NATO's Full-Spectrum War against Yugoslavia: Demonization of Serbs Was Key

by Edward S. Herman, reposted from sott.net Many well-qualified observers of the Bosnia wars were appalled at the biased reporting and gullibility of mainstream journalists. The successful demonization of...

Leaked telephone transcripts show Turkey is helping ISIS in Syria

Vaska Further proof of ties between the Turkish military and ISIS terrorists operating on the Syrian-Turkish border has been revealed in the Cumhuriyet newspaper, which published more transcripts of...

Please Don’t Attack Al-Qaeda

by Steven Chovanec, Undergroundreports In the weeks leading up to the agreed upon cessation-of-hostilities (CoH) agreement between the US and Russia, it was John Kerry’s diplomacy that was instrumental...

Zhang Weiwei on Al Jazeera: pushing Westerners to despise China

by Otto Kolbl, reposted from Rainbowbuilders In December 2014, Zhang Weiwei took part in the Head to Head program on Al Jazeera. He certainly did his best to explain...

Right of Reply: Amazon Watch responds to Stansfield Smith

Adam Zuckerman, Environmental and Human Rights Campaigner for Amazon Watch, has requested a right of reply to the article by Stansfield Smith we recently published that was heavily critical...

Ukraine, the price of survival: From civilian aircraft to attack drones

by Tina Schivatcheva Is the end of an industry also the end of an era? The Ukrainian aviation conglomerate Antonov was more than an industry; it was a legend....

Bellingcat: the Dead Cat Factory

There have been two new developments in the long-awaited criminal investigation report into MH17 over the last couple of weeks. Though you might’ve read about one, you’re far less...

The Grand Inquisitor and his Guardians: Mass Media and the Fog in our Brains

by Vladimir Golstein, republished from gianalytics.org Of course, we can blame as much as we want corporate media, its greedy owners, or its equally corrupt writers and journalists, who...

China and Europe: Reconnecting Across a New Silk Road

by Xiangming Chen and Julia Mardeusz China and Europe have been closely linked since the Opium Wars, but the relative economic positions and power have reversed. Nothing illustrates this...

US Presidential Elections 2016: The Revolt of the Masses

by James Petras Introduction The presidential elections of 2016 have several unique characteristics that defy common wisdom about political practices in 21st century America. Clearly the established political machinery –...

Saudi Arabia’s Dictator Demands Regime-Change in Syria — Otherwise WW III

by Eric Zuesse As has been recently reported, many experts on international relations are saying that the danger of a nuclear war between NATO and Russia is greater now than it...

Letter to Doctors Without Borders

by Ron West I had supported Doctors Without Borders because they had been apolitical, and largely neutral in conflicts. This neutrality had begun a process of erosion in Syria....

Propaganda as “News”: Ecuador Sells out Indigenous and the Environment to China

by Stansfield Smith The end of January a news article appeared, “Ecuador To Sell A Third Of Its Amazon Rainforest To Chinese Oil Companies,” and has resurfaced again and...

Aleppo: The Corporate Media Credibility Gap

by Bryan Hemming Less than four years ago, Aleppo was a prosperous and beautiful city. Christians and Muslims lived side by side, as did Sunni and Shia. A tolerant...

Syria’s President Assad Amnesties Syria’s Draft-Evaders

by Eric Zuesse Syria’s President, Bashar al-Assad, issued on February 17th, a decree: …granting a general amnesty for military deserters inside and outside the country and the crimes included...

How a Candidate’s Mega-Donors Get Served After the Election

by Eric Zuesse An example will be described here of a way in which corrupt Presidential candidates load up their campaigns’ advertising budgets by pushing for policies to increase...

Ruffled Petals at the Guardian

by Bryan Hemming In another principled stand against information it doesn’t like very much the Guardian has made it quite clear that anyone linking to the renegade Off-Guardian site...

Observer wants us all to forget 9/11 and embrace al Qaida as the friendly face of mass murder

The Graun’s recent (anonymously authored) “Observer view on…” reads like sullen teenage grafitti. Rddled with ignorance and misinformation, it would more fittingly be scribbled in the back of an...

Putin's Prophesies – His Munich Speech Warnings from 2007 All Coming True

via Russia Insider Nine years after Russian President Vladimir Putin warned the world against irresponsible US policies spreading instability and threats of new wars around the world, those dangers...

Now we are One…

One year ago today five (as we then were) longtime Guardian readers who were being repeatedly censored in and banished from the ironically titled "Comment is Free" sections, got...