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  • | Lysychansk in Luhansk LPR Source Photo courtesy of Sonja van den Ende | MR Online

    Russians welcomed as liberators in many Eastern Ukrainian cities contrary to western media depictions

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on August 10, 2022 by Sonja Van den Ende (more by CovertAction Magazine)  | (Posted Aug 12, 2022)

    People of liberated territories likely to vote in favor of joining Russia in forthcoming referenda—just like Crimeans did in 2014.

  • | Man stands amid ruins of Hiroshima Source timecom | MR Online

    Remembering one of humanity’s worst catastrophe’s—seventy seven years on

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on August 9, 2022 by John Steinbach (more by CovertAction Magazine)  | (Posted Aug 10, 2022)

    President Harry S. Truman’s decision to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki set the groundwork for an era of U.S. global hegemony and enriched corporations like General Electric, DuPont, Union Carbide, Bechtel and Westinghouse which made hundreds of billions of dollars developing generation after generation of “first-strike” nuclear weapons. U.S. leaders, intent on provoking wars with China and/or Russia, appear willing to use these weapons again—if we don’t stop them.

  • | Evo Morales Source declassifiedukorg | MR Online

    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”

  • | Dmytro Yarosh Source kyivpostcom | MR Online

    What the U.S. government and The New York Times have quietly agreed not to tell you about Ukraine

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on July 29, 2022 by Evan Reif (more by CovertAction Magazine)  | (Posted Aug 01, 2022)

    Today, men like Danyial al-Takbir, a neo-Nazi, former ISIS member and convicted mass murderer, rapist (several of his victims were raped until dead) and arsonist stand at the vanguard of a war planned for seven decades. This is the true legacy of the OUN, from its roots as Holocaust perpetrators and CIA assassins to its return as the butchers of Donbas.

  • | On the left Zelensky in circle behind Kholomoisky On the right Zelensky on the campaign trail is followed by one of Kholomoiskys bodyguards Source national conservativecom | MR Online

    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.

  • | Is United States founding father Benjamin Franklin right or wrong The almighty military industrial complex did not exist then so that the US governments policies were not shaped by it as they are now Source azquotescom | MR Online

    Everything you‘ve always wanted to know about: ‘good’ wars, ‘good’ war criminals, ‘good’ dictators, ‘good’ separatists, ‘good’ oligarchs, ‘good’ money launderers—and their antitheses!

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on July 19, 2022 by Felix Abt (more by CovertAction Magazine)  | (Posted Jul 21, 2022)

    When Saddam Hussein, Iraq’s president, invaded Iran on September 22, 1980, he was a “good” dictator. His invasion of the neighboring country was not only approved by the United States and its Western satellites, but also universally supported by them. Unlike secular Iraq, Iran was led by so-called vicious Islamic clerics.

  • | Brzezinski Clan | MR Online

    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.

  • | Among the ruins of the Azov Steel factory Photo courtesy of Sonja van den Ende | MR Online

    Ruins of Azov Steel Factory display Nazi insignia and signs of NATO support

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on July 8, 2022 by Sonja Van den Ende (more by CovertAction Magazine)  | (Posted Jul 11, 2022)

    Owner of plant, Rinat Akhmetov, is allegedly connected to organized crime.

  • | Biden laughing in 2021 Source iaacsorg | MR Online

    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

  • | We Must Band Together in this Age of Repression | MR Online

    We must band together in this age of repression: Abby Martin on resistance and the role of CovertAction Magazine

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on July 5, 2022 (more by CovertAction Magazine)  |

    Time and again, CovertAction Magazine (originally founded as CovertAction Information Bulletin) has been one of the only publications that has been willing to tackle some of the most uncomfortable truths about Deep State crimes against democracy, from CIA backed political assassinations to false flag operations.

  • | Ukraine service members fire a shell from a M 777 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 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 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 war mongering 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.

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