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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: history.com]

    Back-to-School Special: Students in many elite Universities will be taught a distorted history of the Vietnam War this year that recycles CIA talking points

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on September 3, 2026 (more by CovertAction Magazine)  |

    The Vietnam War was a horrific war rooted in U.S. government lies that resulted in the deaths of some two million Vietnamese civilians.

  • [Source: facebook.com]

    Large number of faculty at Elite U.S. Universities linked to the National Endowment for Democracy, A CIA cut-out specializing in propaganda

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on August 26, 2026 (more by CovertAction Magazine)  |

    Many of the dissidents that the NED honors advocate for sanctions, bombing and war on their own countries. Some were even indicted for inciting insurrection or terrorist acts.

  • Abelardo de la Espriella is sworn in as president of Colombia in Cali, Colombia, in early August. [Source: nbcnews.com]

    Colombia is fast becoming a neo-Colonial outpost under its new Right-wing President

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on August 19, 2026 (more by CovertAction Magazine)  |

    Colombia’s recently inaugurated right-wing President Abelardo de la Espriella is moving rapidly to transform Colombia into a neo-colonial outpost after taking office in early August, giving the U.S. permission to enter Colombian territory under the pretext of “fighting drug cartels.”

  • [Source: virginiamercury.com]

    CIA Governor betrays workers of Virginia by vetoing collective bargaining right bill

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on June 24, 2026 (more by CovertAction Magazine)  |

    Abigail Spanberger follows the model of the CIA throughout the developing world.

  • Protesters outside Ramstein Air Base in Germany. [Source: nbcnews.com]

    U.S. Military bases around the world are facing growing protest from an emboldened Antiwar Movement

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on June 22, 2026 (more by CovertAction Magazine)  |

    Protests receive scant coverage in the U.S. media.

  • [Source: zocalopublicsquare.com]

    Renegade African-American soldier should be remembered for resisting White supremacy and colonialism

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on February 26, 2026 (more by CovertAction Magazine)  |

    In a 1952 song entitled “Bye Bye Big Brass,” anti-war singer Woody Guthrie dreamed up a scenario in which he is shipped off to the Korean War and, rather than kill a Chinese soldier he encounters, sits and talks with him by a campfire, hides out with him, and fights back against the U.S. Army with him.

  • Bison owned by the Blackfeet Nation in Montana. [Source: huffpost.com]

    Blackfeet Nation tries to overcome legacy of White settler genocide by bringing back the buffalo

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on November 30, 2025 (more by CovertAction Magazine)  |

    The buffalo reclamation project is coinciding with efforts to revitalize Native American languages and culture across the U.S. and Canada.

  • [Source: acfr.org]

    American Committee on Foreign Relations miseducates public and censors truth-telling analysts

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on June 16. 2025 (more by CovertAction Magazine)  |

    Gatekeepers who run groups have links to U.S. intelligence and only allow certain kinds of viewpoints—all while claiming to be promoting education and open debate about U.S. foreign policy.

  • [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.

  • [Source: pinterest.com]

    “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.

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    Anybody who’s ever leafed through Finnegans Wake will quickly recognize that we’re not dealing here with a standard novel, just as anybody leafing through Marx’s Capital will know we’re not dealing with standard economics.

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