Tag: Spotlight
CovertAction Bulletin Podcast: Will Julian Assange Actually Be Extradited?
Rachel Hu and Chris Garaffa - 2
United Kingdom Home Secretary Priti Patel approved the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States. Assange faces 18 charges brought against him by the US Justice Department, 17 of which fall under the Espionage Act. All the charges relate to documents WikiLeaks released in 2010 and 2011, which were provided by US Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning.
Top Gun Maverick Sets a New Standard For State-Orchestrated, Pro-Military, Mass Indoctrination
Pat Elder - 9
Joseph Goebbels, chief propagandist for Hitler’s Nazi Party, would be in awe of the film’s director, Joseph Kosinski
I saw Top Gun: Maverick yesterday. It was absolutely horrible. The film sets a new standard for state-orchestrated, pro-military, mass indoctrination. Goebbels, chief propagandist for Hitler’s Nazi Party, would be in awe...
Is There Really a U.S. Government Agency that Gives Out Awards for Deceiving the Public?
Jeremy Kuzmarov - 9
Check out this year’s “Democracy Awards” handed out by the National Endowment for Democracy. They were presented to Ukrainian NGOs that specialize in creating manipulative “psyops” and fake “atrocity porn” designed to inflame public opinion against Russia.
On June 8, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) awarded its annual “Democracy...
UK Government Approves Extraditing Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange To Same Country that “Plotted to Assassinate” Him
Editors - 4
UK Home secretary Priti Patel has approved the extradition of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to the United States.
Assange faces up to 175 years in prison in the United States if convicted of violating the Espionage Act for publishing classified documents exposing U.S. war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Wikileaks...
CovertAction Bulletin Podcast: Activist Interrupts Summit of the Americas, “Luis Almagro you have Blood on Your Hands!”
Rachel Hu and Chris Garaffa - 4
Activist and journalist Walter Smolarek interrupted General Secretary of the OAS, Luis Almagro, and confronted Almagro about his role in the coup in Bolivia. We interviewed Walter the day after the interruption at the People’s Summit for Democracy which took place from June 8th through 10th in Los Angeles.
While Its Humanities Programs Suffer From Budget Cuts, Purdue University Increases Focus on Military
Harry Targ - 3
CAM End of School Year Special on the Military-Industrial Academic Complex
Instead of advancing critical thinking and cultural awareness and compelling students to read great literature, Purdue like many other American universities today is conditioning them to spy on their fellow citizens and fight the new cold war—with machines.
An Associated...
New Bill That Passed House Reinvokes Old Russian Bogeyman as Pretext For More U.S. Intervention in Africa
Richard S. Dunn - 9
Liberal Democrats shamefully all voted for the “Countering Malign Russian Influence Activities in Africa” Act—seems like relic from bygone era
During the Cold War, the U.S. government invoked the pretext of Russian interference to justify a range of crimes, including the assassination of Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba, the...
CIA Whistleblower, David C. MacMichael, Who Helped Ignite Iran-Contra Affair Dies at 93
John Kiriakou - 7
The Intelligence Community lost a bona fide hero last month with the death of David C. MacMichael, 93, a former contract CIA analyst who resigned from the Agency in 1983 to go public with information that the Reagan Administration was planning a coup d’état against the Nicaraguan government of...
Fits long pattern of war-mongering and provocations that are a feature of the American Century
When U.S. President Joe Biden speaks about war and peace, we have to listen carefully whether we like it or not. Regarding Taiwan, when asked in Tokyo on May 23 if he was “willing to...
New Evidence Implicates CIA, LAPD, FBI and Mafia as Plotters in Elaborate “Hit” Plan to Prevent RFK From Ever Reaching White House
Jeremy Kuzmarov - 6
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.
“The color of the Statue of Liberty
Grows ever more deathly pale
As, loving freedom with bullets,
You shoot at yourself, America.”
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko, “The Freedom to...