Triumph of Trump
by W Stephen Gilbert Auden called the 1930s “a low dishonest decade”. I think we can all agree to call 2016 a low dishonest year, perhaps the lowest, most...
HRW conducted a biased investigation for the school “bombing” in Idlib?
by Mehmet Ersoy On November 6, Human Rights Watch published a report in which the Syrian government and its allies were accused of carrying out an airstrike on a...
“Take the Clinton pledge"
James Corbett suggests that disillusioned voters consider the possibility that voting is not ‘democracy” and that there are other ways to peacefully and legitimately influence society for the better....
Tokyo Tells Trump It Is Already Paying Enough in Tribute
by Marko Marjanovic at Checkpoint Asia Early in the election campaign Donald Trump was saying how he is going to scale down the pricey global US empire of bases,...
A collection of thoughts about American foreign policy
by William Blum, November 6, 2016, Anti-Empire Reports Louis XVI needed a revolution, Napoleon needed two historic military defeats, the Spanish Empire in the New World needed multiple revolutions,...
Deplorables 1, Empire 0
by Paul Edwards at Information Clearing House It’s done. The foolish, arrogant propaganda excreted by the captive press of the Imperial Establishment is flushed, and they and their owners...
John Pilger: ‘The truth is… there was no one to vote for’ (Going Underground US election special)
Afshin Rattansi goes underground on the US election results. Author and documentary filmmaker John Pilger tells us what has been revealed by Trump winning the US election, plus what...
How Salon Gets Away with Deceiving Its Readers
by Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org Before I start this condemnation of lies from ‘liberal’ ‘news’ media, I should indicate that I am a former lifelong Democrat who...
Open Letter to American Liberals
by Thomas S. Harrington, via Common Dreams I would love to share, my liberal friend, in your sense of incredulity about the election of Donald Trump to the presidency...
What do the protesters believe they are protesting?
Hysteria. Fainting. Screaming. Pseudo-Leftists happy to support Obama’s imperialism and domestic tyranny, beating their chests and seeking counselling for PTSD because democracy happened. “Mass” riots of thousands (or is...
Change.org Petition to Unseat Donald and Make Hillary President
by Stephen Lendman Change.org is a for-profit enterprise, not an NGO – deceiving supporters by using the .org domain suffix, not .com as it should. Its business is getting...
A View From Afar: Trumped! It was the economy, stupid
by Dennis Broe Everyone, meaning mostly the neoliberal elite, is searching for answers at the moment for why the billionaire Trump beat the corporate candidate Clinton. Was it his...
“Militarized neoliberalism” and the Canadian state in Latin America
by Jen Moore, via The Monitor Stories of bloody, degrading violence associated with Canadian mining operations abroad sporadically land on Canadian news pages. HudBay Minerals, Goldcorp, Barrick Gold, Nevsun...
Huffington Post Continues Campaigning for Hillary Clinton
Eric Zuesse See this screen-shot taken at 1:30 in the afternoon on November 9th, after Trump’s win. They pretend Trump’s win is a victory for bigots, instead of a...
Trump’s Win Wasn’t Ideological. It Was Brilliant.
by Eric Zuesse CNN explained well “5 surprising lessons from Trump’s astonishing win”, and the historic crushing failure of traditional Presidential-year American politics, but it really boils down to...
A Hillary Win Will Be Google's Win of Everything
by Eric Zuesse On November 7th, a Morning Consult and Politico poll of early voters showed Donald Trump to be overwhelmingly viewed by early voters as being the more...
Top Secret: These Are Actually Socialist Countries
by Andre Vltchek, via NEO People all over the world are fed up with capitalism. They don’t always know how to formulate their aversions anymore (the result of a...
The 2016 'October Surprise'…a brief codicil
by Bryan Kinnear A brief codicil to Bryan Kinnear’s article on Clinton’s e-mail, Wikileaks and the imminent Presidential Election Codicil to Act 1 So thats it? Comey has closed...
The Quasi-Legal Coup-Hillary Clinton Information Operations In Election 2016
by GH Eliason The purpose of “Inform and Influence Operations” is not to provide a perspective, opinion, or lay out a policy. It is defined as the ability to...
The 2016 'October Surprise' A Second American Revolution?
Amid claims of silent coup and counter-coup, this years “October Surprise” has yet to fully play out. Neither – with lasts weekends reopening of the 'Servergate' saga that has...
