Tag: Spotlight
CIA Director William F. Burns–Capo of World’s Biggest Spreader of Lies and Misinformation–Is Spreading The Big Lie that Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine was “Unprovoked”
Jeremy Kuzmarov - 4
Burns scornfully smears as Russian propaganda evidence that the U.S. deceitfully provoked the invasion to generate a new Cold War
CIA Director Bill Burns testified before the Senate Intelligence committee in early March that Russia and Vladimir Putin were “losing the information war over its war in Ukraine.”
"In all my...
CovertAction Bulletin Podcast: The Role of War Propaganda in Anti-Asian Violence
Rachel Hu and Chris Garaffa - 1
The epidemic of anti-Asian violence has grown exponentially since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. At the same time, Asian Americans have always been viewed as “enemy aliens” as the FBI and U.S. government had historically called it.
We are joined on today’s show by Amanda Yee, host of...
Kiev and Moscow say they are moving towards a compromise amid the continuation of hostilities
Against the backdrop of ongoing hostilities in Ukraine, Moscow and Kiev have revealed there has been movement towards compromise in their negotiations. Negotiators have met three times in Belarus and are now communicating online.
According to...
The AFL-CIO recently hosted a fundraiser by the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) which aimed to support labor organizations in Ukraine assisting families suffering through the current crisis.
One of the labor organizations is the Confederation of Free Trade Unions of Ukraine (KVPU) which is a partner of the AFL-CIO’s...
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...
National Endowment for Democracy Deletes Records of Funding Projects in Ukraine
Jeremy Kuzmarov - 77
Deletion needed to preserve big lie of an unprovoked Russian invasion
The National Endowment for Democracy (NED)—a CIA offshoot founded in the early 1980s to advance “democracy promotion” initiatives around the world—has deleted all records of funding projects in Ukraine from their searchable “Awarded Grants Search” database.
The archived webpage captured February 25, 2022 from...
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...
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...
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...