In a markedly revealing September 22nd interview with The National, U.S. special envoy to Syria Tom Barrack made a number of stunning admissions about the state of play in Lebanon. Despite Western governments demanding for months that Beirut disarm Hezbollah, he acknowledged the resistance group had “zero” incentive to voluntarily do so, as “Israel is| CovertAction Magazine
Donald Trump did not win the Nobel Peace Prize, as he boasted he should for supposedly being the “peace President”—a claim we’ve debunked numerous times on this show...| CovertAction Magazine
[This is the second of two CAM special articles this week in honor of Indigenous Peoples Day.–Editors] In August 2023, the Kaw Nation transported a sacred boulder, known as Iⁿ‘zhúje ‘Waxóbe, from Lawrence, Kansas, to ancestral Kaw land near Locust Grove, Kansas, where Kaw Nation members lived. The Lawrence City Council voted 5-0 to allow| CovertAction Magazine
Far beyond any notion of solidarity between brotherly nations divided by an ocean, the reception of Brazilian exiles in Portugal during the 1970s was marked not by warmth, but by strict surveillance, diplomatic intrigue, and covert maneuvers. From the perspective of Brazilian intelligence services, Portugal appeared to waver between the moral duty of sheltering the| CovertAction Magazine
The Israeli government has waged the latest campaign in its effort to wipe out and destroy the Palestinian people entirely for over two years now, with the full financial, diplomatic and military backing of the United States government...| CovertAction Magazine
On October 19, Bolivia will have a new president—and he will be from the right. It is confirmed that the country is about to make a sharp ideological turn since the Movement for Socialism (MAS) came to power in January 2006. Broadly speaking, Bolivia has had nearly 20 years of leftist governments, although the current| CovertAction Magazine
Heidi Boghosian delivers a powerful and meticulously researched call to arms for a digitally overwhelmed society grappling with declining civic engagement and the manipulation of truth in the digital age in her new book Cyber Citizens: Saving Democracy with Digital Literacy. With sharp insight and urgency, Boghosian—the director of the AJ Muste Foundation for Peace and| CovertAction Magazine
At a gathering of senior military leaders at Marine Corps Base Quantico on Tuesday, Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth signaled that they’re preparing to imminently expand the scope and size of the U.S. military, both inside and outside the United States...| CovertAction Magazine
In a rambling speech that lasted nearly an hour at the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday, Donald Trump spent a significant amount of time condemning immigration in the west as well as the use and development of clean energy alternatives to coal and oil...| CovertAction Magazine
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On June 6, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) returned Elise Stefanik (R-NY) to the House Intelligence Committee, and added Steve Cohen (D-TN), expanding the committee’s membership to 27 by unanimous consent. The addition of Cohen was a concession to Johnson by the House chamber for reinserting Stefanik, who had been on the committee since 2017| CovertAction Magazine
You may be surprised to learn that Nicaragua is ranked sixth in the world for gender equity by the World Economic Forum; that the government led by the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) provides free, universal education and health care; and that Indigenous and Afro-descendant peoples have communal title and control over lands making up| CovertAction Magazine
June 25 marked the 50th anniversary of the Los Horcones massacre, a gruesome and desperate event that still haunts Honduran society and is emblematic of major forces that have shaped much of modern global history. A thorough and well-sourced description of the Los Horcones massacre and its context is provided in Penny Lernoux’s now-classic, Cry| CovertAction Magazine
Mahmoud Khalil is free! After spending 104 days unjustly held in an ICE detention center in Jena, Louisiana, he was reunited with his wife Noor, newborn son Deen and community over the weekend...| CovertAction Magazine
As Israel began its unprovoked attacks on Iran on June 13, the last three of the twelve volunteers of the Gaza Flotilla ship Madleen were still in Israeli prisons. Marc van Rennes, a Dutch citizen, was in the detention cell at Ben Gurion Airport when Israeli authorities closed the airport expecting Iranian retaliation to target the airport. He| CovertAction Magazine
Precipitated by Israel’s deadly bombing operations that have killed top military commanders and nuclear scientists, the U.S. is poised to attack Iran as part of a long-held goal of orchestrating a regime change there. The U.S government appears to want to install as Iran’s new leader Reza Pahlavi, the eldest son of the Shah of| CovertAction Magazine
Executive orders will ensure more executions If you were wondering about changes in the use of the death penalty at either the state or federal level since Donald Trump reassumed the presidency, well, wonder no more. On his very first day as president, Trump signed an executive order directing the Attorney General “to seek the| CovertAction Magazine
Intro (Laws for Thee, Not Me) Our cover image is a false-positive. A critical part of this story and the degree to which the criminalization of poverty and ideology of fear permeates Brazil, it will be addressed in the following sub-chapter. To date, at least 12 capital cities across the South American giant, including state| CovertAction Magazine
