Headquartered in San Francisco, The Asia Foundation is a non-profit organization receiving public and private support that coordinates development projects, educational programs and cultural exchanges across Asia, in part with the aim of facilitating better relations with the U.S., according to its website. Put in slightly different terms, The Asia Foundation is part of the […] The post The Asia Foundation’s Deep CIA Ties Exposed first appeared on CovertAction Magazine.| CovertAction Magazine
President Donald Trump has expressed enthusiasm about Japan’s new prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, stating that her elevation to head the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in late October was “tremendous news.” Speaking to U.S. troops aboard a U.S. aircraft carrier in Japan on October 28 during his Asia tour, Trump introduced Takaichi as a “big winner.” […] The post Trump Administration Embraces New Japanese Leader Who is a Regular Visitor to a Shrine that Honors War Criminals first a...| CovertAction Magazine
Funding for SNAP, the federal Supplemental Food Assistance Program, is set to expire on November 1st due to the ongoing government shutdown that’s about to hit the one-month mark... The post CovertAction Bulletin – Feeding the Crisis: SNAP Under Siege in the Shutdown first appeared on CovertAction Magazine.| CovertAction Magazine
Charlotte Dennett is an investigative journalist and lawyer whose father, Daniel Dennett, was considered to be America’s first master spy in the Middle East. As head of counter-intelligence for the Central Intelligence group—the immediate forerunner of the CIA—Daniel traveled to Saudi Arabia in 1947 to determine the route of a new Trans-Arabian pipeline and whether […] The post Daughter of CIA’s First Master Spy in the Middle East Says Today’s Wars Have Been Triggered by Great Pow...| CovertAction Magazine
On October 16, 2025, Donald Trump’s second term ignited a reckless campaign against Venezuela, greenlighting covert CIA operations, deploying 4,000 Marines and F-35 jets to the Caribbean, and launching strikes on Venezuelan vessels that have killed more than 27 people—all framed as a fight against drugs and migration. This is no noble mission: It is a recycled imperial […] The post Unmasking Imperial Hypocrisy: Trump’s 2025 Venezuela Escalation Is a Sham for Oil first appeared on C...| CovertAction Magazine
MAGA warnings of an enemy invasion through the gap helps justify cruel policies targeting vulnerable people who have been victimized by U.S. foreign policy Known in Spanish as Tapón del Darién, the Darién Gap is a 106-kilometer stretch of jungle straddling Panama and Colombia that encompasses two UNESCO world heritage sites and national parks[1] and […] The post The Darién Gap Straddling Panama and Colombia is a Mass Migrant Graveyard that Exemplifies Injustice of Today’s Global Econo...| CovertAction Magazine
From Toshiba to Huawei: America’s Long War on Superior Competitors For decades, the United States championed free markets and fair competition—until it no longer had the upper hand. Today, oligarchs like Peter Thiel—a key player in the U.S. security apparatus and founder of Palantir, the taxpayer-funded surveillance and profiling giant built with CIA backing—say competition […] The post How a Private Company Won the War Waged on It by the Mightiest State: Huawei’s Secret Comeback ...| CovertAction Magazine
Millions of people in over 2,700 cities and towns took part in No Kings Day protests across the country on October 18th... The post CovertAction Bulletin: A General Strike Can Change Everything first appeared on CovertAction Magazine.| CovertAction Magazine
[This article is one of two published by CovertAction Magazine on George Orwell that offer two divergent interpretations about Orwell’s career and legacy. Here is the first, a movie review of Orwell: 2+2=5 that just debuted.—Editors] Rather than being some kind of prophet, Orwell was a literary Cold Warrior who plagiarized works and critiqued the […] The post CIA Adapted George Orwell’s Animal Farm for Political Purposes in Cold War first appeared on CovertAction Magazine.| CovertAction Magazine
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
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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
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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
The well-organized Palestine conference in Detroit brought more than 4,600 there, with a heavy Palestinian presence. Most of the speakers in the plenaries were genuine Palestinian activists tested in battle, not well-known writers or professors. The over 270 journalists who have been targeted and murdered for informing the world of the endless U.S.-Israeli slaughter of| CovertAction Magazine
As we near the 24th and 25th anniversaries of 9/11, the time is right for soberly re-examining the official narrative of the event that defines our century, not by getting lost in a maze of speculations, but by paying attention to a paradox that can be analyzed with logic and common sense: that of World| CovertAction Magazine
American embassy and CIA were complicit in their killings and the cover-up On September 11, 1973, General Augusto Pinochet launched a fascist coup in Chile that deposed Salvador Allende, a democratically elected socialist who had nationalized Chile’s copper industry and enacted other measures designed to equalize wealth in Chile. Supported by the Nixon administration and| CovertAction Magazine
New film detailed amateurish plot led by a gang of mercenaries who couldn’t shoot straight As the Trump regime deploys the Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group—including a nuclear-powered attack submarine, P-8A Poseidon maritime surveillance aircraft, three U.S. Navy destroyers equipped with some of the most advanced air defense, ballistic missile defense, and anti-submarine warfare systems, with 4,500| CovertAction Magazine
The UAE’s Big Brother Is the Central Intelligence Agency The UAE, the United Arab Emirates, is a cancer spreading in Africa. This cancer has infected much of eastern Africa and is spreading into northern, central and western parts of the continent. The worst outbreak of this disease—the UAE disease, has been in Sudan where the ruling| CovertAction Magazine
Despite 30,000 sanctions, Russia is taking a step toward multi-polar world. We are currently witnessing world history unfolding before our eyes. The destruction of the financial and international relations system by Western countries is contributing to global changes in the world economy and the development of a multipolar world order. These circumstances are most actively| CovertAction Magazine
By 2016 I had authored four New York Times best-selling non-fiction books about the U.S. government, wars and the American media. Over this time, I had read jillions of pages of research, interviewed more than 1,000 people, met five American presidents, dined in the personal quarters of the White House, and was acquainted with numerous| CovertAction Magazine
Rather than advancing democracy, U.S. interference helped empower a Harvard-trained World Bank economist who jailed a political rival and has allowed large-scale arms shipments into Ukraine Former U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Director Samantha Power admitted to Russian pranksters that USAID invested tens of millions of dollars in Moldova to support pro-European Union (EU)| CovertAction Magazine
Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger once said “it may be dangerous to be America’s enemy, but to be America’s friend is fatal.” Canada has been servile to the U.S. war agenda under Prime Minister Mark Carney, a former Governor of the Bank of Canada and Bank of England, whose professional loyalties have been| CovertAction Magazine
According to recent reporting by Taylor Lorenz in Wired, a secretive dark money group is funding influencers to post pro-Democratic Party messaging on social media services—paying them up to $8,000 per month...| CovertAction Magazine
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| 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| 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| 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| 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| 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| CovertAction Magazine
On March 4, 2018, Sergei Skripal, a 66-year-old former Russian intelligence officer turned British defector was allegedly poisoned with Novichok nerve agent in Salisbury, England, along with his 33-year-old daughter Yulia. The two were admitted to a hospital after they were allegedly found unconscious on a public bench in the center of Salisbury by the| CovertAction Magazine
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Untitled Project: Amazon Delivery Confirmation [May 22 / June 18 / July 02 / August 03 / September 11 / October 02 / November 05 / December 29 / January 05], Oil paint on wood panel(s), each 7 x 5 x ½ inches, 2021 >> Untitled Project: Amazon Delivery Confirmation is a collection of small paintings documenting patterns of consumption of goods and services in 2020, during the months of the Covid-19 pandemic. Each painting is based on an ephemeral ‘proof of delivery’ image taken a...| >> Conrad Bakker / Untitled Projects
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