Articles by CovertAction Magazine
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Biden Is Not Ending the Afghanistan War, He Is Privatizing It
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
15 Apr 2021 – Special Forces, Pentagon Contractors and Intelligence Operatives Will Remain – The meaninglessness of the announcement becomes apparent when we consider that the Pentagon employs more than seven contractors for every serviceman or woman in Afghanistan.
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Cold War on Trial: Truth Commission Details Horrible Crimes Akin to Native American Genocide and Slavery
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
8 Apr 2021 – With a new Cold War heating up between the U.S. and Russia and China, Witness for Peace Southwest, Addicted to War and CodePink organized a Truth Commission on the original Cold War on March 21st, which brought together the testimony of historians, activists and others who lived through the period.
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Dirty Business as Usual: New CIA Director Burns Confirmed by Unanimous Vote in Senate
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Mar 2021
22 Mar 2021 – William J. Burns became the first former diplomat to become CIA director. As a diplomat, he supported U.S. military interventions in Iraq, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Libya and Syria and is now stoking the coals against Russia and China.
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What’s Behind the Biden Administration’s New $100 Billion Nuclear Missile System?
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Mar 2021
9 Mar 2021 – One of the more important tasks that the Biden administration will undertake this year will be to review the Pentagon’s nuclear weapons budget and modernization strategy. Massive popular pressure—like that organized by the 1980s nuclear freeze movement—is needed to stop more waste, fraud and abuse.
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Upcoming Ruling in Assange Trial Threatens More Than Just Freedom of the Press
Steve Brown | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2021
2 Jan 2021 – His two children could lose their father for the rest of their lives. Although important legal principles are at stake in the extradition trial of Julian Assange, for which a ruling will be handed down on January 4, it should not be forgotten that there are important human issues at stake as well. One such issue is Assange’s health.
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America’s Longest War: An Afghan’s Perspective
Mustafa Ariaie | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2020
26 Dec 2020 – How the U.S. has imposed puppet leaders in Afghanistan who have allied with the Taliban, advocated ethnic cleansing, and betrayed their people. The U.S. troop presence and covert training of corrupt Afghan security forces have been major factors contributing to the growth of terrorism in Afghanistan.
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Iran in the Crosshairs: Tracing Overt and Covert Action
Eric Walberg | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2020
The assassination of Iran’s top nuclear scientist, Prof. Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, has seriously complicated any efforts to normalize relations with Iran under a new Biden administration. Walberg contrasts the republican and democratic positions toward Iran while tracing key historical and recent events all in an effort to provide deeper insight into understanding Iran and U.S.-led efforts toward destabilization. — Editor
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Beware of the Hawk: What to Expect from the Biden Administration on Foreign Policy
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2020
8 Nov 2020 – Millions of people around the world breathed a sigh of relief with the defeat of Donald Trump in the 2020 U.S. elections. Joe Biden’s victory speech exuded a feeling of optimism in its call for a new era of bipartisanship and decency in politics. However, it is unlikely that decency will prevail in the realm of foreign policy.
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MI6’s “Man of Mystery” Is “Smoking Gun:” Britain’s Complicity in 1953 Iranian Coup Revealed
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2020
30 Sep 2020 – After 60 years of foot-dragging and dissembling, the U.S. government finally confessed and admitted its role in the bloody 1953 coup that overthrew Iran’s democratically elected government led by Dr. Mohammed Mossadegh. Must-See New Documentary Exposes Britain’s Complicity in the 1953 Bloody Coup in Iran
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Inside the Organized Crime Syndicate Known as the CIA
Heidi Boghosian and Michael Steven Smith | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2019
21 Nov 2019 – Douglas Valentine is an investigator and author with a rare and tenacious approach toward research. His writing results in uniquely incisive and revealing books on the dark side of U.S. intelligence activities and the National Security State. His latest book draws parallels between CIA operations in Vietnam and recent/current operations in Afghanistan, El Salvador, Iraq, Syria, Yemen and elsewhere.
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William Blum (6 Mar 1933 – 9 Dec 2018), Renowned U.S. Foreign Policy Critic, Dead at 85
Chris Agee and Louis Wolf – CovertAction Magazine,
17 Dec 2018
William Blum died in Virginia early this morning on December 9, 2018 after falling in his Washington D.C. apartment and sustaining serious wounds 65 days ago. Blum left the State Department in 1967 and became a founder and editor of the Washington Free Press, the first “alternative” newspaper in the capital. In 1969, he wrote and published an exposé of the CIA in which were revealed the names and addresses of more than 200 CIA employees.
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