Neoliberalism is not dead: A Response to Martin Jacques

by Darryl S.L. Jarvis Martin Jacques (The Guardian, August 21) recent comments on the ‘death of neoliberalism’ are important, not least because he was one of the first analysts...

Human Rights Watch Reports U.S. Government Tortured Children

by Paul Craig Roberts, via Information Clearing House  Human Rights Watch (HRW) has just released its report,  “Extreme Measures: Abused  Children Detained As National Security Threats.” From my reading of...

Did the "failed" Turkish coup lay the groundwork for a NATO invasion of Syria?

by Prof. Michel Chossudovsky This is the second of our twin articles offering different interpretations of the current political situation in Turkey and Syria. The first article, by Eric...

Turkey’s New Relationship with Russia…and Assad

by Eric Zuesse This is the first of our twin articles offering different interpretations of the current political situation in Turkey and Syria. The second article, by Prof. Michel...

Greatest threat to peace? No contest: a response to Pepe Escobar

by Philip Roddis In a Sputnik article last month (republished here) Pepe Escobar sets out a useful appraisal of the conflicting interests of China and the USA in the...

Russia's "secret propaganda assault on Britain"

by Paul Robinson, August 1, 2016 A couple of newspaper articles caught my attention this weekend. The first was in The Times, and claimed the following: President Putin has...

VIDEO: Manufacturing Civil Unrest: is the US now targeting its own population?

Truthstream Media provide devastating evidence, using only a compilation of MSM footage, of the decades-long pursuit of regime-chage in countries world-wide by the zealots and profiteers that constitute the...

Scandal develops around 'staged' Ukrainian war photos

from the Moscow Times COMMENT FROM OFFGUARDIAN: We don’t make a habit of using the Moscow Times as a source, but we have decided to feature this curious piece...

Corporate totalitarianism: Aldous Huxley (and Goering) nail it

by Philip Roddis I never read Brave New World but when an American unknown to me agreed on FB with my view of Hillary Clinton, I looked her up...

The ultimate South China Sea “secret”

by Pepe Escobar, Sputnik The South China Sea is and will continue to be the ultimate geopolitical flashpoint of the young 21st century – way ahead of the Middle...

The Real “Snipers’ Massacre” 2014: Updated/Revised Working Paper

by Gordon M. Hahn The February Snipers’ Massacre: Introduction On February 18-20th there was a major escalation of the violence, ending in a massacre on the 20th. In the...

Rebuking the "no-fly" zone myth over syria

by Andrew Korybko With much speculation – not to say hysteria – currently in the alt media that Russia has mishandled the situation in Syria, that the US is...

Road to Destruction

by W Stephen Gilbert The Labour party is on a perilous path. That it may end in an irrevocable split is the least of our worries. Of greater concern...

After Greece and Cyprus, they prepare to attack Italy

by Simon Wilson, MoneyWeek Italian banks are on the brink of collapse and EU rules make bail-outs seem politically impossible. Will they fall – and who will they take...

An open letter to Sadiq Khan from a member of the Labour Party

Megan, a Labour Party-member writes to Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London concerning his recent email to party members which linked to his article in the Guardian about his decision...

Imperial lawlessness & the dirty war in Syria

by Mark Taliano at Global Reasearch Powerful nations continue to enjoy impunity for their crimes, and they have no reason to expect that they will be prosecuted. The credibly...

Turkey’s choice between death and malaria

by Deniz Torcu, Katoikos, July 2016 The coup failed, but democracy did not win. The attempted coup on the night of Friday, 15 July, was a surprise for both...

A Tale of Two Syrian Boys…only one of whom is supposed to matter

Please watch this to the end. The last portion is harrowing, but not gratuitous. No violence is depicted. But we see the truth of what the US-backed al-Zenkis did...

Corbyn-supporters expelled or barred from voting in leader poll

A wave of expulsion, suspensions and voting bans is sweeping across the Labour Party as the Owen Smith-supporting party machine tries to shore up his support

Turkey crosses into Syria: unipolar conspiracy or multipolar coordination?

by Andrew Korybko at Katehon It’s very fashionable nowadays for people to criticize the Kremlin for incompetency, and its recent history of controversial decisions coupled with the suspected liberal...