The term neo-colonialism first appeared in the mid-20th century and was used to describe the continuing control of colonial powers (Great Britain, France, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Belgium, Italy) over other nominally independent states, especially their colonies in Africa. In the 21st century, the meaning of the term neo-colonialism has expanded...

Colonel Ralph Van Deman assisted in cover-up with General John J. Pershing In March 1916, General John J. Pershing, the father of U.S. military intelligence who commanded U.S. forces in World War I, led a punitive expedition into Mexico targeting Francisco “Pancho” Villa, a revolutionary who wanted to redistribute...

The 82nd Airborne Division has canceled a training exercise to keep the Division ready to deploy with just 18 hours of notification for what it calls “forcible entry parachute assaults”...

Forget Kaiser Wilhelm II’s blank check to Austria-Hungary to wage war on Serbia in 1914; forget Adolf Hitler invading the Soviet Union in 1941 and then declaring war on the United States just to complete his imbecility. President Donald Trump’s decision to authorize, on Israeli urging, the assassination of...

In December 2024, a $500 million private-equity deal quietly transferred one of the world’s most advanced spyware tools from Israeli military-intelligence roots to American ownership. Paragon Solutions, developer of Graphite—the zero-click software that extracts encrypted messages from Signal, WhatsApp, Telegram and others—was acquired by AE Industrial Partners. The official narrative: ethical...

Nick Bryant is a skilled investigative reporter who, in 2009, published a book about a child sex trafficking network in Omaha, Nebraska involving powerful GOP politicians who were flying children to a party house on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., which was wired for blackmail. In 2011, as he continued...

In December 1998, Michael Riconosciuto was serving out a 26-year prison sentence at Allenwood Penitentiary in Pennsylvania on drug charges when he was given information by a rabbi close to his family about an al-Qaeda plot to hijack airplanes and crash them into the World Trade Center,...

The U.S./Israeli war on Iran could easily spark a greater regional conflict if it continues. Donald Trump at first said Tehran would be taken in 3-4 days, then a day later claimed the war would last no more than 4-5 weeks and threatened that the U.S. has enough weapons to fight “forever"...

Veterans For Peace has condemned the U.S./Israeli attack on Iran, called for widespread resistance, and issued its own Iran War Talking Points. “We call on our members, friends and allies to resist this dangerous and illegal war, said Michael McPhearson, Executive Director of the 41-year-old veterans’ organization. “We offer support...

At a CovertAction Magazine webinar, experts explained the roots of the crisis, while encouraging people to build a campaign to educate the U.S. public and transform U.S. foreign policy While Donald Trump was touting his administration’s foreign policies in his State of the Union address on February 24, CovertAction Magazine...