Tag: United States
“History isn't what happened, but the stories of what happened and the lessons these stories include. The very selection of which histories to teach in a society shapes our view of how what is came to be and, in turn, what we understand as possible. This choice of which...
CovertAction Bulletin – Eyewitness: On the Ground in Memphis for Tyre Nichols
Rachel Hu and Chris Garaffa - 0
Over the weekend, protests across the country have taken place as the video of the brutal police murder of Tyre Nichols was released on January 27. The Memphis Police Department’s SCORPION unit has been disbanded, 5 officers have been charged, and in the few days since the release of the videos, at least two more officers have been removed from the police force. In the second half of our show we analyze the police actions on this case, and we hear eyewitness reports from the protests.
China Appears Poised to Achieve through Cooperation in the 21st Century what Japan Sought to Achieve through Coercion in the 20th
Jeremy Kuzmarov - 4
U.S. elites have predictably reacted with hysteria to China’s rise and could go so far as to provoke a world war to try to salvage their Southeast Asia empire—as the Roosevelt administration did with Japan on the eve of Pearl Harbor.
From 1991 to 2021 China achieved ten-fold growth in...
The Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) was established by Proclamation of the Hawaiian Kingdom Council of Regency on June 17, 2019, yet there has been no coverage in either the mainstream media or the alternative media. Most people are simply not aware that the Hawaiian Islands have been under...
Protests on Martin Luther King Jr. Day Raise Hopes For Revitalization of Antiwar Movement
Dee Knight - 1
Demonstrators in 50 cities invoke King’s legacy in denouncing U.S. war machine
It has been a year of nearly unprecedented war hysteria—remarkable in a country that has been gripped in continuous war hysteria for generations. The memories of mainstream media publishing major exposures of U.S. war crimes—like the 1969 My...
Tribunal in Washington Calls on President Biden to End Prosecution of Julian Assange and to Defend Rights of Journalists and Whistleblowers
Chris Garaffa - 3
Nearly 13 years after WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange released the video Collateral Murder exposing the brutal and intentional killing of Iraqi civilians and two Reuters journalists, over 150 people packed the same room in the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. for the Belmarsh Tribunal. January 20th’s sitting was...
There is a Country that Receives $100 Million in Military Aid per Year from the Biden Administration While It Engages in Ethnic Cleansing and Literally Tries to Starve Another...
Jeremy Kuzmarov - 4
Not surprisingly, the main motive for the military aid is oil.
The Biden administration’s hypocrisy knows no bounds when it comes to human rights. Nearly every day, we hear pious condemnations of Russia and China for their human rights abuses—whether in Ukraine or toward the Uyghurs—and sermons about how the...
Newly Declassified Documents Reveal that President George W. Bush Authorized Shootdown of Hijacked Airplanes on 9/11—But Only After Three Planes Had Already Crashed
Jeremy Kuzmarov - 5
Bush’s delayed actions point to failure of government response.
9/11 families are at the forefront in pressing for a new congressional investigation which could help unravel many mysteries about deadly terrorist attacks.
Newly released documents from the National Archives detail how President George W. Bush authorized the shootdown of hijacked...
FBI Wants to Put Me On Trial for Fighting for Black Freedom: Instead Put the Colonizer State on Trial!
Omali Yeshitela - 1
There are strong indications that in early 2023, I, Omali Yeshitela, Chairman of the African People's Socialist Party, founder of the Uhuru (“Freedom”) Movement, will be indicted, along with other Uhuru leaders and members, by the federal government of the United States.
Using the bogus and slanderous charge that we...
GOP Forms New House Committee to Investigate Abuses of Intelligence Agencies Modeled on 1970s Church Committee—But Will Use Committee to Advance Nefarious Partisan Agenda
Jeremy Kuzmarov - 7
In September, CovertAction Magazine published an article entitled “We Need a New 'Church Committee' to Curb Massive Intelligence Agency Criminality Ranging From Illegal Surveillance to Torture and Assassination.”
And low and behold, the House-led GOP has set up what they call a new Church Committee—the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization...