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...
Anatomy of a Failed Coup in the UK Labour Party
by Richard Seymour, for TeleSurTV Worst. Coup. Ever As the Chilcot Inquiry report is released to the public, those MPs attempting to depose Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn—their leading lights...
America's Real Foreign Policy: Global Corporatization by Force
by Noam Chomsky, via Common Dreams (2014) The question of how foreign policy is determined is a crucial one in world affairs. In these comments, I can only provide...
NATO Summit Closes By Condemning Russia
by Eric Zuesse The issues that were discussed at this year’s NATO Summit were mainly preparations for a possible war against Russia. The two-day Summit in Warsaw Poland ended...
NATO’s Misguided Response to “Hybrid Threat”
by Andrew Korybko The NATO Defense College put together an extensive publication last December about “NATO’s Response to Hybrid Threats”, which sought to explain how the military bloc views...
BBC April 9 2003: "Tonight [Blair] stands a larger man"
Andrew Marr gave this piece to camera for BBC News outside 10 Downing Street April 9 2003, the day Baghdad was “liberated” by US troops. We all know now...
VIDEO: "Why WW3 between Russia and NATO is inevitable in 2017"
A Satirical take on the current fear porn in our western media. …Everyday, we in the West hear about the evil and resurgent Russia threatening the world. Just recently...
Guardian: Iraqis think Blair made a ‘mistake’
by Jonathan Cook It will be no surprise to readers of this blog that I believe Tony Blair should be put on trial for crimes against humanity for assisting...
Whitewashing Libya House Report on Benghazi Reveals Nothing, Hides Everything
by Eric Draitser, via “Information Clearing House“ The Republican dominated House Select Committee on Benghazi has released its long awaited final report on the 2012 Benghazi attack which killed...
The Furrow or the Ploughshare: Jeremy Corbyn and the Leadership Question
by Richard Marsden The Parliamentary Labour Party lacks confidence in the leadership of the Leader of Her Majesty’s Most Loyal Opposition, Jeremy Corbyn. To date, however, none of his...
The European War Union
We’re reposting, in full, a June 28, 2016 report on the newly announced plans for the formation of an EU army (with “employable high-readiness forces” and “standing maritime forces”)...
Threatened Forests: a new look at "green energy"
Threatened forests’ explores some hidden realities behind “green energy” in the EU. Filmmaker Benoit Grimont made this documentary as a response to the development of a large scale biomass...
