Iran: the seventh country on the alleged US list for regime change
Just a reminder of Wes Clark’s claim the US planned back in 2002 to “take out 7 countries in 5 years”. Six of those countries – Iraq, Libya, Somalia,...
are our political leaders any more real than the narratives they sell?
How much reality is there in modern politics? Yes, the narratives rolled out are almost routinely false, at least in part, but what about the personalities presented to us...
Panic of Boris Johnson in Moscow – Agony of Rotting Empire
Andre Vltchek It has been all very ugly, aggressive and often distinctly vulgar: the way the British Foreign Secretary has behaved before and during his official visit to Moscow....
The Christmas Truce 1914
The unofficial Christmas truce of 1914, year 1 of the Great War, saw German, British and French soldiers defying orders to openly fraternise in no-man’s land and even...
Dickens’ A Christmas Carol: cosy seasonal tale or passionate condemnation of unfettered capitalism?
Today we think of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol as a cosy piece of traditional seasonal fare, replete with steaming puds and roasted goose and comfortably easy lessons about...
PBS Commanding Heights: interview with Tony Benn from 2000
This interview with radical Left British politician Tony Benn was conducted in October 2000 as part of the PBS Commanding Heights project. The original can be seen here. Other...
The Death of Academic Freedom: Professor James Tracy Denied First Amendment Rights by Federal Court
by Vivian Lee James Tracy, former tenured professor at Florida Atlantic University, rose to some notoriety after his website, The Memory Hole Blog, began exploring claims being made in...
The recent Guardian whitewash of the White Helmet is more sinister than we realise
by Adam Garrie at Oriental Review The recent Guardian hit-piece against journalists Vanessa Beeley, Professor Tim Anderson and Eva Bartlett is something far more sinister than most people have...
What Was Verifiably Great About America: Fragments Of A Memoir Set To A Musical Soundtrack
by Phil Rockstroh Having been born in a coal and steel company town but destiny delivered, as an adult, to reside, during extended intervals, in the East and West...
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At the moment, particularly since we had to abandon our Paypal account, we don’t get enough income to cover our running costs, let alone allow us to develop the...
Shadow Economy, Democracy and the Manipulation of Public Opinion
by Denis Churilov Let’s talk about drugs, pop-music, public opinion manipulation and shadow economy. There’s a sociological concept known as the Overton window (also known as the Window of...
Guardian trashes White Helmet sceptics
Today’s Guardian (December 18th) plumbs new depths in its narrative on Syria. A Spotlight Piece by Olivia Solon – her profile refers to her as “a senior technology reporter...
NATO – the tool of European neo-fascism and Pope’s “blessed silence”
by Prof. Arthur Noble, via InSerbia March 24, 1999 was a day of gross shame and ignominy in the historical annals of Britain and America. It was the day...
Capitalism Reduced Indonesian Cities to Infested Carcases
From Jakarta, Surabaya, Bandung, Samarinda and Pontianak, text and photos: Andre Vltchek Several years ago, a prominent Indonesian businessman who now resides in Canada, insisted on meeting me in...
Requiem for the Suicided: Dr David Kelly
Famed microbiologist and UN weapons inspector Dr. David Kelly became the centre of a dispute between the BBC and the UK government over claims that the government had “sexed...
The Myth of the Given
by Vladimir Golstein One of the problems of dealing with establishment, politicians, mass media and their pundits, is that they start with some phony certainties: Serbs committed genocide; Russians...
Newly Declassified Documents show Gorbachev WAS Told NATO Wouldn't expand eastward
by Dave Majumdar at the National Interest Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev was given a host of assurances that the NATO alliance would not expand past what was then the...
VIDEO: Putin Q&A 2017
For those who missed it, here are all 3+ hours of Russian president Putin’s 2017 live Q&A with the word’s press. This year he took questions from Russian mainstream...
Documentary: Life Without Water
by Ruwaida Amer and Sanad Abu Latifa, via Electronic Intifada “We live in an area where there is no water,” says Ibrahim al-Majaida, a resident of al-Mawasi, an agricultural area...
North Korea is Not a Threat to the US
by David William Pear, via OpEdNews Like Pavlov’s dog, the mainstream media slobbers platitudes every time North Korea launches another test missile. Listening to the blather one would think...
