Iran Holds Legislative Polls after A Frenzied Week of Campaigning
Alireza Hashemi With the campaign season over as of Thursday morning, the countdown to the 11th vote for the Islamic Consultative Assembly has begun. For over a week, candidates...
Apocalypse Now! Insects, Pesticides and a Public Health Crisis
Colin Todhunter In 2017, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Hilal Elver, and UN Special Rapporteur on Toxics, Baskut Tuncak, produced a report that called for a...
Pardoning Julian Assange: Donald Trump, WikiLeaks and the DNC
Binoy Kampmark The central pillar to Democratic paranoia and vengefulness regarding the loss of Hillary Clinton in 2016 was the link between Russian hacking, the servers of the Democratic...
Telecom Jackboot: A 5G Kick to the Groin
Daniel Broudy, Tabe Bergman, and Ed Rankin The latest advances in networked technology hold the promise of lifting millions of people out of poverty. Take 5G. It is hyper-fast...
Censorship is the death of Democracy
Eric Zuesse No democracy can survive censorship. If there is censorship, then each individual cannot make his/her own decisions (voting decisions or otherwise) on the basis of truth but...
Intelligence Spats: Australia, Britain and Huawei
Binoy Kampmark A note of fraternal tension has been registered between the United Kingdom and Australia. It began with Britain’s decision to permit China’s technology giant Huawei a role...
Could Ankara’s temper tantrum lead to escalation in Syria?
Andre Vltchek So far Turkey, militarily the second mightiest NATO country, has been able to get away with virtually anything it has chosen to brew in the Middle East....
Buying Elections: The Bloomberg Meme Campaign
Binoy Kampmark Interfering, corrupting and altering the views of electors is apparently frowned upon. But it all depends on who that manipulating source is. The Russians might be condemned...
BT Cotton: Cultivating Farmer Distress in India
Colin Todhunter This month, India’s Supreme Court will hold a lengthy hearing on the commercialisation of genetically modified (GM) mustard, which would be the country’s first GM food crop....
Policy of Self-Destruction: Turkey supplying military equipment to Syrian “moderates”
Ahmed Al-Khaled Amid a surge in military operations in Idlib governorate, Turkey has been gradually escalating military provocations, creating obstacles to the advance of the Syrian Arab Army. Currently,...
Painting A True Christ: A Review of Terrence Malik’s “A Hidden Life”
Edward Curtin There’s an early scene in Terrence Malik’s masterful new film – what I would call a moving painting – where the central character Franz Jägerstätter, an Austrian...
Trump’s Karmic Test
Renée Parsons For those who believe that there is more to life than just the physical, material world, the role of karma is well understood. Popularly known as what-goes-...
Fascism in Ukraine: the conspiracy of silence
Joseph Altham The rise of the far right in Ukraine is one of the most disturbing trends in 21st century Europe. But it’s a story you rarely get to...
Imperialism and Liberation in the Middle East
Written by Pål Steigan, translated by Terje Maloy At the moment, the United States has great difficulty in retaining its hegemony in the Middle East. Its troops have been...
Neo-McCarthyite Witchhunters Hypocritically Mourn Kirk Douglas
Matthew Ehret Hollywood film legend Kirk Douglas’ passing on February 5th at the age of 103 has resulted in a sickening level of hypocrisy from the leftist mainstream media...
Assange Extradition: Blatant Judicial Double Standards
The Cynic The judge who was previously in charge of the Julian Assange extradition case was in the headlines again over another extradition case, this time refusing to extradite...
Are You Now or Have You Ever Been a Believer in Biological Sex?
Bruce Lesnick In the 1940s and 50s, advocating Karl Marx’s critique of capitalism could get you fired from your job, blacklisted, deplatformed and even imprisoned. Though communists and socialists...
Bernie Sanders’ Commie Kill Swarm
CJ Hopkins America just can’t catch a break. After three long years of brutal oppression under Donald Trump’s Russia-backed Nazi Reich, it turns out the only Democratic candidate with...
The USA’s Doll House: A Vast Tapestry of Lies and Illusions
Edward Curtin This is an updated and revised version of the full cover-story that appeared in the important publication, garrison: The Journal of History and Deep Politics, Issue 003....
WaPo, CNN pile on in attempt to discredit American Herald Tribune
Prof. Anthony Hall In responding to an attack on a media venue about which I care a lot, this Canadian from Alberta Canada is being pulled into the swamp....
