“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...
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...
