Man critically injured by Baltimore police has died in hospital
From RT A man who was injured while being arrested in Baltimore last week has died, just hours after hundreds of people rallied outside Baltimore Police Station to protest...
Does Monsanto’s “discredit bureau” really exist?
by Stephanie Hampton Reuters is reporting that Monsanto is demanding a sit-down with members of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)....
The Rouble Rebounds – reasons to be cheerful
by tutisicecream You might be forgiven for thinking that Russia is all washed up because of the rouble crisis, but you’d be wrong. Back in December last year, Russia...
NATO Increasingly Surrounds the ‘Russian Threat’
by Eric Zuesse On Saturday, April 18th, the Commander of the U.S. Army in Europe, Ben Hodges, told Britain’s Telegraph that “There is a Russian threat,” and that “The...
German protests against TTIP
Reuters reports: Thousands of people marched in Berlin, Munich and other German cities on Saturday [April 18] in protest against a planned free trade deal between Europe and the...
DPR offers a new referendum
by Vaska Speaking last Thursday, DPR leader Alexander Zakharchenko announced that the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) authorities are willing to hold another referendum on the status of the republic to advance the political...
Neo-Nazis bomb an Orthodox church in Berlin
by Vaska As Viktor Gruzinov, who first aleterted me to this event with his post on Google+ points out, this sort of stuff never used to happen during the...
VIDEO: Mr. Poroshenko’s Recent Past
For those who may not have seen this mentioned in our mainstream media — how many of them ever referred to the positions Poroshenko held in the previous Ukrainian...
How it happened: The takedown of the OffGuardian.org original website
Our readers are no doubt wondering what happened to our old site OffGuardian.org. Why it was so suddenly shut down, and why we have had to relocate. In brief,...
Orwellian doublespeak at New York Times
by Jim Naureckas The New York Times headline (4/15/15) paints a dire picture: Turmoil at Voice of America Is Seen as Hurting US Ability to Counter Propaganda But wait...
TTIP vs Democracy: London activists to resist controversial EU-US trade deal
From RT Hundreds of political activists will gather in London on Saturday to protest a controversial EU-US trade agreement campaigners warn will enhance corporate power, and promote the privatization...
Escalation of US military involvement in Ukraine
by Vaska Earlier today, April 17, American ambassador in Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt announced on Twitter that 173rd Airborne troops had arrived in Ukraine to take part in the training...
NATO activity near Russian borders increased by 80%
Key excerpts from the IV Moscow Conference on International Security: “During this period, NATO created a grouping of its member states’ forces in the Baltic States, consisting of over...
CIA Black Sites and Washington’s Allies
They certainly sought to please in those initial dark days when a position at the NATO table was at stake. This was something of a New World Order –...
New Breakaway Republic in Ukraine to Join Donetsk and Luhansk Republics?
by Eric Zuesse A group of residents in the region of Odessa, one of Ukraine’s largest cities, is trying to break away from the Ukrainian government that was formed...
Remembering Eduardo Galeano, Champion of Social Justice
Remembering Eduardo Galeano, Champion of Social Justice & Chronicler of Latin America’s Open Veins Amy Goodman: The writer John Berger said of Eduardo Galeano: To publish Eduardo Galeano is...
Poroshenko Tries to Stop His Side’s Ceasefire Violations
by Eric Zuesse According to Donetsk People’s Republic Defense Minister Eduard Basurin, speaking Saturday April 11th, the recently reported ceasefire violations by the Ukrainian government’s side are violations by the Ukrainian...
Exceptional Hypocrisy: The Defining Principle of America’s Foreign Policy
From Russia Insider In the Bizarro universe inhabited by the western mainstream media, elite opinion makers and professional mouthpieces have completely abandoned fact-based journalism in favor of outright gaslighting...
The Nuland-Kagan plan to sink Minsk-2
Here‘s what Robert Parry, the American investigative journalist who broke many of the Iran-Contra stories in the 1980s for the Associated Press and Newsweek, has to tell us about...