Tag: United States
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There are two Volodymyr Zelenskys: the one we have known since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, who has since been celebrated every day in the Western media as a hero with a spotless white (or green) vest; the other,...
CovertAction Bulletin – Islamophobia and Imperialism: 20 years after the invasion of Iraq
Rachel Hu and Chris Garaffa - 2
In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, Islamophobia became a sort of unofficial religion in the United States. Vigilante street attacks on Muslim people became common. The government surveilled mosques and community centers. Over two decades later, the situation doesn’t seem much different. Resistance to bringing refugees from Syria into the U.S. based entirely in racism and Islamophobia. As we mark the 20th anniversary of the war in Iraq in March 2023, the New York Times’ major retrospective piece barely mentions the hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians who died, and says nothing about its own role in the war or the toll on Muslim people in the U.S...
ICC Arrest Warrant Issued to Putin is Hypocritical Propaganda Stunt Aimed to Distract from Growing Protests Against Ukraine War
Sonja Van den Ende - 1
With large-scale protests against war and austerity engulfing the streets of Western (EU) countries, the political elite, in full-fledged panic mode, launched a propaganda stunt by indicting Russian President Vladimir Putin and Maria Lvova-Belova, at the International Criminal Court (ICC).
Lvova-Belova is the Russian Commissioner for Children’s Rights. She and...
Newly Released Documents Reveal How a Paranoid FBI Amassed a Thousand-Page Surveillance File on Prominent Cold War Hawk, Believing Erroneously He Was a Communist
Jeremy Kuzmarov - 0
Incompetent G-men failed to notice that Walt W. Rostow, National Security Adviser from 1966 to 1969, authored an anti-communist manifesto that was written as a rebuttal to Karl Marx.
Throughout his long tenure as FBI Director from 1926 to 1971, J. Edgar Hoover effectively presented himself as a dedicated “red...
Former UN Weapons Inspector Reports that U.S. Drone Forced Down in Black Sea Was Gathering Intelligence for Ukrainian Forces
Jeremy Kuzmarov - 2
In a “2-minute topic” posted on Twitter, former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter reported that the U.S. MQ-9 drone that was forced down into the Black Sea on March 14 was not innocently transiting international airspace when it was intercepted by two Russian Su-27 fighters. Rather, it was on an intelligence-gathering...
Attack on Antiwar Activists Exemplifies Russophobia Among “Leftist” Apologists for Western Imperialism and a Fascist-Loving Regime
Charles Pierce - 5
CounterPunch podcaster Eric Draitser has published a hit piece attacking veteran anti-war activists Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies in the form of a review of their new book, War in Ukraine: Making Sense of a Senseless War.
His review, published on January 27 by an obscure avowedly socialist...
CovertAction Bulletin – Great Power Conflict: U.S. Puts China in Crosshairs
Rachel Hu and Chris Garaffa - 0
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence has released its 2023 Annual Threat Assessment, putting China, Russia, Iran and North Korea directly in the crosshairs of U.S. imperialism and regime change operations...
Claims made by transatlantic politicians and their media partners turn reality upside down—and would baffle even George Orwell.
U.S. President Joe Biden, Western politicians and their media partners agree that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was “unprovoked.” The president of the country notorious for its numerous unprovoked wars of aggression called...
Syrian Government Condemns Visit of General Mark Milley and Accuses U.S. Occupying Forces of Stealing Country’s Oil
Jeremy Kuzmarov - 0
On March 4, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Mark Milley, made a surprise visit to U.S. troops stationed in northeast Syria to the chagrin of the Syrian government, which said the visit was “illegal" and a “flagrant violation of the country’s sovereignty.”
The Syrian Foreign Ministry said...
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin—Former Member of Raytheon Board of Directors—Has Awarded Over $30 Billion in Contracts to Raytheon Since His Confirmation in January, 2021
Jeremy Kuzmarov - 4
The Pentagon has awarded the defense giant Raytheon Technologies, the second largest weapons-maker in the world, over $30 billion in government contracts since Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin III’s confirmation on January 22nd, 2021.
Austin was on Raytheon’s board of directors prior to his confirmation.
Austin at the time had made...