CovertAction Magazine

09/09/2025

United Arab Emirates—A Cancer Spreading in Africa

The UAE’s Big Brother Is the Central Intelligence Agency

The UAE, the United Arab Emirates, is a cancer spreading in Africa. This cancer has infected much of eastern Africa and is spreading into northern, central and western parts of the continent.

The worst outbreak of this disease—the UAE disease, has been in Sudan where the ruling Emirates family instigated an attempted coup d’état three years ago, backing a warlord and his army, General Mohamed Hamdan “Hemedti” Dagalo and the Rapid Support Forces, also known as the Janjaweed since the war in Darfur/west Sudan from 2003 to 2005.

When he launched the attempted coup Hemedti’s fighters quickly scored major victories against the Sudanese Army lead by a coterie of corrupt, sycophantic officers. This was helped by a generous outpouring of UAE cash and weapons shipments to keep the coup attempt running smoothly.

The capital of Khartoum was quickly overrun, eventually forcing the head of the Sudanese Army, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, de facto president of Sudan, to retreat to Port Sudan on the Red Sea coast. [...]

The UAE’s Big Brother Is the Central Intelligence Agency The UAE, the United Arab Emirates, is a cancer spreading in Africa. This cancer has infected much of eastern Africa and is spreading into northern, central and western parts of the continent. The worst outbreak of this disease—the UAE dise...

09/08/2025

A Mississippi Woman Was Given Life Sentence For Telling the Truth About a Murder Plot 90 Years Ago Against Louisiana Senator Huey P. Long

Long Was Poised to Challenge Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1936 Democratic Party Primary Before He Was Killed

“Times have told us that dirty tricks did not end with Brutus.” – Tom Weiss, brother of alleged assassin, Carl A. Weiss.[1]

Jessica Lauren Fields was a beauty shop worker living in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in 1935 who spent 46 years in a hospital for the criminally insane because she tried to do the right thing and reported to the authorities a criminal plot she had overheard.

The plot involved the assassination of Huey P. Long, a U.S. senator from Louisiana and former governor intent on challenging President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1936 Democratic Party primary from the left.[2]

Fields died in 1988 after she was transferred from prison to a nursing home when her health began to fail. Her story was told by her nephew, Duel Stone, in a 1997 historical novel whose purpose was to rehabilitate Fields’ historical reputation and establish her as a truth teller and victim of a government coverup.[3]

A gifted orator known as “Kingfish” who grew up in modest circumstances in northern Louisiana, Huey P. Long was a leftist visionary who had wanted to redistribute wealth in American society and empower working people.

In the throes of the Great Depression, Long developed a “Share Our Wealth” campaign that proposed limiting any one person’s earnings to one million dollars and any family’s to three million dollars. Under his plan, every tax-paying citizen would be guaranteed an income of $5,000 and have the opportunity to own a home, car and radio.

An isolationist in foreign policy, Long said that the Spanish-American War and America’s involvement in World War I had been “murderous frauds perpetrated in the interests of Wall Street.”

He also proposed that Congress give a $30 pension for all needy persons over sixty, limit work hours to thirty a week, and give a free college education to deserving students.[4]

Long’s mentor who helped him to develop his Share the Wealth Plan, onetime Louisiana State Senator, S. J. Harper, had been a close personal friend of American Socialist Party leader, Eugene V. Debs, and other luminaries of the socialist movement of the early 20th century such as Congressman Victor Berger and Kate Richards O’Hare.[5] [...]

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09/06/2025

Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostock Brings Together Countries Working to Advance a New Multipolar World Order

Despite 30,000 sanctions, Russia is taking a step toward multi-polar world.

We are currently witnessing world history unfolding before our eyes.

The destruction of the financial and international relations system by Western countries is contributing to global changes in the world economy and the development of a multipolar world order. These circumstances are most actively manifested in relation to those countries whose governments are unwelcome to the Western regime.

Among such countries persecuted by NATO, we can single out Russia, China, Iran and North Korea.

While Russia ranks first in the world in terms of the number of international sanctions imposed on it; more than Iran, Venezuela, Cuba and Myanmar combined, it must also be noted that an entire country blockade like that which the U.S. has imposed on Cuba for decades is cruel, inhumane and unparalleled.

Notwithstanding, since 2014, more than 30,000 sanctions have been imposed on Russia, 92% of which were introduced since 2022.

In mid-July 2025, the eighteenth package of economic and individual restrictive measures was adopted in the energy and banking sectors, as well as in trade with the EU.[1] As a result, the total number of restrictions on individuals and legal entities exceeded 2,500. [...]

Despite 30,000 sanctions, Russia is taking a step toward multi-polar world. We are currently witnessing world history unfolding before our eyes. The destruction of the financial and international relations system by Western countries is contributing to global changes in the world economy and the dev...

09/06/2025

How to Navigate Media Madness

By 2016 I had authored four New York Times best-selling non-fiction books about the U.S. government, wars and the American media.

Over this time, I had read jillions of pages of research, interviewed more than 1,000 people, met five American presidents, dined in the personal quarters of the White House, and was acquainted with numerous senators, congresspeople, mayors and other officials.

I was also a global citizen: By the time I was 22 years old, I had twice hitchhiked across the United States, traveled through 22 countries and had a fold-out addition added to my passport. By 2016 I had lived in nations around the world, ranging from Japan to the UK, from South Africa to China.

But that year, I experienced a rude wake-up call regarding the U.S. government, the American media and some people close to me. Looking back, I realize I was naive to believe that our government and media were separate entities.

The media were blaring a tale about Russian prostitutes urinating on Donald Trump in the Moscow Ritz-Carlton. Supposedly, the dastardly Vladimir Putin had tapes of the sexcapade and was blackmailing Trump. [...]

By 2016 I had authored four New York Times best-selling non-fiction books about the U.S. government, wars and the American media. Over this time, I had read jillions of pages of research, interviewed more than 1,000 people, met five American presidents, dined in the personal quarters of the White Ho...

09/04/2025

Former USAID Director Samantha Power Admits to Massive U.S. Covert Interference in Moldova

Rather than advancing democracy, U.S. interference helped empower a Harvard-trained World Bank economist who jailed a political rival and has allowed large-scale arms shipments into Ukraine

Former U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Director Samantha Power admitted to Russian pranksters that USAID invested tens of millions of dollars in Moldova to support pro-European Union (EU) President Maia Sandu who won the country’s 2024 election.

U.S.-UK media and government officials previously accused Russia of meddling in Moldova’s 2024 election in which Sandu defeated Alexandr Stoianoglo of the pro-Russian Party of Socialists.

Russia was also accused of meddling in a dubiously managed referendum in which a narrow majority of Moldovans voted to join the EU,[1] and of interfering in U.S. elections, though new evidence has come to light to show that U.S. intelligence agencies had no proof of this.

Speaking to Vladimir Kuznetsov and Aleksey Stolyarov, known by their nicknames Vovan and Lexus, who pretended to be Western officials, Power recalled that, under her leadership, USAID made “unprecedented investments” in Moldova and “massively” expanded its presence there. [...]

Rather than advancing democracy, U.S. interference helped empower a Harvard-trained World Bank economist who jailed a political rival and has allowed large-scale arms shipments into Ukraine Former U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Director Samantha Power admitted to Russian prankster...

09/04/2025

Canadian Servility to U.S. War Agenda ‘Rewarded’ with 35 Percent Tariffs

Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger once said “it may be dangerous to be America’s enemy, but to be America’s friend is fatal.”

Canada has been servile to the U.S. war agenda under Prime Minister Mark Carney, a former Governor of the Bank of Canada and Bank of England, whose professional loyalties have been with the business and government elites who allowed him to rise to his current status.

But what has the reward been for Canada’s servility under Carney?

Tariffs of 35%—which were justified by the claim that Canada was allowing huge amounts of fentanyl to get into the U.S.—and a policy to destroy Canada’s auto-manufacturing industry within one year. [...]

Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger once said “it may be dangerous to be America’s enemy, but to be America’s friend is fatal.” Canada has been servile to the U.S. war agenda under Prime Minister Mark Carney, a former Governor of the Bank of Canada and Bank of England, whose profe...

09/03/2025

CovertAction Bulletin: Dems Pay Influencers to Pretend They Are Grassroots

According to recent reporting by Taylor Lorenz in Wired, a secretive dark money group is funding influencers to post pro-Democratic Party messaging on social media services—paying them up to $8,000 per month to do so and holding them to a secretive contract that prevents them from even revealing their relationship to the organization Chorus, backed by the Sixteen Thirty Fund.

Some of those named as affiliated with the program including Brian Tyler Cohen, Olivia Julianna, David Pakman and Pod Save America’s Jon Favreau have posted uncannily similar response statements and videos attacking everything except the facts of the article. Kenneth Walden, behind the account 2RawTooReal, wasn’t even listed in the article but posted an attack video saying “Apparently, we’re not allowed to bash Democrats or actually give them any type of constructive criticism. However, I swear I be on damn Bernie Sanders’ ass like flies on —.” The ironies abound, and the dismissals of the story have fallen flat.

Democrats fully recognize that they need to appeal to young voters, those who are most influenced by social media. According to Berkeley Political Review, “Biden won youth (ages 18 to 29) voters by 24 points [in 2020], but Harris only led Trump by 11 points [in 2024].” The damning statistics don’t necessarily reflect that young people are actually getting more conservative, but likely that they are more aware of a corrupt system in which both parties promote more cops, defend genocide and send ICE after innocent people.

According to recent reporting by Taylor Lorenz in Wired, a secretive dark money group is funding influencers to post pro-Democratic Party messaging on social media services—paying them up to $8,000 per month...

09/02/2025

New Film Explores Rage and Toxic Masculinity Underlying Right-Wing Extremism

Sovereign—distributed by the same company that brought us the 2023 Donald Trump/Roy Cohn biopic The Apprentice—is among 2025’s best theatrically released political features.

The hard-hitting movie dramatizes America’s right-wing terrorist threat, when a so-called “Sovereign Citizen” and his teenage son disastrously face off against the courts, law enforcement, etc.

Writer/director Christian Swegal’s screenplay is inspired by a real-life 2010 incident in which Jerry (Nick Offerman) and Joe Kane (Jacob Tremblay) shot and killed two highway patrol officers and wounded two others in West Memphis, Arkansas, after a traffic stop. (See here a report about a real-life incident the film was based)

As re-enacted onscreen, the peripatetic Jerry was a wannabe motivational speaker who traveled around what Swegal calls “fly-over America” presenting, for a fee, seminars on preventing foreclosures and debt elimination to financially desperate persons. He also appeared in programs, usually online, to promulgate his extremist views. In press material Sovereign producer Nick Moceri is quoted as saying “a lot of Jerry’s speeches in the film are almost verbatim to the real Jerry’s speeches.”

Kane was behind on his house payments and, insisting he was a free man free to travel where he wanted, drove without a state-issued driver’s license or license plates; he also had outstanding warrants. His 16-year-old son Joe, who Jerry was inculcating with his anti-government philosophy, was being home-schooled and often went on the road with his out-of-the-mainstream father. [...]

Sovereign—distributed by the same company that brought us the 2023 Donald Trump/Roy Cohn biopic The Apprentice—is among 2025’s best theatrically released political features. The hard-hitting movie dramatizes America’s right-wing terrorist threat, when a so-called “Sovereign Citizen” and ...

09/01/2025

David Horowitz's Turn to the Right was Triggered by an Unsolved Murder Linked to FBI and CIA Subversion of the New Left

On April 29, American conservative firebrand David Horowitz died at age 86 after a prolonged battle with cancer.

When the news broke, tributes came pouring in on right-wing social media, with everyone from Dutch Freedom Party leader Geert Wilders to Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, a young Horowitz protégé, eulogizing the radical-turned-reactionary.

Formerly a prominent member of the New Left and a one-time editor of the legendary Ramparts magazine, Horowitz converted to neo-conservatism during the Reagan era and became an outspoken critic of the left, penning countless books denouncing the progressive causes he championed in his youth.

In the last phase of his life, Horowitz embraced the right-wing populism of Donald Trump, alienating even many of his fellow ex-radical neo-con converts. Far from being an anomaly, however, his circuitous journey from one end of the political spectrum to the other is not as unlikely as it may seem.

David Joel Horowitz was born on January 10, 1939, to Jewish parents in the Forest Hills section of Queens, New York. His grandparents on both sides of the family had fled the Russian Empire during a period of widespread anti-Semitic pogroms and immigrated to the United States.

His mother and father, Philip and Blanche Horowitz, were both New York City high school teachers and long-time members of the Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA). A self-described “red-diaper baby,” Horowitz’s childhood in the cooperative community of Sunnyside Gardens was immersed in radical politics as soon as he could crawl.

By the age of ten, he had attended his first May Day march and, by his teenage years, was contributing to the youth page of the Daily Worker, the CPUSA’s newspaper. He also accompanied his parents to protests against the prosecution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, the American couple executed in 1953 for committing espionage by passing nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union.

One year before the Rosenbergs were given the electric chair, Phil Horowitz was fired by the New York City Board of Education for refusing to answer questions about his membership in the Communist Party.

After 21 years on the job, the elder Horowitz was one of dozens of teachers in the five boroughs dismissed under the Feinberg Law, which allowed for the termination of educators belonging to “subversive organizations.” [...]

On April 29, American conservative firebrand David Horowitz died at age 86 after a prolonged battle with cancer. When the news broke, tributes came pouring in on right-wing social media, with everyone from Dutch Freedom Party leader Geert Wilders to Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, a young Ho...

09/01/2025

The Rebel Girl, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, is a Great Role Model for Budding Social Movement Leaders

Flynn was a gifted orator who was at the heart of U.S. left-wing movements for the first two-thirds of the 20th century

[This article is specially published on labor day to commemorate a great figure in American labor history.—Editors]

In 1915, legendary folk singer Joe Hill wrote a tribute to Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, an organizer with the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW-also known as the Wobblies), a left-wing organization that supported worker-controlled industry.

Hill’s song was titled “The Rebel Girl.” It described Flynn as “a precious pearl” to the working class who brought “courage, pride and joy” to their struggles.

Hill wrote that, while “her hands may be hardened from labor, and her dress may not be very fine,…a heart in her bosom is beating that is true to her class and her kind.”

The song finished with the following stanza: “the grafters in terror are trembling” when “her spite and defiance she'll hurl, for the only and thoroughbred lady is the Rebel Girl.”

Iconic Figure of the American Left

Born in Concord, New Hampshire, in 1890 to Irish parents who introduced her to socialism as a teenager, Flynn was an iconic figure in the American left from the early 1900s until her death in 1964.

As a socialist, then a Wobbly, then a Communist, Flynn gave fiery speeches, helped organize strikes in a variety of industries, supported anti-imperialist movements in the U.S. and around the globe, galvanized resistance to fascism, protested unjust deportation of immigrants, advocated for prison reform, and fought for civil rights and civil liberties.

Mary Anne Trasciatti, director of labor studies at Hofstra University, has written a timely biography of Flynn that helps to remind 21st century readers of Flynn’s magnetism and significance to left-wing social movements in U.S. history.

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn: The Rebel Girl, Democracy, and Revolution has a particular emphasis on Flynn’s support for free speech and civil liberties and the travails that she endured during the Second Red Scare when she was imprisoned under repressive anticommunist legislation. [...]

Flynn was a gifted orator who was at the heart of U.S. left-wing movements for the first two-thirds of the 20th century [This article is specially published on labor day to commemorate a great figure in American labor history.—Editors] In 1915, legendary folk singer Joe Hill wrote a tribute to Eli...

08/28/2025

Government Officials Who Push the Button of Nuclear Weapons Will Die First, As They Should—Or Should They Have to Face the Consequences?

On the 80th Year Commemoration of Deaths in Hiroshima and Nagasaki From U.S. Atomic Weapons

In early August, I was in Hiroshima, Japan speaking at a conference on the 80th Anniversary of the horrific and unnecessary U.S. atomic bombing of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I also travelled to Nagasaki to participate in an international conference there and the commemoration of the August 9 atomic bombing of that city.

Archived documents reveal that the Japanese government was going to surrender. The decision of the Truman administration to go ahead and incinerate with atomic bombs 210,000 citizens of two Japanese cities as a warning to the Soviet Union was a war crime of the highest degree.

During the conferences in both Hiroshima and Nagasaki we heard the testimony of the hibakusha, remaining survivors of the atomic blasts, survivors but victims of extreme physical and psychological traumas which should be heard and absorbed by U.S. government officials who continue to plow billions of dollars in the thousands of nuclear weapons the U.S. possesses.

The graphic descriptions by the hibakusha of their seeing fellow citizens with skin hanging from bones, of eyeballs blown out, of patterns of clothing tattooed into bodies, of life-long pain from burn scars and of fear of being seen in public due to the horrific scars, are all warnings to the world of the future we face should even one country decide to fire a nuclear weapon at another. [...]

On the 80th Year Commemoration of Deaths in Hiroshima and Nagasaki From U.S. Atomic Weapons In early August, I was in Hiroshima, Japan speaking at a conference on the 80th Anniversary of the horrific and unnecessary U.S. atomic bombing of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I also travell...

08/26/2025

As Students Go Back to School, What Pivotal Aspects of U.S. History—Including CIA History—Will Not Be Taught?

The conservative right has been on a crusade to purge the teaching of critical race theory and aspects of U.S. history that reflect negatively on the country’s past and, hence, might encourage critical thinking about the present.

Most academic historians teaching in the Ivy League and at other institutions of higher education are indeed liberals who in recent decades have done a great deal to illuminate the evils of slavery, Native-American genocide and historical pattern of racism and sexism in U.S. society.

However, the conservative characterization of the history profession as being dominated by Marxists is unequivocally false.

Most history professors are in fact mainstream anti-Trump liberals who support the Democratic Party. If they are not for Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris, they are for Bernie Sanders, AOC and the “Squad.”

Many in the profession have succumbed to identity politics by prioritizing the teaching of racial and gender inequalities in U.S. history while obfuscating the class-based nature of the U.S. political structure and society.

Furthermore, academic historians who have gained status in the profession continue to distort pivotal aspects of U.S. history and to miseducate students in a variety of important ways.

Especially egregious is a failure to elucidate on the political-economic dimensions underlying U.S. imperialism and devastating human cost of the U.S. empire.

While the field of Native-American Studies has produced many important critical works, few of those works link the pacification of the Native Americans with contemporary practices of U.S. foreign policy.[1]

The prevalence of false flags in American history as a pretext for wars dating from the 19th century through the present is taboo and anyone who broaches this topic is usually blacklisted: either denied tenure or not offered permanent teaching positions.

The same is true of anyone probing the CIA’s history of drug trafficking and terrorist activity, such as Iran-Contra and the Phoenix Program, and conspiracies behind the assassinations of JFK, RFK, MLK and others in U.S. history.

Anti-war groups, including the 1930s America First Committee, continue to be presented by many historians in a negative light and a historical revisionism has taken root that presents America’s South Vietnamese allies as honorable.

The Soviet Union continues also to be demonized and blamed for the origins of the Cold War, while Henry Wallace, Roosevelt’s vice president in his third term, who tried to prevent the Cold War, is presented by many professors as a communist dupe.

While studies abound criticizing the conservative right and its pernicious impact, studies that critically scrutinize recent Democratic Party leaders and their depravity are marginalized, never being assigned.[2]

In addition to this, when covering U.S. elections, academic historians rarely address the funding structure that excludes left-wing progressive candidates who seek to redistribute national wealth and end the permanent warfare state.

A neglected study in covering U.S. political history is Ferdinand Lundberg’s book, America’s 60 Families, which is rarely if ever assigned in any syllabus.

This book discusses in great detail how the dominant political figures of the 19th and early 20th century were in the pocket of wealthy businessmen and bankers who could shape public policy in their interest. [...]

The conservative right has been on a crusade to purge the teaching of critical race theory and aspects of U.S. history that reflect negatively on the country’s past and, hence, might encourage critical thinking about the present. Most academic historians teaching in the Ivy League and at other ins...