TTIP – current EU GMO rules to be ‘disregarded’ as EU Commission caves in to US pressure

by Graham Vanbergen, via TruePublica A joint report conducted by Greenpeace, Corporate Europe Observatory and Gene Watch UK issued a briefing paper last week entitled “Commission fails to regulate...

World War III Has Begun

by Paul Craig Roberts The Third World War is currently being fought. How long before it moves into its hot stage? Washington is currently conducting economic and propaganda warfare...

Obama Requests Military Support for Possible War Against Russia

by Eric Zuesse According to an April 23rd article carried by Deutsche Wirtschafts Nachrichten (German Economic News), U.S. President Barack Obama is “demanding the active deployment of the Bundeswehr...

Defend Brazil, Dilma!

by Andre Vltchek Enough weeping!  Latin America has wept incessantly, continuously, for years, decades and centuries. Its people robbed of everything since the days of Columbus, since Potosi. Tens...

Syrian Elections Prove Again That Washington And Its Presstitutes Lie Through Their Teeth

by Paul Craig Roberts Today (April 14) Syria held parliamentary elections at 7,000 polling stations, keeping the voting open an extra five hours to accommodate the massive turnout. All...

Trump the “Fascist”: Backdoor Backing of a Political Psychopath Named Hillary Clinton

by James Petras, via 99GetSmart From left to right a raucous chorus has emerged to denounce Republican Presidential primary frontrunner Donald Trump as a ‘fascist’. They cite his campaign promises to...

Is Hillary Clinton the Democrats’ Richard Nixon?

by Eric Zuesse Hillary Clinton’s similarities to Richard Nixon are remarkable: 1:  As presidential candidates. both were highly successful politicians who had exceptionally negative net-approval ratings from the U.S....

Meet Andriy Parubiy, the Former Neo-Nazi Leader Turned Speaker of Ukraine’s Parliament

by Jon Hellevig, via Russia Insider An outspoken neo-Nazi takes the reins of Ukraine’s parliament, as the US and its European vassals remain silent. When Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy...

Why Basic Income Can Never Be A Progressive Solution

by Francine Mestrum, for Social Europe, April 14, 2016 Most advocates of basic income only answer the arguments of the right – mainly concerning the willingness to work –...

VIDEO: Fighting TTIP, CETA and ISDS: Lessons from Canada

The Idea You Can Skip The Nation-State Is Dangerous

Interview with Thomas Fazi, Social Europe Regarding Varoufakis’ movement, I don’t deny that totally rewriting the international system in a radical way would be great, and I think that...

“A System Rigged against Voters”

by Eric Zuesse Even for the post of U.S. President, the preferences of the American people have only a marginal, if any, impact upon the selection of the person...

Poor G7 Just Cannot Disarm Yet

by Andre Vltchek, reposted from Counterpunch They met in Hiroshima, Japan, in the first city on Earth that had been subjected to nuclear genocide. They were representing some of...

Guardian’s "statistics" on "the dark side" are a bleak farce…

Catte Black The centre piece of the Guardian’s new “the web we want’ section is a piece of alleged statistical research into the “70m comments left on its site...

Lebanon Being Forced to Collapse

by Andre Vltchek Lebanon cannot stand on its feet anymore.  It is overwhelmed, frightened and broke. It stands on the frontline, facing ISIS in the east and north, a...

"The web we want"? No, don't think so…

The Guardian has a new section titled "The Web We Want." It opened April 11 and currently has 11 articles running on it. Its face is...

Putin Leaked ‘Panama Papers’ as Part of Plan to Smear Himself, Blackmail Western Leaders, Says US Think Tank

by Rudy Panko, from Russia Insider The Brookings Institution says that Putin is behind ‘Panama Papers’ leak. Sure, why not? We have to tip our proverbial shapka-ushanka to the...

The Return of the Brutal Savage and the Science for War

by Stephen Corry, via CounterPunch The last few years have seen an alarming increase in claims that tribal peoples have been shown to be more violent than we are....

VIDEO: What Has George Soros Funded Over the Years?

from Russia Insider Following the recent revelation that Billionaire financier George Soros (among others) stands behind the release of the “Panama Papers,” it behooves us to remember what else...

Holier Than Thou: The Guardian View on The Panama Papers

by Frank We don’t pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes.” Leona Helmsley, American business woman and socialite 2007 The revelations contained in the Panama Papers are nothing...