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    Unmasking imperial hypocrisy: Trump’s 2025 Venezuela escalation is a sham for oil

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on October 27, 2025 by Gloria Guillo (more by CovertAction Magazine)  | (Posted Oct 29, 2025)

    The cycle of blame on Democrats supposed soft policy toward immigration ignores how both parties perpetuate Latin American destabilization for profit.

  •    Source forumgeopoliticacom   MR Online

    How a Private Company Won the War Waged on It by the Mightiest State: Huawei’s Secret Comeback Revealed

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on October 22, 2025 by Felix Abt (more by CovertAction Magazine)  | (Posted Oct 24, 2025)

    From Toshiba to Huawei: America’s Long War on Superior Competitors.

  •    Source mediapartfr   MR Online

    Gaddafi’s Ghost Haunts French Ex-President Sarkozy

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on October 15, 2025 by Nicholas Reed (more by CovertAction Magazine)  | (Posted Oct 17, 2025)

    The criminal case of ex-France President Nicolas Sarkozy touches the historical tensions between Muammar Gaddafi’s Libya and Western powers, particularly France. In a recent development, a Paris court sentenced Sarkozy to five years in prison for criminal conspiracy, marking a historic conviction for a former French president. The charges? They are allegations that the Libyan […]

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    Digital Literacy and Civics Education are Essential Tools in Era of Disinformation and Surveillance Capitalism

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on October 3, 2025 by John Kiriakou (more by CovertAction Magazine)  | (Posted Oct 10, 2025)

    Heidi Boghosian delivers a powerful and meticulously researched call to arms for a digitally overwhelmed society grappling with declining civic engagement and the manipulation of truth in the digital age in her new book Cyber Citizens: Saving Democracy with Digital Literacy.

  •    Danny Shaw with friends in Cuba Source Photo courtesy of Danny Shaw   MR Online

    Cuban flames, imperialist tundra

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on August 23, 2025 by Danny Shaw (more by CovertAction Magazine)  | (Posted Aug 25, 2025)

    An Ethnographic Portrait of Youth, the Blockade and Survival in Havana Today, on the 72nd Anniversary of the July 26th Attack

  •    Source the suncom   MR Online

    Trump reverses trend away from the death penalty

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on June 19, 2025 by John Kiriakou (more by CovertAction Magazine)  | (Posted Jun 25, 2025)

    If you were wondering about changes in the use of the death penalty at either the state or federal level since Donald Trump reassumed the presidency, well, wonder no more.

  •    Source acfrorg   MR Online

    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 blogpmpressorg   MR Online

    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.

  •    Source factinatecom   MR Online

    Famed whistleblower Philip Agee among CIA officers who worked under State Department cover

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on April 16, 2025 (more by CovertAction Magazine)  |

    Recently released documents as part of JFK dump show how CIA took charge of American embassies around the world operating under State Department cover.

  •    Trump shaking hands with Salvadoran dictator Nayib Bukele Source bbccom   MR Online

    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 davidmhartcom   MR Online

    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.”

  •    Code Pink activist Tighe Barry speaks out at US Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on March 25 Source codepinkorg   MR Online

    Senate Intelligence Committee hearing turns ugly with McCarthy-style lies about CODEPINK: Women for Peace

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on March 26, 2025 by Colonel (Ret.) Ann Wright (more by CovertAction Magazine)  | (Posted Mar 29, 2025)

    On March 25, at the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on global threats with the five heads of intelligence agencies of the U.S. government, Senator Tom Cotton, accused on national TV a group I have worked with for over 20 years, CODEPINK: Women for Peace, of being funded by the Communist Party of China.

  •    Source the comicnewscom   MR Online

    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 samimio   MR Online

    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.

  •    Curtis Yarvin aka Mencius Moldbug Source maxraskincom   MR Online

    Curtis Yarvin is among the crazed pseudo-Fascist thinkers influencing J.D. Vance

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on February 13, 2025 by Joel Sucher (more by CovertAction Magazine)  | (Posted Feb 19, 2025)

    Meet Curtis Yarvin: whose seemingly crazed ideas have found fertile ground among technocrats and oligarchs who have never quite shaken entitled Ayn Rand’s “greed is good” sensibility.

  •    Source primevideocom   MR Online

    Silent propaganda on U.S. imperialism breeds confused Americans

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on February 5, 2025 by Abel Tomlinson (more by CovertAction Magazine)  | (Posted Feb 07, 2025)

    U.S. imperialism is almost never discussed in depth, critically or intelligently, within corporate media or the educational system.

  •    Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky left meets with Canadian Governor General Mary Simon in Ottawa on September 22 2023 Source ctvnewsca   MR Online

    Canada and Ukraine: The suppression of a shameful history

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on January 16, 2025 by Robin Philpot (more by CovertAction Magazine)  | (Posted Jan 18, 2025)

    A few days before Remembrance Day, November 11, 2024, the Government of Canada announced that it will not release that portion of a report produced by the Commission of Inquiry into War Criminals in Canada (Deschênes Commission) that names 900 Canadians accused of war crimes committed on behalf of the Nazis.

  •    Source newyorkercom   MR Online

    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 ilovethakigr   MR Online

    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 msncom   MR Online

    Lawfare in Argentina: Cristina Kirchner convicted

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on December 9, 2024 by Hernán Viudes (more by CovertAction Magazine)  | (Posted Dec 11, 2024)

    “What we are witnessing here today is a practical demonstration of Lawfare in Argentina, carried out by the members of the court,” announced Cristina Fernández de Kirchner

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