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...
What if Putin is Telling the Truth?
By F. William Engdahl at NEO On April 26 Russia’s main national TV station, Rossiya 1, featured President Vladimir Putin in a documentary to the Russian people on the...
Kiev’s Interpretation of Minsk-2
by Vaska Ukrainian Armed Forces (UAF) resumed shelling the Donetsk Airport area the evening of May 18, continuing the barrage through the night of May 18-19. The first salvos...
US Bombers to Australia
By Binoy Kampmark The language never reflects the actual conduct. Deploying weapons to a region in greater numbers is not seen as provocative, even if placing such items in...
Chernobyl: The Last Lament
Jan Fabl's brilliant new documentary short about the aftermaths of the Chernobyl disaster in April 1986.
Thousands protest austerity in Bristol
From The People’s Assembly Thousands of people flooded the streets of Bristol in an anti-austerity demonstration which was organised by a group of young, determined women. A group of...
To Those Who Believe in Voting
by NOEL IGNATIEV One morning years ago, as I entered the classroom for a course I taught on U.S. history, I found the students engaged in a discussion of...
In the Grip of Corruption
by Vaska According to a Princeton University study, public opinion has “near-zero” impact on U.S. law. One thing that does have an influence? Money. Nearly every issue [Americans] face as a nation is caught in the grip...
International legislators oppose TPP, say it endangers country sovereignty
by Vaska As the Council of Canadians reports today, Elizabeth May, leader of Canada’s Green Party, and MP Don Davis, the New Democratic Party’s trade critic, have joined the...
US hasn’t won a war since 1945 – so why is it poking the bear?
by Paul Craig Roberts via Information Clearing House This is what the arrogant morons who comprise the US government have stirred up: Watch this video for its entire 1...
Corporate Media Blacks Out Coverage of Bill to Overturn Corporate Personhood
Here are the highlights of Pam Martens‘ and Russ Martens‘ May 4 article by the same title. Last Wednesday [April 29], the grassroots organization, Move to Amend, held a...
Preventing a Politics of Truth
Here are the opening paragraphs of Pam Martens’s April 14 piece on “the greatest income and wealth inequality since the economic collapse in the Great Depression [which thretens] a...
Priming the U.S. Electorate
by Vaska Jim Naureckas’ latest analysis of the U.S. corporate media commentary following Labour’s loss in last week’s elections in the UK shows how the American corporate press is...
On the Demonization of the ‘Media Milosevic’
This article first appeared in 2001 (revised 2006), but fourteen years later is relevant, not only to the historical assessment of what happened in the former Yugoslavia, but also...
