Pandas and Sanctions: Diplomacy vs Extortion
Andre Vltchek While the United States has been intimidating dozens of countries all over the world, two cuddly Chinese giant pandas – a three-year-old male called Ru Yi, and...
Dominoes, Hegemonies and the Future of Humanity
Marwan Salamah What did the domino tile say to its neighbour? “Don’t worry, it is happening far away!” and they both happily continued to stare at their ‘white dots’,...
Encouraging Illegal Planting of Bt Brinjal in India
Colin Todhunter In February 2010, the Indian government placed an indefinite moratorium on the commercial release of Bt brinjal. Prior to this decision, numerous independent scientific experts from India...
REVIEW: Generations apart – high hopes and stolen dreams
>There was a time, in the not-so-distant past, when the English fishing town of Grimsby proudly lived up to its full name – Great Grimsby (so named to distinguish...
Speeding into the Void of Cyberspace as Designed
Speed and panic go hand-in-hand in today’s fabricated world of engineered emergencies and digital alerts. “We have no time” is today’s mantra – “We are running out of time”...
Names and Locations of the Top 100 People Killing the Planet
by Jordan Engel, 13 June 2019, via Films for Action “The earth is not dying, it is being killed, and those who are killing it have names and addresses.”...
Cleansing the Platforms: YouTube, Censorship and Grievance
Stripping the altars, burning the heretics and cleansing the stables are the usual fare of a morally crazed order. The engaged agents think they have found the reason for...
The Hitlerization of Jeremy Corbyn (Among Others)
CJ Hopkins Every time you think the corporatocracy’s manufactured anti-Semitism hysteria cannot possibly get more absurd, they somehow manage to outdo themselves. OK, stay with me now, because this...
WATCH: US economist urges covert violence to provoke war with Iran
Many believe war with the Islamic Republic of Iran has been the dream of some hardcore neocons in Washington since at least 2001. Back in 2012 former employee of...
Ivan Golunov vs. Julian Assange: A Quest for Journalistic Solidarity
Denis Churilov A Russian investigative journalist, Ivan Golunov, who has been writing primarily about corruption within the government, got arrested earlier this month on drug charges in Moscow. The...
Discuss: Tankers “Attacked” in Gulf of Oman
It's being reported that two tankers have been "attacked" in the Gulf of Oman. As yet, the reported "attack" is purely theoretical, media releases are just photographs of tankers...
In Conversation: Yevgenia Albats at ANU
Tony Kevin I had the pleasure of hearing Yevgenia Markovna Arbats, Russian independent journalist, political scientist, radio host, and chief editor of the Moscow-based New Times magazine, in public...
Orwell Prize: Who Made the Cut
The Orwell Foundation has announced the shortlist for the 2019 Orwell Journalism Prize, we thought it would be interesting to simply list the nominees and some examples of their...
Ukraine: Far Right Parties Unite for Parliamentary Elections
Avis Krane, via Essence of Time Six ultra-right and extremist organizations have formed an alliance led by Ukrainian nationalist Svoboda party leader Oleg Tyagnibok, the Svoboda party’s press service...
WATCH: The Plot Against Harold Wilson
In 2006, to mark the 30th anniversary of Harold Wilson's retirement, the BBC released "The Plot Against Harold Wilson". It details how, throughout Wilson leadership, MI5 and the CIA...
The Censorship of Social Media: A Facebook Experience
Paula Densnow A quick Google search of “social media fake news” brought up thousands of hits, and, as I expected, they seemed to be dated from 2016 to today. I...
The Miners’ Strike: Renewed Class Struggle in Chiatura, Georgia
Sopiko Japaridze via Transnational Social Strike Platform Over 3,000 workers in the manganese mining town of Chiatura (Georgia) started a wildcat strike 15 days ago in spite of the...
Pompeo’s promise to intervene against Corbyn should surprise no one
Catte Black The alt media-verse is currently on fire with the news that the US State Dept’s answer to Al Capone, Mike Pompeo, has been caught promising “Jewish leaders”...
WATCH: Victim of the World Wildlife Fund
ZEMBLA discovers that WWF promotes birth control programs that include contraception and even sterilization for men and women. The fight against poachers is getting grimmer all the time. ZEMBLA...
The Force that is Ending Freedom
Every empire is a dictatorship. No nation can be a democracy that’s either heading an empire, or a vassal-state of one. Obviously, in order to be a vassal-state within...
