Letter to Doctors Without Borders

by Ron West I had supported Doctors Without Borders because they had been apolitical, and largely neutral in conflicts. This neutrality had begun a process of erosion in Syria....

Propaganda as “News”: Ecuador Sells out Indigenous and the Environment to China

by Stansfield Smith The end of January a news article appeared, “Ecuador To Sell A Third Of Its Amazon Rainforest To Chinese Oil Companies,” and has resurfaced again and...

Aleppo: The Corporate Media Credibility Gap

by Bryan Hemming Less than four years ago, Aleppo was a prosperous and beautiful city. Christians and Muslims lived side by side, as did Sunni and Shia. A tolerant...

Syria’s President Assad Amnesties Syria’s Draft-Evaders

by Eric Zuesse Syria’s President, Bashar al-Assad, issued on February 17th, a decree: …granting a general amnesty for military deserters inside and outside the country and the crimes included...

How a Candidate’s Mega-Donors Get Served After the Election

by Eric Zuesse An example will be described here of a way in which corrupt Presidential candidates load up their campaigns’ advertising budgets by pushing for policies to increase...

Ruffled Petals at the Guardian

by Bryan Hemming In another principled stand against information it doesn’t like very much the Guardian has made it quite clear that anyone linking to the renegade Off-Guardian site...

Observer wants us all to forget 9/11 and embrace al Qaida as the friendly face of mass murder

The Graun’s recent (anonymously authored) “Observer view on…” reads like sullen teenage grafitti. Rddled with ignorance and misinformation, it would more fittingly be scribbled in the back of an...

Putin's Prophesies – His Munich Speech Warnings from 2007 All Coming True

via Russia Insider Nine years after Russian President Vladimir Putin warned the world against irresponsible US policies spreading instability and threats of new wars around the world, those dangers...

Now we are One…

One year ago today five (as we then were) longtime Guardian readers who were being repeatedly censored in and banished from the ironically titled "Comment is Free" sections, got...

A New Movement or the Next Dud?

Starting last October, with the prospects of a true left coming to power in Greece itself crushed for now by the re-election of the Tsipras-led Syriza government, the former...

The War Prayer – Mark Twain

by Bryan Hemming As a child, Mark Twain was one of my favourite authors. Each day I would eagerly await the end of afternoon classes when our teacher would...

Freeing Julian Assange: the last chapter

by John Pilger One of the epic miscarriages of justice of our time is unravelling. The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention – the international tribunal that adjudicates...

Fancy a Trip to Russia? Better Not. It's The '11th Most Dangerous' Country in the World.

by Danielle Ryan, via Russia Insider Better travel to Ukraine, Mexico, Colombia, Mali, Mauretania, Yemen, Libya, Turkey or Egypt instead. If you’re perusing the holiday brochures any time soon,...

Google: Lost in translation?

by Seamus Padraig In an article sure to breathe life into the old conspiracy theories about Silicon Valley and the CIA, The Guardian recently reported that: Google has fixed...

U.S. & Allies Make bin Laden Admirer a Negotiator in Syria Peace Talks

by Eric Zuesse On January 25th, which was the date when peace talks on Syria were to start, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry insisted that the organization founded...

Geneva talks delay exposes (again) US links to terrorism

By Finian Cunningham at the American Herald Tribune As is often the case, you have to read between the lines to parse the truth about Syria –or indeed many...

Putin Calls Out Obama on a Big Lie

by Eric Zuesse In 2009, US President Obama said that the missile defense only serves as protection from Iranian nuclear missiles. But now there is an international treaty with...

VIDEO: The curious incident of the polonium in the nightclub – UPDATED

This short, ever so slightly tongue-in-cheek, documentary interviews material witnesses and renowned experts to probe into some of the gaping holes left in the official “explanation” of Mr Litvinenko’s...

The 21st Century: An Era Of Fraud

In the last years of the 20th century fraud entered US foreign policy in a new way. On false pretenses Washington dismantled Yugoslavia and Serbia in order to...

Canada’s Shame

by Mark Taliano Canadians should be hanging their heads in shame. Our government is guilty of the most egregious criminal acts as defined by Nuremberg Principles, and we are...