From My Christmas Conversation with Spirits of the Past, Present, and Future
Vladimir Golstein As we come to the end of the year, our minds inevitably turn to the past, as we try to sum it up, but also to get...
Updating the 2020 edition of the OED
Vladimir Golstein In the tradition of the Oxford English Dictionary, I recommend the following terms and their definitions to be included in a 2020 version of the same. DNC...
Three New Reads – December
Philip Roddis And so this is Christmas, what have you done? The old year is over, a new one just begun. Well, almost. I can’t alas, offer much in...
The IG Report: Malfeasance, Lies, Threats and Denials
Renée Parsons It is no surprise that when the Inspector General’s Report was released in early December, the corporate media, which itself has been knee-deep and complicit in spreading...
Boris Johnson – Did the UK get what it deserves?
Andre Vltchek For in a democracy, every citizen, regardless of his interest in politics, “hold office”; every one of us is in a position of responsibility; and, in the...
The Right to Healthy Food: Poisoned with Pesticides
Colin Todhunter Environmentalist Dr Rosemary Mason has just written an open letter addressed to three senior officials in Britain: John Gardiner, Under Secretary of State for the Department for...
A Child’s Christmas Gift of Freedom
Edward Curtin Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated...
Merry Christmas from OffG
The nights are long and dark at this time of year. It is cold, and damp, and bleak. 2019 was not a great year for the world. Evo Morales,...
A Star Is Always Born
Edward Curtin It is no different now. The yearning still gnaws. The night dark, utterly silent, Sky stretched endlessly back Into an infinity beyond reach. And the fears, the...
Sanctions, Security and the Nord Stream 2 Pipeline
Binoy Kampmark The Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, construction of which is intended to transport 55 billion cubic metres of Russian gas to Germany per year under the Baltic...
How the Pro-War “Left” Fell for the Kurds in Syria
Max Parry The October decision by U.S. President Donald Trump to withdraw American troops from northeastern Syria did not only precipitate the Turkish offensive, codenamed ‘Operation Peace Spring’, into...
WATCH: The Afghanistan Papers Are Establishment Whitewash BS
The Afghanistan Papers! The Afghanistan Papers! Everyone is talking about the Afghanistan Papers! These “incredible” documents must be full of “explosive revelations” about the US-led NATO invasion and 18-year...
Connecting the Dots
John Steppling “Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.” Lenin – Letters from Afar Many on...
REVIEW: Creative Destruction – How to start an economic renaissance
Frank Lee CYCLES OF CAPITALIST ACCUMULATION A recession is defined in economics as two or more quarters of negative growth. A depression, on the other hand, comprises a sharp...
Trump Impeachment: Ukrainegate Hidden Evidence
Eric Zuesse On November 22nd, a 100-page Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) data-dump was made by the U.S. Department of State, to the Democratic-Party-aligned nonprofit “American Oversight,” which had...
Official Secrets, Lies and the Five Eyes
David Macilwain Is Putin losing his grip? Why did Russian disinformation operations fail so dramatically in the UK election? Not only did the “rabid socialist” Corbyn fail to seize...
2019 – The Year of Manufactured Hysteria
CJ Hopkins Well, it looks like we’ve somehow managed to survive another year of diabolical Putin-Nazi attacks on democracy. It was touch-and-go there for a while, especially coming down...
NSA Whistleblower: “Mueller Report based on fabricated evidence”
Eric Zuesse On December 12th, the retired NSA whistleblower and former Technical Director of the NSA, Bill Binney asserted (at 39:00-44:00 in the above video): BILL BINNEY: I basically...
The Bloomberg Factor: Authoritarianism, Money and US Presidential Politics
Binoy Kampmark Political rottenness may be bottomless. Consider the following description of a political aspirant for the White House, this person being from the Democratic Party. His “liabilities as...
How can the US lecture China on the rights of Muslims?
Andre Vltchek In 2019, I wrote a long analysis about “the Uygur issue”; analysis which will be soon published as a book. For some time, I have been warning...
