Is Sri Lanka being used by big powers to make the Indian Ocean another South China Sea?
by Lasanda Kurukulasuriya, September 17, 2017, via Defend Democracy Press The Indian Ocean Conference (IOC) organised by the India Foundation and held at the Sri Lankan Prime Minister’s official...
Terror in Myanmar as US faces off against China
by Sean Stinson China’s Belt and Road Initiative portends a monumental transformation of the global economic order; one which poses an existential threat to the Pax Americana which has...
Guardian Plugs War Criminal's Book
by Kit Nobody should be surprised to learn that Alistair Campbell, the former Blair PR guru, suffers from psychological problems. Obviously, lacking empathy to the extent that you can...
Amazon Censor Bad Reviews of Hillary Clinton's New Book
Hillary Clinton’s book “What Happened”, a memoir of a fairly disastrous and ridiculously expensive Presidential campaign, went on sale a few days ago. Within hours it had over 1500...
The Bloviations of Christiane Amanpour, Queen of Fake News
by Sassy Surstein, December 11, 2016 The last week has peppered my feed with a clip of Amanpour accepting an award from the Committee to Protect Journalists, those most...
If you don’t see that Washington is driving to war with Russia, you are a dumbshit American
by Stephen Lendman In response to the Trump administration’s illegal seizure and search of Russian diplomatic properties in San Francisco, a total violation of diplomatic immunity, Vladimir Putin responded...
US Left, You Have Been Duped
by Richard Hugus, via Dissident Voice On August 19, a week after a heavily publicized clash over a statue of Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville, Virginia, an estimated 8,000...
Germany’s Minister of Defense is the first victim of “Zapad 2017”
Adomas Abromaitis Germany’s Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen at a defense ministers’ summit in Estonia on September, 7 criticized upcoming Russian-Belarusian Zapad 2017 military exercises. She said that...
Why I Don’t Speak of 9/11 Anymore
Tuesday, September 11, 2001, was a non-teaching day for me. I was home when the phone rang at 9 A.M. It was my daughter, who was on...
Common Knowledge vs. Reality: The propaganda ghosts of the Cold War
by Denis Churilov Russians are extremely sceptical people. This is partly due to the fact that the modern Russian history has been turbulent, rollercoaster-like, with ideological frameworks changing a...
Mexican Standoff Goes Nuclear
Apart from the criminally insane, (John McCain, Lindsey Graham et al.) nobody wants war, particularly nuclear war. Unfortunately, however, war happens, sometimes by accident sometimes by design. The present...
Syria: Breaking the ISIS siege of Deir ez-Zor was “a historic day”
Screencap from the video below […] RT: The siege of Deir ez-Zor has now been broken, and the Syrian president has congratulated the country’s military. How big a...
Video: In Syria, Deir ez-Zor civilians celebrate imminent lifting of IS blockade (updated)
RT reports: Encouraged by reports that the lifting of the Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) blockade of Deir ez-Zor was days away, defenders of the city celebrated the news...
The United States of Manufactured Hysteria
C.J. Hopkins in Counterpunch: Thank God for the Charlottesville Nazis! For a moment there, it was looking like we were actually going to have a few days to stop...
Spectator: Iran is our natural ally, not Saudi Arabia
Photo from Women in Iran are too hip to handle – even with strict religious dress laws in Metro John R. Bradsley in The Spectator: The Saudi town of...
Terror Incognita: 'Demistifying' the Fog of War
by Sean Stinson, August 28, 2017 “The Muslim terrorist apparatus was created by US intelligence as a political weapon” – National security adviser to the Carter administration, Zbigniew Brzezinski “The...
Homage to Syria
Aidan O’Brien in Counterpunch: A strange thing happened the other week. The US president officially ordered the CIA to halt it’s war against Syria. So it wasn’t global warming...
