prominent Hollywood Actor Says that the U.S. and Israeli Governments Are Responsible For Humanitarian Crisis in Lebanon and Syria](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/10/03/prominent-hollywood-actor-says-that-the-u-s-and-israeli-governments-are-responsible-for-humanitarian-crisis-in-lebanon-and-syria/) - Sir Vincent Raymond Percival Lyn is best known for his role alongside Jackie Chan in Operation Condor, more broadly acting in more than 30 Hollywood films. However, one successful career did not suffice, for this polymath’s interests and achievements run the gamut of humanity itself. He is a Grammy Award alumnus, Carnegie Hall concert pianist, - [Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel is Defiant as President Joe Biden Extends Criminal Blockade on Cuba For 61st Year](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/10/02/cuban-president-miguel-diaz-canel-is-defiant-as-president-joe-biden-extends-criminal-blockade-on-cuba-for-61st-year/) - Díaz-Canel Characterized Blockade As Part of a “Tightened Siege” Resulting from An “Unjust International Order” On September 14, President Joe Biden announced the extension of the U.S. blockade of Cuba for another year, until at least September 14, 2024. In a memorandum directed to the Secretary of State and Secretary of the Treasury, Biden proclaimed that this - [Famed Writer Featured in New Documentary Provided a Literary Equivalent to the FBI’s COINTELPRO](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/09/29/famed-writer-featured-in-new-documentary-provided-a-literary-equivalent-to-the-fbis-cointelpro/) - Thomas Wolfe’s Book Radical Chic Mocked Supporters of the New Left and Helped Deflate Political Activism in the 1970s Richard Dewey’s Radical Wolfe is a stylish, enjoyable documentary about iconic 20th century American writer Tom Wolfe. Along with Hunter Thompson, Truman Capote and Norman Mailer, Wolfe was an exemplar of the “New Journalism” trend that - [Ukraine’ Assassination Program Has Gotten So Out of Control that Some of Its Members Are Starting to Speak Out](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/09/28/ukraine-assassination-program-has-gotten-so-out-of-control-that-some-of-its-members-are-starting-to-speak-out/) - The Assassination Program Bears Parallels With the Vietnam Phoenix Program and Israeli Mossad Operations Targeting Palestinians On September 9th, The Economist ran a remarkable story entitled “Ukraine’s Assassination Programme: Its Agents Have Become Expert in Dark Revenge.” It spotlighted how the Ukrainian Security Services (SBU)’s Fifth Directorate and Special Operations Forces (SSO) are running an - [Cuba Played a Crucial Role in the Demise of Apartheid While the CIA Helped Uphold It for Decades](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/09/27/cuba-played-a-crucial-role-in-the-demise-of-apartheid-while-the-cia-helped-uphold-it-for-decades/) - Between 1975 and 1991, Cuba embarked on a remarkable internationalist mission known as Operación Carlota. This mission was undertaken to defend Angola's newly found independence from an invasion by apartheid-era South Africa, and it played a pivotal role in the broader African anti-colonial and national liberation struggles. Over 400,000 Cubans participated in various capacities, including - [U.S. Leads the World in Solitary Confinement that Destroys Prisoners Mental Health](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/09/26/u-s-leads-the-world-in-solitary-confinement-that-destroys-prisoners-mental-health/) - Anthony Gay is severely mentally ill. And like many Americans who suffer from severe mental illness and who commit a crime, he was placed in solitary confinement after his conviction, rather than in a mental hospital where he could have received treatment for his schizophrenia. Isolated in a six-by-ten foot cell 24 hours a day, - [Biden Appoints Billionaire From CIA-Mafia Linked Family to Oversee Exploitation of Ukraine’s Economy by Multi-National Corporations](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/09/25/biden-appoints-billionaire-from-cia-mafia-linked-family-to-oversee-exploitation-of-ukraines-economy-by-multi-national-corporations/) - On September 14, President Joe Biden appointed former Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker, an heir to the Pritzker banking dynasty whose net worth is around $3.3 billion, to be Special Representative for Ukraine’s Economic Recovery. In a statement, Biden said that Ms. Pritzker would “drive the United States’ efforts to help rebuild the Ukrainian economy” by - [Ireland Has Been Swallowed Whole by American Economics](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/09/22/ireland-has-been-swallowed-whole-by-american-economics/) - The Country Has Sadly Evolved Into a Tax Haven for U.S. Corporations While Aligning Itself More and More with a Failing Empire “‘I’m at home,’ [Biden] told the Irish Parliament to thunderous applause. ‘I only wish I could stay longer.’”[1] The U.S. President, Joe Biden, visited Ireland at the start of April. In the midst - [BRICS Attempts to Establish Multi-Polar World, Rejecting U.S.-dominated Uni-Polar World](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/09/21/brics-attempts-to-establish-multi-polar-world-rejecting-u-s-dominated-uni-polar-world/) - On August 22-24, the BRICS organization (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) held its 15th Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa. BRICS Chairman Cyril Ramaphosa, who is president of South Africa, made concluding remarks about the Summit in a media briefing: “Leading up to the Summit, there was a wide-ranging BRICS business program aimed at attracting investment, - [Western Media Ignores Violent Attacks Directed at Orthodox Christians in Moldova by Supporters of U.S. Backed Regime](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/09/20/western-media-ignores-violent-attacks-directed-at-orthodox-christians-in-moldova-by-supporters-of-u-s-backed-regime/) - Moldovan Victims Are “Unworthy Victims” Since Russia Cannot Be Blamed for the Attacks In a landmark 1979 study entitled The Political Economy of Human Rights: The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism, Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman laid out the concept of “worthy” versus “unworthy” victims by which the U.S. and Western media, in - [Columbia University Appoints as New Professor a War Lover with No Academic Credentials that Gloated When Libya’s Leader Was Lynched](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/09/19/columbia-university-appoints-as-new-professor-a-war-lover-with-no-academic-credentials-that-gloated-when-libyas-leader-was-lynched/) - Some Great Role Model for Students That Hillary Clinton Is! In his 1923 book The Goose-Step, renowned muckraking journalist Upton Sinclair examined the consequences of plutocratic capitalist control of American colleges and universities, writing that “our educational system is not a public service, but an instrument of special privilege; its purpose is not to further the welfare of - [Harvard Kennedy School’s Misinformation Review Promotes Its Own Misinformation](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/09/18/harvard-kennedy-schools-misinformation-review-promotes-its-own-misinformation/) - Denigration of Conspiracy Theorists Is Right Out of the CIA’s Playbook In January 2020, the Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy inaugurated a new online peer reviewed academic journal titled Misinformation Review. The journal’s co-founding editors were Matthew Baum, the Marvin Kalb Professor of Global Communications at the Shorenstein Center - [The Biden Administration is Providing Billions of Dollars of Weapons to a Regime Dominated by People With an Attitude Towards Russia that is Similar to Adolph Hitler](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/09/15/the-biden-administration-is-providing-billions-of-dollars-of-weapons-to-a-regime-dominated-by-people-with-an-attitude-towards-russia-that-is-similar-to-adolph-hitler/) - Ukrainian Regime Does Not Hide Its Celebration of Fascists Who Wanted to Cleanse Ukraine of “Asiatic” Muscovite Influence The current war in Ukraine has caused an avalanche of propaganda and distortion. Beyond the farcical reports of fictional Ukrainian pilots and babushkas with pickle jars taking on Russian drones, there is a very insidious historical trend - [Right-Wing Terrorists Trained at NATO Bases Set To Go on Trial in Italy](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/09/12/right-wing-terrorists-trained-at-nato-bases-set-to-go-on-trial-in-italy/) - A new trial, expected to start shortly in the District of Brescia, Northern Italy, is grounded on the accusation that NATO bases in the region of Veneto provided orientation, training and support to infamous right-wing terrorist organizations, most notably Ordine Nuovo. In May 1974, Ordine Nuovo operatives planted a bomb at an anti-fascist rally in - [Biden Has Relaunched Reagan’s Murderous War Against Nicaraguan Democracy–How Many Is He Willing to Kill to Win?](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/09/14/biden-has-relaunched-reagans-murderous-war-against-nicaraguan-democracy-how-many-is-he-willing-to-kill-to-win/) - When CIA-trained terrorists tried to overthrow the Sandinista government in the 1980s, the left erupted in protest. Now the left is cheering for the CIA. During the 1980s, the American left was mobilized in opposition to the Reagan administration policy of arming the Nicaraguan Contras—counter-revolutionaries, whose primary purpose was to destabilize the left-wing Sandinista government. - [“Charter/Model Cities:” A Privatization Scheme that Violates the Sovereignty of Nations](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/09/13/charter-model-cities-a-privatization-scheme-that-violates-the-sovereignty-of-nations/) - “Build New Cities. Maximize Human Prosperity.” That is the slogan of Prospera, an entity that creates what it calls “model cities” or “charter cities,” a privatization scheme built for investors like libertarians, etc., in other words, voracious capitalists. These cities have operated in foreign countries, like Honduras, a victim of this mad, monetary experiment. Prospera’s website - [Declassified Documents Now Reveal There Were Two CIA Torture Programs](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2019/01/19/declassified-documents-now-reveal-there-were-two-cia-torture-programs/) - [Author's note: A major aspect of the CIA’s detention and interrogation operations has been purposefully hidden from view, primarily due to secrecy guidelines that make it illegal for anyone to “read into” the program to reveal even its very existence. Recently declassified documents make clear that there was not one, but two CIA torture programs. - [Julian Assange Show Trial Resumes: Why the U.S. Government Wants Him Silenced](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2020/09/07/julian-assange-show-trial-resumes-why-the-u-s-government-wants-him-silenced/) - Julian Assange has been held in isolation (23 hours per day) at Belmarsh high-security prison since he was dragged out of the Ecuadorian embassy in London on April 11, 2019. The United States government claims he violated its Espionage Act of 1917 and committed illegal computer hacking. U.S. authorities requested England’s government arrest and extradite - [Drone King Obama Enjoys Life in $11 Million Mansion, While Drone Whistleblower Daniel Hale Goes to Jail for Exposing War Crimes](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2021/04/09/drone-king-obama-enjoys-life-in-11-million-mansion-while-drone-whistleblower-daniel-hale-goes-to-jail-for-exposing-war-crimes/) - Hale’s case reflects the twisted morality and corruption of the legal system in an imperialist nation. In our upside-down world, good guys often go to jail, and bad guys get promoted and live luxuriously. Ex-President Barack Obama, a key architect of modern drone warfare, today lives in an $11.75 million, 6,892 square-foot waterfront mansion on - [While Claiming to Defend Freedom Around the World, the U.S. Has Dozens of Political Prisoners—and the Majority are People of Color](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/08/15/while-claiming-to-defend-freedom-around-the-world-the-u-s-has-dozens-of-political-prisoners-and-the-majority-are-people-of-color/) - Racism is still the driving force behind U.S. political imprisonment Political imprisonment in the United States exists primarily as a tool of racist repression. It is aimed disproportionately at people of color, as well as others engaged in anti-racist struggle. Whether in the fight against racism at home or against racist foreign policies, wars, occupation - [Ex-CIA Officer Who Led Raid that Captured Leading Al Qaeda Suspect Is Now Denouncing CIA for Torturing Zubaydah for 20 Years In Guantanamo](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2021/10/07/ex-cia-officer-who-led-raid-that-captured-leading-al-qaeda-suspect-is-now-denouncing-cia-for-torturing-zubaydah-for-20-years-in-guantanamo/) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday heard arguments from attorneys for Abu Zubaydah, a Guantánamo prisoner once thought to be the third-ranking leader in al-Qaeda, about whether their client would be allowed to depose two CIA contract psychologists who devised and carried out the Agency’s torture program and who personally participated in Zubaydah’s torture. - [The 60-Year U.S. Blockade on Cuba is an Abomination Just as Great as Guantanamo Bay—With no End in Sight](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/12/14/the-60-year-u-s-blockade-on-cuba-is-an-abomination-just-as-great-as-guantanamo-bay-with-no-end-in-sight/) - “El Bloqueo” (The Blockade) is what Cubans call it. It is a 60-year-old abomination. It is the U.S. embargo against Cuba. Imposed by U.S. President John F. Kennedy in 1962, the embargo has and continues to be an utter failure in its objective, that is, trying to fuel a counter-revolution within the island nation; or - [Whistleblowers and their Warriors - Episode 10 of Julian Assange: Countdown to Freedom](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2020/03/05/whistleblowers-and-their-warriors-episode-10-of-julian-assange-countdown-to-freedom/) - Listen to the latest episode of Randy Credico’s acclaimed radio show Live on the Fly. This series entitled “Julian Assange: Countdown to Freedom” is an ongoing exploration of the prosecution and persecution of the imprisoned WikiLeaks founder. Who’s Who on Episode 10 of Live on the Fly Jesselyn Radack heads the Whistleblower and Source Protection - [Elliot Abrams Was a CIA Agent According to Daughter of CIA-Mafia Liaison](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/09/08/elliot-abrams-was-a-cia-agent-according-to-daughter-of-cia-mafia-liaison/) - Appointment of Abrams to Public Diplomacy Commission Shows President Biden’s Close Ties to the CIA In September 1998, Desiree A. Ferdinand gave a sworn deposition, in a case filed with the U.S. District Court of Massachusetts, detailing the career of her father, Colonel Albert V. Carone, an army intelligence officer in World War II who - [If……Then That’s Treason](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/09/07/ifthen-thats-treason/) - The Perpetrators This list of perpetrators is not meant to be exhaustive, but it can help us begin a conversation that should lead to indictments for treason, in addition to other crimes. The harms these perpetrators are doing must be stopped. Survival is at stake. If COVID-19 was a laboratory-created disease for which people were - [New House Judiciary Select Subcommittee Should Pursue the Unfinished Business of the September 1992 Inslaw Affair Investigation](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/06/16/new-house-judiciary-select-subcommittee-should-pursue-the-unfinished-business-of-the-september-1992-inslaw-affair-investigation/) - Probe could help unlock vast web of CIA criminality and corruption spawning from theft and illegal use of spyware software used to monitor and track dissidents During the 1970s, a former National Security Agency (NSA) staffer named Bill Hamilton, who had translated articles in the North Vietnamese press for the CIA during the Vietnam War, - [In the U.S., Investigative Journalists Are Blacklisted, Ostracized and Even Jailed; in New Zealand, They are Honored](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/09/06/in-the-u-s-investigative-journalists-are-blacklisted-ostracized-and-even-jailed-in-new-zealand-they-are-honored/) - Nicky Hager received major national award in New Zealand after having written a book exposing a secret spy base in New Zealand and exposing other state crimes Julian Assange has, thus far, spent years in a British prison, awaiting extradition to the U.S., where he faces charges under the Espionage Act, for which he could - [Infamous U.S. Army Counterinsurgency Manual FM 30-31B, Used in False-Flag Terrorist Operations is Authentic, Top Intelligence Insiders and Criminal Investigations Finally Reveal](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/09/05/infamous-u-s-army-counterinsurgency-manual-fm-30-31b-used-in-false-flag-terrorist-operations-is-authentic-top-intelligence-insiders-and-criminal-investigations-finally-reveal/) - CovertAction Information Bulletin Vindicated by Revelations; Originally Exposed 1970 Manual, which CIA Called a Soviet Forgery, in January 1979 Issue. Criminal trials and investigations in Europe confirmed that top-secret “Supplement B” to U.S. Army Field Manual 30-31, contrary to the U.S. government’s oft-repeated denials, was indeed an authentic document. FM 30-31B first surfaced in Europe - [Son of Slain Journalist Who Exposed Web of CIA Corruption Calling For New Murder Investigation](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/09/04/son-of-slain-journalist-who-exposed-web-of-cia-corruption-calling-for-new-murder-investigation/) - Danny Casolaro’s Death in August 1991 Was Ruled a Suicide But Overwhelming Evidence Indicates That He Was Murdered—Likely by Rogue Elements of the CIA in Collaboration with the Kuwaiti Royal Family When a housekeeper at the Martinsburg, West Virginia, Sheraton Hotel entered Room 517 on the morning of August 10, 1991, she found journalist Danny - [Book Your Fondest Memories Here: Have an Exciting Vacation in Ukraine!](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/09/01/book-your-fondest-memories-here-have-an-exciting-vacation-in-ukraine/) - Already made vacation plans? How about something completely new? How about a country where “the air smells of freedom”? How about a vacation in Ukraine? The brave political tourists have led the way: British prime ministers (three in number), the American president, the German chancellor, the entire European Commission and many others have traveled to - [CovertAction Bulletin: Will BRICS Break the U.S. World Order?](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/08/30/covertaction-bulletin-will-brics-break-the-u-s-world-order/) - After their highly-watched 15th summit, the core member nations of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa have accepted six new members: Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, who will become members on January 1, 2024. More than a dozen other countries have applied for membership.... - [CovertAction Bulletin - Niger Coup Explained: West Points to Russia, Ignores Neocolonialism](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/08/09/covertaction-bulletin-niger-coup-explained-west-points-to-russia-ignores-neocolonialism/) - On July 26, former President Mohamad Bazoum was removed from power by a military general, Tchiani. This has set off a wave of condemnation and threats of military intervention from the US and France, for whom Bazoum proved to be a reliable ally. Thousands have rallied to support Niger’s new leadership since July 26, reportedly carrying banners reading ”Down with France” and “Foreign bases out”. The US has about 1,100 troops in Niger and France has about 1,500... - [CIA Still Refuses to Declassify Documents Exposing Its Responsibility for the Betrayal, Arrest and 27-Year Imprisonment of Nelson Mandela](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/08/31/cia-still-refuses-to-declassify-documents-exposing-its-responsibility-for-the-betrayal-arrest-and-27-year-imprisonment-of-nelson-mandela/) - CIA operative Donald Rickard admitted to role in capture of African hero On August 5, 1962, Nelson Mandela was apprehended by South African authorities while driving with Cecil Williams, a white Communist theater director, from Durban to Johannesburg. At the time, Mandela, a leader of the military wing of the anti-Apartheid African National Congress (ANC), - [One in Two Hundred and Forty-Eight Thousand: A Migrant’s Journey Not to the Mythic Mexico-U.S. Border But a Beeline Back To Cuba](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/08/30/one-in-two-hundred-and-forty-eight-thousand-a-migrants-journey-not-to-the-mythic-mexico-u-s-border-but-a-beeline-back-to-cuba/) - While socioeconomic conditions worsen and desperation mounts, caravans heading northbound to the Mexico-U.S. border keep flowing. Holguín, CUBA — “I’m sure you guys heard this all the time and it’s probably...cheesy and cliché but the American dream dies hard,” said The New York Times Andes bureau chief, Julie Turkewitz. “Even after...all of the problems that - [Imagining Karl Marx as a Private Eye](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/08/29/imagining-karl-marx-as-a-private-eye/) - What If the Co-Author of The Communist Manifesto Would Have Become a Gumshoe? 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Political analyst Edgar Ortiz Romero called Arévalo “the - [Citizens Rally Outside Artillery Factory in President Biden’s Hometown that Produces Parts of Cluster Bombs Destined To Kill Eastern Ukrainians and Russians](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/08/25/citizens-rally-outside-artillery-factory-in-president-bidens-hometown-that-produces-parts-of-cluster-bombs-destined-to-kill-eastern-ukrainians-and-russians/) - Cluster Bombs Have Killed at Least 67,000 Vietnamese Since the Vietnam War Ended One of President Joe Biden's biographers, David Hagan, author of No Ordinary Joe, tells the story of a 10-year-old Joe Biden taking a $5 bet to climb a burning coal pile in his hometown of Scranton. Young Joe took the bet and scampered up - [U.S. Military Contaminates South Korea—Just Like it Does in So Many Other Countries](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/08/24/the-u-s-military-contaminates-south-korea-just-like-it-does-so-many-other-countries/) - Drinking Water, Rivers, Fish, Crabs, Breast Milk, Babies and Teenagers Are Poisoned United States Forces Korea would like the South Korean public to believe that the threat to public health posed by its use of per- and poly fluoroalkyl substances, (PFAS) since the 1970s is not much of a problem anymore. The military command is - [Ukraine Providing an Important Testing Ground For Space-Based Weapons](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/08/23/ukraine-providing-an-important-testing-ground-for-space-based-weapons/) - Weapons Straight Out of a Science Fiction Novel Have Not Been Able to Turn the Tide on the Battlefield In his 1988 book War Stars: The Superweapon in the American Imagination, H. Bruce Franklin traces a deep-rooted cultural belief in the magic of futuristic weapon systems that would enable the U.S. to defeat any foreign - [CovertAction Bulletin - Privatization and Dollarization: Will Argentina Fall to the Right?](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/08/23/covertaction-bulletin-privatization-and-dollarization-will-argentina-fall-to-the-right/) - 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... - [Private Cybersecurity Organizations Are Being Used For Under-Cover Espionage as George Orwell’s 1984 Nightmare Becomes More and More a Reality](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/08/22/private-cybersecurity-organizations-are-being-used-for-under-cover-espionage-as-george-orwells-1984-nightmare-becomes-more-and-more-a-reality/) - Everything that was once created for the common good turns into a farce nowadays. All words about international cooperation are just empty words. A case in point is the professed commitment of high-level politicians to combating cyber-crime when we have evidence that cyber-security organizations are being used as a cover for undercover espionage. The UN - [Saber-Rattling Leader Given Prestigious Award By CIA-Offshoot](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/08/21/saber-rattling-leader-given-prestigious-award-by-cia-offshoot/) - Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen Receives National Endowment for Democracy (NED) Democracy Service Medal for Transforming Her Country into a Launching Pad for U.S. War on China In the corrupt era in which we live, horrible people are given honors for carrying out policies that have disastrous ramifications. Henry Kissinger and Barack Obama, Jr., for example, - [Is this First Lady Also the First Female Presidential Assassin?](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/08/02/is-this-first-lady-also-the-first-female-presidential-assassin/) - [Source: criticsrant.com] Evidence Suggests that First Lady Florence Harding Killed Her Husband, the 29th President Warren G. Harding, A Century Ago Today to Protect His Reputation and Legacy. [This article follows CAM's series on political assassinations.—Editors] On the night of August 2, 1923, exactly one hundred years ago, President Warren G. Harding, 57, suddenly fell - [Congo Joins the East African Community, but the Violence Goes On](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/08/16/congo-joins-the-east-african-community-but-the-violence-goes-on/) - It is no secret that Rwanda has been behind 26 years of catastrophic war and occupation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), ever since its invasion, alongside Uganda, in 1996. Uganda’s crimes get far less press than Rwanda’s, but they are well-documented in decades of UN experts’ reports. This is a blatant violation - [Potential Kingmaker in New Zealand’s October Election Says “The Time For War, Killing and Imperialism is Over”](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/08/18/potential-kingmaker-in-new-zealands-october-election-says-the-time-for-war-killing-and-imperialism-is-over/) - Increasingly Popular with the Demise of Labour Party Standard-Bearer Jacinda Ardern, the Maori Party Vows to Remove New Zealand from Five Eyes Surveillance Alliance The Te Pāti Māori Party in New Zealand’s October 14 elections is campaigning on a genuine anti-imperialist platform and could be a significant factor in the election because of the declining - [Does Canada have Political Prisoners?](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/08/17/does-canada-have-political-prisoners/) - In the 1970s, Canada held American Indian Movement (AIM) activist Leonard Peltier and turned him over to the U.S. Feds; Now the Coutts Four have been denied bail and have been in prison for more than 500 days without trial. The threat of domestic terrorism by right-wing groups is being invoked to justify shredding of - [Barbara Lee and Other U.S. Congresswomen Call For End to Korean War as Part of Peace Mobilization Marking 70th Anniversary of Armistice](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/08/14/barbara-lee-and-other-u-s-congresswomen-call-for-end-to-korean-war-as-part-of-peace-mobilization-marking-70th-anniversary-of-armistice/) - Three days after the September 11 terrorist attacks, Barbara Lee (D-CA) was the sole member of the U.S. Congress with the foresight to vote against an authorization of the use of military force that gave legal justification for the war in Afghanistan and the Global War on Terror. Nearly 22 years later, Lee has again - [On the Brink of World War, Does the UN Still Have a Raison d’être?](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/08/11/on-the-brink-of-world-war-does-the-un-still-have-a-raison-detre/) - Fifty years ago, Jamaican musician Jimmy Cliff sang: Well, they tell me of a pie up in the skyWaiting for me when I dieBut between the day you're born and when you dieThey never seem to hear even your crySo as sure as the sun will shineI'm gonna get my share now, what's mine. Today, - [Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky Came to Power in Carefully Planned Operation Coordinated by Western Intelligence Services, Says Former U.S. Diplomat](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/08/04/ukrainian-president-volodymyr-zelensky-came-to-power-in-a-carefully-planned-operation-coordinated-by-western-intelligence-services-says-former-u-s-diplomat/) - Secret Meeting with British MI6 Head Richard Moore Points to the Likelihood That Zelensky Is a British Intelligence Agent In October 2020, on a visit to London, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met with Sir Richard Moore, the head of the British intelligence service, MI6. The usual diplomatic protocol is for a visiting foreign head of - [CovertAction Bulletin - McCarthyism is Back: The Anti-China Red Scare](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/08/16/covertaction-bulletin-mccarthyism-is-back-the-anti-china-red-scare/) - A recent article in the New York Times attacked peace groups and activists who oppose the U.S. government’s drive towards war with China. Just days later, Senator Marco Rubio sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland demanding an investigation into Code Pink, Tricontinental Institute for Social Research, Dongsheng and others named in the article... - [Korea Peace Conference Urges End to Longest War in U.S. History](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/08/15/korea-peace-conference-urges-end-to-longest-war-in-u-s-history/) - “Sanctions kill; we know it and we should not accept that,” said Kee Park, a medical doctor from Harvard Medical School’s Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, during a conference at George Washington University held as part of a national mobilization to end the Korean War. Park cited the high death toll of sanctions - [How the CIA Helped Ruin Liberia](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2021/07/30/how-the-cia-helped-ruin-liberia/) - In the 1980s, Samuel K. Doe was the CIA’s boy. He was one of Africa’s worst rulers, who provided bases used for subversion campaigns across Africa and upheld the interests of Firestone Rubber. When Doe lost his utility, the CIA supported Charles Taylor who helped trigger Liberia’s ruinous civil war in the 1990s. - [Russia, Donbass and the Reality of Conflict in Ukraine](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/08/10/russia-donbass-and-the-reality-of-conflict-in-ukraine/) - I just returned from my third trip to Russia, and my second trip to Donbas (now referring to the republics of Donetsk and Luhansk collectively) in about eight months. This time, I flew into lovely Tallinn, Estonia, and took what should be about a six-hour bus ride to St. Petersburg. In the end, my bus - [Remembering Nagasaki](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/08/09/remembering-nagasaki/) - Our faith in government, once based on trust Has now irrevocably turned to rust. Oh yes, there are a few whose loyalty us is true. But countless others felt the need To attach themselves to corporate greed. You think the president calls the shots? Then it's you who don't connect the dots. The corporate elite, - [Dan Ellsberg Honored at Whistleblowers Summit](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/08/08/dan-ellsberg-honored-at-whistleblowers-summit/) - Daniel Ellsberg, the former RAND Corporation and Pentagon employee who, in June 1971, leaked the Pentagon Papers exposing U.S. government duplicity in the Vietnam War, was honored at a whistleblowers summit on July 30 at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. Ellsberg died in June at the age of 92. After leaking the Pentagon - [Whistleblowers Honored at Summit in Washington D.C.](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/08/08/whistleblowers-honored-at-summit-in-washington-d-c/) - Whistleblowers past and present, who fought against injustices and exposed the truth about government malpractice, were honored at an event at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., on July 30 featuring a tribute to Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg. The event was part of the 11th Annual Whistleblowers Summit and Film Festival, which aims - [Was There Really a Massacre in Tiananmen Square–or Was It an Illusion Fabricated by U.S. Politicians and Corporate Media to Make Americans Hate China?](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/08/07/was-there-really-a-massacre-in-tiananmen-square-or-was-it-an-illusion-fabricated-by-u-s-politicians-and-corporate-media-to-make-americans-hate-china/) - In 1989, the American public was flooded with iconic images of brave Chinese students standing up to Chinese Communist tanks in Tiananmen Square—students who were then brutally slaughtered by the Chinese military. Or so we were led to believe. But a startling new book reveals that the American public may have been deceived. According to - [RIP Mutulu Shakur](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/08/05/rip-mutulu-shakur/) - Black Panther Leader Led Rainbow Acupuncturists Treating Addictions Acupuncturist and activist Mutulu Shakur died on July 7 at the age of 72. Mutulu helped raise rap icon Tupac Shakur and led a group of White, Black and Puerto Rican revolutionaries pioneering the use of acupuncture to treat addiction in New York. He had spent more - [Top French Intelligence Operative Sent to Capture Carlos the Jackal Says that the Jackal Was Protected by Israeli Mossad For Years](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/08/03/top-french-intelligence-operative-sent-to-capture-carlos-the-jackal-says-that-the-jackal-was-protected-by-israeli-mossad-for-years/) - His case, along with that of the Italian Red Brigades, points to double standards in War on Terror going back to the 1970s In August 1994, Carlos the Jackal was arrested in Khartoum, Sudan, after a long sting operation by the CIA, and he was subsequently tried and convicted on murder charges. The operation seemed - [Vilnius NATO Summit Was a Farce Reinforcing an Imperialist Alliance that Should be Abolished](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/08/01/the-vilnius-nato-summit-was-a-farce-reinforcing-an-imperialist-alliance-that-should-be-abolished/) - The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Summit, held in Vilnius, Lithuania, on July 11 and 12, provided a showcase for an imperialist alliance that has been a major source of war for decades. Committing to a major NATO force buildup, world leaders at the conference pledged fealty to Ukraine, which is ranked among the most - [Nicaraguan Government Officials Are Being Hit With Sanctions Based on False Accusations](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/07/28/nicaraguan-government-officials-are-being-hit-with-sanctions-based-on-false-accusations/) - A Popular Mayor Who Worked to Improve Matagalpa’s Public Housing, Health, Transportation, Educational and Recreational Infrastructure Has Been Sanctioned for Human Rights Violations When There is No Compelling Evidence. Nicaragua Is Among 40 Countries Targeted Under Cruel Sanctions Regime On December 9, 2022, the government of the United Kingdom imposed sanctions on Sadrach Zelodón Rocha - [Reflections on Russia and Crimea: The Hate Goes One Way](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/07/27/reflections-on-russia-and-crimea-the-hate-goes-one-way/) - [This is the third part of a travelogue series by two CAM writers who recently traveled to Russia and Crimea. Part 1 of the series can be read here; and Part II here.—Editors] We spent nearly 20 days in Russia, including five days in Crimea. During our journey, we spent around 70 hours on trains riding - [CovertAction Bulletin: "The Past Is Not Past” - Oppenheimer and the U.S. Nuclear Program Today](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/07/26/covertaction-bulletin-the-past-is-not-past-oppenheimer-and-the-u-s-nuclear-program-today/) - Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer film made a huge $174 million internationally on its opening weekend. The three-hour biopic of the so-called “father of the atomic bomb” dives into the personal and professional relationships of J. Robert Oppenheimer. It’s centered around the 1945 Trinity test in the Jornada del Muerto desert of New Mexico and the development of the Manhattan Project that led up to it; and second the 1954 Atomic Energy Commission hearing that led to Oppenheimer’s security clearance being withdrawn. .. - [Wikileaks Cables Detail U.S. Campaign to Engineer Kosovo’s Independence and Destabilize the Balkans](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/07/25/wikileaks-cables-detail-u-s-campaign-to-engineer-kosovos-independence-and-destabilize-the-balkans/) - [This article on the importance of WikiLeaks revelations related to Serbia and Kosovo comes as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is facing extradition to the U.S. where the U.S. government is seeking to try him under the Espionage Act. If Assange is extradited and convicted in what would amount to a show trial, it would represent - [Aggressive U.S. Push for Military Supremacy in the Arctic Could Trigger Nuclear War](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/07/14/aggressive-u-s-push-for-military-supremacy-in-the-arctic-could-trigger-nuclear-war/) - From 1959 to 1966, the U.S. illegally stored nuclear weapons in Greenland in preparation for a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union and built an underground scientific research center right out of a James Bond movie. It resulted in the displacement of natives and has left a residue of environmental destruction in the Arctic that - [CIA Has Been Working to Overthrow the People’s Republic of China (PRC) Since Its Inception in 1949](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/07/24/cia-has-been-working-to-overthrow-the-peoples-republic-of-china-prc-since-its-inception-in-1949/) - New book details saga of two CIA officers, Jack Downey and Richard Fecteau, who were imprisoned for 19 years in China following a botched covert operation in the “Asian Bay of Pigs.” Six years ago, The New York Times reported that the Chinese government systematically dismantled CIA spying operations in the country starting in 2010, killing - [House Judiciary Committee Report Reveals How FBI Schemed with Ukrainian Intelligence Services to Censor Social Media Accounts of American Journalists and Even State Department Officials](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/07/22/house-judiciary-committee-report-reveals-how-fbi-schemed-with-ukrainian-intelligence-services-to-censor-social-media-accounts-of-american-journalists-and-even-state-department-officials/) - Among the corrupting aspects of the Ukraine War has been the further erosion of democratic standards in the U.S. On July 10, the House Committee on the Judiciary and Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government issued an interim staff report detailing how the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) worked with the Security - [Right-Wing Has Not Tried to Suppress Teaching the History of Anti-Imperialist Movements Because They Are Rarely Discussed in Any Course](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/07/21/right-wing-has-not-tried-to-suppress-teaching-the-history-of-anti-imperialist-movements-because-they-are-rarely-discussed-in-any-course/) - Most Americans Don’t Know About the Real Patriots Who Opposed the Nation’s Forever Wars Going Back to the 19th Century On February 20, journalist Max Blumenthal gave a powerful address at the Rage Against the War Machine rally across from the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., in which he emphasized how Ukrainians had been used - [A Visit to Xinjiang, China Makes Clear that U.S. Government and Media Have Hoodwinked Public into Believing China Committed Genocide Against the Uyghur](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/07/20/a-visit-to-xinjiang-china-makes-clear-that-u-s-government-and-media-have-hoodwinked-public-into-believing-china-committed-genocide-against-the-uyghur/) - Politicized Allegations Are False Propaganda Designed to Mobilize Public Opinion Against China in Support of War U.S. propaganda is powerful. Responding to an increase in U.S. attacks on China, a delegation was organized by the China/U.S. Solidarity Network, which then visited China from May 11 to May 31. One focus of the trip was a - [Nicaraguans Celebrate 44th Anniversary of the Sandinista Revolution](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/07/19/nicaraguans-celebrate-44th-anniversary-of-the-sandinista-revolution/) - Under Stewardship of Original Revolutionary Leader Daniel Ortega, Nicaragua Remains a Beacon for Social Progress Despite Crushing U.S. Sanctions In the United States, the word “socialism” has come to have a negative meaning. In that meaning, the word implies the loss of individual sovereignty, rejection of religion and the institution of authoritarian political measures. While - [CovertAction Bulletin: Breaking Through U.S. Propaganda on North Korea](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/07/19/covertaction-bulletin-breaking-through-u-s-propaganda-on-north-korea/) - A recent Washington Post article titled “A North Korean defector captivated U.S. media. Some question her story” highlights the many appearances Yeonmi Park has made on right-wing news outlets over the past few years. Scholars and solidarity activists have been pointing out the serious holes in Park’s stories since she started getting attention... - [House Foreign Affairs Committee Marks Anniversary of Cuba’s July 2021 Uprising With Renewed Calls For Regime Change](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/07/18/house-foreign-affairs-committee-marks-anniversary-of-cubas-july-2021-uprising-with-renewed-calls-for-regime-change/) - To commemorate the two-year anniversary of right-wing protests in Cuba in July 2021, the House Foreign Affairs Committee sponsored a roundtable next to the Bay of Pigs museum in Miami, Florida, that affirmed U.S. calls for regime change in Cuba. House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX) said that the peaceful protests designed to - [Lord of the Underworld: Meet the Paratrooper from North Carolina who Helped Orchestrate the War in Ukraine](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/07/17/the-lord-of-the-underworld-meet-the-paratrooper-from-north-carolina-who-orchestrated-the-war-in-ukraine/) - One of the great mysteries surrounding the Maidan coup and the civil war which has followed is how the rabble of soccer hooligans and neo-Nazis who orchestrated the coup were able to become an army capable of subjugating the nation so quickly. Despite Western narratives, the Maidan was a violent coup, and their government was - [Western Media Has Falsely Presented the Donbas’ Drive For Autonomy as Being Instigated By Moscow](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/07/13/western-media-has-falsely-presented-the-donbas-drive-for-autonomy-as-being-instigated-by-moscow/) - In Reality It Resulted Largely from Kyiv’s Destruction of Eastern Ukraine’s Economy Under Neo-Liberal Economic Policies Pushed by Washington Since the 1990s The war in Ukraine is commonly seen through one of two lenses. The vision presented by Western, NATO-aligned powers is one of an astro-turfed Donbas separatism created by Moscow to justify the division - [Attacks on RFK Jr. as a “Conspiracy Theorist” Show All the Hallmarks of CIA Disinformation](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/07/12/attacks-on-rfk-jr-as-a-conspiracy-theorist-show-all-the-hallmarks-of-cia-disinformation/) - Whether One Agrees or Disagrees With Aspects of His Outlook, the Media is Clearly Slanted Against Him In January 1967, the CIA sent a memo (marked “SECRET,” “RESTRICTED,” and “DESTROY WHEN NO LONGER NEEDED”) to its army of media “assets” secretly embedded in virtually every area of U.S. communications. This army of covert operatives (exposed - [Intellectuals Featured in U.S. Media Present 1990s as Heyday of Russian Democracy: In Reality, Chaos and Desperation Reigned Before Vladimir Putin Became President](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/07/11/intellectuals-featured-in-u-s-media-present-1990s-as-heyday-of-russian-democracy-in-reality-chaos-and-desperation-reigned-before-vladimir-putin-became-president/) - Below is an interview that I conducted with Sarah Lindemann-Komarova, an American who has lived in Siberia since 1992. She was a community development activist there for 20 years. She currently focuses on research and writing, mostly about Russia and community activism. Her work has been published in The Nation and she is the co-author of - [CIA Director Affirms U.S. Regime Change Strategy in Russia in Address at British Foundation](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/07/10/cia-director-affirms-u-s-regime-change-strategy-in-russia-in-address-at-british-foundation/) - Advances the Fantasy that the U.S. is Winning the Ukraine War and that Putin Will Soon Fall As the Ukrainian counteroffensive continues to sputter, CIA Director William J. Burns delivered a talk at the British Ditchley Foundation on July 1, affirming the U.S. strategy of regime change in Russia. The talk, titled “A World Transformed - [NATO/CIA False Flag Operation in Racak in 1999 Set Precedent for Similar Operations in Syria and Ukraine that Were Designed to Create a Pretext For Military Intervention](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/07/07/nato-cia-false-flag-operation-in-racak-in-1999-set-precedent-for-similar-operations-in-syria-and-ukraine-that-were-designed-to-create-a-pretext-for-military-intervention/) - Clinton administration claimed Serbian forces massacred civilians when deaths at Račak resulted from fighting between Serbian Army and terrorist Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), which Washington supported We are living in terrible times. The great hegemon—the United States of America—and its false flags abound all around. Where do I start? Remember Bucha anyone? Let me tell you about the - [World Bank Will Continue to Betray Its Mission of Fighting Poverty Under New Director Who Carried Out Extortion Scheme Targeting Third World Poor as CEO of Mastercard](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/07/06/world-bank-will-continue-to-betray-its-mission-of-fighting-poverty-under-new-director-who-carried-out-extortion-scheme-targeting-third-world-poor-as-ceo-of-mastercard/) - Advancement of Structural Adjustment and Neo-Liberal Austerity Will Continue, Though Bank Has New Competitors with Growth of Chinese-Run Lending Institutions that Don’t Attach Same Strings to Loans On June 2, Ajay Banga began a five-year term as the new head of the World Bank after his nomination by President Joe Biden and selection by the - [CovertAction Bulletin: AUKUS Threatens the World](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/07/05/covertaction-bulletin-aukus-threatens-the-world/) - The AUKUS trilateral military and intelligence partnership between Australia, the United Kingdom and United States doesn't get much attention in the U.S. media. It's yet another element of the U.S. quest for world domination. The first pillar of AUKUS focuses on getting Australia nuclear-powered submarines, and the second enhances technology and information sharing. The U.S. government has recently said it’s open to expanding the partnership... - [Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese Should Keep Up the Pressure on Washington and Demand the Release of Julian Assange](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/07/05/australian-prime-minister-anthony-albanese-should-keep-up-the-pressure-on-washington-and-demand-the-release-of-julian-assange/) - Aussies have shown a double standard: they jumped to the defense of David Hicks, who was unjustly imprisoned and tortured at Guantanamo Bay but have only recently began tepidly standing up for Julian Assange years into his unjust incarceration for publishing documents that exposed U.S. war crimes When I was at the CIA, I was - [Beltway Pundit Predictions About Putin’s Downfall Are as Wrong as Predictions 100 Years Ago that the Bolsheviks Would Lose the Russian Civil War](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/07/03/beltway-pundit-predictions-about-putins-downfall-are-as-wrong-as-predictions-100-years-ago-that-the-bolsheviks-would-lose-the-russian-civil-war/) - 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 left Moscow; that a civil - [“Zelensky Will Sooner Take Back the Moon than Take Back Crimea,” Says Crimean Resident in a Rebuke to Neo-Conservatives](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/07/01/zelensky-will-sooner-take-back-the-moon-than-take-back-crimea-says-crimean-resident-in-a-rebuke-to-neo-conservatives/) - Two CAM authors recount their experiences during a journey to Crimea [This is part two of a three-part travelogue series. Part 1 of the series can be read here—Editors] In May of this year, we took the long, 27-hour train ride from Moscow to Crimea to see how life is there and what the sentiments - [Mainstream Media Colludes with U.S. Government To Conceal Source of Syria’s Heartbreaking Humanitarian Crisis](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/06/30/mainstream-media-colludes-with-u-s-government-to-conceal-source-of-syrias-heartbreaking-humanitarian-crisis/) - Illegal U.S. bombing raids, brutal economic sanctions, and incredibly brazen theft by U.S. forces of 66,000 barrels of Syrian oil per day (80% of its total output) have visited a biblical-scale tragedy upon the Syrian people that has battered them virtually back to the stone age. Following a devastating earthquake in February that displaced thousands of people - [Military Initiative by Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States (AUKUS) is Another Major Step in Prospective War on China](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/06/29/military-initiative-by-australia-the-united-kingdom-and-the-united-states-aukus-is-another-major-step-in-prospective-war-on-china/) - Peace groups in all three nations need to rally against provocative alliance that is a pivotal component of war planning. The AUKUS pact (military initiative among Australia, the UK and U.S.) came out of nowhere in 2021 when Australia broke a $A90 billion contract to buy French submarines. Instead, it signed up with the U.S - [Hypocrisy Seen in Biden’s Embrace of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Denunciation of Chinese Premier Xi Jinping](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/06/28/hypocrisy-seen-in-bidens-embrace-of-indian-prime-minister-narendra-modi-and-denunciation-of-chinese-premier-xi-jinping/) - Biden Calls Xi a Dictator but Lavishes Praise on Modi Despite His Authoritarian Features and Atrocious Human Rights Record On a state visit to Washington in late June, Joe Biden rolled out the red carpet for India’s Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, providing him with a gala dinner cooked by a famous vegan chef. Biden stated - [CovertAction Bulletin - Russia Coup Attempt: What happened? What does the U.S. want?](https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/06/28/covertaction-bulletin-russia-coup-attempt-what-happened-what-does-the-u-s-want/) - The June 23 coup attempt in Russia by the Wagner Group seemed to end almost as quickly and suddenly as it started. 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