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...
BRICS trample US in South America
by Pepe Escobar via Information Clearing House It started in April with a rash of deals between Argentina and Russia during President Cristina Kirchner’s visit to Moscow. And it...
Varoufakis Speaks Out
by Vaska After a month of innuendos, false leaks and accusations in the press concerning what went on at the April 24 Riga Eurogroup meeting, using his own blog...
The Empire’s True Intentions?
by Vaska While Christopher Black questions the real nature of the May 19th attack on the Russian Embassy in Damascus, Petr Lvov, writing for New Eastern Outlook, summarizes and...
Chaos in Kiev as “Financial Maidan” Turns Violent
by Vaska Thursday, May 21, clashes took place in downtown Kiev, where crowds protesting the soaring cost of private loans and the economic crisis Ukraine’s been plunged into since...
Secretary of State John Kerry v. His Subordinate Victoria Nuland, Regarding Ukraine
by Eric Zuesse U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, on May 12th, responding to Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko’s assertions that Ukraine will retake Crimea and will conquer Donbass: “I...
Varoufakis Hints at the Robin Hood Tax for Greece
by Vaska Dismissing the suggestion of an unnamed European official cited by the Suddeutsche Zeitung that Greece’s current loan program is to be rolled over into the fall, with...
GCHQ’S RAINBOW LIGHTS: EXPLOITING SOCIAL ISSUES FOR MILITARISM AND IMPERIALISM
by Glenn Greenwald Over the weekend, the British surveillance agency GCHQ — the most extremist and invasive in the West — bathed its futuristic headquarters with rainbow-colored lights “as...
Is Washington Coming To Its Senses?
by Paul Craig Roberts There is much speculation about US Secretary of State John Kerry’s rush visit to Russia in the wake of Russia’s successful Victory Day celebration on...
