It’s possible that I shall make an ass of myself. But in that case one can always get out of it with a little dialectic. I have, of course, so worded my proposition as to be right either way (K.Marx, Letter to F.Engels on the Indian Mutiny)
Ishmael Reed presenting William Gee Wong with the American Book Award for memoir. Photo: Tennessee Reed.
Reading William Gee Wong’s Sons of Chinatown: A Memoir Rooted in China and America (Temple University Press, 2024), one realizes how valuable the former Oakland Tribune publishers Robert and Nancy Maynard were to the Oakland community. However, the stress that accompanied their being overachievers killed them—the Jackie Robinson curse. Maynard, who’d worked at The Washington Post, had become the first Black publisher of a major metropolitan newspaper. One of those who thrived there was William Gee Wong. The newspaper received a Pulitzer Prize, and Wong got a spot on The McNeil-Lehrer Report, a plum for a minority journalist. While dwelling in the heights of journalism, Wong learned the different treatment accorded to white and minority journalists.
Plagiarist Mike Barnicle still has a job, a white male journalist who was suspended by The New York Times for sexual harassment, and Glenn Thrush still has a job at The Times. CNN commentator Jeffrey Toobin, who exposed himself to women on The New Yorker’s staff, a criminal offense, was also suspended. Briefly. He’s the one who said that the Black jury acquitted O.J. Simpson because Blacks can’t think rationally and “shouldn’t be patted on the head.” The jury wasn’t all Black, and the criminal’s gloves never did fit. Toobin still has a job at CNN. In late December 2017, Amber Athey reported about MSNBC’s Chris Matthews as having had a track record of sexual harassment toward female colleagues and guests, including one woman being given “a separation-related payment.” He retired, temporarily,but he’s back now.
Wong’s heady media moment came to an end when one of the good old boys of the kind who still control the media, the late C. David Burgin, became the newspaper’s editor after Robert Maynard’s death. Wong’s and Black journalist Brenda Payton’s roles were limited by the new owner, Burgin, who regularly insulted Maynard’s reign at the Tribune. Payton stayed on for a while, but Wong was fired. He was escorted from the building by a bouncer. So was Barbara Reynolds, who had a column at USA Today. She had a heart attack the night of her ouster.
With the current purge of minority journalists in the name of Woke and DEI, the Burgin types are in complete control of the mainstream media. Mainstream publications like The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times have capitulated to Trump, and a pro-Trump family, the Ellisons, is about to buy Warner Bros., Netflix, and other media. Trump wants to control CNN through Ellison.
A media that lacks diversity attracts white readers by offering the usual stereotypes of communities that don’t have the media power to fight back. Though the corporate media believes its owners’ values are superior to those of social media platforms, social media offers a more multidimensional view of the communities we live in.
Fortunately, we still have ancient means to tell our stories: documentaries, theater, and books. Wong has chosen to write a book.
And so, deprived of the kind of space accorded to plagiarists like Barnicle, William Gee Wong has written Sons of Chinatown, and though this book is an account of Wong’s personal journey as a Chinese American and a husband with a biracial son, his story intersects with our stories. As Leonard Peltier says, the purpose of our faux Eurocentric education was to take the Indian out of the Indian. The purpose was also to take the Chinese out of the Chinese, the Hispanic out of the Hispanic, the Irish out of the Irish, and the Italian out of the Italian.
When Gay Talese, who bragged about marrying into the Anglo mainstream and denied the existence of Italian American literature, he was countered by Helen Barolini, author of The Dream Book, which documented a history of Italian American writing in the United States.
Wong felt this “weird insider-outsider phenomenon and ultimately came away knowing that I am an American by nationality and this indefinable cultural mix of Chinatown and American. Yet at the same time, I wasn’t sure—and in some ways, still am not—whether my broad cohort (Chinese Americans and Asian Americans), and I truly belong here in America or in our ancestral lands—or in truth, neither place, as though we are in a yellow purgatory. It is indeed an underlying weird feeling of belonging and yet not belonging.” All of us who have commuted between the worlds of our forefathers and mothers and the Anglo world have felt that way.
Wong found himself out of place in China, the country of his ancestors’ origin. Similarly, when Africans began visiting Africa in the 1960s, they discovered that the Africans considered them to be white. Wong feels uneasy about the hi-tech Chinese immigrants who speak Mandarin and look down upon the traditional Chinese Americans who speak Cantonese, who are slighted in the film “Crazy Rich Asians.” Without this book, most of us would have missed this slight just as I would have missed how Asian groups are pitted against each other in the Bruce Lee films if novelist Shawn Wong hadn’t alerted me. Traditional Black Americans complain about their treatment by African immigrants, especially the Nigerians, the most educated among immigrants. Joy Reid says her Guyanese mother and Congolese father made disparaging remarks about Black Americans. Blacks are also beset by high-tech Indian types who are even more eager to pick fights with Blacks to please white nationalists. They wouldn’t be the first immigrants to audition for white acceptance by craping on Blacks.
Vivek Ramaswamy,when a Republican presidential candidate, expressed sympathy for a White man who killed three Black people at a Jacksonville, Florida, Dollar General store. He didn’t think a mistaken belief in White supremacy was to blame, since he doesn’t think it exists, even though the killer had written a manifesto and had a swastika on his AR-15. Another Indian American who sought to gain the spotlight by kowtowing to white prejudices was Rina Shah, who justified Trump’s National Guard occupation of Washington, D.C., because of Black dysfunctional households. By doing so, she neglected dysfunction in her own community, including South Asian domestic violence, from a study: South Asian Women at Greater Risk for Injury From Intimate Partner Violence by Anita Raj, and Jay G Silverman.
“Intimate partner violence and intimate partner violence–related homicide disproportionately affect immigrant women.1–6 South Asian women residing in the United States appear to be at particularly high risk for intimate partner violence, with 40% reporting intimate partner violence in their current relationship in a recent study.” Ain’t no money or attention in Ms Raj.examining dysfunction in her community?
What Shah and Ramaswamy have in common with minority writers is that we are told that to be successful, we must attract a white audience because only whites buy cultural products. I’m sure that President Obama scolded Blacks with stern love lectures to convince white voters that he wouldn’t be a Black nationalist president. Wong writes about some deranged Black people who answered President Trump’s “Chinese Virus” smear by attacking Asian American citizens. Yes, like members of other ethnic groups, Blacks can be stupid. But an Asian American drug gang that sought to take over our neighborhood was repelled by a Black felon who’d been released from Pelican Bay. The police were of no help. In fact, at the Crime Council meetings where we met with the police, elderly Black residents wondered why the police were so chummy with drug dealers. Whites commit most of the violence against Asian Americans. Still, the media low-balls their participation because they don’t want to risk embarrassing those whom their advertisers see as their best customers. Don Lemon told me that at CNN, he was told to lighten up on Trump voters because MAGAs buy products too.
Wong writes: “Did my racial identity and/or my frequent writing about Chinese America and Asian America help or hurt my career? That question is knotty, convoluted, and difficult to grasp logically and rationally. I don’t really know. What I do know is that I have absolutely no regrets that I spent part of my journalism life writing about an aspect of American life—Yellow America—that few, if any, other mainstream journalists bothered to examine at the time I was doing it.” While many mediocre white journalists dominate the opinion industry highly qualified journalists William Gee Wong and Emil Guillermo were losttheir positions as commentators by PBS and NPR. (NPR fired me for my commentary about how the Willie Horton campaign would backfire on President Bush and Lee Atwater.)
Both Wong and Guillermo ascended to the heights of American journalism only to be cut down. But without their sacrifice and those of others, there would not have been a Yellow Renaissance in literature, because when members of the younger generation saw them use writing as an expression, they began writing themselves. Despite the setbacks Wong has encountered,he is still hopeful.
Wong writes: “America is no longer a place where only straight white Christian men are all-powerful and preeminent. Make no mistake: Many still are, but an increasing number of ‘others’ are making their marks, too—yes, including some of us yellow people. America’s challenge now and into the foreseeable future is to find ways to fit its many disparate identities into a more cohesive whole (i.e., a More Perfect Union).”
Like Baldwin, Wong writes about a corner of the American experience that exists in the shadows and about which Baldwin’s “Chorus of Innocents” is ignorant. William Gee Wong does the same with Sons of Chinatown, with equal eloquence. He is the Yellow Baldwin. Reed’s latest play is “The Amanuensis.”
A Battle for Humane Consciousness in a War Against Truth: Exposing the Dark Arts of War
Repairing the aparture of Western society
by Paul Haeder / June 30th, 2025
LONG READ
The total liberation and unification of Africa under an All-African Socialist Government must be the primary objective of all Black revolutionaries throughout the world. It is an objective which, when achieved, will bring about the fulfillment of the aspirations of Africans and people of African descent everywhere. It will at the same time advance the triumph of the international socialist revolution, and the onward progress towards world communism, under which, every society is ordered on the principle of –from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.
— Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah
Jeremy Kuzmarov was kind to spend an hour with me, since I am much more polemical and hyperbolic than his measured writing belies. I’ve written numerous times why it is I am now switched to write THAT way, and there is no need for me to defend my rhetoric and utilizing some of the 11 forms of propaganda Edward Bernays and Goebbels and Madison Avenue and Hasbara Industry deploy.
Here, this book is divided into thirteen chapters and provides a comprehensive overview of Clinton’s foreign policy across the globe. Utilizing archival research from the Clinton Presidential Library, oral history interviews, alongside a plethora of newspapers and scholarship focusing on the 1990s, Kuzmarov provides succinct overviews of high-profile and well-known events, such as genocide in the Balkans and in Rwanda, and lesser-known case studies such as the administration’s disastrous reworking of the Russian economy or Clinton’s support for dictators in Africa. Kuzmarov makes the salient point that despite rhetoric to the contrary, Clinton was never interested in human rights or humanitarianism when it came to intervention. Rather, the administration was quick to set aside human rights when it served its interests.
With those Clinton years, we have had the perfect caldron of the witch’s and devil’s brew of a slim-ball, a Cecil Rhodes and Chatam House rodent, and not America’s first Black or Republican president, Clinton working his dark arts with the neo-cons and neoliberals and the imperialists.
Here’s the book’s blurb:
During the 2016 presidential election, many younger voters repudiated Hillary Clinton because of her husband’s support for mass incarceration, banking deregulation and free-trade agreements that led many U.S. jobs to be shipped overseas. Warmonger: How Clinton’s Malign Foreign Policy Launched the Trajectory from Bush II to Biden, shows that Clinton’s foreign policy was just as bad as his domestic policy. Cultivating an image as a former anti-Vietnam War activist to win over the aging hippie set in his early years, as president, Clinton bombed six countries and, by the end of his first term, had committed U.S. troops to 25 separate military operations, compared to 17 in Ronald Reagan’s two terms. Clinton further expanded America’s covert empire of overseas surveillance outposts and spying and increased the budget for intelligence spending and the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a CIA offshoot which promoted regime change in foreign nations.
The latter was not surprising because, according to CIA operative Cord Meyer Jr., Clinton had been recruited into the CIA while a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, and as Governor of Arkansas in the 1980s he had allowed clandestine arms and drug flights to Nicaraguan counter-revolutionaries (Contras) backed by the CIA to be taken from Mena Airport in the western part of the state. Rather than being a time of tranquility when the U.S. failed to pay attention to the gathering storm of terrorism, as New York Times columnist David Brooks frames it, the Clinton presidency saw rising tensions among the U.S., China and Russia because of Clinton’s malign foreign policies, and U.S. complicity in terrorist acts.
In so many ways, Clinton’s presidency set the groundwork for the disasters that were to follow under Bush II, Obama, Trump, and Biden. It was Clinton―building off of Reagan―who first waged a War on Terror ridden with double standards, one that adopted terror tactics, including extraordinary rendition, bombing and the use of drones. It was Clinton who cried wolf about human rights abuses and the need to protect beleaguered peoples from genocide to justify military intervention in a post-Cold War age. And it was Clinton’s administration that pressed for regime change in Iraq and raised public alarm about the mythic WMDs―all while relying on fancy new military technologies and private military contractors to distance US shady military interventions from the public to limit dissent.
We spent a lot of time looking at the history of Covert Action Bulletin. We talked about language, the so-called alternative press, what real liberalism was and how liberalism now is an evil spin factory of the neoliberal variety.
controlled opposition
limited hangout
Discredit, disrupt, and destroy
Operation Paperclip
ECHELON
MKUltra
DARPA
The list goes on and on and on. Phoenix Program? We know Covert Programs need Covert Action.
LANGUAGE. That whole concept of people berating me for reading CAM articles, for citing guys like William Blum or Douglas Valentine or Jeremy, it’s all based on the language of the oppressed, the amnesiac, colonized, lobotomized, brainwashed, miseducated, anesthetized.
The idea of the CIA being the premier agency of no good, murder incorporated, full of machinations on economic hits and country destabilization.
Yes, the Mossad has taken CIA and British intelligence agencies up a few notches, but we both agree that this was planned, or part of the plan.
You can go to Covert Action Magazine and hit any number of topic arenas you might fancy as your primary interest: social justice issues including intervention, war, covert action, intelligence, political economy, imperialism, labor, repression, surveillance, media, racial justice, sexism, environmentalism, and immigration
By Chris Agee
CovertAction Magazine began publishing in 1978 as a newsletter called Covert Action Information Bulletin (CAIB) and later as CovertAction Quarterly (CAQ). The magazine developed a following not as a conspiracy-theory-related publication, but as a source for reliable, consistent, and accurate investigative reporting.
Originally, CAIB was a watchdog journal that focused on the abuses and activities of the CIA, yet it has gradually evolved into a more general, progressive investigative magazine.
CAIB was cofounded and copublished by Ellen Ray, William Schaap, and Louis Wolf, along with former CIA agents such as James and Elsie Wilcott, and Philip Agee, author of Inside the Company: CIA Diary and On The Run.
Following in the tradition of CounterSpy Magazine (1973-1984)—with whom the founders of CAIB had originally worked—highlights of CAIB included the notorious “Naming Names” column, which printed the names of CIA officers under diplomatic cover. These were tracked through exhaustive research in the State Department Biographic Register and various domestic and international diplomatic lists.
This column, and others like it, came to an end in 1982 when the Intelligence Identities Protection Act was signed into law by Ronald Reagan. CAIB had to end the “Naming Names” column, but more significantly, the act required that magazines such as CAIB be more wary about the names they published within the articles of their contributors. This was particularly significant after December 1975 when Richard S. Welch, a CIA station chief, was assassinated in Athens, Greece. CounterSpy was criticized by both the CIA and the press for its exposure of the agent’s name.
While almost every issue focused on the CIA and its activities in regions like Central America and Southeast Asia, CAIB also covered the CIA interference in the domestic media and on university campuses, as well as a wider range of domestic and international political issues. Occasionally, CAIB dedicated entire issues to surveillance technologies, the U.S. prison system, the environment, Mad Cow disease, AIDS, ECHELON, media cover-ups, Iraqi sanctions, and the so-called “war against drugs.”
Contributing authors have included intellectuals, writers, and activists such as Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Michael Parenti, Sara Flounders, Philip Agee, John Pilger, Ramsey Clark, Leonard Peltier, Allen Ginsberg, Diana Johnstone, Laura Flanders, Edward S. Herman, and Ward Churchill.
In 1992, with Issue 43, CAIB changed its name to CovertAction Quarterly (CAQ). As a 64 to 78-page magazine published four times a year, the publication became fondly known as the magazine “recommended by Noam Chomsky; targeted by the CIA.” CAQ had a reputation for beating to the punch more mainstream standard-bearers, such as the New York Times.
In 1995, it covered the genocide in Rwanda and U.S. complicity in those events, years before any other publication cared to notice; it ran in-depth investigative articles on the rise of homegrown militias before the Oklahoma bombing; and it was the first U.S. publication to reveal the existence of ECHELON (the security agencies’ surveillance software).
CAQ was the regular recipient of the annual Project Censored awards for the Top 25 Censored Stories.
Twenty-eighteen was the 40th anniversary of the founding of CovertAction and its publisher Covert Action Publications, Inc. Former writers and publishers of CAIB and CAQ relaunched as CovertAction Magazine (CAM).
The relaunch team also intends to publish several books including an annual compilation of the best of CAM, an encyclopedia of espionage and a republication of CIA Diary: Inside the Company and On The Run by Philip Agee, volumes which will include Philip Agee’s iconic articles and papers.
The relaunch team is headed up by the co-founder, publisher and writer, Louis Wolf, as well as our tried and true investigative journalists, professors, organizers, funders, proofreaders and legal representation. The expanded team includes Chris Agee, William Blum, Jack Colhoun, Michel Chossudovsky, Mark Cook, Jennifer Harbury, Bill Montross, Immanuel Ness, James Petras, Karen Ranucci, Stephanie Reich, Hobart Spalding, Victor Wallis and Melvin L. Wulf, all of whom worked with, and/or wrote for, the magazine in the past.
New talent that has come on board for the relaunch include Sam Alcoff, Steve Brown, Tom Burgess, Hester Eisenstein, Victoria Gamez, David Giglio, Josh Klein, Maureen LaMar, Michael Locker, and Chuck Mohan, to name a few.
All together, the expanded team specializes in a variety of social justice issues including intervention, war, covert action, intelligence, political economy, imperialism, labor, repression, surveillance, media, racial justice, sexism, environmentalism, and immigration. See our masthead for more details.
The archives will illustrate the beginnings of the hard copy newsletter/magazine — Archives /CovertAction Magazine.
Imagine that title’s subordinate first clause being replaced by any number of topics
On the One-Year Anniversary of the Planned SARS-CoV2 pandemic
On the One-Year Anniversary of the USS Liberty
On the One-Year Anniversary of September 11
On the One-Year Anniversary of Gulf on Tonkin
On the One-Year Anniversary of War on Terror
On the One-Year Anniversary of US Patriot Act
On the One-Year Anniversary of Bush, Biden, Obama, Trump Administrations
On the One-Year Anniversary of / / /
Pearl Harbor?
Sinking of the Lusitania?
Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
Here’s Jeremy’s ending to that article:
In that case, a British commission uncovered that the Lusitania—carrying more than 100 American passengers from the U.S. to Europe (over 1,000 died overall)—was rigged with explosives, though the destruction of the ship was blamed on Germany.
Winston Churchill, then the First Lord of the Admiralty, withheld rescue boats to maximize the number of deaths. The aim was to generate enough outrage for the U.S. public to want to go to war against Germany.[5]
Evidence indicates that Benjamin Netanyahu has adopted the same strategy of Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt in sacrificing the lives of his own people in order to arouse enough anger to generate support for war.
Roosevelt and Churchill are today regarded as national heroes in their respective countries, though Netanyahu is likely to go down in history as a villain, along with his American sponsors. This is because the Israelis have failed to earn a heroic victory against Gaza and have horrified much of the world with the atrocities that they have committed.
These Mitzvah Elves, man, this fucking Canary Mission putting thousands of good honest thinkers onto their web site to incite hatred and deplatforming and doxing and you name it:
Continuing with the hateful Canary Mission:
Hatred of Israel
On June 8, 2017, Kuzmarov published an article titled: “Six-Day War A Turning Point In Passionate Attachment To Israel.”
In the article, Kusmarov wrote how the Six-Day War transformed “Israel into an occupier” of “historic Palestine (West Bank and Gaza).”
Kuzmarov further stated in his article:
“The myth of Israel as a humane and embattled David fighting the Arab Goliath has been debunked in recent years, with world opinion expressing growing sympathy for Palestinians living under Israeli occupation.”
We talked about education, the movement within higher education to suppress and single out and even fire peace activists fighting to expose the lies of Israel, AIPAC, Jewish ties to genocide, both within Israel and outside it.
He’s an adjunct professor at Tulsa Community College, and he says his students in his history courses are for the most part open to learning and getting deep into the reveal, that is, to look at the real history of America, to get to the underbelly and to question their own blinded brainwashing and the grand and meta-hyper narratives of this land tis of thee.
My show, Finding Fringe, airs Wednesdays, 6 pm PST, this one with Jeremy is all the way to Sept. 3. Above is a great line-up via Zoom Doom, with amazing people I have followed over the past few years.
Topics of Discussion:
Operation Timber Sycamore – Unpacking the U.S.-backed CIA program and its impact.
Empowering al Qaeda – Examining how covert foreign support fueled extremist groups
Genocide of Syrian Minorities – Investigating the targeted violence against ethnic and religious communities
Featured Speakers:
Dan Kovalik – Human rights lawyer and author
Fiorella Isabel – Investigative journalist and analyst
Ben Arthur Thomason – Researcher and peace advocate
Vanessa Beeley – War correspondent and independent journalist
Tickets: Just $25! All proceeds support CAM’s independent investigative journalism and fundraising initiatives.
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July 2 will be Freedom Farms. Working the soil when leaving incarceration — https://freedom-farms.org/
July 9, reintroducing Sea Otters to Oregon with Chanel Hason, Elakha Alliance — https://www.elakhaalliance.org/
July 16, Nigeria, Madu Smart Ajaja, from Houston, talking about his country Nigeria.
Will Potter, Green is the New Red and his newest book, Little Red Barns, July 23: Animal rights and gag laws and designating farm animal rights folk as terrorists. == https://www.willpotter.com/
July 30 local woman, from Waldport, fighting the City Manager and road crew, Teresa Carter.
August 6 Wisconsin’s Draconian probation provisos on steroids, and other issues around the prison industrial complex with Kelly Kloss.
Max Wilbert, Bright Green Lies, and with CELDF, and an environmental sanity warrior. 13 August. — https://celdf.org/ Biocentric with Max Wilbert
Don Gomez, Stern Castle Publishing, August 20.
Taylor Yount, with her new book, My Sutured Mind: Poems of Healing Beyond Trauma, with local Ukrainian artist, Veta Bakhtina, artwork. August 27.
September 3, Jeremy Kuzmarov, author of five books, his latest being, Warmonger: How Clinton’s Malign Foreign Policy Launched the US Trajectory from Bush II to Biden and managing editor of Covert Action Magazine — https://covertactionmagazine.com/
Zachary Stocks, Executive Director, Oregon Black Pioneers September 10 == https://oregonblackpioneers.org/
I’m not sure if CAM has had Amaju Baraka on as a guest or writer, but I highly recommend his most recent interview here:
Black Alliance for Peace Condemns the U.S. and Israeli Final Solution for Gaza and the West Bank Justice Demands Action against Zionism, not Hypocritical Rhetoric from the States of the “West”
Just as Nazi Germany sought the total elimination of Jewish life, the state of Israel, with full U.S. support, is now openly pursuing the systematic annihilation of the people of Gaza, the acceleration of mass displacement in the West Bank, and the denial of Palestinian nationhood itself. Those who dare to speak out are vilified, censored, or stripped of their livelihoods, ensuring complicity through coercion. The Black Alliance for Peace rejects this moral and political blackmail. True solidarity demands courage—refusing to be silenced or pacified as we witness, document, and resist this ongoing genocide. History will judge not only the perpetrators but also those who stood by in cowardly silence…
Those with the power to do so can either take such measures or abdicate their humanity. Palestine will not be free until Zionism, along with all white supremacist ideologies, is defeated. BAP will continue to do everything in its power to ensure the final defeat of global white supremacy that is materially grounded in imperialism.
The illegal zionist state of Israel started bombing Iran on Friday, June 13th, 2025. The aerial bombing coincided with the assassination of a number of scientists, generals and civilians. This unprovoked, criminal assault was accompanied by sabotage of government facilities, drone attacks on civilian infrastructure and the unleashing of internal cells loyal to the west, determined to dismantle the Iranian state. Taken as a whole the military assault is eerily reminiscent of the 2011 attack on Libya that killed Muammar Gaddafi and devastated Africa’s most progressive nation state.
This is all done to ensure US dominance in the region under the pretext of stopping Iran from developing nuclear weapons. The capitalist mainstream media, the US Government, and Israel are claiming Israel is protecting itself from a powerful nuclear neighbor. But a careful analysis reveals a quite different reality. Firstly, Israel is the state that possesses nuclear weapons. They are aggressors claiming to be victims. Secondly Israel is nothing more than a proxy of US led imperialism, which wants to economically and militarily dominate the region. This is part of the imperialist plan to dominate the world.
The zionist state of Israel was created to serve the interests of imperialism by establishing an imperialist fortress in Western Asia.
Last Gasp Of A Dying Monster (The Imperialist Military Assault)
Imperialism (through the zionist entity in Israel) instituted regime change in Syria, and executed genocide in Gaza and the West Bank. Iran supports the Palestinians with arms, money, training and material. Iran is now being targeted for regime change.
We must also take note that these Imperialist/zionist forces are not confining their military activity to one country or region. While a new war rages in Iran, imperialism creates ongoing conflicts of various types in the Western Sahara, Eritrea, Zimbabwe, DRC, Sudan, Guinea Bissau, the Alliance For Sahelian States (which includes Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso), Venezuela, Nicaraqua, Cuba, North Korea, Haiti, Russia, China and other places throughout the world. This is in fact an imperialist policy of Full Spectrum Domination.
The U.S. has at least 45 military bases surrounding Iran and the US has already threatened Iran declaring,“If Iran attacks any U.S. military bases we will bomb Iran with the likes they have never seen”. After lying about their involvement in the attacks on Iran by Israelis the US president went on to say, “We gave them a chance to negotiate a peace agreement and they wouldn’t agree to our terms.” So, now they will have to come to the negotiation table and agree to our terms.”
This is how the dying capitalists/imperialists act in their last stage of existence. They engage in multiple wars, terrorism and genocide as they are declining. They try to kill, terrorize as many people and nations as possible. But, they have been losing militarily, economically and politically everywhere. Including losing the propaganda war around the world.
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The Significance of Pan-Africanism
A new wave of anti-neo colonial resistance that is sweeping Africa is reshaping oil and gas politics, challenging imperialist dominance, and aligning with the BRICS led push to “de-dollarize” the world’s economy. This movement is driven by youth uprisings, military coups, formation of alliances, and rising ideological awareness that imperialism is the enemy of humanity.
This is one measure of the talent and deep thinkers over at CAM: Daniel Kovalik graduated from Columbia University School of Law in 1993. He then served as in-house counsel for the United Steelworkers, AFL-CIO (USW) until 2019.
While with the USW, he worked on Alien Tort Claims Act cases against The Coca-Cola Company, Drummond and Occidental Petroleum—cases arising out of egregious human rights abuses in Colombia.
The Christian Science Monitor, referring to his work defending Colombian unionists under threat of assassination, described Mr. Kovalik as “one of the most prominent defenders of Colombian workers in the United States.”
Mr. Kovalik received the David W. Mills Mentoring Fellowship from Stanford University School of Law and was the recipient of the Project Censored Award for his article exposing the unprecedented killing of trade unionists in Colombia.
He has written extensively on the issue of international human rights and U.S. foreign policy for the Huffington Post and Counterpunch and has lectured throughout the world on these subjects. He is the author of several books including The Plot To Overthrow Venezuela, How The US Is Orchestrating a Coup for Oil, which includes a Foreword by Oliver Stone; The Plot to Attack Iran: How the CIA and the Deep State Have Conspired to Vilify Iran; and with Jeremy Kuzmarov, Syria: Anatomy of a Regime Change.
Michael Parenti:
Jeremy and I talked about that, calling people like CAM writers and readers “nuts”, conspiracy nuts. Imagine that, so, these lobbies, these collective K=Street organizations and their legal squads/associations/groups, no, there are no conspiracies to COVER UP there!
Total number of registered lobbyists in the United States from 2000 to 2024
Yeah, so billions a year spent by lobbies — just call them protection rackets or overt and covert organizations/cartels representing not just special interest a or b, but collectively, representing the entire fucking corporations and groups just in one arena:
Nah, not undue influence? In 2024, the groups that spent the most on lobbying were the National Association of Realtors, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the American Hospital Association, and the Pharmaceutical Research & Manufacturers of America.
1,517 (55.04%)
The number of pharmaceutical/health product lobbyists in the United States and the percentage who are former government employees, as of June 1, 2025.
You thought it was offensive weapons companies? Why, when the Military Mercenaries have their own taxpayer paid for mafia —
Military Departments:
Responsible for organizing, training, and equipping land forces.
Department of the Navy: Includes the Navy and Marine Corps, responsible for sea-based and amphibious operations.
Department of the Air Force: Responsible for air and space operations.
Other Key Components:
Joint Chiefs of Staff:
A group of high-ranking military officers who advise the President, Secretary of Defense, and National Security Council on military matters.
Unified Combatant Commands:
Eleven regional or functional commands responsible for military operations in specific areas or for specific functions. Examples include U.S. Central Command, U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, and U.S. Cyber Command.
Defense Agencies:
Various agencies that provide specialized support to the military departments and combatant commands, such as the Defense Intelligence Agency, National Security Agency, and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
Do these agencies below need lobbies? They are already built into the system:
Department of Justice:
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI): Investigates violations of federal law, including terrorism, cybercrime, and organized crime.
Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA): Enforces federal drug laws and combats drug trafficking.
United States Marshals Service (USMS): Protects the federal judiciary, apprehends fugitives, and manages seized assets.
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF): Enforces federal laws related to alcohol, tobacco, firearms, and explosives.
Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP): Manages the federal prison system.
Department of Homeland Security:
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP): Secures US borders and enforces customs laws.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE): Enforces immigration and customs laws.
U.S. Secret Service (USSS): Protects national leaders and investigates financial crimes.
U.S. Coast Guard (USCG): Enforces maritime laws and conducts search and rescue.
Federal Protective Service (FPS): Protects federal buildings and property.
Other Federal Agencies:
U.S. Capitol Police: Protects the U.S. Capitol Building and grounds.
Amtrak Police Department: Provides law enforcement services for Amtrak’s national passenger rail system.
Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Criminal Investigation: Investigates tax fraud and other financial crimes.
Military Criminal Investigative Organizations: Each branch of the military has its own investigative service (e.g., NCIS for the Navy, OSI for the Air Force).
Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) Police: Protects DIA facilities and personnel.
Some conspiracy, uh?
Organizations within the Department of Defense:
Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA): Provides military intelligence to warfighters, policymakers, and defense planners.
National Security Agency (NSA): Focuses on signals intelligence (SIGINT) and cybersecurity.
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA): Provides geospatial intelligence (GEOINT), including imagery and mapping.
National Reconnaissance Office (NRO): Develops, acquires, launches, and operates reconnaissance satellites.
Army Intelligence: Provides intelligence support to the US Army.
Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI): Provides naval intelligence to the US Navy.
Air Force Intelligence: Provides intelligence support to the US Air Force.
U.S. Space Force Intelligence: Provides intelligence for space operations.
Marine Corps Intelligence: Provides intelligence for Marine Corps operations.
Coast Guard Intelligence: Focuses on maritime threats and homeland security.
Other key agencies:
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA): A civilian foreign intelligence service responsible for gathering, processing, and analyzing intelligence related to national security.
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Intelligence and Analysis: Focuses on homeland security intelligence.
Department of Energy Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence: Deals with nuclear proliferation and energy-related intelligence.
Department of State Bureau of Intelligence and Research: Provides foreign policy intelligence to the State Department.
Department of the Treasury Office of Intelligence and Analysis: Focuses on financial intelligence related to national security.
Drug Enforcement Administration Intelligence Program: Focuses on drug-related intelligence.
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Counterintelligence Division: Investigates foreign espionage and other threats to national security.
Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI): Oversees and coordinates the activities of the entire Intelligence Community.
National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC): A component of the ODNI, focused on counterterrorism intelligence.
War is a Very Expensive and Devil’s Bargain — The BIG LIE.
Now now, I really did not go off topic. CAM, Covert Action Magazine. Open it up, man. Just put in the Google “Ukraine and Covert Action Magazine.” Do that for any topic. “Covert Action Magazine and Gaza.” Etc.
Jeremy is a simple guy who believes in truth, and he questions the narratives and the agencies that are the mafias and cartels protecting the agencies, who are just economic hitmen, in that Racket, sir, Gen. Butler.
“Every government is run by liars. Nothing they say should be believed.” ― I.F. Stone
It would have been a hell of a conversation with Jeremy and Stone (R.I.P.):
To write the truth as I see it; to defend the weak against the strong; to fight for justice; and to seek, as best I can to bring healing perspectives to bear on their terrible hates and fears of mankind, in the hope of someday bringing about one world, in which men[and women] will enjoy the differences of the human garden instead of killing each other over them. ― Isidor Feinstein Stone
Listen to my interview with Jeremy of CAM here, KYAQ.
The enduring quality of the myth of the addicted army in many respects demonstrates America’s long-standing inability to come to terms with the moral consequences of the Vietnam War. By reimagining their soldiers as victims and the U.S. military defeat as a “tragedy,” Americans were able to deflect responsibility for the massive destruction and loss of life inflicted on the people of Southeast Asia and thus to avoid serious reconsideration of the ideological principles that rationalized the American intervention. The silencing and demonizing of dissenting voices, including antiwar GIs typecast as psychopathic junkies, aided in this process.” — Jeremy Kuzmarov in “The Myth of the Addicted Army”
With remarkable continuity, police aid was used not just to target criminals but to develop elaborate intelligence networks oriented towards internal defense, which allowed the suppression of dissident groups to take place on a wider scope and in a more surgical and often brutal way. In effect, the U.S. helped to modernize intelligence gathering and political policing operations, thus magnifying their impact. They further helped to militarize the police and provided them with a newfound perception of power, while schooling them in a hard-line anticommunism that fostered the dehumanization of political adversaries and bred suspicion about grass-roots mobilization…… Although the U.S. was not always in control of the forces that it empowered and did not always condone their acts, human rights violations were not by accident or the product of rogue forces betraying American principles, as some have previously argued. They were rather institutionalized within the fabric of American policy and its coercive underpinnings. — Jeremy Kuzmarov in “Modernizing Repression: Police Training, Nation-Building and the Spread of Political Violence in the American Century,” Diplomatic History, April 2009
Paul Haeder's been a teacher, social worker, newspaperman, environmental activist, and marginalized muckraker, union organizer. Paul's book, Reimagining Sanity: Voices Beyond the Echo Chamber (2016), looks at 10 years (now going on 17 years) of his writing at Dissident Voice. Read his musings at LA Progressive. Read (purchase) his short story collection, Wide Open Eyes: Surfacing from Vietnam now out, published by Cirque Journal. Here's his Amazon page with more published work Amazon. Read other articles by Paul, or visit Paul's website.
