Obama’s Case for Syrian War – Proven Lies
by Eric Zuesse President Obama’s central case against Syria’s Bashar al-Assad (and his central argument against Assad’s supporter Russia on that matter) is that Assad was behind the sarin...
VIDEO: Putin’s UN speech
Russian: English: Transcript: Mr. Secretary General, distinguished heads of state and government, Ladies and gentlemen, The 70th anniversary of the United Nations is a good occasion to both take...
A troll story in 4 screenshots
by Vaska Four days ago, on September 24, we published an item about the use of multiple identities on The Guardian‘s CIF pages by people presenting avidly pro-Western, and...
Stop Bombing Syria: a Letter from Mark Rylance, Brian Eno, John Pilger et al.
via Counter Punch News Service We are gravely concerned at the possibility of a parliamentary decision to bomb Syria. David Cameron is planning such a vote in the House...
The Guardian goes into censorship overdrive over Putin’s speech to the UN
Several people have contacted us to say they had their accounts at the Guardian put on moderation within minutes of it starting its “live” coverage of Putin’s speech. From...
No Brains in Washington
by Paul Craig Roberts Washington’s IQ follows the Fed’s interest rate — it is negative. Washington is a black hole into which all sanity is sucked out of government...
Russia to Add Its 203rd Air Force Base — Its First Outside Russia
by Eric Zuesse According to GlobalSecurity.org, Russia has 202 Air Force bases, all in Russia’s various “Military Districts”; but now there is to be a 203rd one, and it will...
Jeremy Corbyn: A Generational Opportunity?
By Sequoyah De Souza Vigneswaren Progressive change is about more than just one man; it requires the strength of a collective mass movement. But Jeremy Corbyn’s success could represent...
60% of Americans Want a New Political Party
by Eric Zuesse A Gallup poll issued on September 25 is headlined “Majority in U.S. Maintain Need for Third Major Party,” and it opens: “A majority of Americans, 60%, say a...
U.S. to Station New Nuclear Weapons in Germany Against Russia
by Eric Zuesse Germany’s ZDF public television network headlines on Tuesday September 22nd, “New U.S. Atomic Weapons to Be Stationed in Germany,” and reports that the U.S. will bring into Germany...
“They have a cave troll…”
In the ongoing war for human consciousness that is the Guardian’s CiF, accusations of state-sponsored trolldom and of multiple identities operated by a single individual are the currency of...
UN Condemns Ukrainian Government Cover-Ups
by Eric Zuesse On September 18th, the UN’s Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights headlined “Statement of the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Christof...
Jonathan Freedland: “Corbyn should embrace insincerity! Like we do!”
by Bryan Hemming The slightest glimpse of Jonathan Freedland’s photo gets me smirking these days. It all started when he didn’t make the shortlist in the Guardian ballot for...
Red Neoliberals: How Corbyn’s Victory Unmasked Britain’s Guardian
by Jonathan Cook via The Blog from Nazareth In autumn 2002 Ed Vulliamy, a correspondent for Britain’s Sunday Observer newspaper, stumbled on a terrible truth that many of us...
“The Russians are Coming!”
by Eric Margolis via Information Clearing House The Russians are coming! The Russians are coming! So echoed the cry this week from the Pentagon, the US media and Republican...
Polls Show Syrians Overwhelmingly Blame U.S. for ISIS
by Eric Zuesse The British polling organization ORB International, an affiliate of WIN/Gallup International, repeatedly finds in Syria that, throughout the country, Syrians oppose ISIS by about 80%, and...
The push for “humanitarian invasion” continues
Regardless of how tired, threadbare and discredited the entire “humanitarian war” meme is becoming, and no matter how transparent the agenda, the Guardian is continuing to push for a...
Has 2015 become a Brave New World?
Theatre director James Dacre has just opened a new adaptation of Aldous Huxley’s dystopian novel Brave New World, and the Guardian gave him space in the Theatre section to...
The censoring of America’s news
by Eric Zuesse, from StrategicCulture.org On 7 September 2002, U.S. President George W. Bush blatantly lied to concoct a “new report” by the IAEA about Saddam Hussein’s weapons of...
Is Iran a problem, or part of the solution?
Why should I care whether Iran has nukes? It most likely doesn’t, but even if it does… it never attacked anyone, never overthrew any government, and never performed experiments...
