Regime Change is Urgently Needed…in Washington
Andre Vltchek I am surprised that no one else is saying it, writing it, shouting it at each and every corner: It is not Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua, and Iran...
The Magic Socialist
So here it is, the announcement we’ve been waiting for … all aboard for another cruise on the new and improved U.S.S. Magic Socialist with your captain Bernie Sanders...
People’s Vote: Corbyn Signs His Own Death Warrant
Kit Knightly Throughout his leadership of the Labour Party Jeremy Corbyn has disappointed some of his most ardent admirers by his refusal to hang tough. Yes, he has played...
OPEN THREAD: The Second Referendum
Labour released a statement today, saying that they will support a “people’s vote” on any possible Brexit deal: We will also be backing the Cooper-Letwin amendment to rule out...
Four Little Words
It was Sir John Templeton, the American-born British investor, banker, fund manager, and philanthropist, who sardonically observed that in business and finance the expression ‘this time it’s different’ represented...
War Criminals Anonymous: A Play in One Act
Hope Kesselring Characters: Ned Diamond – Former Assistant Secretary of State, in his sixties, wearing a WCA T-shirt and camouflage shorts. Michelle Cardiff – CIA officer, about 40, wearing...
Venezuela: An Open Letter to the UN Secretary General
The most noble task of the United Nations is to create the conditions conducive to local, regional and international peace, to work preventively and tirelessly to avoid armed conflicts,...
George and the ‘ISIS Bride’
Kevin Smith Two things I gave up in the New Year after many years were smoking and reading the London Evening Standard. I used to pick up the newspaper...
Turkey’s dangerous game causing Idlib catastrophe
Firas Samuri The meeting of the heads of Russia, Turkey and Iran dedicated to the Syrian settlement was held in the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi on February...
Leavings
Tony Benn used to say that he grew more radical as he got older. As in many things, Benn was unusual. People are generally apt to grow...
Counterpunch Shadowboxes and Loses
Edward Curtin In a fair boxing match, opponents enter the ring with similarly padded gloves and battle under the bright lights for the world to see. There are, of...
Goebbels is alive and well…in Amerika
Philip A. Farruggio Peter Longerich’s 2015 biography Goebbels instructs well how history can and does repeat itself. Like many of the NeoCon ex “Lefties” who loaded up the Bush...
What “community standards” did this comment breach? #18
The following comment – posted to twitter by Craig Murray – was censored by The Guardian. Which of the well-publicised CiF “community standards” did they breach? Removed comment, posted...
The Year of the Pig is here…literally
Andre Vltchek Gong Xi Fa Cai: happy year of the Pig 2019! Congratulations, the Year of the Pig has arrived! According to the Chinese astrology, 2019 is a great...
What Has The Monarchy Ever Done For Its Supporters?
David Lindsay Following the decision not to charge Prince Philip, am I a republican yet? I really do not want to be. They are usually the people who want...
Labour Splitters: Getting the Bland Back Together
As of this morning, seven MPs have officially resigned the whip and quit the Labour Party. They are now "independent", apparently. Their names, if you don't know already: Chris...
How America’s Dictatorship Works
This is how America’s dictatorship works. This is not America’s exceptionalism: it is America’s ordinariness. America’s Founders had wanted to produce something not just exceptional but unique in its...
Ukraine: NATO in the Constitution
Manlio Dinucci The day after the signature of NATO’s membership protocol with North Macedonia as its 30th member, Ukraine did something without precedent: it included in its Constitution the...
A Taxing Question: Re-reading Piketty
This book by Thomas Piketty was first published in 2014 and became an instant best seller. It had taken the author some 15 years to research and complete, and...
No More Bullshit: Jimmy Breslin and Pete Hamill
Edward Curtin Growing up Irish-Catholic in the Bronx in the 1960s, I was an avid reader of the powerful columns of Jimmy Breslin and Pete Hamill in the New...
