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FRESH OFF THE PRESS Former DEA Agent Details How the CIA Concealed Identity of Two 9/11 Hijackers Granted Visas to the U.S. From the FBI  Joshua Shoenfeld Dan Christensen, an investigative reporter and editor of the Florida Bulldog, has written an important article on the CIA’s concealment of the identities of two alleged hijackers, Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar, from the FBI. Unfortunately, the mainstream media and alternative media have mostly ignored this story to date. READ MORE → Senate Report: Nearly 700 Former High-Ranking Pentagon and Other Government Officials Now Work at the Top 20 Defense Contractors  Jeremy Kuzmarov  Ideally, Elizabeth Warren’s report would precipitate a much larger congressional investigation of the military-industrial complex modeled after the 1934 Nye Committee hearings. READ MORE → FBI Has Evolved Into Organized Crime Outfit that Operates Above the Law  John Kiriakou  The FBI in Los Angeles is the same as the FBI in Washington and in New York and in Peoria and everywhere else. They’re liars. They’re deceivers. They’re criminals. Nothing has changed since the days of COINTELPRO. Whether you’re a Proud Boy or the passive renter of a safety deposit box, you have to worry about the FBI lying you into prison or into the poorhouse. READ MORE → The Pentagon Has Been Recolonizing University Campuses—Why Aren’t More Students Protesting?  Jeremy Kuzmarov  Once upon a time getting a college degree meant reading classic literature and philosophy, learning about history and politics, studying mathematics and science, learning new languages, and debating the great issues of the day in student forums. The billionaire class and Pentagon, however, do not want young people to think critically, or to be worldly and idealistic. READ MORE → It’s a Long Way From New York City: On the Beat in Donetsk With Political Satirist Randy Credico Arnaud Develay Randolph “Randy” Credico has been around the block. Friend of luminaries such as Roger Waters, George Galloway and the late William Kunstler (to name but a few), Randy has been relentlessly committed to defend the proverbial “little guy” while taking on the powerful. As a media personality who understands instinctively the power of narrative, Randy initially could not wrap his mind around the reality that the Western media stood mum about the constant shelling faced by the people in Donbas for these last nine years. READ MORE → Taking the Capitalist Road Was the Wrong Choice For Ukraine, Says Ukraine Expert  Natylie Baldwin  Renfrey Clarke is an Australian journalist. Throughout the 1990s he reported from Moscow for Green Left Weekly of Sydney. This past year, he published The Catastrophe of Ukrainian Capitalism: How Privatisation Dispossessed & Impoverished the Ukrainian People with Resistance Books. In April, [Natylie Baldwin] had an email exchange with Clarke. Read the transcript... READ MORE → Will the Death of Yet Another Opponent of Rwandan Strongman Paul Kagame Prompt a Suspension of U.S. Foreign Aid to Rwanda? Jeremy Kuzmarov The man Bill Clinton called “one of the greatest leaders of our time” has admitted that many of his opponents “tend to die.” READ MORE → While Projecting a Friendly Face and an Extended Hand, the Biden Administration Has Continually Challenged the Initiatives of Honduras’ New Progressive Government and Ignored the Voice of the Honduran People James Phillips In November 2021, Hondurans resoundingly elected a new government, headed by President Xiomara Castro, that pledged to end official corruption, reduce violence, and move away from reliance upon a destructive, extractive economy controlled by foreign corporations. That election seemed a remarkable break, especially from the previous 12 years. But various dilemmas have plagued the new government’s attempts at change. READ MORE → Protests Erupt Against U.S. Military Exercises and Expansion of U.S. Military Footprint in The Philippines Jeremy Kuzmarov Filipinos Don’t Want to Be Used as a “Footstool for American Power Projection and Provocation” Says Filipino Peace Activist. READ MORE → CovertAction Magazine is unlike any other publication in the world and it's on us to keep it up and running. Do your part to support CovertAction Magazine's fearless, investigative journalism by donating now.  Donate Now! CovertAction Bulletin Assange Writes Letter to King Charles Before £100 Million Coronation Rachel Hu and Chris Garaffa To mark the occasion of the coronation of King Charles the III, Julian Assange wrote a scathing public letter to the new monarch from his cell at Belmarsh prison, where he’s been held for over four years. The coronation cost £100 million of tax-payer funds, and many across the country have been outraged that public funds are being spent on such pomp and circumstance during a cost of living crisis. We also discuss the recent killing of Jordan Neely, 30-year-old homeless man who was choked to death by ex-marine Daniel Penny. We explore the real fear many New Yorkers feel on the subway, and how the right-wing is using this vigilante murder to justify violence against the poor. To talk about this and more, we are joined by Natalia Marques, writer at Peoples Dispatch. Listen →