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...
American Aggression Against China: A World Crisis Looms
by Christopher Black, via NEO The American aggression against China continued Tuesday May 10th with the invasion of Chinese waters just off the Spratly Islands by an American destroyer...
The EU and the Deforestation of Ukraine
by Dmytryi Kovalevich Since 2014 we have in Ukraine a mass deforestation. The entire forests and parks are being eliminated, causing local environmental disasters. However, until now the logging...
China: Preserving Sovereignty or Sliding into Western Sponsored ‘Color Revolutions’
by Peter Koenig, originally for Asia-Pacific Research On April 28, the New York Times was blasting “Clampdown in China Restricts 7,000 Foreign Organizations”. A perfect reason for demonizing China...
Obama Ratchets-Up Military Preparations Against Russia
by Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org An article published May 7th by Andrei Akulov brings together mainly Western news sources, all solid, to make the case that U.S. President...
24 years since Izetbegović paramilitaries massacred retreating JNA troops in Tuzla
by Grey Carter, May 15, 2013 Today marks [24] years since the ambush on a convoy of soldiers of the former Yugoslav Peoples’ Army (JNA) that was retreating from...
CIA: Undermining and Nazifying Ukraine Since 1953
by Wayne Madsen, via Strategic Culture The recent declassification of over 3800 documents by the Central Intelligence Agency provides detailed proof that since 1953 the CIA operated two major...
BRICS Under Attack: Western Banks, Governments Launch Full-Spectrum Assault On Russia
by Eric Draitser, via Mintpressnews The U.S.-NATO Empire, with its centers of power in Washington, on Wall Street, and in the city of London, is on the offensive against...
Who's Afraid of Sanders and Trump: Or, the Lies the New York Times Sells
by Vaska It looks like the economic and political group whose interests the New York Times serves is getting scared that Hillary Clinton, its candidate for US presidency, might...
American war of Independence: who fired the shots heard round the world?
On April 19, 1775 the shot(s) heard round the world began the American War of Independence. But who fired them? And why? The traditional story will be familiar to...
Serial Child Molester Gets His Wrist Slap
by James Corbett at the International Forecaster Calling him a “serial child molester” and his actions “unconscionable,” Judge Thomas Durkin sentenced Dennis Hastert to 15 months in prison, two...
The art of storytelling in times of war
There are numerous similar stories which have had little or no root in reality. But they have lingered still, because they’re imprinted in the collective memory. Of course one...
It's about time to unmask the Axis of Evil: 23 million Syrians are besieged
by Mark Taliano, via American Herald Tribune The West and its allies are perpetrating unspeakable yet well-documented crimes against humanity as Washington forges ahead with its pre-planned agenda to...
Arianna Huffington as Agent for the Democratic Party
by Eric Zuesse At Huffington Post, Arianna Huffington is the top person, and her site is so blatantly hostile to the Republican Party as to have placed Donald Trump...
Last Roundup For The EU’s Commitment To Public Health And The Environment
by Peter Rossman, for Social Europe German finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble famously remarked that “elections change nothing”. He was talking about debt and public finance. The European Commission now...
BRICS Under Attack: The Empire’s Destabilizing Hand Reaches Into South Africa
by Eric Draitser, via MintPressNews Major protests have gripped South Africa in recent months as political forces have emerged to give voice to a growing discontent with the government...
Obama: TTIP Necessary So As to Protect Megabanks From Prosecution
by Eric Zuesse On May 7th, Deutsche Wirtschafts Nachrichten, or German Economic News, headlined, “USA planen mit TTIP Frontal-Angriff auf Gerichte in Europa” or “U.S. Plans Frontal Attack on Europe’s Courts...
Hillary Clinton & the end of the Democratic Party
by Rob Urie at Counterpunch Liberal incredulity at Charles Koch’s (Koch Bros.) recent (soft) endorsement of Hillary Clinton — assertions that is was either a non-sequitur or a ploy...
