The Real Lessons of the Tory Victory: or how in UK politics 25% is a “majority”

by Jonathan Cook There’s much that could be said about the Conservative party’s victory today in Britain’s election. Not least David Cameron has emerged stronger: he now has a...

How Big Money and Big Brother won the British Elections

by Nafeez Ahmed The Conservatives have won the 2015 elections with a slim majority. Labour and the Liberal Democrats suffered unexpected crushing defeats, prompting their leaders, Ed Miliband and...

The New York Times does its government’s bidding: Here’s what you’re not being told about U.S. troops in Ukraine

“Last December, John Pilger, the noted Australian journalist now in London, said in a speech that the Ukraine crisis had become the most extreme news blackout he had seen...

Givi and Motorola

The DPR – the People’s Republic of Donetsk – issued its first official postal stamp on Saturday, May 9. The stamp features the portraits of military commanders Arseniy Pavlov...

Germans Don’t Trust the Media

by Vaska Two German citizens, tired of propaganda in the German media, have decided to visit the “peninsula of terror”. They were to start their bike tour on May...

Indoctrinating Ukrainian Schoolchildren

by Vaska As Hunternews reports, according to Izvestia, plans are under way to give a distinctly pro-fascist, anti-Russian slant to the teaching of history in Ukraine. The country’s Ministry...

The forgotten coup – how America and Britain crushed the government of their ‘ally’, Australia

by John Pilger first published October 23 2014 on Johnpilger.com Across the political and media elite in Australia, a silence has descended on the memory of the great, reforming...

VIDEO: Who is Really Behind ISIS? (with transcript)

from the Corbett Report EDITOR’S NOTE: The following transcript of Episode 295 of The Corbett Report podcast, “Who Is Really Behind ISIS?”, was generously provided by Corbett Report subscriber...

UN Lawyer Calls TTP & TTIP ‘a dystopian future in which corporations and not democratically elected governments call the shots’

by Eric Zuesse The Obama-proposed international-trade deals, if passed into law, will lead to “a dystopian future in which corporations and not democratically elected governments call the shots,” says...

Stephen Cohen: We’re living through a geopolitical transition

We bring you here a transcript of the major part of Stephen Cohen's analysis of the Ukrainian Crisis on the John Batchelor Show of April 28, 2015......

Whose Victory Will Ukrainians Celebrate on May 9?

by Halyna Mokrushyna Mokrushyna analyzes “public awareness” videos currently circulating in the Ukrainian public media space by its producers, TABASCO, a leading advertising agency in Ukraine and Limelite Studio,...

Skewing Readers’ Perceptions

by Vaska The venerable Guardian carries a new in-depth article on IS and its recruiting work – this time in Russia. It does so under the headline How Isis...

Israel Ordered the Shooting of Civilians in Gaza

by Vaska Al Jazeera reports that, in what amounts to acts of war crime, Israeli soldiers were instructed to shoot civilians in Gaza last summer: The 237-page report by...

What Freedom Now Means in Ukraine

by Vaska Here are the main points Anatoly Karlin, writing in “The Maidan Retroactively Criminalizes Itself,” makes on the repression which masquerades as freedom in the new, Empire-backed Ukraine:...

Chaos Descending on Saudi Politics?

by Vaska According to the latest from FarsNews, “US Secretary of State John Kerry is asking Iran to help facilitate Yemen peace talks. Interestingly, Iran has been the one...

U.S.-enabled Saudi War Crimes in Yemen

by Vaska During an emergency closed-door Security Council session on Yemen held on May 1, the U.S. blocked a resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire necessary to address the...

US funding ISIS and promoting civil war for hegemony and profit

"ISIL is a construction financed and trained by covert US and oil-king allies that ruins every place it enters..."

When Business Insider thought Russia might invade Scotland

Back in August last year, when the UK Establishment became seriously spooked that the people of Scotland might actually vote Yes, despite the propaganda storm it had whipped up,...

Zakharchenko: In accordance with Minsk-2

by Vaska In reaction to Kiev’s continuing failure to control Ukrainian neo-Nazi militias and Rada’s refusal to engage in any meaningful discussions which could lead to a decentralized, federal...

The May 2nd Odessa Massacre: Why Obama’s Coup-Regime Still Runs Ukrain

by Eric Zuesse The May 2nd Ukrainian massacre of anti-regime pamphleteers last year at the Odessa Trade Unions Building, burning these pamphleteers alive there, was crucial to the Obama’s...