The EU – do we stay or do we go?
Philip Roddis For years I’ve called myself a peg-on-nose Remainer. While many fellow Remainers strike me as naive, deluded on the nature of the EU and frequently contemptuous to...
Farewelling Dr No: The Sacking of John Bolton
Binoy Kampmark “Every time the president, or Pompeo, or anyone in the [Trump] administration came up with an idea, they had to face Dr No.” Cliff Kupchan, Chairman of...
In Depth: The Syrian Refugees Being Exploited in Jordan
According to the UNHCR (United Nations High Commission for Refugees), four in five Syrian refugees in Jordan reside outside camps. The majority of the media, publications, and NGO reports...
The Whitewashing of the Nazis
Christopher C. Black I was going to write about Iraq and the American control of that tragic nation that has been, like many others, destroyed by the American war...
EVENT: 9/11 Perspectives – UPDATED
The 9/11 Perspectives panels are taking place in Zurich on the anniversary, this Wednesday. THIS EVENT WILL BE STREAMED – SEE DETAILS BELOW A range of different experts, from...
Propaganda Blitz Against Bolivia’s Progressive Government
by Cassandra Howath, 3 September 2019 On 26 August, Novara Media’s website published a vicious and reactionary article titled ‘It’s Not Just Brazil’s Forests That Are Burning, Bolivia Is...
REVIEW: Blinded by the Light
Philip Roddis Bottom line: feel-good movie with a dash of musical, transcending its gritty context of racist, recessionist Britain under Margaret Thatcher. Bruce Springstein is to Blinded by the...
Will NPR Now Officially Change Its Name to National Propaganda Radio?
Back in the 1960s, the CIA official Cord Meyer said the agency needed to “court the compatible left.” He knew that drawing liberals and leftists into the CIA’s...
The Four Horsemen Cometh
Frank Lee “Aftermath” is the latest addition to three previous publications by Rickards, Currency Wars (2011), The Death of Money (2014), The Road to Ruin (2016). Together, with the...
GMOs: Magic Seeds and Broken Promises
Colin Todhunter Political posturing aligned with commercial interests means that truth is becoming a casualty in the debate about genetically modified (GM) crops in India. The industry narrative surrounding...
Inevitable Withdrawal: The US-Taliban Deal
Binoy Kampmark It took gallons and flagons of blood, but it eventuated, a squeeze of history into a parchment of possibility: the Taliban eventually pushed the sole superpower on...
Last Night in the House…
Philip Roddis I enjoy schadenfreude as much as the next guy and for the millions of us who detest Boris, last night brought the stuff in spades. I was...
The Future of the Spectacle
If you want a vision of the future, don’t imagine “a boot stamping on a human face — for ever,” as Orwell suggested in 1984. Instead, imagine that human...
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...
