First Deposition Released on Clinton Email Case
by Eric Zuesse The U.S. Ambassador, Lewis Lukens’s, sworn testimony in the case of Hillary Clinton’s privatization of the U.S. Secretary of State’s email is the first evidence to...
Britain’s Tax Office, HMRC sold 600 state owned buildings to offshore property company
by Graham Vanbergen There are a number of interesting facts and figures emanating from the various offshore leaks of recent times. One of them involves Britain’s tax office HMRC,...
James K. Galbraith on Greece: Austerity without debt relief
by Lynn Parramore, via DDP Economist James K. Galbraith warns that ‘unrealistic expectations’ by Athens’ creditors is a recipe for turmoil. A breakdown in negotiations may be the best...
What is to be Done with the Banks? Radical Proposals for Radical Changes
Nine years after the outbreak of the financial crisis that continues to produce damaging social effects through the austerity policies imposed on victim populations, it’s time to take another...
Brazil Coup Govt Onslaught Continues, Public Media Decapitated
via Telesur The public company will now be led by a journalist with a history of working for right-wing politicians. Michel Temer, head of the coup government in Brazil, fired the...
Coup in Brazil: the International Connection
by Pedro Marin | OutrasPalavras Auditoriums filled to the last seat, sound trucks, offices. Organizations such as the Millenium Institute, Free Brazil Movement (MLB), the Liberal Institute, the Ludwig...
US Officials Responsible for Torture Should Be Prosecuted Under Nuremberg Protocols
by Rebecca Gordon, book excerpt, via TruthOut With the Nuremberg tribunal after World War II, the United States helped establish the international principles guiding the prosecution of war crimes....
Three Horrendous Anti-Indigenous Laws
by First Peoples Worldwide, 2013, via Cultural Survival Much of the discrimination that Indigenous Peoples face is societal and economic, such as personal racism, discriminatory hiring practices, a misunderstanding...
The Most Viable and Bloodless Option
by Peter Koenig, via DDP What happens when the accuser of terrorism are themselves the terrorists? – Namely the supra-national corporations and financial oligarchs acting in their own profit-driven...
The People's Economic Impact Statement for the TPP
by the TPP Resisters, April 2016 Background: The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is an international agreement that was negotiated in secret by the Obama administration and hundreds of corporate lobbyists...
Crisis in Brazil
by Perry Anderson, for London Review of Books The BRIC countries are in trouble. For a season the dynamos of international growth while the West was mired in the...
I am not Greek! But is Schäuble a German?
by Dimitris Konstantakopoulos, via DDP I usually work more than ten hours a day and most of the weekends. I am often happy with what I do and I...
Why Gorbachev Will Never Be Forgiven
Translated by Julia Rakhmetova and Rhod Mackenzie, via Russia Insider Nikolai Starikov, a famous Russian historian, writer and politician, was interviewed by the popular AiF weekly on the occasion...
Proverbial Wisdom: Forty Ways to ….
by Vladimir Golstein Proverbial wisdom tells us that Eskimos have forty words for snow. Well, other cultures or people also have 40 shades of the same concept. Here is...
Erdogan To Lead NATO Challenge Against Russia on Black Sea?
May 18, 2016 (EIRNS) While attention has been focused on NATO provocations in the Baltic, the Black Sea — thanks to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan — could become...
AUDIO: Stephen Cohen: Impossible to Overstate the Dangers
Stephen Cohen, the premier American Russia specialist, sounds the alarm bells on the John Batchelor Show: I find it almost impossible to overstate the dangers of recent actions of...
America’s & NATO's Outrageous Behavior, Greatest Threat that Exists
by Eric Zuesse On May 18th, two top people at NATO, one being its current Secretary General — the very top person — laid out in preliminary form the case...
Veneto Calls on Italy to Recognize Crimea
by Sergio Rame (Il Giornale), translated by Tom Winter; via Fort Russ Summary: Historic resolution of the majority headed by [Luca] Zaia. The accession of the Crimea to Russia...
AUDIO: The Washington Consensus for War
Eric Draitser and Brian Becker discuss the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) and the political implications of the bill, including the nature of the war consensus in Washington,...
Escalations in a New Cold War
by Jonathan Marshall, via Consortium News If the United States ever ends up stumbling into a major conventional or nuclear war with Russia, the culprit will likely be two...
