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...
WATCH: Vladimir Pozner reminds parallel universe inhabitants of a few basic realities
We are posting this mostly uninteresting pseudo-debate purely for what happens in the first few moment. Vladimir Pozner, journalist, tells the anchor man and two other guests some important...
WATCH: 'Vladimir Putin’s speechless speech'
One of our readers dropped this in our inbox. It’s been a pretty bad week for the planet as a whole, so why not just kick back for a...
WATCH: How many last hospital(s) in Aleppo can be destroyed by Russian airstrikes?
How many “last hospitals in Aleppo” did the media claim were destroyed during the fighting? One? Five? Ten? Watch this video by Tyranny Unmasked to find out…
Another Unnecessary War?
by Idan Landau, via Defend Democracy Press The writing is already on the wall: Israel will soon launch a military operation in Lebanon. Not a targeted attack on a...
How “free" is the UK press when over 75% of it is owned by a handful of billionaires?
It could say a lot more, and it leaves out a few important names, but at least it says something There’s been a lot of talk recently about the...
The Coming Wars to End All Wars
By Edward Curtin, first published at the Greanville Post The compulsive hatred of Putin by many who have almost zero idea about Putin or Russian history is disproportionate to...
A letter from Slovenia to Syria
by Katerina Vidner Ferkov, February 18, 2018, via Zdravo Slovenia It is very hard to write a letter to a country where children, women, and men are being bombed...
Comment Set Free: the “head of the White Helmets” begs for intervention in east Ghouta
The Guardian today is running an opinion piece written by Raed Al Saleh the “head of the White Helmets” in which he pleads for intervention in eastern Ghouta. The...
"Lies the London Guardian told me…"
In an article first published on the Emperor’s New Clothes in 2004, Jared Israel looks at one notorious episode of media deception from the 1990s. Despite a successful libel...
