How Obama and Congressional Republicans Intend to Pass TPP Into Law — After the November Elections
by Eric Zuesse Back on 10 December 2015, the head of the U.S. Senate, the pro-Obama-trade-deals Republican Mitch McConnell, said that Obama shouldn’t try to pass his TPP or...
Another Way ‘Democracy’ Is Rigged in America
by Eric Zuesse Did you know that if a given political party already has an incumbent in a particular political post, it’s standard practice in the United States for...
Time To Halt The Great Public Asset Boot Sale — and Create Social Wealth Funds
by Stewart Lansley, reposted from Social Europe Britain’s public assets are now the subject of a giant boot sale. The great rolling privatisation juggernaut not only includes the £4bn...
Elizabeth Warren's Silence
by Brad Benson Last night Senator Elizabeth Warren weighed in very critically on the Donald Trump Candidacy, calling it “ugly and dangerous” and imploring, “decent people everywhere…to say No...
America’s Laughable ‘News’ Media
by Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org As of Friday March 4th, democracy ended in Turkey, but you’d hardly have known it by reading the international ‘news’ at the major...
The Trump Phenomenon Explained
by Will Denayer I do not fear the return of the fascists as fascists, what I fear is the return of the fascists dressed up as democrats. T.W. Adorno Read...
Are Both Trump and Sanders Falling for a Dirty Trick from Clinton?
by Eric Zuesse On Saturday, I provided a transcript of a remarkable allegation by a gifted private investigator who has a background not only as a crackerjack reporter about political dirty...
Impressions from a Sanders Rally
by Brad Benson The “Bern” is due to fall, fail and fade unless he makes serious changes to his campaign right now. I say this with no joy, since...
Sanders Campaign gets Sparks and Sparkle
by Bryan Hemming On February 12th this year Dan Froomkin, the influential Washington Editor of the Intercept, used an article slamming Hillary Clinton’s slavish adherence the doctrines of Henry...
Mercantilism: Six centuries of vilifying the poor
by David Spencer, originally posted here As far as routes to national economic prosperity are concerned the idea that the majority in society must suffer real hardship to achieve...
Jean-Claude Juncker Damns Obama’s Plan for Ukraine
by Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org Jean-Claude Juncker, the most powerful person in Europe, the chief of the European Commission and therefore Europe’s closest equivalent to America’s President,...
Good Old American Dollars Funding Nazi Forces of the Ukrainian Government
by Zak Novak, Novorossia Readers may remember when, with a defense authorization bill in debate last June, two congressmen advanced an amendment banning military assistance to “openly neo-Nazi” and...
The Financial System Is A Larger Threat Than Terrorism
by Paul Craig Roberts In the 21st century Americans have been distracted by the hyper-expensive “war on terror.” Trillions of dollars have been added to the taxpayers’ burden and...
Three conclusions and a surmise: Pravda, Iran and the US Judiciary
by Vaska Scanning my Facebook this morning, I came across a startling Pravda item someone had shared on my wall. The reaction I had on seeing the posted headline...
Hybrid Wars 1: The Law of Hybrid Warfare
by Andrew Korybko (USA), Oriental Review The grand objective behind every Hybrid War is to disrupt multipolar transnational connective projects through externally provoked identity conflicts (ethnic, religious, regional, political,...
The rape of East Timor: "Sounds like fun"
Secret documents found in the Australian National Archives provide a glimpse of how one of the greatest crimes of the 20th century was executed and covered up. They also...
VIDEO: Robert Stuart's presentation on BBC's "Saving Syria's Children"
In his presentation for Frome Stop War, Robert Stuart provides an overview of all the many pieces of evidence he has collected that point to the BBC falsifying reports...
Servile Academia vs Revolutionary Philosophy
by Andre Vltchek, Counterpunch Philosophers have been muzzled by the Western global regime; most of great modern philosophy concealed from the masses. What has been left of it, allowed...
One Belt, One Road will benefit China – and the world
by Justin Yifu Lin China’s principal global project is about more than short-term gain. Throughout 2015, a major focus of the international community has been China’s economic slowdown and...
It’s now or never: G20 finance ministers argue in Shanghai while Europe is being shattered by the refugee question
by Heiner Flassbeck Replacing the G7 or G8 by the G20 was actually a good idea. But as often happens, the way in which the change was realised destroyed...
