Brexit: A Different Democracy, A Different Future
by Christopher Black, via New Eastern Outlook The historic Brexit vote marks a victory of the working people over the capitalist elites who have used the European Union as...
9/11: Bush’s Guilt, And the ‘28 Pages’
Eric Zuesse On Friday July 15th, as the national newsmedia were either on vacation or preparing for the opening of the Trump National Convention on Monday the 18th, the...
MH17 Inquiry: "About what was the BBC quiet?"
The 3rd episode in the ongoing investigation by the group known as “MH17 Inquiry.” This episode presents a curious puzzle that might remind astute readers of some similar ongoing...
Koch Brothers Now Supporting Hillary Clinton
by Eric Zuesse On July 20th, a Republican U.S. Senator lost his main financial backers for having urged Republicans to vote for Donald Trump instead of for Hillary Clinton....
Eagle is downed, but not by sexism
by Philip Roddis Is there a prize for the most featherheaded Guardian analysis of Labour’s crisis? In the face of fierce competition over the months since Corbyn’s election, I shortlist...
Turkey Between Two Fascisms
by Jooneed Khan, via Global Research, July 19, 2016 [ President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, elected in 2014 and whose AKP party swept back to power with 52% of the...
Post-failed-coup geopolitics of the Turkish situation
by George Ades After the “chilling” of relations between Russia and Turkey following the downing of the Russian jet over Syria, Turkey suffered the effects of an economic embargo...
NATO, Back in Business at the Old Stand
by Patrick Armstrong, via Sic Semper Tyrannis Spare a thought for the travails of NATO drones over the past couple of decades. About 25 years ago I was in...
MH17 crash site memorial service
Given the fact the mainstream media have all but ignored this, and especially in light of the disgraceful misrepresentations of the citizens and militia of the “rebel” territories in...
Guardian's Corbyn survey
by Seamus Padraig Here we go again! Ever since Jeremy Corbyn won the leadership of Labour last September in a record-breaking landslide victory, the Blairites have tried every desperate...
Fraud Alleged in NYT’s MH-17 Report
by Robert Parry, for Consortium News Forensic experts are challenging an amateur report – touted in The New York Times – that claimed Russia faked satellite imagery of Ukrainian...
Ukraine as a Threat to European Security
by Pyotr Vorobyov, via Strategic Culture On 28 June 2016, ten days before the start of the NATO Summit in Warsaw, hackers from an international collective known as Anonymous published a...
Wall Street Angry that Trump Says Restore Glass-Steagall
by Eric Zuesse On July 18th, Rob Nichols, the President of the American Bankers’ Association, which is controlled by the mega-banks, struck back against Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump....
Colonial trading stations instead of factories in Ukraine
by Michał Kozak, via Financial Observer We’re posting this article by Poland’s Michał Kozak to provide a glimpse into what EU’s economic reporters have to say about the industrial...
Obama Prioritizes War in Europe Over War on People of Color
by Eric Draitser, for CounterPunch President Obama’s true priorities were on full display this past week as he attended the NATO Summit in Poland’s capital of Warsaw. For while...
Washington Is Politicizing The Olympics Again
by Paul Craig Roberts, July 17, 2016 Washington and its Canadian vassal are trying to use a Western media-created Russian athletic doping scandal to ban Russian participation in the...
Brexit: A Workers’ Response to Oligarchs, Bankers, Flunkies and Scabs
by James Petras, July 14, 2016 Introduction: The European Union is controlled by an oligarchy, which dictates socio-economic and political decisions according to the interests of bankers and multi-national...
None of the world’s top industries would be profitable if environmental costs were fully integrated
by David Roberts, Grist, April 17, 2013 The notion of “externalities” has become familiar in environmental circles. It refers to costs imposed by businesses that are not paid for...
Behind the CIA's Failed Coup in Turkey: Was It Only a Dry Run?
from the Corbett Report: “…As we predicted last year, the deep state coup against Erdogan finally materialized last weekend…but it fizzled out almost as quickly as it arrived. So...
Why The Failed Turkish Coup Attempt Wasn't A "False Flag" Power Grab By Erdogan
by Andrew Korybko The failed coup attempt against Erdogan provoked a flurry of excited polemics in the alternative informational space, leading to the emergence of two competing hypotheses. The...
