VIDEO: From Anthrax to Iraq
Robbie Martin of AVeryHeavyAgenda.com joins James Corbett to talk about his research into the anthrax attacks of 2001 They discuss how false information claiming an Iraqi link to the...
West is Gunning for Russian Media Ban
by Finian Cunningham, via Strategic Culture It would be monumental, but Western states seem to be moving, ineluctably, towards banning Russian news media channels from satellite platforms and the...
The Revolutionary Distemper in Syria That Wasn’t
Apparently, the US Left has yet to figure out that Washington doesn’t try to overthrow neoliberals. If Syrian President Bashar al-Assad were a devotee of the Washington Consensus–as Counterpunch’s...
The Revealed Cynicism of 'Benevolent Hegemony'
Since the collapse of the USSR, and the inception of the unipolar world order with the United States at its center, the term 'benevolent hegemony' has entered the lexicon...
Western Hypocrisy, and Why It Makes the World a Dangerous Place
by Michael Jabara Carley, October 16, 2016, via Strategic Culture The West has always been a great trembling hive of hypocrisy, portraying itself as liberal, progressive, civilised and democratic....
What "community standards" did this comment breach? #14
This comment, written by one of our editors, was censored by the Guardian. Which of the well-publicised CiF “community standards” did it breach? Comment removed from “Why do people...
Nobel Economics Versus Social Democracy
by Avner Offer, October 10, 2016, via Project Syndicate Of the elites who manage modern society, only economists have a Nobel Prize, whose latest recipients, Oliver Hart and Bengt...
Adam Curtis: another manager of perceptions
Jonathan Cook Adam Curtis’ new, near three-hour documentary HyperNormalisation, showing on BBC iplayer, is being garlanded with predictable praise from liberal commentators. As ever, Curtis joins the dots in...
Guardian front page channels Orwell’s 1984
by Jonathan Cook Reading the “liberal” press has become a truly Orwellian experience. What was true yesterday is a lie today. What was black today will be white tomorrow....
Propaganda Techniques of Empire
by James Petras / October 2nd, 2016 Washington’s quest for perpetual world power is underwritten by systematic and perpetual propaganda wars. Every major and minor war has been preceded,...
You can now show OffGuardian your support…
Many people have been expressing a wish to support our work here. We have been a little reluctant to jump on the funding bandwagon, because we didn’t see ourselves...
Background and Documents on Attempts to Frame Assange as a Pedophile and Russias spy
from Wikileaks Earlier today the website DailyKos reported on a smear campaign plot to falsely accuse Julian Assange of pedophilia. Here is the description of the plot from Mr...
Syria Propaganda – The Death Rattle of the Corporate Media
by Simon Wood, October 3, 2016 The role of the corporate media is to protect, promote and legitimize the destructive and amoral aims of profit-seeking private power. Any journalist...
How Britain Funded Syria’s “Moderate Armed Opposition” (aka Terrorists with a Human Face)
by Felicity Arbuthnot, via Global Research A document (1, pdf) produced last December by the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, headed: “ UK Humanitarian Aid in Response to The...
Kashmir: ‘Pivoting’ Toward War between India and Pakistan?
by Junaid S. Ahmed, from Global Research This past summer witnessed yet another people’s uprising in one of the longest running military occupations in modern times: the Indian occupation...
Monsanto, the Pentagon’s Soldier and the Colombian “Peace Process”
by Elena Sharoykina, from Global Research In a nationwide referendum on the 2nd October 2016 Colombian voters rejected the government’s peace deal with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia,...
Hurrah for the Blackshirts!
by Bryan Hemming It Can’t Happen Here On the morning of April 9th 1940 mum’s cousin, Bjørg, got out of bed to celebrate her eleventh birthday. That wasn’t the...
President Obama Threatens President Putin with Nuclear War
by Eric Zuesse. “It’ll be at a time of our choosing,” says U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, on NBC’’s “Meet the Press,” to be aired on Sunday, October 16th....
Stop the Avaaz petition for a "no fly zone" in Syria
We all know what Avaaz is and its obscene history of supporting armed invasions in the name of “humanitarianism” is well-documented. In 2011 it supported the no-fly zone in...
Documentary: Meet Allen Dulles – Fascist Spymster
from the Corbett Report. Diplomat, spy, Wall Street lawyer, philanderer, government overthrow specialist, Nazi collaborator, MKULTRA overlord, presidential assassin. This week on the Corbett Report podcast: meet Allen Dulles,...
