Tag: Spotlight
CovertAction Bulletin: Trump’s “Peace” in Ukraine Prepares U.S. for War with China
Rachel Hu and Chris Garaffa - 0
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...
CIA Documents Prove the Agency Was Lying to Public About Germ Warfare in Korea for Decades
Jeremy Kuzmarov - 1
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...
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...
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...
CovertAction Bulletin: The U.S., Europe and the Growing Right-Wing Threat
Rachel Hu and Chris Garaffa - 0
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
Jeremy Kuzmarov - 1
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...
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 assassination of the activist leader.
The daughters, spearheaded by Ilyasah Shabazz and represented by Attorney Ben Crump, filed a $100...
Real Life Mr. X in Oliver Stone’s JFK Participated in Pioneering Covert Operations
Jeremy Kuzmarov - 9
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...
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”...
CovertAction Bulletin: Will Trump and McMahon Dismantle Public Education?
Rachel Hu and Chris Garaffa - 0
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...