The Exceptional Nation…
a satire by Terje M BERLIN,December 17, 1954 The struggle for power in the ruling elites continues unabated after the official loser in the elections for Chancellor last month...
US Intel Vets issue statement disputing Russia Hacking Claims
from Consortium News As the hysteria about Russia’s alleged interference in the U.S. election grows, a key mystery is why U.S. intelligence would rely on “circumstantial evidence” when it...
At Least 14 US Coalition Military Officers Allegedly Captured by Syrian forces in East Aleppo Bunker
According to two reports coming out of Aleppo, at least 14 US Coalition military officers were captured in an East Aleppo bunker by Syrian Special Forces. This story...
Eva Bartlett on Syria: Responding to Buzzfeed
by Eva Bartlett Last Friday, December 9, just as the liberation of East Aleppo was taking place on the ground, the Permanent Mission of the Syrian Arab Republic to...
Copenhagen Syndrome
The Battle of Copenhagen (1801) occurred during the War of the Second Coalition when a British naval fleet commanded by Admiral Sir Hyde Parker defeated a Danish fleet...
The CIA’s Absence of Conviction
by Craig Murray I have watched incredulous as the CIA’s blatant lie has grown and grown as a media story – blatant because the CIA has made no attempt...
If they don’t want more austerity, racists & non-racists should vote Le Pen
by Ramin Mazaheri The fundamental problem in France today is that racists aren’t polling for Jean-Luc Melenchon. Who? He ran 4th in France’s presidential election in 2012. Same as...
Report on the Referendum in Italy
by Massimo D´Antoni, via Defend Democracy Press December 4th was a great day in Italy. We hoped for such an outcome, but did not expect it. When we saw so...
A Tale of Two Aleppos
by Bill Purkayastha Going on CNN and other free and truth-telling Western media, you discover a horrifying Aleppo apocalypse, where the evil tyrant Assad is massacring untold thousands of...
Détente Now: A New Call for Peace, Security, and Cooperation
by Gilbert Doctorow, Ute Finckh-Krämer, Ludger Volmer, Rolf Ekéus and Noam Chomsky Civic and religious leaders in Germany are spearheading a new initiative to avoid war between Russia and the West. A transatlantic appeal for a...
British and French forces decide to intervene to save besieged city
by Terje M London, December 5,1864 Yesterday, an obviously emotional British foreign minister declared that a coalition of concerned world powers have decided to intervene in the American Civil...
Obama’s Musings on False Narratives and Fake Stories
by Glen Ford, The Black Agenda Report People no longer believe the fake “news” and bogus narratives issued by the ruling class and its corporate and military misinformation specialists....
Clinton’s ‘Russia Did It’ Cop-out
by Robert Parry, via Consortium News The Clinton machine – running on fumes after Hillary Clinton’s failed presidential bid – is pulling out all remaining stops to block Donald...
Trump’s Biggest Test So Far
by Eric Zuesse On December 7th was posed the biggest test so far of the mettle of America’s President-Elect, Donald Trump. He had said several times during his campaign...
Russia Remains the Only Target Country of NATO’s Nuclear Weapons
by Brian Cloughley, via Strategic Culture Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States are the world’s five “nuclear weapons states”, a description officially recognised in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation...
“Moderate Opposition” Turned Aleppo’s National Hospital Into Military HQ & Weapons Depot
by South Front A fresh video from the Youtube channel entitled “Syria Future Agency” (سورية المستقبل) shows the recently liberated area of the National Hospital in the Syrian city of...
Washington Post reporter spreads blacklist of independent journalist sites
by Pam Martens and Russ Martens, December 1, 2016, via Wall Street on Parade Craig Timberg, a Washington Post reporter with an interesting history (which we’ll get to shortly),...
Red-Baiting, Putin-Scaremongering Democrats Are Now Suddenly Worried About Offending China
by Caitlin Johnstone, via Newslogue It’s weird to see Democrats suddenly freaking out about diplomacy when they’ve spent the last five months screaming that we need to attack the...
Will Vietnam embrace China after Trump elected?
by Andre Vltchek Common wisdom says that after Donald Trump got elected in the United States, Vietnam should be in panic. True, there could be some ‘objective’ reasons for...
Syrian opposition's response to the offensive in Aleppo
by Sophie Mangal According to The Washington Post, the ‘moderate’ Syrian opposition is considering the possibility of closer cooperation with Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups. Bashar al-Assad’s opponents...
