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  • Monthly Review Essays
  • [Source: orbooks.com]

    Norman Finkelstein’s ‘Gaza’s Gravediggers’ is a Tour de Force

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on October 6, 2026 (more by CovertAction Magazine)  |

    There are facts without consequences, books without follow-up.

  • President Barack Obama and CIA Director John Brennan. [Source: newyorker.com]

    CIA Director John Brennan pressed Ukraine government to use force in Donbass in April 2014

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on October 1, 2026 (more by CovertAction Magazine)  |

    CIA Director John Brennan was key to U.S. foreign policy strategy that aimed to draw Russia into quagmire in Ukraine and attack its energy infrastructure so U.S. oil and gas producers could take over its depleted markets.

  • Jeanine Sadrien, 69, in a rehearsal of traditional folk dancing and drumming at community center in Port Louis. [Source: nytimes.com]

    Displaced Chagossians are among victims of Iran war

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on September 16, 2026 (more by CovertAction Magazine)  |

    The Trump administration is blocking an agreement that would allow Chagossians who were displaced 60 years ago to return to their homeland.

  • [Source: history.com]

    Back-to-School Special: Students in many elite Universities will be taught a distorted history of the Vietnam War this year that recycles CIA talking points

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on September 3, 2026 (more by CovertAction Magazine)  |

    The Vietnam War was a horrific war rooted in U.S. government lies that resulted in the deaths of some two million Vietnamese civilians.

  • [Source: facebook.com]

    Large number of faculty at Elite U.S. Universities linked to the National Endowment for Democracy, A CIA cut-out specializing in propaganda

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on August 26, 2026 (more by CovertAction Magazine)  |

    Many of the dissidents that the NED honors advocate for sanctions, bombing and war on their own countries. Some were even indicted for inciting insurrection or terrorist acts.

  • Abelardo de la Espriella is sworn in as president of Colombia in Cali, Colombia, in early August. [Source: nbcnews.com]

    Colombia is fast becoming a neo-Colonial outpost under its new Right-wing President

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on August 19, 2026 (more by CovertAction Magazine)  |

    Colombia’s recently inaugurated right-wing President Abelardo de la Espriella is moving rapidly to transform Colombia into a neo-colonial outpost after taking office in early August, giving the U.S. permission to enter Colombian territory under the pretext of “fighting drug cartels.”

  • [Source: instagram.com]

    Why many Hawaiians did not celebrate the 250th anniversary of the U.S.

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on July 14, 2026 by Colonel (Ret.) Ann Wright (more by CovertAction Magazine)  | (Posted Jul 18, 2026)

    On the 250 th anniversary of the founding of the United States, many in Hawai’i, the 50 th territory to “join”/acquire U.S. statehood, decided not to celebrate.

  • [Source: virginiamercury.com]

    CIA Governor betrays workers of Virginia by vetoing collective bargaining right bill

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on June 24, 2026 (more by CovertAction Magazine)  |

    Abigail Spanberger follows the model of the CIA throughout the developing world.

  • Protesters outside Ramstein Air Base in Germany. [Source: nbcnews.com]

    U.S. Military bases around the world are facing growing protest from an emboldened Antiwar Movement

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on June 22, 2026 (more by CovertAction Magazine)  |

    Protests receive scant coverage in the U.S. media.

  • [Source: zocalopublicsquare.com]

    Renegade African-American soldier should be remembered for resisting White supremacy and colonialism

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on February 26, 2026 (more by CovertAction Magazine)  |

    In a 1952 song entitled “Bye Bye Big Brass,” anti-war singer Woody Guthrie dreamed up a scenario in which he is shipped off to the Korean War and, rather than kill a Chinese soldier he encounters, sits and talks with him by a campfire, hides out with him, and fights back against the U.S. Army with him.

  • [Source: worldatlas.com]

    The Baltic Roots of Russophobia: Neoliberalism, revisionism and U.S. imperialism

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on December 18, 2025 by Aidan O’Brien (more by CovertAction Magazine)  | (Posted Dec 24, 2025)

    Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have been on an emotional roller coaster ever since they returned to capitalism.

  • [Source: nypost.com]

    New “Awards industry” honors politicians who favor war over diplomacy

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on December 4, 2025 by Alfred de Zayas (more by CovertAction Magazine)  | (Posted Dec 08, 2025)

    It has become a cliché that award ceremonies serve the award givers more than the laureates.

  • Bison owned by the Blackfeet Nation in Montana. [Source: huffpost.com]

    Blackfeet Nation tries to overcome legacy of White settler genocide by bringing back the buffalo

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on November 30, 2025 (more by CovertAction Magazine)  |

    The buffalo reclamation project is coinciding with efforts to revitalize Native American languages and culture across the U.S. and Canada.

  • [Source: theweek.com]

    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: forumgeopolitica.com]

    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: mediapart.fr]

    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 […]

  • [Source: csueastbay.edu]

    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]

    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-sun.com]

    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: acfr.org]

    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.

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Monthly Review Essays

  • Parallel Universes
    Andy Merrifield

    Anybody who’s ever leafed through Finnegans Wake will quickly recognize that we’re not dealing here with a standard novel, just as anybody leafing through Marx’s Capital will know we’re not dealing with standard economics.

Lost & Found

  • Honor the Vietnamese, Not Those Who Killed Them
    Michael D. Yates A Vietnamese stamp depicting two Vietnamese resistance fighters shooting down a US Army helicopter.

    Only the courage of those who opposed the war, including the soldiers who did so at great risk, should be respected.

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