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  • | Ukraine service members fire a shell from a M777 Howitzer from Ukrainian position in Peski toward Donetsk Source reuterscom | MR Online

    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 smallscale 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 nedorg | MR Online

    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.

  • | Map warns of growing Russian influence in Africashades of the Cold War Source vifindiaorg | MR Online

    New Bill that passed House reinvokes old Russian bogeyman as pretext for more U.S. intervention in Africa

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on June 14, 2022 by Richard S. Dunn (more by CovertAction Magazine)  | (Posted Jun 17, 2022)

    Liberal Democrats shamefully all voted for the “Countering Malign Russian Influence Activities in Africa” Act—seems like relic from bygone era

  • | Source threadreadersappcom | MR Online

    How monsters who beat Jews to death in 1944 became America’s favorite “Freedom Fighters” in 1945—with a little help from their friends at CIA (Part 2)

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

    After the end of the Second World War, American intelligence immediately set about the work of rehabilitating the world’s fascists to fight the new war on Communism.

  • | Meet the CIAs eager studentsstar pupils in the art of terrorizing civilian populations Organization of Ukrainian Nationalist OUN partisans recruited by the CIA to fight against the Soviets Source rbthcom | MR Online

    How pre-WW II Ukrainian fascists pioneered brutal terror techniques; later improved by CIA, now ironically taught to descendants (Part 1)

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on June 9, 2022 by Evan Reif (more by CovertAction Magazine)  | (Posted Jun 11, 2022)

    The history of Ukraine is long and rich. For millennia, the fertile lands of Ukraine with their black earth and rich seas have been highly contested.

  • | Fits long pattern of warmongering and provocations that are a feature of the American Century | MR Online

    Joe Biden’s saber-rattling threatens World War III—with China and Russia

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on June 8, 2022 by Dee Knight (more by CovertAction Magazine)  | (Posted Jun 10, 2022)

    Fits long pattern of war-mongering and provocations that are a feature of the American Century.

  • | Burning of Odessas House of Trade Unions Building on May 2 2014 | MR Online

    “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.

  • | Source greatgameindiacom | MR Online

    Peace Movement needs to demand dismantling of NATO

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on April 28, 2022 (more by CovertAction Magazine)  |

    NATO went from fighting socialism to enforcing global empire.

  • | Residents of Mariupol receiving humanitarian aid from the Russian army | MR Online

    U.S. media are lying about Russian atrocities in Mariupol, says embedded reporter at Ground Zero

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on April 23, 2022 by Sonja Van den Ende (more by CovertAction Magazine)  | (Posted Apr 27, 2022)

    [This article is written by a reporter embedded in Ukraine with the Russian army. We believe that if people want to understand the war in Ukraine, they need to read widely about it, from different perspectives, including the Russian one, to try and discern the truth about what is going on for themselves.—Editors]

  • | Source almayadeennet wptaverncom | MR Online

    NED finances key Ukrainian propaganda organ, the Kyiv Independent

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on April 13, 2022 by Evan Reif (more by CovertAction Magazine)  | (Posted Apr 14, 2022)

    One NED-sponsored journalist even fights with the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion and openly advocates for the commission of war crimes.

  • | Source telesurenglishnet | MR Online

    Why is the Nicaraguan Government demonized by both Liberals and Conservatives when Nicaragua has seen great progress under the Sandinistas?

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on March 28, 2022 (more by CovertAction Magazine)  |

    Women Have Made Particularly Significant Gains Under the Second Sandinista Government Since 2006.

  • | CIA Director William F Burns speaking before a Senate hearing on national security threats in early March Source businessinsidercom | MR Online

    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.”

  • | Happy Anniversary Iraq War foreign policy | MR Online

    Nineteen years ago today the Bush administration invaded Iraq in one of the worst crimes of the modern era

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on March 19, 2022 by Philip A. Farruggio (more by CovertAction Magazine)  | (Posted Mar 21, 2022)

    Numerologists tell you that 19 is 1 + 9 which equals the powerful # 1, or new beginnings. Well, 19 years ago on March 19, coincidentally,  my nation orchestrated the most horrific deed since God knows when.

  • | The Uyghur Podcast Brought to You by a CIA Torture Propagandist | MR Online

    The Uyghur Podcast brought to you by a CIA torture propagandist

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on March 11, 2022 by Kit Klarenberg (more by CovertAction Magazine)  | (Posted Mar 14, 2022)

    On February 2nd, eagle-eyed pro-China activist Arnaud Bertrand revealed that WEghur Stories, a podcast “working to create a conversation within and about the global Uyghur diaspora” that has been aggressively promoted on Facebook and Spotify, is funded by Washington’s French diplomatic mission—and that John Bair, its co-creator, co-host and producer, is a former CIA operative.

  • | Source nedorg | MR Online

    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 Chinas President Xi Jinping Source axioscom | MR Online

    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.

  • | Barack Obama Sr Source wikipediaorg | MR Online

    Barack Obama’s father identified as CIA asset in U.S. drive to “recolonize” Africa during early days of the Cold War

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

    Over the last decade, the U.S. has been quietly expanding its covert intelligence empire in Africa as part of a growing geopolitical rivalry with China.

  • | Burial of the dead after the massacre of Wounded Knee in South Dakota US Soldiers are shown putting Indians in a common grave some corpses are frozen in different positions Source wikipediaorg | MR Online

    131 years ago today, the U.S. Army massacred native Sioux at Wounded Knee

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on December 29, 2021 by Richard Dunn (more by CovertAction Magazine)  | (Posted Jan 12, 2022)

    Marked Culmination of a Long Process of Genocide That is Still Sugarcoated in Most History Textbooks.

  • | ThenAttorney General Jeff Sessions center announces the creation of a controversial Justice Department effort called the China Initiativeduring a press conference at the Justice Department in Washington DC on Nov 1 2018 | MR Online

    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.

  • | President Daniel Ortega shown dancing with musicians and supporters | MR Online

    Nicaragua’s evidence-based democracy threatens U.S. oppression domestically and abroad

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on December 6, 2021 (more by CovertAction Magazine)  |

    Despite Washington’s best effort to derail Nicaragua’s electoral process through hybrid warfare, strong voter turnout resulted in a decisive victory by the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), and the reelection of President Daniel Ortega with 75.92% of the votes cast. Nicaragua’s non-partisan, independent Supreme Electoral Council (CSE) reported on Monday, November 8th that 65.23% of […]

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    Editor | Cuban Flag Museum of the Revolution Havana Cuba 2012 | MR Online

    I have 2 favourite sayings. One draws upon the dialogue in Shakespeare’s Henry the VI part 2 when Jack Cade envisions that the effect of his plot will be that “all the realm shall be in common.” To this, comrade Dick responds, “the first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.”

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    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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