VIDEO: Happy 100th Anniversary, Poison Gas! The dark legacy of Bayer
As the world marks the passing of the 100th anniversary of the use of poison gas on the battlefield, the Corbett Report takes a moment to note some of...
War-Crazed Western Propaganda Machine Rages at Its Growing Insignificance
by Joyce Nelson at CounterPunch via Russia Insider In mid-April, hundreds of U.S. paratroopers from the 173rd Airborne Brigade arrived in western Ukraine to provide training for government troops....
Kiev Rehabilitates Nazi Collaborators
by Vaska A little more than two weeks ago, on April 9, the Kiev regime supported by the U.S. and the increasingly less enthusiastic E.U. passed a new law...
Pyatt and his Fakes
Geoffrey Pyatt — US ambassador to Kiev – continues to post fakes on his Twitter as “proof” and “evidence” of Russia’s military involvement in Donbass, this time claiming that...
Syriza Sidelines Varoufakis To Appease Eurogroup
Paul Mason of Channel4.com reports on Syriza’s reshuffle of its team negotiating with the Eurogroup. To be clear, Mr Varoufakis remains in charge of the finance ministry, and of...
THE DANGEROUS MYTH OF A ‘FREE PRESS’ IN THE WEST MUST BE SCRUTINIZED
by Amit Singh at Consented When we digest the news in the UK, whether it be on the TV, radio or in the newspapers, the authenticity of what we’re...
Confrontation with Russia a Mistake
Magdalena Ogorek, the presidential candidate for the Democratic Left Alliance of Poland, has called for the lifting of the sanctions against Russia and for a normalization of relations between...
Canada Represents a Reservoir of Support for Ukrainian Neo-Nazis
by Vaska Canada is the leading state sponsor of neo-Nazi armed terrorist units fighting in eastern Ukraine. Canadian support for the most right-wing elements, including neo-Nazis, in Ukraine would...
Anatomy of a hatchet job: Regarding Women Cross DMZ in CNN’s Situation Room
By Gregory Elich in Monthly Review A television news program opens with a clip of marching soldiers, an obligatory image when the subject is North Korea. A voice-over intones:...
Hollande to Poroshenko: “Non, non, et non”
by Vaska Petro Poroshenko’s visit to Paris this Wednesday seems to have ended more as a personal holiday for the Chocolate King of Ukraine than a meaningful mission to...
Libertarians’ Civil War Over Ukraine
by Eric Zuesse On the one hand, Andrei Illarionov of the Koch Brothers’ libertarian Cato Institute says that the first among “the crimes that have been committed or are...
The Power of Nightmares (2005)
Produced by the BBC in 2005, this short documentary series dares to question the Terrorism narrative. It probably does not go far enough, and elides many issues that demand...
Even DemocracyNow! Fudges It on Ukraine
Or, What the Americans Are Not Being Told Even Democracy Now!, like the PBS, can’t bring itself to tell the American public their army is now training neo-Nazis in...
“The Whole Town Cried” – Sixteenth Anniversary of the Attack on Yugoslavia
by GREGORY ELICH in CounterPunch It was 1999, shortly after the NATO war. I was with a delegation that came to Yugoslavia to document NATO war crimes, and we...
DOES VOTING ONLY PROTECT THE STATUS-QUO?
by Amit Singh at Consented On social media there has been a surge in people posting links urging others to register to vote. Operation Black Vote has also been...
Greece interested in Russian S-300 air defense system
by Vaska You won’t find it so much as mentioned in any of the mainstream press, but only a week after Alexis Tsiparis, the leader of Syriza and Prime...
Hungary, Greece, and Cyprus eyeing joint economic ventures with Russia
by Vaska It looks like three EU member countries, Hungary, Greece, and Cyprus, are all quietly dropping the economic sanctions the Obama administration had sweet-talked/arm-wrestled the EU into imposing...
Gunslinger US General Readies for War with Russia
by Stephen Lendman at Freedom’s Phoenix America is run by neocon lunatics and gunslinger generals. Together they threaten world peace. Washington’s only enemies are ones it invents to wage...
Political Surrealism by Mr. Luhn
by Vaska In an article on the U.S., UK and Canadian military involvement in Ukraine, The Guardian yet again casually refers to “A growing body of evidence [which] suggests...
Beware of Merkel Making Promises
by Vaska In another of the (forgive the mixed metaphors to come) see-sawing, forked-tongue performances she’s become well-known for over the past 16 months or so, in the statement...
