Domestic U.S. Politics of War with Russia
by Eric Zuesse First, the context in which the issue of war against Russia is being raised: Syria’s government is allied with Russia’s government, and ‘The West’ is trying...
Russia or the Neocons: Who endangers American democracy?
by Vladimir Golstein, via The Duran Political discourse of American mass media is inundated with another wave of Russophobia and fear mongering. Besides the obvious military threat (Russia’s nuclear...
Sudan, Africa and the Mosaic of Horrors
by Andre Vltchek, October 21, 2016, via Counterpunch “What could be the most striking image, one that would clearly illustrate the destructive involvement of the United States in Sudan?”...
Will They Try to Kill Duterte?
by Andre Vltchek, October 18, 2016, via New Eastern Outlook Rodrigo Duterte, the outspoken President of the Philippines has by now, most likely, joined the concealed, prestigious and permanent...
Whether to Go to War Against Russia Is Top Issue in U.S. Presidential Race
by Eric Zuesse, via strategic-culture.org The United States government has already declared that in regards to what it alleges to be a Russian cyberattack against the U.S. Democratic Party,...
Is Nick Cohen “standing up" for Syria?
by Keith Egerton Edited and revised 10/28/16 One of the most remarkable phenomenon in current liberal leaning comment in the liberal leaning Guardian group’s publications, are the often bilious...
9/11 Truth? – Was it an American coup?
by Philip Giraldi at the Unz Review Here Giraldi argues – as we do at OffG – that, whether or not one believes 9/11 was an inside job, there...
A Measure of Fascism in America
by Marcus Aurealeus, Facebook Note, August 23, 2015 The word “fascism” is generally used today as a pejorative to attack any idea that a speaker happens to dislike. But...
Media Silent as Anti-Corporate Trade Deal Protests Take Europe by Storm
by Carey Wendler, via Antimedia, Oct 17, 2016 Over the weekend [October 15-16], thousands of protesters across multiple countries condemned impending trade deals promoted by governments and their corporate...
Why Trump Might Still Win – If the Vote is not Rigged
The big story concerning the last presidential debate is, according to the mainstream media, the fact that Trump said that he might not accept the results of the presidential...
VIDEO: Pentagon warns of "unavoidable" dystopian future for megacities
from Nick Turse’s October 13, 2016 piece in the Intercept According to a startling Pentagon video obtained by The Intercept, the future of global cities will be an amalgam...
Hillary’s ‘Puppet’ Screed
by Michael Tracey at the American Conservative She accused a rival nominee of being a stealth agent of a foreign power For months she had only intimated it, or...
How the Gig Economy Profits off Desperation
by Paris Marx, via The Bold Italic, Oct 12, 2016 “Children are running the company [Homejoy] and they act like they are still in college. The poor cleaners are...
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...
