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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).
  • NED Democracy Award, a small-scale replica of the Goddess of Democracy that was constructed in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, during the student movement for freedom and democracy in 1989. [Source: ned.org]

    Is there really a U.S. government agency that gives out awards for deceiving the public?

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on June 21, 2022 (more by CovertAction Magazine)  |

    Check out this year’s “Democracy Awards” handed out by the National Endowment for Democracy. They were presented to Ukrainian NGOs that specialize in creating manipulative “psyops” and fake “atrocity porn” designed to inflame public opinion against Russia.

  • Burning of Odessa’s House of Trade Unions Building on May 2, 2014.

    “The once bright city became gloomy and sad:” survivor of 2014 Odessa Massacre reflects back on tragedy

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on May 10, 2022 (more by CovertAction Magazine)  |

    Massacre part of planned act of intimidation by U.S.-installed government and precipitated civil war in Ukraine.

  • CIA Director William F. Burns speaking before a Senate hearing on national security threats in early March. [Source: businessinsider.com]

    CIA Director William F. Burns–Capo of World’s biggest spreader of lies and misinformation–is spreading the big lie that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was “unprovoked”

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on March 17, 2022 (more by CovertAction Magazine)  |

    CIA Director Bill Burns testified before the Senate Intelligence committee in early March that Russia and Vladimir Putin were “losing the information war over its war in Ukraine.”

  • [Source: ned.org]

    National Endowment for Democracy deletes records of funding projects in Ukraine

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on March 7, 2022 (more by CovertAction Magazine)  |

    Deletion needed to preserve big lie of an unprovoked Russian invasion

  • President Biden at a virtual summit with China’s President Xi Jinping. [Source: axios.com]

    As U.S. threatens war with Russia, Biden administration unveils imperial strategy for Indo-Pacific that could lead to war with China

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on February 19, 2022 (more by CovertAction Magazine)  |

    Already threatening war with Russia, the White House this month has unveiled a new imperial grand strategy for the Indo-Pacific that raises the prospects of war with China.

  • Then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions, center, announces the creation of a controversial Justice Department effort called the “China Initiative”during a press conference at the Justice Department in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 1, 2018.

    FBI is recklessly misusing Trump-era espionage policy to create “Climate of Fear” among scientists—terrorizing families and ruthlessly destroying careers

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on December 30, 2021 (more by CovertAction Magazine)  |

    On the Tuesday before Christmas, Dr. Charles Lieber, the former chair of Harvard’s Chemistry and Chemical Biology Department, was convicted by a federal jury of lying to the U.S. about his involvement with China’s government and failing to disclose income from China on his tax returns.

  • Theodore Posto

    Prestigious weaponry expert censored after demonstrating that a deadly poison gas attack—blamed on the Syrian government—was really a false-flag operation by U.S.-funded terrorists

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on November 22, 2021 (more by CovertAction Magazine)  |

    Theodore Postol, a physicist with a Ph.D. in nuclear engineering, he is Professor Emeritus of Science, Technology, and International Security at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a former top policy adviser to the chief of naval operations.

  • Obama speaks at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.

    A Company Family: The untold history of Obama and the CIA

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on October 1, 2021 (more by CovertAction Magazine)  |

    Despite his liberal pretensions, Obama’s foreign policy was dreamed up at Langley—which should not have been surprising given his background

  • Daniel Ellsberg, co-defendant in the Pentagon Papers case, talks to the media outside the Federal Building in Los Angeles on April 28, 1973. [Source: nbcnews.com]

    Dan Ellsberg blows the whistle again at UMASS-Amherst Conference to commemorate his legacy

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on May 7, 2021 (more by CovertAction Magazine)  |

    Dan Ellsberg, the legendary whistleblower who has been arrested more than 75 times for protesting the U.S. warfare state, has not mellowed with age.

  • [Source: themontrealreview.com]

    Cold War on Trial: Truth Commission details horrible crimes akin to Native American genocide and slavery

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on April 8, 2021 (more by CovertAction Magazine)  |

    While the Cold War Truth Commission may not be able to reverse the insanity of current U.S. policies, it has at least helped to ensure that a truthful history will be preserved.

  • Image courtesy of Steve Brown

    On 10th Anniversary of the U.S.-NATO attack on Libya: Powerful perpetrators have yet to face justice

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on March 19, 2021 (more by CovertAction Magazine)  |

    Three Powerful American Women—Hillary Clinton, Samantha Power and Susan Rice—Pushed Obama into Destroying the Wealthiest, Healthiest and Happiest Nation in Africa.

  • The new Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) nuclear missile systems will cost tax payers $100 Billion. [Source: thebulletin.org]

    What’s behind the Biden Administration’s new $100 billion nuclear missile system?

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on March 9, 2021 (more by CovertAction Magazine)  |

    Massive popular pressure—like that organized by the 1980s nuclear freeze movement—is needed to stop more waste, fraud and abuse.

  • Donald Trump visits a tank production facility in Ohio in 2019. [Source: vanityfair.com]

    Grading Trump on Foreign Policy

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on December 30, 2020 (more by CovertAction Magazine)  |

    Huge Military Budgets, Covert Operations, Drones and Assassinations—but hey, at least he didn’t start another major war.

  • American Police Training and Political Violence: From the Philippines Conquest to the Killing Fields of Afghanistan and Iraq

    Jeremy Kuzmarov

    “In the police you see the dirty work of Empire at close quarters. The wretched prisoners huddling in stinking cages of the lock-ups, the grey cowed faces of the long-term convicts, the scarred buttocks of the men who had been flogged with bamboos.” –George Orwell, Shooting An Elephant and Other Essays “. . . the […]

  • Bringing Empire Home

    Jeremy Kuzmarov

    Alfred W. McCoy.  Policing America’s Empire: The United States, the Philippines and the Rise of the Surveillance State.  Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2009. In the build-up to the Iraq and Afghan wars, liberal humanitarians and neoconservatives alike bantered on and on about the necessity of empire and its capability of removing tyrannical […]

Also By Jeremy Kuzmarov in Monthly Review Magazine

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

Books By Jeremy Kuzmarov

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

Monthly Review Essays

  • Mapping U.S. Imperialism
    The Mapping Project U.S. military bases around the world. (Photo: Al Jazeera)

    This article deals with U.S. imperialism since World War 2. It is critical to acknowledge that U.S. imperialism emanates both ideologically and materially from the crime of colonialism on this continent which has killed over 100 million indigenous people and approximately 150 million African people over the past 500 years.

Lost & Found

  • Russia and the Ukraine crisis: The Eurasian Project in conflict with the triad imperialist policies
    Samir Amin State flag of Ukraine behind a wall of anonymous protesters in Kyiv, Ukraine

    We wanted to draw readers attention to this piece by Samir Amin, which was written at the time of the Maidan Coup in 2014. —Eds. 1. The current global stage is dominated by the attempt of historical centers of imperialism (the U.S., Western and Central Europe, Japan—hereafter called “the Triad”) to maintain their exclusive control […]

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