The conservative right has been on a crusade to purge the teaching of critical race theory and aspects of U.S. history that reflect negatively on the country’s past and, hence, might encourage critical thinking about the present. Most academic historians teaching in the Ivy League and at other institutions of higher education are indeed liberals […] The post As Students Go Back to School, What Pivotal Aspects of U.S. History—Including CIA History—Will Not Be Taught? first appeared on ...| CovertAction Magazine
An Ethnographic Portrait of Youth, the Blockade and Survival in Havana Today, on the 72nd Anniversary of the July 26th Attack Argentinian sociologist Atilio Borón, analyzing the impact of Western sanctions on Nicaragua, Venezuela and Cuba, explains that hunger is more dangerous than any bomb imperialism could drop on the Bolivarian nations. Cuba’s energy grid […] The post Cuban Flames, Imperialist Tundra first appeared on CovertAction Magazine.| CovertAction Magazine
U.S. President Donald Trump has signed off on the first-ever trillion-dollar military budget. When the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released its budget request for fiscal year 2026 in May, it included a base defense request of $892.6 billion, plus a $119.3 billion allocation of additional resources from the Republican-controlled Congress’s budget […] The post U.S. Military Budget Tops $1 Trillion first appeared on CovertAction Magazine.| CovertAction Magazine
Trade warfare and interference in the free functioning of the judiciary are the current expressions of United States interventionism in Latin America, particularly in Brazil. With the largest economy in the region and the eighth-largest in the world, Brazil holds a central strategic importance for the United States in its aim to maintain global dominance […] The post New Forms of U.S. Interference in Brazil first appeared on CovertAction Magazine.| CovertAction Magazine
Donald Trump has taken yet another step in the ruling class’ quest to trash civil liberties, expand the brutal role of cops and other agents of the state and wage an all-out assault on Black people across the country... The post CovertAction Bulletin: U.S. Makes Threats While China Plans Its Infrastructure first appeared on CovertAction Magazine.| CovertAction Magazine
There is a brutal civil war being waged in Ethiopia where political power grows from the barrel of a gun. On one side is the Western-backed corrupt, brutal regime of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, he who was bestowed the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize by the imperialists on the Nobel Committee in Norway. On the other […] The post Ethiopia: Where Political Power Grows From the Barrel of a Gun first appeared on CovertAction Magazine.| CovertAction Magazine
In late June, during public commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Okinawa—one of the bloodiest battles of the Pacific War that resulted in over 240,000 deaths—local authorities called for a reduction of the U.S. military presence in Okinawa, which hosts over 20,000 U.S. troops. Last August, a protest near Marine Corps Air […] The post U.S. Military Bases in South Korea and Japan Confronted with Persistent Protests first appeared on CovertAction Magazine.| CovertAction Magazine