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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).
  • Anthony J. Cotton [Source: airandspaceforces.com]; left, Peter Sellers as Dr. Strangelove [Source: commonedge.org ] [Collage courtesy of Steve Brown.]

    Is that a chilling echo of Dr. Strangelove we are hearing from Biden’s nominee to oversee America’s nuclear weapons arsenal?

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on September 26, 2022 (more by CovertAction Magazine)  |

    Stanley Kubrick’s classic 1964 film Dr. Strangelove featured an unhinged Air Force General named Jack D. Ripper, who orders a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union after he becomes convinced that the Soviets were polluting the U.S. water supply.

  • [Source: americasquarterly.org]

    Murder on Embassy Row—46 years on: Remembering the assassination of Orlando Letelier and Ronni Moffitt

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

    On the morning of September 21, 1976, a car bomb took the lives of Orlando Letelier, Minister of Foreign Relations and Ambassador to the U.S. under Chile’s socialist president Salvador Allende (1970-1973), and Ronni Karpen Moffitt, a 25-year-old fundraiser for the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), a left-wing think-tank in Washington, D.C.

  • [Source: schillerinstitute.com]

    Ukrainian “Hit list” Publishes names and addresses of alleged “Russian propagandists:” Turns out to be based not in Ukraine but in Langley VA where CIA headquarters is located

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

    Just a coincidence, right?

  • Senator Frank Church presides over hearings into CIA abuses. [Source: alphahistory.com]

    We need a new “Church Committee” to curb massive intelligence agency criminality ranging from illegal surveillance to torture and assassination

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on September 6, 2022 (more by CovertAction Magazine)  |

    Russia-Gate and CIA ties to Ukrainian death squads, along with killer drone program and worldwide surveillance apparatus, necessitates new investigations of U.S. intelligence agencies modeled after the Church Committee hearings of 1975.

  • Evo Morales [Source: declassifieduk.org]

    Former Bolivian President Evo Morales calls for a Global campaign to eliminate NATO

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on July 30, 2022 (more by CovertAction Magazine)  |

    In interview with British journalist, Morales says the U.S. uses NATO to provoke wars and sell weapons. U.S./UK-backed coup against him in 2019 was undertaken for lithium and because his government advanced an alternative economic model to the neoliberal “Washington Consensus”

  • On the left, Zelensky in circle behind Kholomoisky. On the right, Zelensky on the campaign trail is followed by one of Kholomoisky’s bodyguards. [Source: national-conservative.com]

    How corrupt is Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky?

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on July 20, 2022 (more by CovertAction Magazine)  |

    Before the Russian invasion, CIA reports linked him to an oligarch so dirty and so mired in “significant corruption” that the State Department banned him from entering the U.S. But now CIA propaganda portrays Zelensky as nobler than Winston Churchill and saintlier than Mother Theresa. Will the Real Volodymyr Zelensky Please Stand Up.

  • Brzezinski Clan

    Russian-hating dream of Brzezinski Clan nears fulfillment as Poland agrees to host permanent U.S. base and turn Baltic Sea into NATO Lake

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on July 16, 2022 (more by CovertAction Magazine)  |

    Mark Brzezinski, the U.S. Ambassador to Poland, is the son of the late Zbigniew Brzezinski, a descendent of Polish aristocrats and mastermind of U.S. foreign policy for decades, whose dream was to use Poland as a base to try to weaken and destroy Russia. Mark is now at the center of the implementation of his dad’s plans.

  • Biden laughing in 2021. [Source: ia.acs.org]

    Biden’s reckless new provocation ratchets up risk of nuclear war with China

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

    Sending U.S. Warships into South China Sea and Taiwan Strait in violation of UN Convention on the Law of the Sea

  • Ukraine service members fire a shell from a M-777 Howitzer from Ukrainian position in Peski toward Donetsk. [Source: reuters.com]

    While Biden Gives Ukrainian Army “The Most Lethal Weapon,” War Profiteer BAE Systems Stock Soars

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on June 27, 2022 (more by CovertAction Magazine)  |

    The Russian Interior Ministry reported that it had destroyed U.S.-made howitzers through use of attack drones.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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