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On August 3, Alfonso Fanjul, Jr., passed away at the age of 89. A New York Times obituary called Mr. Fanjul (aka “Alfy”) the “patriarch of a family that lost one of Cuba’s largest sugar businesses in the revolution of 1959 and fled to the United States, where, thanks to pluck and government price supports, […] The post Sugar Barons Who Bankrolled Anti-Cuba Lobby and Marco Rubio’s Career Were Involved in CIA Covert Operations in 1960s first appeared on CovertAction Magazine.

The global strategy Donald Trump has pursued since the beginning of his second term revives a formula that proved effective for much of the last century. Treating the world as a chessboard, the old bipolar tradition of the Cold War has been redesigned to cast China as the rival power, framing international politics in the […] The post Milei, Trump’s Pawn: Strategic Alignment or Submission? first appeared on CovertAction Magazine.

Julian Assange is back. On September 17, Assange heralded his own return to X by posting a picture of himself standing in front of a Sydney street mural. The mural, painted by Scott Marsh, shows a bearded bust of Assange looking out on the world above the hashtag, “#FreeAssange,” only the “Free” has been redacted […] The post Julian Assange is Back in the Public Spotlight first appeared on CovertAction Magazine.

Fake stories about Hamas ripping babies from women’s stomachs and committing mass rapes were similar to those told about German troops in Belgium—and U.S. adversaries in Vietnam After October 7, 2023, the U.S. media went into high gear promoting stories about Hamas atrocities, claiming that Hamas had ripped babies from the stomachs of pregnant women […] The post U.S. and Israeli Leaders Recycled World War I Atrocity Fabrication Stories to Justify Genocidal Onslaught first appeared on CovertAction Magazine.

There are facts without consequences, books without follow-up. What shall we make of this monumental piece of research and logic that speaks to our conscience and should move us all to action? The very essence of civilized existence, of the values of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, of the purposes and principles of the […] The post Norman Finkelstein’s Gaza’s Gravediggers is a Tour de Force first appeared on CovertAction Magazine.