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...
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...