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About Jeremy Kuzmarov

Jeremy Kuzmarov (https://jeremykuzmarov.com) is Managing Editor of CovertAction Magazine and author of The Russians Are Coming, Again, with John Marciano (Monthly Review Press, 2018).
  • [Source: blog.pmpress.org]

    Legendary peace activist was transformed by experience in Vietnam

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on May 6, 2025 (more by CovertAction Magazine)  |

    Hideous nature of the war exposed him to ugly realities of U.S. and Western imperialism.

  • Trump shaking hands with Salvadoran dictator Nayib Bukele. [Source: bbc.com]

    Trump Administration’s affinity for Salvadoran dictator shows authoritarian nature

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on April 10, 2025 (more by CovertAction Magazine)  |

    El Salvador is a human rights nightmare comparable to the 1980s death squad era.

  • [Source: davidmhart.com]

    With Trump invoking William McKinley as Great American President, Progressives should revitalize early 1900s anti-Imperialist League

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on April 7, 2025 (more by CovertAction Magazine)  |

    During his inaugural address, Donald Trump said that he would “restore the name of a great president, William McKinley,” who “made our country very rich through tariffs and through talent—he was a natural businessman—and gave Teddy Roosevelt the money for many of the great things he did including the Panama Canal.”

  • [Source: the comicnews.com]

    Revolt of the rich: Wealthy elites have waged a fifty year class war—and won

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on March 7, 2025 (more by CovertAction Magazine)  |

    The 2024 election between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump makes clear that the U.S. has two right-wing parties and no effective left-wing opposition.

  • [Source: samim.io]

    CIA documents prove the agency was lying to public about germ warfare in Korea for decades

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on March 4, 2025 (more by CovertAction Magazine)  |

    For years, academic historians had dismissed the allegation that the U.S. had engaged in germ warfare in Korea as communist propaganda.

  • [Source: newyorker.com]

    Mass incarceration arose out of empire building across North America, Carribean and Pacific

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on January 11, 2025 (more by CovertAction Magazine)  |

    The United States today has by far the world’s largest incarceration rate, with nearly two million people living in prisons and jails. The conditions in those facilities are often substandard, with Amnesty International criticizing the dehumanizing practice of holding prisoners in prolonged solitary confinement. Benjamin Weber’s book, American Purgatory: Prison Imperialism and the Rise of […]

  • [Source: ilovethaki.gr]

    U.S. corporate land grab in Ukraine underlies war with Russia

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on December 19, 2024 (more by CovertAction Magazine)  |

    Heralded as a hero in Western media, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has allowed foreign private interests to steal his country’s best land.

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    “Humanitarian Intervention” in Sierra Leone that was heralded as a model in Western media was really another horror show

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on November 25, 2024 (more by CovertAction Magazine)  |

    Documentary made by Cinema Libre Studio founder Philippe Diaz punctures Western narrative and shows weakness and corruption of UN.

  • “The CIA Democrats.”

    CIA Democrats and other Party hawks win races in 2024 election

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on November 17, 2024 (more by CovertAction Magazine)  |

    They embody a party that crossed over to the dark side years ago.

  • Wesley R. Fishel and South Vietnamese Premier Ngo Dinh Diem, 1955. [Source: politico.com]

    How an obscure Michigan State professor who worked for the CIA played a leading role in facilitating U.S. intervention in Vietnam

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on November 4, 2024 (more by CovertAction Magazine)  |

    Ngo Dinh Diem, South Vietnam’s premier from 1954 to 1963, was a Cold War version of Volodymyr Zelensky, an American-subsidized ruler who was fawned upon by leading U.S. politicians and the U.S. media despite causing the ruin of his own country.

  • [Source: cartoonmovement.com]

    Intelligence services have penetrated and corrupted human rights NGOs, says former senior lawyer with the Office of the UN High Commissioner

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on June 7, 2024 (more by CovertAction Magazine)  |

    On April 7, 2022, the UN General Assembly voted to exclude Russia from the UN Human Rights Council.

  • From left, Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD), Senator Chris Coons (D-DE), and James Roscoe, deputy head of mission at the British Embassy in Washington, D.C., listen as Evgenia Kara-Murza, rights advocate and wife of Vladimir Kara-Murza, speaks about her husband at an NED-sponsored event on Capitol Hill on April 9. [Source: thenationalnews.com]

    National Endowment For Democracy continues to weaponize human rights

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on May 20, 2024 (more by CovertAction Magazine)  |

    The latest example is its pressing for release of John McCain pallbearer from Siberian jail while it ignores a socialist arrested by the Ukrainian intelligence services and another socialist who was murdered.

  • [Source: breitbart.com]

    Biden Administration is silent as former Pakistani Prime Minister is sentenced to 10 years for revealing how the U.S. pushed for his removal

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on February 7, 2024 (more by CovertAction Magazine)  |

    The Biden administration claims that U.S. foreign policy works to uphold human rights and democracy while containing rising authoritarian powers such as Russia and China.

  • U.S.-supplied military equipment arriving in Israel, December 2023. [Source: timesofisrael.com]

    250 U.S. cargo planes and at least 20 ships have delivered more than 10,000 tons of armaments and military equipment to Israel since War on Gaza started

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on February 2, 2024 (more by CovertAction Magazine)  |

    Unfazed by the International Court of Justice’s Genocide Case Brought by South Africa, Even More Deadly Weapons Are on the Way.

  • U.S. drone base at Agadez, Niger. [Source: plymouth.ac.uk]

    U.S. planning to establish new drone bases in Ghana, Ivory Coast and Benin

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on January 18, 2024 (more by CovertAction Magazine)  |

    Journalist Nick Turse has shown that terrorist attacks have spiked exponentially as a result of the growing U.S. military presence in the Sahelian region.

  • John Pilger [Source: dailytelegraph.com.au]

    In one of last interviews, John Pilger calls for an “insurrection of banned knowledge”

    Jeremy Kuzmarov

    Since his death on December 30, tributes have been pouring in for John Pilger, an Australian journalist who gave voice to the voiceless and had a talent for putting human tragedies into a political context.

  • [Source: prezibase.com]

    Fake intellectuals working for Think Tanks funded by the Arms Industry are driving support for war after war after war

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on January 2, 2024 (more by CovertAction Magazine)  |

    Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Ukraine, Russia, China, and Now Iran.

  • [Source: henrykotula.com]

    In an age of forever wars, American popular culture has reimagined its veterans as victims rather than agents of empire

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on December 30, 2023 (more by CovertAction Magazine)  |

    Long Forgotten Is the Role that Veteran Anti-War Activists Played in Ending the Vietnam War.

  • [Source: survivethenews.com]

    Washington Post lifts the veil on CIA’s shadow war against Russia waged since 2014

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on November 1, 2023 (more by CovertAction Magazine)  |

    In August 2022, Ukrainian security service (SBU) operatives hid explosives in a crate intended for a cat in a car driven by a woman and her twelve year old daughter.

  • Ukrainian snipers attend shooting training near the front line amid Russia-Ukraine war in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, on February 18, 2023. [Source: businessinsider.com]

    Ukraine’ assassination program has gotten so out of control that some of its members are starting to speak out

    Originally published: Internationalist 360° on September 28, 2023 (more by Internationalist 360°)

    On September 9th, The Economist ran a remarkable story entitled “Ukraine’s Assassination Programme: Its Agents Have Become Expert in Dark Revenge.”

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  • The Russians Are Coming, Again September 01, 2017
  • U.S. Terrorism in Vietnam May 01, 2010

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  • The Russians Are Coming, Again: The First Cold War as Tragedy, the Second as Farce May 16, 2018

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  • US Imperialism in Crisis: Opportunities and Challenges to a Global Community with a Shared Future
    Sam-Kee Cheng A late 1940s Soviet poster showing a US military service member lounging on top of a German factory, smoking a cigar. The text beneath reads DER DOLLARIMPERIALISMUS [dollar imperialism].

    1. Introduction The predominance of US economic, political and military power in the world was established at the end of the Second World War.1 With just 6.3 percent of global population, the United States held about 50 percent of the world wealth in 1948. As the only power which had used nuclear weapons on civilian […]

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    On October 7th, 2012, after hearing of his victory as the nation‘s candidate with 56 percent of the vote, President Hugo Chávez Frias announced from a balcony in his hometown that a new cycle was beginning the very next day, October 8th.

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