Jonathan Freedland and the “Price Tag”
by LeanToTheLeft A response by CiFer “LeanToTheLeft” to the Guardian article “Israel’s hawks can’t dodge blame for this day of violence” “Israel’s hawks can’t dodge blame for this day...
U.S. Tries to Stir Ethnic Division in Crimea – but fails thus far
by Eric Zuesse On Saturday, August 1st, Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko (who now acknowledges that his government is illegitimate and that his predecessor Viktor Yanukovych was overthrown in a...
While others moan and rant, Jeremy Corbyn rocks
by Bryan Hemming You’ve got to love Albert Einstein. Nutty professor personified, he invented the atom bomb by mistake. I wish I could do stuff like that by scribbling...
The West, the Middle East and oil: a conspiracy theory?
by Ian Sinclair at Open Democracy This is a good summary of some of the under-reported realities of the Mid-East situation, though we could offer a caveat to its...
Viet Nam a half century later
by David Swanson Jimmy Carter called a war waged in Vietnam by the United States — a war that killed 60,000 Americans and 4,000,000 Vietnamese, without burning down a...
A small voice of reason in the newest wave of MH17 hysteria and lies
The West accuses Russia and the Donbass separatists of having brought down the plane with a Buk missile -- it's a lie....
So what is the real deal with Iran?
by The Saker I have to begin this column with a mea culpa: I have been predicting a US attack on Iran since at least 2007 and so far,...
World War 2: a just war?
by Ian Sinclair at the New Left Project Though I’ve forgotten an awful lot of my university education, one thing I do remember is one of my tutors arguing...
A brief history of Guatemalan genocide
By Eric Zuesse, as originally published at strategic-culture.org. On 8 July 2015, in a pervasively ignored but historically very important news event (briefly mentioned by the BBC), the only...
MH-17: Is the Truth Out There? Or has the US confined the real story to the X-Files?
by Jonathan Barrett Please note this is an opinion piece and not an opinion piece masquerading as a news report. You will find plenty of those in the mainstream...
Russian Duma dares to limit Imperial power
In a brazen move, designed to ensure that Russia is ruled by Russians, the Duma has passed laws limiting the powers of Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) to operate inside Russia....
George Clooney: fronting for US war interests, while posing as anti-war
George Clooney is being paid by the world’s top two war profiteers, Lockheed-Martin and Boeing, to oppose war profiteering by Africans disloyal to the U.S. government’s agenda.
The Road to Guantanamo (2006)
Three young British Muslims tell the story of how they came to be in US custody at Guantánamo for over two years, and the horrors that awaited them there…
Why Jeremy Corbyn is terrifying the London elite
by Craig Murray For a decade, I have argued that democracy in the UK is dysfunctional because an entrenched party system offers no real choice. The major parties offer...
Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Implies EU Membership Might Be Impossible
by Eric Zuesse Ukraine’s Euro-Integration website headlined on July 25th, “Klimkin: ‘If Ukraine Won’t Be an EU Member Within 5 Years, We Won’t Ever’,” and reported that, “Foreign Minister...
Beyond propaganda: the Russia-U.S. Conventional Military Balance
by The Saker at the Unz Review “The US military was never designed to fight a major war against a sophisticated enemy….As for the Russian military, it was designed...
Wes Clarke calls for internment camps for “radicalised Americans”
by Murtaza Hussain at the Intercept Retired general and former Democratic presidential candidate Wesley Clark on Friday called for World War II-style internment camps to be revived for “disloyal...
The Independent huffs and puffs on war
by Bryan Hemming “Anyone who never made a mistake never made anything” goes one of Albert Einstein’s most famous quotes. No, it doesn’t; I just checked, and I was...
Paul Mason’s Privileged Utopia
by Joshua Tartakovsky How should one view the economic crisis in Greece? Is it fair to view it not in isolation but as a harbinger to the end of...
Agency to Enslave Greeks Is Established
by Eric Zuesse Late on Thursday, July 16th, German Economic News headlined “Greece: Debt Restructuring Through the Back Door” and reported that: The majority of Greece’s national debt is...
