In 1991, Frank Donner, former director of the ACLU’s Project on Political Surveillance, published a book entitled Protectors of Privilege, which provided a history of police suppression of left-wing and labor protests in the United States. A key chapter in the book focused on the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), whose reactionary political function was […] The post LAPD’s Failure to Protect Peaceful Protesters at UCLA from Right-Wing Mob Shows Real Priorities first appeared on CovertAction Magazine ..read more

Group That is Widely Vilified in U.S. Media Has Large Popularity in Yemen On April 7, the U.S. Central Command issued a press release boasting about their destruction of a mobile surface-to-air missile system in the Houthi-controlled territory of Yemen. Since commencing a bombing operation on January 12, the U.S. and Great Britain have carried […] The post Houthi Causing Headaches For the White House first appeared on CovertAction Magazine ..read more

“Blindness that affects the other side also affects us.” — Mano Brown The saying goes: Um negócio pra boi dormir.” Literally, the Brazilian aphorism means: (To give) something for the bull to sleep. In practical layman’s terms it pre-figures social interactions where somebody, a group of people or an entity, says something—not necessarily a lie—to […] The post Marielle’s Charging Bulls: An Abrupt End To Brazil’s Six-Year Long Homicide Investigation first appeared on CovertAction Magazine ..read more

Status As a Police Informant Raises Suspicion That He Was an FBI and CIA Asset Out to Discredit the 1960s Counterculture The Sharon Tate murders were as bizarre as they were bloody, and the story behind the story is even stranger. Journalist Tom O’Neill spent 20 years researching, interviewing and digging in his effort to […] The post U.S. Intelligence Operatives Appear to Have Intentionally Groomed Mass Murderer Charles Manson first appeared on CovertAction Magazine ..read more

Lloyd’s of London and Bermuda-based Arch Insurance deny the €400 million claim by Nord Stream AG, arguing their policies do not provide coverage for the 2022 underwater explosions that ruptured the natural gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea because the damage was inflicted by “a government.” But “the defendants’ argument is prima facie irrelevant,” says […] The post Nord Stream Insurers Refusal to Pony Up For Damages to Sabotaged Pipeline Is Based on Dubious Legal Grounds, According to International Law Scholar first appeared on CovertAction Magazine ..read more

Who Says That Young People Cannot Affect Change The war in Vietnam was a defining event from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s for university students in Canada, especially young men, including those of us at Glendon College. We watched as our American contemporaries were drafted and sent to fight in a war that killed almost […] The post Fifty Five Years Ago, Toronto College Students Enacted a Covert Operation That Led the Canadian Government to Admit Vietnam War Deserters Into Canada first appeared on CovertAction Magazine ..read more

Rwandan regime and Western intelligence agencies and their media and academic assets have spread disinformation for three decades On April 7, Rwandan President Paul Kagame commemorated the 30th anniversary of the 1994 Rwandan genocide by lighting a flame in honor of the victims in front of foreign dignitaries, and giving a speech in which he […] The post Psyops Regarding 1994 Rwanda Genocide Continues With 30th Anniversary Commemoration first appeared on CovertAction Magazine ..read more

Ah, Killers of the Flower Moon! An intriguing and brutal story that offers a window into early efforts of J. Edgar Hoover to kick over the murderous rocks and uncover the plot that plagued the Osage Indian Nation in the 1920s. It is an enthralling tale of crime, greed and the pursuit of justice—with Martin […] The post Martin Scorsese: When the FBI came a-calling first appeared on CovertAction Magazine ..read more

Student protests in solidarity with Palestine have set up protests and encampments on campuses across the country from Columbia, NYU and the New School in New York to Berkeley, Stanford and Cal Poly Humboldt in California. Students are demanding that their universities—many of them among the most elite in the country with giant endowments—divest from weapons manufacturers and Israeli companies. They’re being met with fierce repression by police, but along with solidarity from faculty and supporters in their cities, the movement is continuing and growing... The post CovertAction Bulletin: Stude ..read more

Since October 7th, global attention has largely shifted away from Ukraine toward the Middle East amid Israel’s ongoing slaughter of thousands of innocent Palestinian civilians in Gaza following Operation Al-Aqsa Flood. At the same time, the world has seen unprecedented mass protests in support of the Palestinians and calls for a cease-fire by the international […] The post Reckoning With the Soviet Role in the Creation of Israel first appeared on CovertAction Magazine ..read more