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...
Obama and the Ukrainian Nazis – The reality no one wants to speak of
by Clarity of Signal, via JackPineRadicals The US government is currently financing the training and supply of the Ukrainian military which is comprised of fascist, ring wing, pro Nazi...
Britain’s Scramble For Africa – The New Colonialism
by Colin Todhunter, via True Republica Africa is facing a new and devastating colonial invasion driven by a determination to plunder the natural resources of the continent, especially its...
Failed coup in Turkey – Initial Thoughts
from The Saker When I first heard that a coup was in progress in Turkey my first thought was that it was the USA’s way to punish Erdogan for...
Putin’s “Threats” to the Baltics: a Myth to Promote NATO Unity
by Gary Leupp, for CounterPunch In his book 2017: War with Russia published a few months ago, former deputy commander of NATO Sir Alexander Richard Shirreff predicts that to prevent...
Media AWOL as Trudeau continues Harper’s foreign policy in Eastern Europe
by Derrick O’Keefe, for Ricochet Media (July 11, 2016) It’s actually not surprising that Justin Trudeau is enjoying such a long honeymoon with Canadians. The Conservatives, like any organization...
Hints at a developing western narrative on the failed coup in Turkey?
The fact the Guardian is giving a sympathetic ear to Fethullah Gülen, the man Turkish president Erdogan alleges was behind the failed coup, could be a hint at some...
The Ustasha and the Rising Tide of Neo-Nazi Politics in Croatia
by Nenad Dumanovic and Daniel Jankovic, Global Research, July 13, 2016 The European Union’s Balkan Double Standard Over the past several years, analysts and commentators have noticed a rising...
German militarism on display at NATO summit
by Johannes Stern, via WSWS At the 2014 Munich Security Conference, German foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier declared that Germany was “too big merely to comment on world affairs from...
In Attempt to Dodge Suit, White House Argues Funding War Makes War Legal
by Nikita Knight, for Common Dreams A lawsuit filed earlier this year charging President Barack Obama with waging an illegal war against the Islamic State (or ISIS) was met...
Fake “leftists” provide cover for right-wing terror in Ukraine: An Interview with Borotba's Dmytriy Kovalevich
by Susann Witt-Stahl, Junge Welt, via Red Star Over Donbass ‘Left’ Alibi – About camouflaged Ukrainian nationalists and right-wing terror in his country: An interview with Borotba’s Dmytriy Kovalevich...
Russia and China Combine Efforts To Preserve World Peace
by William Jones, for Executive Intelligence Review, July 2, 2016 July 2 — While the Obama Administration is rapidly pushing the world toward nuclear war in Europe and in...
"Our imperial adventurism"
by Charles W. (Chas) Freeman, Jr., via LobeLog I’m here to talk about the end of the American empire. But before I do I want to note that one...
NATO Reaffirms Its Bogus Russia Narrative
by Robert Parry, for ConsortiumNews It’s unnerving to realize that the NATO alliance – bristling with an unprecedented array of weapons including a vast nuclear arsenal – has lost...
Neoliberalism is a species of fascism
by Manuela Cadelli, President of the Magistrates’ Union of Belgium, via Defend Democracy The time for rhetorical reservations is over. Things have to be called by their name to...
What Is NATO — Really?
by Eric Zuesse, via strategic-culture.org When NATO was founded, that was done in the broader context of the U.S. Marshall Plan, and the entire U.S. operation to unify the developed Atlantic...
Washington's 'New Managers' in Latin America: Oligarchs, Bankers and Swindlers
by James Petras, via 99GetSmart Introduction: Amid raging corruption, social pathologies and outright political thuggery, a new gang of vassal regimes has taken-over Latin America. The new rulers are...
Merkel Rearms Germany
by Johannes Stern, for WSWS On the eve of this weekend’s NATO summit in Warsaw, Chancellor Angela Merkel (Christian Democratic Union, CDU) delivered a government statement to the Bundestag...
