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CovertAction Bulletin

CovertAction Magazine

CovertAction Bulletin is the official podcast of CovertAction Magazine which began publishing in 1978 as a newsletter called Covert Action Information Bulletin (CAIB) and later as CovertAction Quarterly (CAQ). 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 infamous whistleblower, Philip Agee.The magazine developed a following not as a conspiracy-theory-related publication, but as a source for

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52:34

Tariffs and Tensions: Is Trump Really Shifting on China?

CovertAction Bulletin ·

2025/11/05

After almost a year of an escalating trade war, U.S. President Donald Trump met with Chinese President Xi Jinping in South Korea last week. While official statements from both sides framed the summit as a positive move forward in a period of growing political, economic and military tensions on the international scale, it may also mark a distinct change in the U.S. approach. The Trump administration had imposed extremely high tariffs on Chinese exports to the US this year. China then imposed i...

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52:42

Feeding the Crisis: SNAP Under Siege in the Shutdown

CovertAction Bulletin ·

2025/10/29

Funding for SNAP, the federal Supplemental Food Assistance Program, is set to expire on November 1st due to the ongoing government shutdown that’s about to hit the one-month mark. A banner on the Department of Agriculture’s website blames Senate Democrats, immigrants and trans people for the crisis, but also says, “Bottom line, the well has run dry.” At the same time, the USDA said last week that it would not use contingency funds already allocated for such an emergency. The bottom line is t...

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52:52

A General Strike Can Change Everything

CovertAction Bulletin ·

2025/10/22

Millions of people in over 2,700 cities and towns took part in No Kings Day protests across the country on October 18th. Organizers estimate that seven million took part, two million more than the same actions in June. From the streets of big cities to the squares and streetcorners of smaller towns, this was one of the biggest days of protest in U.S. history and highlights the vast unpopularity of the Trump administration’s pro-billionaire and anti-worker policies as the government remains sh...

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54:08

Nobel Peace Prize Paves Way for War With Venezuela

CovertAction Bulletin ·

2025/10/15

Donald Trump did not win the Nobel Peace Prize, as he boasted he should for supposedly being the “peace President” - a claim we’ve debunked numerous times on this show. White House Communications Director Steven Cheung said that the Nobel Committee “places politics over peace” - which actually does have some truth to it, like a broken clock does twice a day. The award was instead given to María Corina Machado, a Venezuelan “opposition” leader hell-bent on overthrowing the government of Nicolá...

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51:31

Gaza to Portland: A System in Crisis

CovertAction Bulletin ·

2025/10/08

The Israeli government has waged the latest campaign of its effort to wipe out and destroy the Palestinian people entirely for over two years now, with the full financial, diplomatic and military backing of the United States government. Using a conservative estimate of 66,600 deaths, the toll from Gaza since October 7, 2023, represents 14% of all conflicts worldwide in that time period according to the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project. As the Trump administration puts forward a ...

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50:55

U.S. on Edge: Trump Prepares Domestic Military Crackdown

CovertAction Bulletin ·

2025/10/01

At a gathering of senior military leaders at Marine Corps Base Quantico on Tuesday, Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth signaled that they’re preparing to imminently expand the scope and size of the U.S. military, both inside and outside the United States. Trump made it clear that he knows sentiment against not only him but the entire capitalist system is growing - as are the movements of organized people in resistance. He said Tuesday, “Last month, I signed an executive order ...

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51:49

Trump at the U.N.: Rambling, Racist, and Out of Touch

CovertAction Bulletin ·

2025/09/24

In a rambling speech that lasted nearly an hour at the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday, Donald Trump spent a significant amount of time condemning immigration in the west as well as the use and development of clean energy alternatives to coal and oil. In typical Trump fashion, he talked up his supposed accomplishments both in the U.S. and internationally, claiming he has ended seven wars and fixed the U.S. economy. But a new Washington Post/Ipsos poll shows that 53% of Americans oppose Trump...

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52:50

Passport Revocations: Trump’s Repression and the New...

CovertAction Bulletin ·

2025/09/17

Gaza is burning. Anyone who’s watched the livestreamed genocide of the Palestinian people over the last 23 months knows that this is true. But the Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz was boasting when he posted those words on X early Tuesday, also saying “The IDF strikes with an iron fist” and “We will not relent and we will not go back - until the completion of the mission.” His post came as two divisions of the IDF entered Gaza City and with additional reinforcements soon to be joining the...

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57:16

Dems Pay Influencers to Pretend They’re Grassroots

CovertAction Bulletin ·

2025/09/03

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 Po...

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53:40

D.C. Was Just the Start: Trump Targets Cities Nationwide

CovertAction Bulletin ·

2025/08/26

In a stark escalation, Donald Trump has armed the National Guard members on the streets of Washington, DC. He’s also signed an executive order getting rid of cashless bail - putting poor people who are arrested at significant risk of being stuck in jail waiting months or longer for trials if they can’t afford outrageous cash bails. He then signed an executive order suggesting a one-year prison sentence for anyone who burns an American flag - in complete contradiction to the 1989 Supreme Court...

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25:31

U.S. Makes Threats While China Plans Its Infrastructure

CovertAction Bulletin ·

2025/08/20

The founder of Tech Buzz China, Rui Ma, posted on X after a recent trip to China about her observations on energy there. “Energy is considered a solved problem. The Chinese government’s investment in sustainable energy – from advanced hydropower to next-generation nuclear – means that, relative to many other markets, electricity supply is secure and inexpensive. Everywhere we went, people treated energy availability as a given. This is a stark contrast to the U.S., where AI growth is increasi...

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53:42

Why Trump is Targeting D.C.

CovertAction Bulletin ·

2025/08/13

Donald Trump has taken yet another step in the ruling class’ quest to trash civil liberties, expand the brutal role of cops and other agents of the state and wage an all-out assault on Black people across the country. On Monday the 11th, he announced that Attorney General Pam Bondi would be in control of the DC police, and that Secret Service, DEA, FBI and National Guard troops would be deployed around the District. Trump and Bondi’s claims about crime in DC are just an excuse to launch an a...

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37:30

Ventura County Organizes Against ICE

CovertAction Bulletin ·

2025/07/30

Militarized ICE and Homeland Security raids targeted farms in California’s Central Coast on July 10th, with 200 farm workers ending up arrested, some being critically injured and one tragically losing his life. Masked and heavily armed ICE agents used tear gas and rubber bullets to target workers and those who came to their defense. As soon as community members got word of the possible raids, they sprung into action, tracking the ICE caravan and sharing notifications through community network...

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50:26

Is Epstein the Final Straw for Trump’s Base?

CovertAction Bulletin ·

2025/07/23

In 2024, Donald Trump said he’d declassify and release the files the U.S. government has on notorious child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. But recently, responding to disappointment and growing demands from his base to actually release the full files, he told a crowd of reporters in Pennsylvania that “I don’t understand why the Epstein files would be of interest to anybody. It’s pretty boring stuff. It’s sordid, but it’s boring. And I don’t understand why it keeps going.” Even among the MAGA f...

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51:48

Texas Flooding: The Real Culprit Is Capitalism

CovertAction Bulletin ·

2025/07/16

134 people have died and 101 remain missing after the Guadalupe River in central Texas overflowed as a result of 6.5 inches of rain falling over the course of three hours on the morning of July 4th. Though the floods are being called just a natural disaster, mounting evidence shows that climate change, budget cuts, crumbling infrastructure and political infighting contributed not just to the flooding but the resulting destruction and loss of life. Even in a real freak incident, a true once-in...

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52:10

Who Is Musk’s “America Party” A Threat To?

CovertAction Bulletin ·

2025/07/09

Trump’s so-called Big Beautiful Bill has passed and been signed into law. What the White House has deemed an “historic” is actually the biggest transfer of wealth in the history of the United States, benefiting the already-wealthy with massive tax breaks and devastating cuts to social programs. The bill also accelerates militarization at home and abroad, with millions more in funding for ICE to terrorize immigrants in the country and the military to terrorize others outside its borders. The b...

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53:20

Billionaires Try To Buy Out Democracy

CovertAction Bulletin ·

2025/07/02

What do Palantir, DoorDash, Bill Clinton and Michael Bloomberg have in common? They all joined the campaign against candidate Zohran Mamdani, the state Assemblymember who exceeded expectations and effectively won the Democratic NYC mayoral primary when Andrew Cuomo conceded around 11PM on election night. As of July 1st, with ranked choice calculations completed, Mamdani has officially won the primary. A Cuomo-aligned super PAC, Fix the City, raised $20 million, much of which came through bil...

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52:43

Mahmoud Khalil Freed as Anti-War Movement in U.S....

CovertAction Bulletin ·

2025/06/25

Mahmoud Khalil is free! After spending 104 days unjustly held in an ICE detention center in Jena, Louisiana, he was reunited with his wife Noor, newborn son Deen and community over the weekend. At a press conference and rally at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine near Columbia University on Sunday, he said “I must call the hypocrisy of Columbia University, a university that just two weeks ago said that they want to protect their international students. Why? While over 100 [days] later, I ha...

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52:39

Make No Mistake: The U.S. Wants War with Iran

CovertAction Bulletin ·

2025/06/18

Donald Trump posted to his social media site Truth Social on Monday evening that “Everyone should immediately evacuate Tehran!” as he made an early departure from the G7 summit in Canada to “attend to many important matters,” according to the White House. The U.S. government is also moving the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz away from the South China Sea canceling a planned port call in Da Nang City, Vietnam scheduled for this week as the ship continues to move West towards the Arabian Sea where ...

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52:25

The LA Uprising and Trump’s Authoritarian Agenda

CovertAction Bulletin ·

2025/06/11

Over the weekend, ICE agents invaded Los Angeles and its suburbs, kidnapping dozens of people on Friday and threatening more near a Home Depot on Saturday. These masked and heavily-armed forces are part of Trump’s promised 30-day surge in anti-immigrant attacks in the LA area. But wherever there is repression, there is resistance - and the people of LA are fighting back. The community in LA and the suburbs continues its anti-deportation mobilization as we record this episode. Donald Trump has...

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