Labour Leadership race: Media bias reflected in rally coverage?
OffG Editor This weekend both Jeremy Corbyn and Owen Smith have been touring the north of England. Smith has been speaking in Liverpool, whilst Corbyn gave talks in Hull...
Making a Killing: The 1.2 Billion Euros Arms Pipeline to Middle East
by Lawrence Marzouk, Ivan Angelovski and Miranda Patrucic via Balkan Insight An unprecedented flow of weapons from Central and Eastern Europe is flooding the battlefields of the Middle East....
Democrats Are Now the Aggressive War Party
by Robert Parry, via Consortium News, June 8, 2016 The Democratic Party has moved from being what you might call a reluctant war party to an aggressive war party...
The Origins of Labour's Civil War
As the poisonous and potentially irrevocable conflict inside the Labour Party gathers pace, it seems a useful exercise to try to plot the origins of the animus. This...
VIDEO: Protesters blocked access to seats at DNC
This video, posted to Facebook and YouTube last night, apparently shows Sanders supporters from California returning to their section at the DNC, only to find seats with “Reserved” signs...
The 1 Percent’s Useful Idiots
by Chris Hedges, for Truthdig The parade of useful idiots, the bankrupt liberal class that long ago sold its soul to corporate power, is now led by Sen. Bernie...
What is Fethulla Gülen?
by F. William Engdahl, for NEO Since the failed coup attempt in Turkey of July 15 there has been much speculation in western media that it in fact was...
The European Revolt Against the Neoliberal EU (1/2)
via The Real News, July 25, 2016 Catarina Principe, co-editor of Europe in Revolt, says a left movement against austerity must pursue the restructuring of public debt, nationalization of...
Thoughts on the Coup Attempt in Turkey
by Patrick Armstrong There is still a lot that is murky about it, the most murky being US involvement and foreknowledge, but I believe some conclusions can be drawn....
The Olympics as a tool in the new Cold War
by Oriental Review The 6th Fundamental Principle of Olympism (non-discrimination of any kind, including nationality and political opinion) seems to have got forgotten long ago. In ancient Greece the...
The Sultan of (Emergency) Swing
by Pepe Escobar, via Strategic Culture Amidst an astonishing, relentless, wide-ranging purge that shows no signs of abating, with 60,000 – and counting – civil servants, academics, judges, prosecutors,...
Assad the tyrant?
by Philip Roddis, May 23, 2016 I know men and women of intelligence, courage, independence and good intent who are sure that Bashar al-Assad – the mild mannered bloke...
NATO’s Warsaw Communiqué: Planning the Crime of Aggression
by Christopher Black, via New Eastern Outlook I have been a defence lawyer most of my working life and am not used to gathering evidence for a prosecution, but...
Corbyn has no mates… in the lobbying business
by Tamasin Cave, for Spinwatch There couldn’t be a more stark illustration of what is wrong with our current political system – and why Jeremy Corbyn might break the...
The CIA’s Involvement in Indonesia and the Assassinations of JFK and Dag Hammarskjold
The truth about Indonesian history and the United States involvement in its ongoing tragedy is little known in the West.
The Encirclement of China is Well Underway: France Prepares to Lead EU Missions in the South China Sea
by Asia-Pacific Research The naval encirclement of China is well underway. It was started over a decade ago by the United States with the re-militarization of Japan and the...
The US democratic circus
by Jesse Marioneaux Annual party convention season in the United States combines comedy, farce, and melodrama in one rip-roaring package of unadulterated entertainment that is to democracy what the...
Why I'm Ashamed I Voted Remain
by Stephen Durkan, via XXY I voted Remain on June 23rd, 2016, and now I am ashamed of it. Weird, is it not? Especially since, being Scottish, I should...
The Coup d’État Was against Kemalists
by Mehmet Perinçek, via Defend Democracy Turkish historian and political scientist, former political prisoner in the case of “Ergenekon,” Mehmet Perincek comments on the unsuccessful coup attempt in Turkey:...
A letter to Boris
by Paul Robinson, Irrussianality, July 16, 2016 Dear Boris, Our paths have crossed intermittently over the past four decades, at school and university, and then when you were editor...
