Capitalism Reduced Indonesian Cities to Infested Carcases
From Jakarta, Surabaya, Bandung, Samarinda and Pontianak, text and photos: Andre Vltchek Several years ago, a prominent Indonesian businessman who now resides in Canada, insisted on meeting me in...
Requiem for the Suicided: Dr David Kelly
Famed microbiologist and UN weapons inspector Dr. David Kelly became the centre of a dispute between the BBC and the UK government over claims that the government had “sexed...
The Myth of the Given
by Vladimir Golstein One of the problems of dealing with establishment, politicians, mass media and their pundits, is that they start with some phony certainties: Serbs committed genocide; Russians...
Newly Declassified Documents show Gorbachev WAS Told NATO Wouldn't expand eastward
by Dave Majumdar at the National Interest Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev was given a host of assurances that the NATO alliance would not expand past what was then the...
VIDEO: Putin Q&A 2017
For those who missed it, here are all 3+ hours of Russian president Putin’s 2017 live Q&A with the word’s press. This year he took questions from Russian mainstream...
Documentary: Life Without Water
by Ruwaida Amer and Sanad Abu Latifa, via Electronic Intifada “We live in an area where there is no water,” says Ibrahim al-Majaida, a resident of al-Mawasi, an agricultural area...
North Korea is Not a Threat to the US
by David William Pear, via OpEdNews Like Pavlov’s dog, the mainstream media slobbers platitudes every time North Korea launches another test missile. Listening to the blather one would think...
The Litvinenko inquiry – a legal critique and alternative view
In this detailed analysis of the 2016 Litvinenko inquiry Alexander Mercouris, a lawyer who practiced for 12 years at the Royal Courts of Justice, brings a much needed rational...
How the West Could Destabilize Russia
by Denis Churilov Russian March 2018 Presidential Elections are approaching. Putin has recently announced that he will run as a candidate. The global players who don’t want Putin to...
Google hiring 10,000 reviewers to censor YouTube content
by Zaida Green, via WSWS Google is escalating its campaign of internet censorship, announcing that it will expand its workforce of human censors to over 10,000, the internet giant...
WATCH: The President, a profile of Vladimir Putin from Russian TV
As a counterpoint to PBS’s recent “documentary” PUTIN’S REVENGE, in which complete lies are employed in a sub-intelligent attempt to present the Russian president as a pasteboard super-villain, we...
Yemen: a western-sponsored genocide
Almost three years have passed since Saudi Arabia announced it was intervening militarily, with its allies, in Yemen, to remove the Houthis (officially called Ansar Allah) from power after...
Hague Tribunal Exonerates Slobodan Milosevic Again
by Andy Wilcoxson, via Strategic Culture Eleven years after his death, a second trial chamber at the UN War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague has concluded that Slobodan Milosevic was...
Is net neutrality a scam?
by James Corbett at the International Forecaster In this article from March 2015, James Corbett suggests net neutrality, while fine in principle, has been used as a cover for...
Michael Flynn’s Indictment Exposes Trump Team’s Collusion With Israel, Not Russia
by Max Blumenthal, via Defend Democracy Press When Congress authorized Robert Mueller and his team of lawyers to investigate “links and/or coordination between the Russian government and individuals associated with...
Capitalism’s Failure Of The Flesh: The Rise Of The Robots
by Phil Rockstroh Humankind, being an inherently tool-making species, has always been in a relationship with technology. Our tools, weapons, machines, and appliances are crucial to forging the cultural...
Protests Planned Nationwide as Vote on FCC's 'Catastrophic' Plan to Kill Net Neutrality Looms
by Jake Johnson, from CommonDreams.org With the FCC set to vote on chairman Ajit Pai’s plan to kill neutrality in just over a week, a diverse coalition — ranging...
How Russia-gate Rationalizes Censorship
The Russia-gate hysteria has spread beyond simply a strategy for neutralizing Donald Trump or even removing him from office into an excuse for stifling U.S. dissent that challenges the...
“Colombia is safe for business, but not for people”: interview with Daniel Kovalik
Murders of trade unionists and social leaders, paramilitary activity, coca production...If we only paid attention to the mainstream media we would not get the idea that these problems are...
VIDEO: Saakashvili threatens to jump off roof in Kiev before being detained
The ever-grotesque situation in Ukraine took another nose dive into farce today as Mikhail Saakashvili, ex-president of Georgia and governor of Odessa, climbed to the roof of his eight...
