The People's Economic Impact Statement for the TPP
by the TPP Resisters, April 2016 Background: The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is an international agreement that was negotiated in secret by the Obama administration and hundreds of corporate lobbyists...
Crisis in Brazil
by Perry Anderson, for London Review of Books The BRIC countries are in trouble. For a season the dynamos of international growth while the West was mired in the...
I am not Greek! But is Schäuble a German?
by Dimitris Konstantakopoulos, via DDP I usually work more than ten hours a day and most of the weekends. I am often happy with what I do and I...
Why Gorbachev Will Never Be Forgiven
Translated by Julia Rakhmetova and Rhod Mackenzie, via Russia Insider Nikolai Starikov, a famous Russian historian, writer and politician, was interviewed by the popular AiF weekly on the occasion...
Proverbial Wisdom: Forty Ways to ….
by Vladimir Golstein Proverbial wisdom tells us that Eskimos have forty words for snow. Well, other cultures or people also have 40 shades of the same concept. Here is...
Erdogan To Lead NATO Challenge Against Russia on Black Sea?
May 18, 2016 (EIRNS) While attention has been focused on NATO provocations in the Baltic, the Black Sea — thanks to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan — could become...
AUDIO: Stephen Cohen: Impossible to Overstate the Dangers
Stephen Cohen, the premier American Russia specialist, sounds the alarm bells on the John Batchelor Show: I find it almost impossible to overstate the dangers of recent actions of...
America’s & NATO's Outrageous Behavior, Greatest Threat that Exists
by Eric Zuesse On May 18th, two top people at NATO, one being its current Secretary General — the very top person — laid out in preliminary form the case...
Veneto Calls on Italy to Recognize Crimea
by Sergio Rame (Il Giornale), translated by Tom Winter; via Fort Russ Summary: Historic resolution of the majority headed by [Luca] Zaia. The accession of the Crimea to Russia...
AUDIO: The Washington Consensus for War
Eric Draitser and Brian Becker discuss the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) and the political implications of the bill, including the nature of the war consensus in Washington,...
Escalations in a New Cold War
by Jonathan Marshall, via Consortium News If the United States ever ends up stumbling into a major conventional or nuclear war with Russia, the culprit will likely be two...
American Aggression Against China: A World Crisis Looms
by Christopher Black, via NEO The American aggression against China continued Tuesday May 10th with the invasion of Chinese waters just off the Spratly Islands by an American destroyer...
The EU and the Deforestation of Ukraine
by Dmytryi Kovalevich Since 2014 we have in Ukraine a mass deforestation. The entire forests and parks are being eliminated, causing local environmental disasters. However, until now the logging...
China: Preserving Sovereignty or Sliding into Western Sponsored ‘Color Revolutions’
by Peter Koenig, originally for Asia-Pacific Research On April 28, the New York Times was blasting “Clampdown in China Restricts 7,000 Foreign Organizations”. A perfect reason for demonizing China...
Obama Ratchets-Up Military Preparations Against Russia
by Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org An article published May 7th by Andrei Akulov brings together mainly Western news sources, all solid, to make the case that U.S. President...
24 years since Izetbegović paramilitaries massacred retreating JNA troops in Tuzla
by Grey Carter, May 15, 2013 Today marks [24] years since the ambush on a convoy of soldiers of the former Yugoslav Peoples’ Army (JNA) that was retreating from...
CIA: Undermining and Nazifying Ukraine Since 1953
by Wayne Madsen, via Strategic Culture The recent declassification of over 3800 documents by the Central Intelligence Agency provides detailed proof that since 1953 the CIA operated two major...
BRICS Under Attack: Western Banks, Governments Launch Full-Spectrum Assault On Russia
by Eric Draitser, via Mintpressnews The U.S.-NATO Empire, with its centers of power in Washington, on Wall Street, and in the city of London, is on the offensive against...
Who's Afraid of Sanders and Trump: Or, the Lies the New York Times Sells
by Vaska It looks like the economic and political group whose interests the New York Times serves is getting scared that Hillary Clinton, its candidate for US presidency, might...
American war of Independence: who fired the shots heard round the world?
On April 19, 1775 the shot(s) heard round the world began the American War of Independence. But who fired them? And why? The traditional story will be familiar to...
