Monthly Archives: October 2025| covertactionmagazine.com
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
In early September, Dr. Thomas Alter II—author of the well-regarded book Toward a Cooperative Commonwealth: The Transplanted Roots of Farmer-Labor Radicalism in Texas (University of Illinois Press, 2022)—was fired from his tenured position teaching history at Texas State University after he gave an online talk at a socialist conference. Alter’s talk was secretly recorded by […] The post Right Wing Attack Dog Intent on Exposing Left-Wing “Subversion” Follows in Footsteps of Cold Wa...| 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 […] The post Bolivia Turns to the Right first appeared on CovertAction Magazine.| 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 […] The post Digital Literacy and Civics Education are Essential Tools in Era of Disinformation and Surveillance Capital...| CovertAction Magazine
The New York Times and other obituaries predictably left this out Richard Armitage, the number two official at the State Department from 2001 to 2005, died on April 13. The New York Times and other obituaries emphasized that Armitage was a Naval Academy graduate and Bronze Star recipient in Vietnam who served senior roles in […] The post Former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage is Alleged to Have Coordinated CIA Drug Trafficking Network in Southeast Asia that Financed Black Operati...| CovertAction Magazine
Elbridge Colby, President Donald Trump’s Under Secretary of Defense for Policy and the man running the U.S. proxy war against Russia in Ukraine, is the grandson of Nixon’s CIA Director William Colby, son of Jonathan Colby, a manager of the Carlyle Group, and nephew of Carl Colby, alleged to have participated in a covert operation […] The post What Dirty Tricks Does the Grandson of Former CIA Director William Colby—a Key Man Running U.S. Foreign Policy in the Trump Administration—Hav...| 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... The post CovertAction Bulletin – U.S. on Edge: Trump Prepares Domestic Military Crackdown first appeared on CovertAction Magazine.| CovertAction Magazine
[These remarks were delivered at the September 16, 2025, CovertAction Magazine webinar on Neo-Colonialism in Africa.—Editors] I’m honored to be invited to join P.D. Lawton, Jeremy Kuzmarov, Milton Allimadi, Jean-Marie Higiro, and Lawrence Freeman here. I know a bit about most everyone’s particular areas of expertise, but particularly those of Milton and Lawrence, so I’m sure we’ll […] The post Neo-Colonialism in Africa: From the IMF and World Bank to the International Caucasian ...| CovertAction Magazine
When I was young, my parents worked long hours. As a result, I spent much of my childhood with my grandparents, whose outlook on life always fascinated me—though at times, it left me deeply unsettled. Their time was not my own; it always moved more slowly, as if our clocks were never synchronized. A conversation […] The post The Book My Grandfather Never Wrote first appeared on CovertAction Magazine.| CovertAction Magazine
New disclosures add weight to theory that Burisma was part of CIA operation On February 21, 2019, a confidential source told the FBI that two CIA officers went with Mykola Zlochevsky, owner of Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company that appointed Hunter Biden to its board, to the office of Yuriy Lutsenko, the prosecutor general of […] The post CIA Officers Helped Block Investigation into Ukrainian Energy Company that Employed Hunter Biden first appeared on CovertAction Magazine.| CovertAction Magazine
Public relations machine transformed hard-line jihadists—whom Hillary Clinton famously called “hard men with guns”—into valiant freedom fighters in the eyes of the U.S.-UK public [This is the third part of a series. Part I can be found here and Part II can be found here.—Editors] Imagine if an armed rebellion took place in the United […] The post Covert U.S. and UK Propaganda Was Crucial to Deadly Regime Change Operation in Syria first appeared on CovertAction Magazine.| CovertAction Magazine
An on-the-ground account challenging Western propaganda Upon landing in Urumqi, the capital of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (commonly known as Xinjiang), it is evident that the Uyghurs, a Turkic-speaking Muslim minority, call this home. As I exited the airport arrivals hall, I noticed a restaurant sign reading “EGG BOMB.” The moniker cleverly implies that […] The post Xinjiang as It Really Is first appeared on CovertAction Magazine.| 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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Ann Wright is a retired United States Army colonel and retired U.S. State Department official. She was one of three State Department officials to publicly resign in direct protest of the 2003 Invasion of Iraq. Since that time Colonel Wright has been a dedicated peace activist. Ann can be reached at annw1946@gmail.com.| covertactionmagazine.com
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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
Monthly Archives: August 2025| covertactionmagazine.com
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
Militarized ICE and Homeland Security raids targeted farms in California’s Central Coast on July 10th, with 200 farm workers ending up arrested, some being critically injured and one tragically losing his life...| CovertAction Magazine
Monthly Archives: July 2025| covertactionmagazine.com
Voters then, too, were faced with the choice of two corporate-backed candidates promoting regressive economic policies In 1924, at least, there was a genuinely progressive third candidate, Robert La Follette The 1924 U.S. election was not much better than 2024’s. In both cases, the Republican and Democratic Party candidates had deep Wall Street ties and| CovertAction Magazine
The ongoing genocide in Gaza has brought greater global attention to the plight of Palestinians, a huge number of whom have been refugees since the founding of the State of Israel in 1948 when they were expelled from their land in what is known as the Nakba. The brutal Israeli onslaught over the last year| CovertAction Magazine
134 people have died and 101 remain missing after the Guadalupe River in central Texas overflowed as a result of 6.5 inches of rain falling over the course of three hours on the morning of July 4th...| CovertAction Magazine
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is perhaps the most well-known Soviet dissident. He was the author of The Gulag Archipelago, a three-volume work originally published in 1973 which significantly turned international public opinion against the Soviet Union. Described by Canadian psychologist and right-wing media personality Jordan Peterson as the most important book of the 20th century, the text| CovertAction Magazine
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