Anatomy of a hatchet job: Regarding Women Cross DMZ in CNN’s Situation Room
By Gregory Elich in Monthly Review A television news program opens with a clip of marching soldiers, an obligatory image when the subject is North Korea. A voice-over intones:...
Hollande to Poroshenko: “Non, non, et non”
by Vaska Petro Poroshenko’s visit to Paris this Wednesday seems to have ended more as a personal holiday for the Chocolate King of Ukraine than a meaningful mission to...
Libertarians’ Civil War Over Ukraine
by Eric Zuesse On the one hand, Andrei Illarionov of the Koch Brothers’ libertarian Cato Institute says that the first among “the crimes that have been committed or are...
The Power of Nightmares (2005)
Produced by the BBC in 2005, this short documentary series dares to question the Terrorism narrative. It probably does not go far enough, and elides many issues that demand...
Even DemocracyNow! Fudges It on Ukraine
Or, What the Americans Are Not Being Told Even Democracy Now!, like the PBS, can’t bring itself to tell the American public their army is now training neo-Nazis in...
“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...
