The Guardian’s faux progressiveness
by E.F Nicholson Whether we like it or not, our ever increasing participation in the world of consumption allows us to be sliced and diced by advertisers into increasingly...
Guardian and NYTimes Completely Misrepresent China’s Military Parade
by Joaquin Flores via Russia Insider Chinese leadership knows what China can do, has done, and what it represents to the world. China apparently felt it unnecessary to ‘over-project’...
The Telegraph being the Telegraph
Today the Telegraph accidentally sort of implied Russia is sending troops in to Syria… Vladimir Putin confirms Russian military involvement in Syria’s civil war …while admitting in the body...
War Crimes in Gorlovka – The Anna Tuv Story
On May 26, 2015 three civilians were killed when artillery shells landed in the Ozeryanovka district of Gorlovka, a town controlled by the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) opposite the...
The Douma Market Attack: a Fabricated Pretext for Intervention?
by Eric Draitser via Counter Punch The August 16, 2015 attack on a market in the Syrian town of Douma, just outside the capital Damascus, has caused international outrage....
In Syria, Putin Calls Obama’s Bluff, Joins War Against ISIS
by Eric Zuesse According to German Economic News (September 1st, based on reports from ynetnews and others), Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has apparently decided to establish in Syria a...
The Guardian weaves tangled web pages
by Bryan Hemming My grandfather was born in Hammerfest in Norway. Once renowned for being the northernmost town in the world, the fact he was doesn’t cut much ice...
The New Colonialism: Greece and Ukraine
by Jack Rasmus Greece and Ukraine represent the development of a new, more direct management of wealth extraction. A new form of colonialism is emerging in Europe. Not colonialism...
VIDEO: Tony Benn speech on the aims of Thatcherite policies
The late Tony Benn speaks out about the real aims of the banking industry, debt slavery, and the policies of pro-business politicians from Thatcher to the present day. Short...
MH17 One Year On: What Really Happened and Why
Last month marked the one year anniversary of the downing of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 – an incident that took place against a backdrop of a brutal proxy war...
The Secret Agenda Behind the Venezuela-Guyana Conflict
by Eva Golinger, via Counter Punch It all began in 1835 when the British Empire sent a German-born naturalist and explorer to conduct geographical research in the South American...
Bernie Sanders versus Obama & the Clintons: The Big Difference
Today OffGuardian explores what Bernie Sanders represents to different Americans. For some he is a brave defender of forgotten principles, or at least a best alternative. For others he’s...
Bernie Sanders functions as a political ‘sheepdog’
Today OffGuardian explores what Bernie Sanders represents to different Americans. For some he is a brave defender of forgotten principles, or at least a best alternative. For others he’s...
The West spreads intellectual idiocy
by Andre Vltchek at Counterpunch Could any dictator desire more? Almost the entire population of the Empire is now thinking the same way! The populace is “educated” at schools...
Into the Fire: the story of the 2010 Toronto G20 protests
While the Toronto G20 meeting was going on, armed police patrols in the city practiced zero-tolerance, seizing and locking up ordinary citizens on the flimsiest pretext. One man...
Financial Times: Ukraine’s Army is Falling Apart
by Roman Olearchyk via Russia Insider The article in the Financial Times which we reproduce below is remarkable. It completely contradicts the Western and Ukrainian media picture of the...
VIDEO: Guardian gets it wrong on Latin America. Again.
by teleSUR via Information Clearing House In an obvious parrallel with their awful, partisan coverage of the Maidan protests in Ukraine in 2013/14, the Guardian has been taken to...
People’s Assembly: “Academy bill is an attack on democracy”
Written for The People’s Assembly by the Anti Academies Alliance. Michael Gove, his replacement Nicky Morgan and Labour’s Andrew Adonis have claimed for nearly 10 years that converting schools...
Propaganda, Intelligence and MH-17
By Ray McGovern at Consortium News Propaganda is the life-blood of life-destroying wars, and the U.S. government has reached new heights (or depths) in this art of perception management....
The Plague of American Authoritarianism
Historical conjunctures produce different forms of authoritarianism, though they all share a hatred for democracy, dissent, and human rights. It is too easy to believe in a simplistic binary...
