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John McEvoy

JOHN McEVOY

John McEvoy is an independent journalist who has written for International History Review, The Canary, Tribune Magazine, Jacobin and Brasil Wire.

UK spent public funds backing Venezuelan ‘president’ in gold dispute

April 25th, 2023

Tagged Venezuela
Think-tanks are often quoted uncritically by the UK press. (Photo: Dan Kitwood / Getty)

How the UK media misinforms us about ‘counter-disinformation’ operations

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April 5th, 2023

Tagged RussiaUkraine

UK Foreign Office gives millions to ‘counter-disinformation’ groups

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April 4th, 2023

Tagged Russia

Why is Venezuela’s gold still frozen in the Bank of England?

January 27th, 2023

Tagged Venezuela

Minister ‘misled parliament’ on Foreign Office role in secret Assange operation

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December 2nd, 2022

Tagged Assange
A US B-52 drops a load of 750-pounds bombs over a Vietnamese coastal area, 5 November 1965. (Photo: USAF)

Britain’s secret propaganda campaign in the Vietnam war

November 17th, 2022

Tagged Declassified filesVietnam

‘Bang – just like that’: How Thatcher backed Bush in Panama

October 19th, 2022

Tagged Declassified filesPanamaus

Britain’s dirty business in Bolsonaro’s Brazil

September 29th, 2022

Tagged BPBrazil

Recommendation X: Shell’s secret plan for a Cold War propaganda unit

September 8th, 2022

Tagged Declassified filesShell
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Exclusive: How Shell and BP financed Britain’s Cold War propaganda machine

August 31st, 2022

Tagged BPDeclassified filesEnvironmentShell

Britain ‘immediately’ supported U.S. over shooting down of Iranian airliner

July 20th, 2022

Tagged Declassified filesIranus

Revealed: Australia’s secret propaganda unit

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June 16th, 2022

Tagged Australia

Britain plotted propaganda campaign against Amnesty International

May 11th, 2022

Tagged Ireland
Fidel Castro smoking a cigar in 1963. (Photo: Duke University Rubenstein Library / Gado / Getty)

CIA discussed assassination of Fidel Castro with UK officials

April 12th, 2022

Tagged cubaUnited States
Amal Clooney and Jeremy Hunt at the Global Conference for Media Freedom in London, 2019 (Photo: FCO)

Julian Assange posed PR problem for UK government’s media campaign

March 23rd, 2022

Tagged Assange
Venezuela’s capital Caracas (Photo: Stig Nygaard / CC 2.0)

Secretive UK team met in Venezuela to promote British energy interests

January 20th, 2022

Tagged Venezuela
Fidel and Raúl Castro (Photo: Adalberto Roque / AFP via Getty)

How Britain plotted to spread homophobia in Cuba

December 8th, 2021

Tagged cuba
Carlos Lleras Restrepo

UK prepared for coup in Colombia by training military in psychological warfare

November 11th, 2021

Tagged Colombia
João Goulart was president of Brazil (Photo: Keystone via Getty)

Britain’s hidden hand in Brazil’s 1964 coup d’etat

November 10th, 2021

Tagged Brazil

Revealed: UK sets up media influencing project in Venezuela amid secretive £750,000 ‘democracy promotion’ programme

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January 6th, 2021

Tagged Venezuela

Revealed: UK Foreign Office has spent nearly half a million pounds in aid setting up anti-government coalition in Venezuela

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October 21st, 2020

Tagged AidVenezuela

Exclusive: Secret cables reveal Britain interfered with elections in Chile

September 22nd, 2020

Tagged ChileDeclassified files

Britain’s hidden ‘information’ policy in the Middle East

March 17th, 2020

Tagged BahrainDeclassified filesEgyptIran