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...

Eartha Kitt was a magnetic singer, songwriter and actress who starred as Catwoman in the 1967 season of television’s Batman and was known for her 1953 Christmas song “Santa Baby.” In the early 1950s, Kitt recorded six top-30 songs. Orson Welles once called her “the most exciting woman in the...

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...

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...

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...

The U.S. government has increasingly become a brokerage 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....

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...

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...

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...

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...