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Long before he earned a PhD in American history at Brandeis University in 2006, Jeremy Kuzmarov was a typical hockey fanatic who loved to play the game and watch his beloved Montreal Canadiens battle NHL rivals at the old Montreal Forum in the 1980s and 1990s.

Kuzmarov is currently Managing Editor of New York-based investigative journalism site ‘CovertAction Magazine’, which focuses on issues of social justice and reports on CIA undercover operations worldwide.  Born and raised in west end Montreal, Kuzmarov attended Bialik High School, Dawson College, and McGill University, where he began his writing career as sports editor of The McGill Tribune.

As a youth, Kuzmarov played organized hockey in Cote St. Luc and for the Bialik high school team. Watching his favorite Canadiens players – Mats Naslund of the 1986 Stanley Cup-winning team and Russ Courtnall (who was “a great skater”) – are among his fondest childhood memories.

Although he played for the school hockey team at Brandeis and still plays in a men’s league in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Kuzmarov’s busy writing/editing schedule does not leave much time for hockey these days. He is regularly sought out as an expert on U.S. history and politics for radio and TV programs, as well as co-hosting a radio show on New York Public Radio and on the Progressive Radio News Network called ‘Uncontrolled Opposition’.

A prolific author

He is the author of six books on U.S. foreign policy, including Obama’s Unending Wars (Clarity Press, 2019); The Russians Are Coming, Again, with John Marciano (Monthly Review Press, 2018); Warmonger. How Clinton’s Malign Foreign Policy Launched the U.S. Trajectory from Bush II to Biden (Clarity Press, 2023); and with Dan Kovalik, Syria: Anatomy of Regime Change (Baraka Books, 2025). Kuzmarov has also published hundreds of articles and contributed to numerous edited volumes, including one in the prestigious Oxford History of Counterinsurgency .

Perhaps it should come as no surprise that Kuzmarov seems to have writing in his DNA: his grandmother, Ann Weinstein, was an English professor at Dawson College in Montreal and was a published author who was a devotee of famed novelist Saul Bellow.

[Editor’s Note: BestStory.ca readers can read Ann’s memoir about Saul Bellow posted in June 2013 on our site, as well a background piece about her fascination with the Montreal-born Bellow, who lived most of his adult life in Chicago.]

Kuzmarov can be reached at jkuzmarov2@gmail.com. He is also on substack.