Bernie Sanders functions as a political ‘sheepdog’
Today OffGuardian explores what Bernie Sanders represents to different Americans. For some he is a brave defender of forgotten principles, or at least a best alternative. For others he’s...
The West spreads intellectual idiocy
by Andre Vltchek at Counterpunch Could any dictator desire more? Almost the entire population of the Empire is now thinking the same way! The populace is “educated” at schools...
Into the Fire: the story of the 2010 Toronto G20 protests
While the Toronto G20 meeting was going on, armed police patrols in the city practiced zero-tolerance, seizing and locking up ordinary citizens on the flimsiest pretext. One man...
Financial Times: Ukraine’s Army is Falling Apart
by Roman Olearchyk via Russia Insider The article in the Financial Times which we reproduce below is remarkable. It completely contradicts the Western and Ukrainian media picture of the...
VIDEO: Guardian gets it wrong on Latin America. Again.
by teleSUR via Information Clearing House In an obvious parrallel with their awful, partisan coverage of the Maidan protests in Ukraine in 2013/14, the Guardian has been taken to...
People’s Assembly: “Academy bill is an attack on democracy”
Written for The People’s Assembly by the Anti Academies Alliance. Michael Gove, his replacement Nicky Morgan and Labour’s Andrew Adonis have claimed for nearly 10 years that converting schools...
Propaganda, Intelligence and MH-17
By Ray McGovern at Consortium News Propaganda is the life-blood of life-destroying wars, and the U.S. government has reached new heights (or depths) in this art of perception management....
The Plague of American Authoritarianism
Historical conjunctures produce different forms of authoritarianism, though they all share a hatred for democracy, dissent, and human rights. It is too easy to believe in a simplistic binary...
On meeting dodgy people
by Owen Jones on Tumblr Disclaimer: I’ve known Jeremy Corbyn for years, and I support his against-all-odds leadership campaign. In his decades of political activity, Jeremy Corbyn has attended...
Matisyahu in Spain and the BDS Inquisition
by Joshua Tartakovsky The decision to pressure a music festival in Spain to disinvite American-Jewish singer Matisyahu does smack of more than an iota of anti-Semitism. Supporters of the...
George Soros: fake progressive, friend of nazis
Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org OffG POV: It’s curious the way the same media that become tearful with outrage over Vladimir Putin’s alleged and so far entirely unsubstantiated...
Recommended reading for the BBC
by Danielle Ryan at Journalitico A very quick example of how outright falsehoods continue to weasel their way into the mainstream, despite all factual evidence to the contrary. This...
Boyle: New Pentagon War Manual Reduces Us To “Level of Nazis”
by Sherwood Ross The Pentagon’s new Law of War Manual(LOWM) sanctioning nuclear attacks and the killing of civilians, “reads like it was written by Hitler’s Ministry of War,” says...
Nuland’s Plan For The Balkans (And How It Can Dramatically Backfire) – Part I
By Andrew Koribko (originally published by The Saker on July 20, 2015) US regime change expert and architect of regional destabilization, Victoria Nuland, recently paid a visit to the...
VIDEO: Make Mine Freedom—1940s Propaganda Film
by Nathaniel Downes (first published on Addicting Info) The 1948 propaganda cartoon film “Make Mine Freedom” viewed almost 70 years on: Unions have been stripped of power, and now...
Is Putin planning to sell-out Assad?
by Mike Whitney at Counterpunch Moscow’s geostrategic objectives in Syria are the polar opposite of Washington’s. Grasping this simple fact is the easiest way to get a fix on...
Meet the ‘Moderates’ the U.S. Is Supporting in Syria: They’re al-Qaeda
byEric Zuesse, as originally published by Strategic-Culture.org Increasing evidence is coming in that the groups the U.S. is trying to install into power in Syria are actually contending groups...
ISIS in Afghanistan: Proxy War Against Iran and China
The nature of the war in Afghanistan has shifted dramatically in recent months. While the US and NATO continue to be actively involved in the country – their strategic...
Russian FM talks about MH17, Ukraine and Syria
Below is a transcript of this interview supplied to the Saker, by Singing Sam – Question: Mr. Lavrov, welcome to Conversation With. So, what do you have to say...
Noam Chomsky: “What exactly is the threat of Iran?”
The renowned US Foreign Policy critic says there was no need for a deal with Iran. He discusses this with Antonio Mora.
