Tag: North America
Lee Camp Talks Cross-Platform Shut Down of RT America and The Censorship of Left Anti-War Media Voices
The information war has heated up, this time with targets on the backs of anti-war journalists and media voices critical to NATO and the U.S.
Last week, the offices of RT America were...
New Zealand Increasingly Sucked into Vortex of U.S. Empire under Fake Progressive Leadership of Jacinda Ardern
Murray Horton - 6
Pro-imperial thrust governed by decades-long membership in the Five Eyes, an electronic spying agreement between the U.S., UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
It has become apparent that New Zealand is getting more entangled in the U.S. Empire than ever before. Don’t be fooled that New Zealand and America’s longest...
CovertAction Bulletin Podcast: Ukraine Crisis Fueled by U.S. and NATO Expansion
Rachel Hu and Chris Garaffa - 2
Last Week's Episode—Ukraine Crisis Fueled by U.S. and NATO Expansion
The outbreak of war between Russia and Ukraine did not come out of nowhere. Fundamental to understanding the current crisis is the history of U.S. and NATO expansion in Europe—which the U.S. repeatedly promised Russia would not happen.
Richard Becker...
The Crisis in Ukraine is a Planetary Crisis Provoked by the U.S. that Threatens Nuclear War
Oliver Boyd-Barrett - 7
Let us begin a conversation in response to what currently qualifies as the most profound question, the one that needs most urgently to be addressed if we are to have any chance of understanding what we conveniently refer to as the “Ukraine crisis.” This is, more accurately, a planetary...
If the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) Is Subverting Democracy—Why Aren’t Some of the Left Media Calling It Out?
Jeremy Kuzmarov - 17
NED’s history should lead to it being renamed the “National Endowment for Attacking Democracy,” as journalist Stephen Kinzer suggests.
On January 17, Matt Kennard and Mark Curtis, writing for the website Declassified UK, disclosed that the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a nonprofit corporation funded by the U.S. Congress, had...
Was Liberal Activist Allard Lowenstein—a NYC Congressman Who Headed “Dump Johnson” Movement in 1968 and Investigated Robert Kennedy’s Assassination—a CIA Asset?
Gregg Wager - 0
The name Allard Lowenstein (1929-1980) may not mean too much to political activists today, but in the 1960s and 1970s he was a well-known liberal figure associated with many of the progressive causes of the day.
For this reason, it would come as something of a shock to many of...
Repeating ’70s Strategy of Grand Chess-Master Brzezinski: Biden Appears to Have Induced Russian Invasion of Ukraine to Bankrupt Russia’s Economy and Advance Regime Change
Jeremy Kuzmarov - 28
But Will the Strategy Succeed This Time?
Jimmy Carter’s National Security Council adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski famously bragged about having induced a Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in December 1979 by supporting Islamic fundamentalists with the goal of “giving the Soviets their Vietnam.”
The collateral damage of the war—the destruction of Afghanistan and...
As Workers Win Victories in Mexico, It’s Important to Remember Past Machinations Against Them
Kim Scipes - 2
Mexico’s reenergized labor movement should be leery of AFL-CIO cooptation and CIA infiltration following long historical pattern
In early February, workers at a General Motors plant in Silao, a town in central Mexico, won an important victory by establishing an independent union. Rob McKenzie’s (assisted by Patrick Dunne) new...
MSNBC Needs a History Lesson: Imperial America is “Greatest Purveyor of Coups” on Earth
Ed Rampell - 4
MSNBC legal analyst Daniel Goldman, Majority Counsel in the first Trump impeachment inquiry, adds to the vast TV disinformation wasteland
Goldman claimed on air that the U.S. routinely works to prevent military coups—when it is a leading perpetrator of them
In the vast wasteland that is cable television “news,” every...
Eyewitness Reports Indicate Ukrainian Army Fired First Shots in War with Russia
Don Hank and Jeremy Kuzmarov - 14
Western Media did not report that the population in Eastern Ukraine had been begging Vladimir Putin to send Russian troops to save them from American-backed invaders and Neo-Nazi militias
Russian forces launched “special military operations” in Ukraine on Thursday morning, including cruise and ballistic missile attacks targeting infrastructure near major...