Helmand Province: Drug Lab on a Global Scale
John Brennan All the latest news on Afghanistan is about Donald Trump’s peace agreement with Taliban and the possible end of America’s longest war. However, it is happening against...
America’s Billionaires Congealing Around Warren and Buttigieg
Eric Zuesse The Democratic Presidential candidates who have been the most backed by billionaires have not been doing well in the polling thus far, and this fact greatly disturbs...
A Do Nothing Anti-Labor Day: A Modest Proposal
Edward Curtin In a country with a Mount Rushmore that celebrates the ruthless and frenetic westward expansion, it might be a bit naïve to suggest a Do Nothing Day....
‘We are waiting for war’: Lebanese say Israel has gone too far
Andre Vltchek After the recent Israeli attacks against Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq, the Middle East has found itself in the midst of undeclared war. Almost everyone in Lebanon appears...
The Great Fire of London – Cui Bono?
It is now 353 years since the Great Fire of London, a fire that caused the destruction of 436 acres of London including 13,200 houses, 87 parish churches (out...
Hollywood reboots Russophobia for the New Cold War
It is an age-old question as to the extent art reflects the world we live in. Bertolt Brecht allegedly said to the contrary that art was “not a mirror...
Fifty Shades of Epstein
I’m not saying that people who read 50 Shades of Grey or similar books want to be sexually abused in real life. It’s just a fantasy. The romance genre...
All Three Parties Are So Racist That Their Conferences Ought To Be Cancelled
David Lindsay You do not have to like Jack Letts to be extremely concerned when politicians start revoking people’s citizenship. If you would merely qualify for another nationality, whether...
Unhinged before the Fall: Boris Johnson, Parliament and Brexit
Binoy Kampmark The Brexit no deal prospect is engendering an element of lunacy fast seeping into every pore of the British political establishment. As with all steeped in such...
Israel has attacked Lebanon and Syria – so what?
Andre Vltchek On August 25th, 2019, Israel attacked Lebanon. It has done it again. Just as it attacked Syria, the same night. RT reported the same day: Israeli drone...
The Politicization of American Justice
Renee Parsons The American criminal justice system has long been a sharp painful thorn in the nation’s consciousness as if to remind us of a major flaw in the...
Western Special Forces Conducting Illegal Operations in Syria?
Firas simuri In late June 2019, Fox News Channel published a video material, taken in Al-Hol refugee camp in northwestern Syria. On the footage, we can see a group...
Boris Johnson, GMOs and Glyphosate: Irresponsible, Negligent and Criminal?
Colin Todhunter In his first speech to parliament as British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson said: Let’s start now to liberate the UK’s extraordinary bioscience sector from anti-genetic modification rules...
Suddenly, Western “Regime” Changes Keep Failing
It used to be done regularly and it worked: The West identified a country as its enemy, unleashed its professional propaganda against it, then administered a series of sanctions,...
Three New Reads – August
Philip Roddis Today’s selection is on the face of it an eclectic mix, taking in the non-dualism of Indian sage Ramana Maharshi, the vast storehouse of treasure – and...
The Brexit Vote and Psephology of the Outer-Party
Frank Lee Identity politics. Three Women MPs are attempting to form an emergency cabinet of women in order to reverse the Brexit vote. Please note that according to the...
Deeper meanings of the Hong Kong protests
Prof. Anis H. Bajrektarević Does our history only appear overheated, while it is essentially calmly predetermined? Is it directional or conceivable, dialectic and eclectic or cyclical, and therefore cynical?...
Is ‘hate-crime’ a media-creation?
Normally it might have been expected that the mainstream media would run with Trump’s support of the death-penalty-for-hate-crimes as proof positive that the man is off his rocker. Instead,...
Manufacturing Mass Fascism Hysteria
CJ Hopkins If the neoliberal ruling classes expect to keep the American masses worked up into a white-eyed hysteria over “fascism” until November 2020, they’re going to need to...
Offering Choice but Delivering Tyranny: The Corporate Capture of Agriculture
Colin Todhunter Many lobbyists talk a lot about critics of genetic engineering technology denying choice to farmers. They say that farmers should have access to a range of tools...
