Has the Obama-Appointed Head of Ukraine Been Ousted?

by Eric Zuesse Arseniy Yatsenyuk, the banker whom, on 4 February 2014, U.S. President Barack Obama’s Assistant Secretary of State for European & Eurasian Affairs instructed the U.S. Ambassador would...

German Economic News Interviews Seymour Hersh on Obama’s Syria Policy

by Eric Zuesse, summary translation from the German: On January 14th, German Economic News interviewed the investigative reporter Seymour Hersh regarding Obama’s war against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad: German...

How Corrupt the U.S. Is: An Extraordinary Example

by Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org Even if it might be the case that incarceration rates don’t necessarily correlate with corruption, they do necessarily reflect the extent to...

Russia to EU: Dump the TTIP and embrace the Eurasian Union

Translated from German by Tom Winter, for FortRuss January 7, 2015, Deutsche Wirtschafts Nachrichten Reposted here January 9, 2016 Russia has presented a surprising proposal for overcoming tensions with...

Western Hegemony Versus Russian Sanity

by Mark Taliano One of the unstated goals of imperial warfare is to make hapless civilians pay a price for having the temerity to be born in a targeted...

Latin America Has to Fight and Win!

by Andre Vltchek, republished from Counterpunch For now, Argentina is lost and Venezuela is deeply wounded, divided and frustrated. Virtually everywhere in socialist Latin America, well-orchestrated and angry protests...

TransCanada’s $15B Lawsuit Against U.S. on Keystone XL Presents Strong Case

by Eric Zuesse TransCanada, the Canadian company that had been planning to build and own its proposed Keystone XL Pipeline carrying Canada’s tar-sands oil to Texas Gulf Coast refineries...

Reality Peeks Through in Ukraine

With corruption rampant and living standards falling, Ukraine may become the next failed state that 'benefited' from a neoconservative-driven 'regime change,' though the blame will always be placed elsewhere...

A New Year’s message from the Zapatistas: “We chose life”

Republished from ROAR Good evening, good day compañeras and compañeros, today we are here to celebrate the 22nd anniversary of the beginning of the war against oblivion. For more...

A New Saudi War Crime in Yemen

by Vaska As FortRuss reported on January 6, the Saudi Air Force has bombed a centre for the blind in the Yemeni capital Sana’a, leaving at least 3 dead....

Some questions for the Pentagon

by Vaska Pentagon’s most recent briefing and its figures on ISIL numbers in Iraq and Syria raise a lot of questions:  1.  Who is enabling the continuing influx of...

The Sauds’ Impunity

by Eric Zuesse No matter how bad the fundamentalist Sunni-Islamic Saud royal family are, America’s government still supports them and condemns the countries that the Sauds hate: those are...

America’s Now-Aggressive War Against Russia

by Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org America’s aristocracy is determined to take over Russia. Ever since the end of the Soviet Union and of its communism, the Cold...

CPR on Nigeria, Burundi, and Venezuela

Eric Draitser of StopImperialism.org and journalist and broadcaster Don DeBar discuss on CPR on Sunday, January 3, 2016, the latest developments in Africa and Latin America. Eric and Don...

Syria: The Middle Eastern Stalingrad

by Andre Vltchek, NEO Day and night, for years, an overwhelming force has been battering this quiet nation, one of the cradles of human civilization. Hundreds of thousands have...

IMF's Rogues Gallery: Crooks, Rapists and Swindlers

by James Petras, December 28, 2015 The IMF is the leading international monetary agency whose public purpose is to maintain the stability of the global financial system through loans linked to...

Two Mainstream U.S. ‘Journalists’ Provide Stenographic ‘News’ Report — U.S. Anti-Russia Propaganda

by Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org This is the story of an ordinary article by two well-known American ‘journalists’ who market the aristocracy’s lies as ‘news,’ so that...

America Is Being Destroyed By Problems That Are Unaddressed

by Paul Craig Roberts One hundred years ago European civilization, as it had been known, was ending its life in the Great War, later renamed World War I. Millions...

War Fraud: The Great Lies Behind Imperial Warfare in the 21st Century

The “War On Terror” and “The War On Drugs” are both fraudulent, and they are both related. In a classic example of “reverse projection", the "War on Terror” is...

Gallup: Ukrainians Loathe the Government Obama Imposed

by Eric Zuesse On December 23rd, Gallup headlines “Ukrainians Disillusioned With Leadership,” and reports that “nearly nine in 10 Ukrainians (88%) say corruption is widespread in their government, and about eight...