Guardian Hack Trolls His Own Readers
by Bryan Hemming, December 18, 2015 Not content with the mobs of vacuous trolls funded by various British intelligence agencies constantly at each other’s throats in its comments sections,...
Guardian Watch 17/12/2015
from Seemorerocks It’s an old habit that is difficult to throw off. I have been accustomed, during my life (or at least for the last quarter-centrury) to rely on...
U.S. Ends Its Opposition to Democracy in Syria
by Eric Zuesse For the first time today (December 15th), the United States has publicly and officially accepted the position that Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.N. Secretary General...
Recep Tayyip Erdogan: Portrait of a Backstabbing Pasha
by James Petras, Get Smart, December 16, 2016 What Makes Recep Run? The Making of a Modern Pasha Erdoğan began his ascent to power as a social reformer in opposition...
GLADIO: GLOBAL – Gangs & Counter Gangs in Europe, Northern Ireland, Iraq, Syria
from 21st Century Wire General Sir Anthony Farrar-Hockley, a former commander-in-chief of NATO forces in northern Europe said…that a covert intelligence service was set up in Italy with the...
AUDIO: US-Russia Talks on Syria; Shanghai Cooperation Organization Meets in Zhengzhou
Eric Draitser of Stop Imperialism appears on CPR News (Dec. 15, 2015) to discuss the latest talks between US Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov and...
France ceases to be a democracy: Now what?
by Karen Szymczyk December 13 was important for the Middle East in at least two ways. In a move of increasing brinkmanship, a Turkish fishing boat (“seine” vessel) tried...
Saudi Royal Family Announces Its New Global Sunni Military Empire
by Eric Zuesse An official announcement from the world’s leading, and most fundamentalistic, Sunni Islamic nation, Saudi Arabia, on Tuesday December 15th, has introduced a Sunni-Islamic counterpart to NATO,...
Merkel Under Pressure: EU Countries Resisting Russia Sanctions
German Economic News, translation by Eric Zuesse | Published:14:12:15 The EU is in the surprising situation of needing to deal, at its upcoming summit meeting at the end of this week,...
What Stinks in Saudi Ain’t the Camel Dung
by F. William Engdahl, December 8, 2015 In recent weeks one nation after another is falling over themselves, literally, to join the turkey shoot known, erroneously, as the war...
‘The race to save Peter Kassig’
by Dr Richard Marsden, of businessofemotions.org On Thursday, December 18, 2014, The Guardian published ‘The race to save Peter Kassig‘ by Ali Younes, Shiv Malik, Spencer Ackerman and Mustafa...
U.S. May Be Salvaging Victory for Jihadists in Syria: How & Why
Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org According to Britain’s Telegraph, in a recent report, the U.S. Tow antitank missiles that U.S. President Barack Obama sent in October to the Islamic...
How U.S. and EU Manipulate Public Consciousness: Montenegro
by Ion Todescu, December 12, 2015 I’ve been working on this post for a long time, meticulously collecting scraps of information piece by piece to give you a comprehensive...
A Sultanate of Kitsch: The Gezi Park Protests, Islamic Revival and Ottoman Nostalgia
by Can Erimtan, New Eastern Outlook The world is now taking notice of Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (or AKP) and its policies towards neighbouring Syria and Iraq,...
Assessing Venezuela’s Elections: The Good, the Bad, and the Indifferent
by Eric Draitser I did not come to Venezuela to be objective – I am a leftist and an anti-imperialist, a strong supporter of Hugo Chávez and the Bolivarian...
Love, Marriage and Imperialism
by Andre Vltchek After photographing the new, enormous and undoubtedly sinister building of the US embassy in Bishkek, capital of Kyrgyzstan, I was driven by a local left-wing politician...
A multi-polar world has emerged
Remarks by Stephen F. Cohen Professor Emeritus Princeton University and New York University At San Francisco Commonwealth Club, November 18, 2015 Some of you may know that the small...
Saudi Arabia Leads the Jihadist Nations; U.S. Assists Them
by Eric Zuesse Did you know that Saudi Arabia’s Ambassador to the United States, the Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan Al Saud (affectionately known in the U.S. as “Bandar...
Readers’ Letters: Guardian [of the status quo]
Continuing our series publishing letters/e-mails to and/or about The Guardian. If you have written any letters that you have sent, or wish to send, to the Guardian – feel...
Ukraine’s Nazi Government Tries to Sell Stolen Art
by Eric Zuesse On December 7th, the Netherlands Times headlined “Ukrainian Secret Service Accused of Trading in Stolen Dutch Paintings,” and Janene Pieters reported that, “Members of the Ukrainian...