Gaslighting about the realities of “state-sponsored murder”
Theresa May has just semi-officially pronounced the Skripal case a Russian state-sponsored hit. No evidence was presented for this conclusion of course, but we are getting used to that...
Army document: US strategy to ‘dethrone’ Putin for oil pipelines might provoke WW3
Senior DIA, Air Force and Army officials admit that NATO expansionism and US covert interference in Russian internal politics may trigger “next global conflict” A US Army document concedes...
WATCH: Putin’s FULL Interview with Megyn Kelly on NBC
Vladimir Putin interviewed by NBC anchor Megyn Kelly. The interview was recorded in the Kremlin on March 1, 2018, and in Kaliningrad on March 2, 2018. NBC showed an edited version only. The following transcript is courtesy of the...
WATCH: The BBC’s coverage of the breaking Skripal story – distortion & bias in defiance of its own charter
Below is a clip from the BBC Newsnight of March 5 2018, just hours after Sergey Skripal and his daughter had been found, apparently collapsed, on a public bench...
FILM REVIEW: Loveless [нелюбовь] (2017)
Catherine Brown looks at the 2017 Russian film and questions the claims made in western media that it represents an indictment of Russian society. On the contrary, she suggests,...
Five days after Putin’s warning about the dangers of western warmongering & this is where we are
Less than 24 hours after Sergei Skripal and his daughter, have allegedly been found in a collapsed state on a park bench in Salisbury, with no official claims of...
How the CIA Infiltrates Trade Unions
by Olav Boye translated from the Norwegian by Terje Maloy The CIA is the infamous, criminal intelligence agency which is the mastermind behind a long series of attacks on...
A Brief Non-Explainer on Why China’s Infrastructure Projects grow while the US Crumbles
by James Porteous A response to Why China Is Running Circles Around America at Truthdig.com Have you ever noticed that it is almost as though America cannot exist without...
WATCH: The Weaponization of Social Media
Now openly admitted, governments and militaries around the world employ armies of keyboard warriors to spread propaganda and disrupt their online opposition. Their goal? To shape public discourse around...
A minor cannibalism: A new “left” appeal for imperialist intervention in Syria
by Bill Van Auken, 2 March 2018, via WSWS On February 27, the New York Review of Books published an open letter signed by some 200 people, many of them identifying themselves...
Comment Set Free: "Feras Fayyad: 'I never thought as a film-maker that I would feel endangered’"
The Guardian bills this appallingly dishonest promo piece as “The director of the Oscar-nominated documentary Last Men in Aleppo speaks of ‘trauma and paranoia’ over the extreme lengths some...
WATCH: Vladimir Putin’s March 1 address to Russian Federal Assembly (with transcript)
The full video and text of Putin’s March 1 speech to the Federal Assembly. For those who want to skip straight to the text on Russia’s evolving weapon systems...
South-East Asia Getting Killed by Logging and Mining
Text and Photos: Andre Vltchek, first published on New Eastern Outlook When an airplane is approaching Singapore Changi Airport, it makes the final approach either from the direction of...
The authoritarians who silence Syria questions
Jonathan Cook I am loath to draw more attention to the kind of idiocy that passes for informed comment nowadays from academics and mainstream journalists. Recently I lambasted Prof...
WATCH: Reality Check: No Sarin Gas Used by Assad in Syria?
Ben Swann looks at some of the less well known facts about the alleged sarin gas attacks
Deconstructing “The next War” section in The Economist
by Thomas Prentice How much should we let humans interfere with the functioning of machines and algorithms designed to kill people? The Economist, published a 16-page special section called...
Hotel Propaganda
by Anthony Black, September 8, 2014, via Canadian Dimension On the evening of April 6th 1994 a plane carrying the Hutu leaders of both Rwanda and Burundi was shot...
Why do self-styled “skeptics” believe in their own brand of miracles?
by Petra Liverani I find it such an interesting phenomenon that of all the self-styled skeptics I have corresponded with or whose opinions are aired online, every single one...
Who are the US, UK and France trying to protect in Eastern Ghouta?
Concern for civilians is just another charade in the Western powers’ effort to prolong the existence of terrorist groups as much as possible. We must ask the question which...
WATCH: Syrian delegate Bashar Jaafari at the UNSC after ceasefire resolution Feb 24
Dr Bashar Jaafari, Syrian representative at the UN, responding to the UNSC resolution calling for a ceasefire in Syria on February 24. His dignity, professionalism and intelligence may seem...
