From our roving correspondent, reporting from Athens, Greece
“…Greeks choose poverty, let them have their way,” said the Financial Times two days ago, with admirably Scrooge-like indifference to human suffering and a willingness to reverse truth in...
Obama’s ‘G-1-plus-6′
As much as President Obama needs President Putin’s help on Syria, Iran and other global hotspots, he has fallen in line behind U.S. hardliners in seeking to ratchet up...
Is ISIS a theatre troupe?
Interview with Eric Margolis by Lew Rockwell.com https://www.lewrockwell.com/assets/2015/05/426_Margolis.mp3 There’s something very weird and strange and not right about ISIS. I watched events unfold…nothing looks right, nothing rings right. I...
LEGENDARY JOURNALIST IN PRIVATE: “IT IS ALL FRAUDULENT, ALL OF IT, EVERYWHERE”
by John Schwarz at the Intercept Politico recently ran a fantastic historical profile of journalist Theodore H. White by the writer Scott Porch. White invented the genre of modern...
Saker predicts “very dangerous” few weeks as Poroshenko uses war to divert from economic collapse
full article here I am increasingly getting a feeling that Russia will now oppose any other kind of “efforts” or negotiations. Ukrainian suggestions that this or that new idea...
Washington’s Attack on World Soccer: another front in its war against Russia
by Paul Craig Roberts Washington’s attack on world soccer is following the script of Washington’s attack on the Russian-hosted Sochi Olympics. The difference is that Washington couldn’t stop the...
Was Blatter forced out of FIFA because of his close relations with Russia?
If you read the Guardian at the moment you will receive the impression that Sepp Blatter’s resignation is one of the biggest triumphs for democracy in the 21st Century,...
Australian government “actively considering” dangerous provocation in South China Sea
by Peter Symonds Amid escalating tensions between the US and China over the South China Sea, the Australian government is “actively considering conducting its own ‘freedom of navigation’ exercises...
The Futility and Fibbing in Munich
by Vaska In only a couple of days hence, the political elite of the G8 group minus Russia will start their meeting in Munich, judged meaningless by 30% of...
Failure of the US coup d’État in Macedonia
by Thierry Meyssan (translation by Pete Kimberley) The Kumanavo affair On the 9th of May, 2015, the Macedonian police launched a dawn operation to arrest an armed group which...
Pentagon report predicted West’s support for Islamist rebels would create ISIS
A declassified secret US government document obtained by the conservative public interest law firm, Judicial Watch, shows that Western governments deliberately allied with al-Qaeda and other Islamist extremist groups...
Noam Chomsky Reads the New York Times — Explains Why ‘Paper of Record’ Is Pure Propaganda
From Laos to the Middle East, a roundup of Times stories that piqued the interest of the esteemed scholar
The Final Push: Splitting up Iraq
By Mike Whitney “Iraq’s fate was sealed from the moment we invaded: it has no future as a unitary state … Iraq is fated to split apart into at...
What does Putin want?
by Rostislav Ishchenko Translated from the Russian by Denis, Gideon, and Robin It’s gratifying that “patriots” did not instantly blame Putin for the failure to achieve a full-scale rout...
The MH-17 Propaganda War
By Greg Maybury When called to account for an apparent inaccuracy in a broadcast pinning the MH-17 shoot-down on Russian President Putin, Australia’s “60 Minutes” responded with insults and...
VIDEO: Flight MH17- Why we still don’t know what happened – (E1)
Much is not what it seems around the tragedy of the Malaysian airliner MH17 which was shot down above the Ukraine on july 17th 2014. This video challenges the...
Romano Prodi warns NATO about creating irreversible tensions
by Vaska In a wide-ranging interview with Corriere della Sera, Romano Prodi, former EU Commisioner and Prime Minister of Italy, echoes in a stronger form Zbigniew Brzezinski’s March 9...
Grassroots movements sweep into Barcelona town hall
by ROAR Collective The radically democratic citizen platform Barcelona en Comú [won] the municipal elections in a major step forward for the struggle to reclaim the city. The outcome...
Memorial Day: Praying for Peace While Waging Permanent War?
By Bill Quigley Memorial Day is, by federal law, a day of prayer for permanent peace. But is it possible to honestly pray for peace while our country is...
A Color Revolution for Macedonia
by Paul Craig Roberts During the Cold War Washington was concerned about communists fomenting street protests that they could turn into revolutions, with groomed politicians waiting in the wings...
