The strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

by TutisIceCream A very short study of the schizophrenia transfixing US security as reflected in the psychopathy gripping the Guardian. One could be forgiven for thinking that the relationship...

"Anti-Semites like Russia" – The Guardian

by Frank Is there a day that goes by without some Russophobic tripe masquerading as journalism appears in the Guardian? The latest example being Paul Mason’s piece. The racist...

Judge Rules Clinton Exhibited ‘Wrong-Doing and Bad Faith’

by Eric Zuesse A U.S. District Court Judge ruled, on Tuesday March 29th, that in the civil matter of Hillary Clinton’s State Department emails, “there is evidence of government...

Why the Washington Power Elite Fears Trump

The recent “Open Letter”, signed by a host of self-proclaimed US “Foreign Policy Experts”, demonstrates the real reason why the Washington Power Elite is virtually apoplectic over fear of...

Luke Harding’s: A Very Heavily Discounted Book

by TUTISICECREAM The unexceptional account of a discredited inquiry The Guardian’s Book of the Day [here today gone tomorrow?] masquerading as a “True Crime” story, is an attempt to...

There's a 'Special Place in Hell' for Madeleine Albright

by Kurt Nimmo, via Russia Insider Albright helped facilitate NATO’s illegal bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999 Back in February, the former Secretary of State under Bill Clinton said “there’s...

A World War Has Begun: Break the Silence

I have been filming in the Marshall Islands, which lie north of Australia, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Whenever I tell people where I have been, they...

BRICS Under Attack: The Empire Strikes Back In Brazil

by Eric Draitser, MintpressNews Despite all the fancy anti-corruption rhetoric, the assault on President Rousseff’s leftist government is the result of a coordinated campaign by business interests tied to...

Reporting (or Not) the Ties Between US-Armed Syrian Rebels and Al Qaeda's Affiliate

by Gareth Porter, FAIR A crucial problem in news media coverage of the Syrian civil war has been how to characterize the relationship between the so-called “moderate” opposition forces...

Is Putin Weaponising Stupidity?

from The BlogMire, via Russia Insider For some time I’ve been trying to develop an all-encompassing theory to account for the behaviour of Western leaders and the media over...

Soros-Obama-Merkel-Erdogan Win Control of Europe

by Eric Zuesse On Friday, March 18th, a combined effort by George Soros, Barack Obama, Angela Merkel, and Tayyip Erdogan, has arranged to get the EU to abandon previously...

How Obama and Congressional Republicans Intend to Pass TPP Into Law — After the November Elections

by Eric Zuesse Back on 10 December 2015, the head of the U.S. Senate, the pro-Obama-trade-deals Republican Mitch McConnell, said that Obama shouldn’t try to pass his TPP or...

Another Way ‘Democracy’ Is Rigged in America

by Eric Zuesse Did you know that if a given political party already has an incumbent in a particular political post, it’s standard practice in the United States for...

Time To Halt The Great Public Asset Boot Sale — and Create Social Wealth Funds

by Stewart Lansley, reposted from Social Europe Britain’s public assets are now the subject of a giant boot sale. The great rolling privatisation juggernaut not only includes the £4bn...

Elizabeth Warren's Silence

by Brad Benson Last night Senator Elizabeth Warren weighed in very critically on the Donald Trump Candidacy, calling it “ugly and dangerous” and imploring, “decent people everywhere…to say No...

America’s Laughable ‘News’ Media

by Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org As of Friday March 4th, democracy ended in Turkey, but you’d hardly have known it by reading the international ‘news’ at the major...

The Trump Phenomenon Explained

by Will Denayer I do not fear the return of the fascists as fascists, what I fear is the return of the fascists dressed up as democrats. T.W. Adorno Read...

Are Both Trump and Sanders Falling for a Dirty Trick from Clinton?

by Eric Zuesse On Saturday, I provided a transcript of a remarkable allegation by a gifted private investigator who has a background not only as a crackerjack reporter about political dirty...

Impressions from a Sanders Rally

by Brad Benson The “Bern” is due to fall, fail and fade unless he makes serious changes to his campaign right now.  I say this with no joy, since...

Sanders Campaign gets Sparks and Sparkle

by Bryan Hemming On February 12th this year Dan Froomkin, the influential Washington Editor of the Intercept, used an article slamming Hillary Clinton’s slavish adherence the doctrines of Henry...