New Music Video: CIA Veteran Gloria Steinem has died

There’s something almost surreal about processing a cultural icon’s death through a music video of a poem. But that’s the world of Weird & Wild, where the boundary between news, art, and conspiracy theory dissolves like a quantum superposition. Caitlin Johnstone’s video—based on her poem about Gloria Steinem—doesn’t just eulogize; it interrogates. The title alone, “CIA Veteran Gloria Steinem has died,” is a jarring collision of legacy and accusation, forcing us to ask whether we ever truly knew the person behind the feminist icon. The Steinem-CIA connection isn’t new. In the 1950s and ’60s, the CIA funded cultural and student organizations as part of Cold War soft-power operations, and Steinem worked for one of those affiliated groups. For some, this is a footnote; for others, it’s a lens through which everything else must be re-read. Johnstone’s poem seems to lean into that latter view, using death as a threshold where the record can finally be pried open. It’s a reminder that public memory is never neutral—it’s curated, contested, and often stranger than the official story. What makes this piece so fitting for Weird & Wild is the medium itself. A poem set to music and video is a liminal artifact—not quite journalism, not quite eulogy, not quite protest. It invites us to sit in the ambiguity, to hold multiple truths at once: that Steinem was a genuine trailblazer for women’s rights, and also that she moved through a world where intelligence agencies quietly shaped progressive movements. The human mind wants clean narratives, but reality rarely offers them. The source article, available at https://nexusnewsfeed.com/article/geopolitics/new-music-video-cia-veteran-gloria-steinem-has-died/, is a reminder that the most unsettling stories often arrive wrapped in art. Whether or not every claim in the poem is verifiable, the questions it raises are real: How do we separate a person’s contributions from their entanglements? And what happens to their legacy once the final chapter is written? In the weird wild of history, the answers are never as simple as we’d like.