The New Colonialism: Greece and Ukraine

by Jack Rasmus Greece and Ukraine represent the development of a new, more direct management of wealth extraction. A new form of colonialism is emerging in Europe. Not colonialism...

VIDEO: Tony Benn speech on the aims of Thatcherite policies

The late Tony Benn speaks out about the real aims of the banking industry, debt slavery, and the policies of pro-business politicians from Thatcher to the present day. Short...

MH17 One Year On: What Really Happened and Why

Last month marked the one year anniversary of the downing of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 – an incident that took place against a backdrop of a brutal proxy war...

The Secret Agenda Behind the Venezuela-Guyana Conflict

by Eva Golinger, via Counter Punch It all began in 1835 when the British Empire sent a German-born naturalist and explorer to conduct geographical research in the South American...

Bernie Sanders versus Obama & the Clintons: The Big Difference

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...

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...