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...
The Caesar Photos and Impunity in Syria
by Steven Chovanec Western media are reporting headline claims that “new evidence supports claims about Syrian state detention deaths”, saying that “a leading rights group has released new evidence...
Obama Finally Commits to Putin’s Syrian Policy — A review of Germany’s DWN Reporting
by Eric Zuesse The basic policy-difference on Syria has been between U.S. president Barack Obama’s insistence that Syria’s legal president must be ousted before any peace-process starts, versus Russian...
Venezuela: A Revolution That Will Not Die
Author-selected excerpts from Eric Draister’s December 17, 2015 article on Venezuela. Much has been written about the outcome of Venezuela’s Dec. 6 legislative elections, with many of the analyses...
The Anti-Empire Report #141
by William Blum, at the Anti-Empire Report Questions to ask President Obama the next time (also the last time) you’re invited to one of his press conferences: Which is most...
Why the West Can Never Defeat or “Forgive” Russia
by Andre Vltchek, for New Eastern Outlook Historically and intuitively, Russia has fought for the survival of humanity. Of course, things are not always pronounced or defined in such...
VIDEO: NATO’s ‘secret’ war with Russia
Video from UK Indymedia World-class set of independent Syria experts pull Britain’s latest folly apart. Investigative reports: Interview with Mehrnaz Shahabi, an Iranian Bristolian, on Syria: Roland Dumas and...
Canada’s Band-Aid solution to refugees
by Mark Taliano, originally published here Canada is currently branding itself in terms of humanitarianism, and the concrete gesture of accepting Syrian refugees – of which families, women, children,...
Historic New Harpers Article Exposes Who Controls America
by Eric Zuesse There can be little doubt now: America’s decades-long catastrophic failures to make significant progress in eliminating even a single one of the numerous jihadist groups around...
Guardian Hack Trolls His Own Readers
by Bryan Hemming, December 18, 2015 Not content with the mobs of vacuous trolls funded by various British intelligence agencies constantly at each other’s throats in its comments sections,...
Guardian Watch 17/12/2015
from Seemorerocks It’s an old habit that is difficult to throw off. I have been accustomed, during my life (or at least for the last quarter-centrury) to rely on...
U.S. Ends Its Opposition to Democracy in Syria
by Eric Zuesse For the first time today (December 15th), the United States has publicly and officially accepted the position that Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.N. Secretary General...
Recep Tayyip Erdogan: Portrait of a Backstabbing Pasha
by James Petras, Get Smart, December 16, 2016 What Makes Recep Run? The Making of a Modern Pasha Erdoğan began his ascent to power as a social reformer in opposition...
GLADIO: GLOBAL – Gangs & Counter Gangs in Europe, Northern Ireland, Iraq, Syria
from 21st Century Wire General Sir Anthony Farrar-Hockley, a former commander-in-chief of NATO forces in northern Europe said…that a covert intelligence service was set up in Italy with the...
AUDIO: US-Russia Talks on Syria; Shanghai Cooperation Organization Meets in Zhengzhou
Eric Draitser of Stop Imperialism appears on CPR News (Dec. 15, 2015) to discuss the latest talks between US Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov and...
France ceases to be a democracy: Now what?
by Karen Szymczyk December 13 was important for the Middle East in at least two ways. In a move of increasing brinkmanship, a Turkish fishing boat (“seine” vessel) tried...
