Reforming the international institutional framework – Part 1
by Bill Mitchell, Economic Outlook Net This continues the unedited excerpts that will appear in my new book (with Italian journalist Thomas Fazi) which is nearing completion. This material...
Behind the Bolivia Miner Cooperatives Protests and the killing of the Bolivian Vice-Minister
by Stansfield Smith The Bolivian cooperatives protests and their August 25 killing of the Bolivian Vice Minister of the Interior Rodolfo Illanes requires us to question our assumptions about...
The 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact & Imperialist Propaganda
In it's unscientific, unhistorical effort to equate Communism with Nazism, the bourgeois propaganda presents the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact as a medium of expansive policy by the USSR and Hitler's Germany....
Hillary Clinton and the big (neoliberal) lie
by Eric Draitser, Stop Imperialism This election season has brought to the surface an issue that, until recently, seemed to have become a neoliberal sacred cow, the holy writ...
Is The Nation-State And Its Welfare State Dead? A Critique Of Varoufakis
by Vincente Navarro, via Social Europe I always read the writings of Mr. Varoufakis with great interest, and I frequently find myself in agreement, particularly in his criticism of...
VIDEO: "Once again, they lied to us…"
Russian President Putin’s address to the press, in full, made at the Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum, in June 2016 (English subtitles). Putin urged Western journalists to stop...
MH17: "it was a MIG"
latest in the ongoing series by MH17 Inquiry on Youtube Is the entire “could an SU-25 do it?” debate no more than a diversion that has kept anyone from...
"9/11 fifteen years on": invitation for submissions
OffG is hoping to field a series of articles in the run-up to the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 tragedy, looking at the questions and controversies that still persist....
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...
