Lead Us Not Into Oblivion
W Stephen Gilbert The simple response of course is to blame it all on Corbyn. Let’s face it, no more comprehensive bogeyman has ever been offered to the British...
Short of Time: Julian Assange at the Westminster Magistrates Court
Binoy Kampmark London. Another slot of judicial history, another notch to be added to the woeful record of legal proceedings being undertaken against Julian Assange. The ailing WikiLeaks founder...
Sudden resignation of Russian PM Medvedev & his govt
In a wide-ranging speech on Wednesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin made several key announcements. (You can read a full English transcript here). Although he touched on benefits, pensions and...
TRANSCRIPT: Putin’s Address to the Federal Assembly
Below is a full (translated) transcript of Vladimir Putin’s speech to the Federal Assembly on Wednesday the 15th of January 2020. It is taken from the Kremlin’s official website,...
What “community standards” did this comment breach? #25
The following comment – sent in to us by a reader – was censored by The Guardian. Which of the well-publicised CiF “community standards” did it breach? Removed comment,...
US Military Spending: TRILLIONS of Dollars Unaccounted For
Eric Zuesse This article from 21 July 2017 is here updated and expanded to the present; and the dead links in it have been replaced by functional (this time,...
The day Gaza becomes uninhabitable
by Anna Majavu, New Frame, January 13, 2020 In 2012, the United Nations published research suggesting that by 2016, the main aquifer supplying water to about two million Palestinian...
World War III
CJ Hopkins So, 2020 is off to an exciting start. It’s barely the middle of January, and we’ve already made it through World War III, which was slightly less...
GM in India: Faking it on the Astroturf
Colin Todhunter According to a recent report in The Hindu Business Line, India’s intelligence agencies are investigating the role of a global investment company and international seed companies in supporting farmers...
Downing of PS-752 already being used to smear MH-17 skeptics
Max Parry When the Pentagon confirmed the assassination of Iranian Major General Qasem Soleimani, U.S. President Donald Trump took to social media to post a single image of the...
Is the US Now at War Against Iraq AND Iran?
Eric Zuesse On January 9th, Iraq’s Prime Minister and Parliament again ordered all American troops out, but on January 10th the AP headlined “US dismisses Iraq request to work...
DISCUSS: Iran Admit to Shooting Down Ukrainian Passenger Flight
Earlier today, President Rouhanie of Iran formally admitted that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps had shot down the Ukrainian passenger jet leaving Tehran a few days ago. Speculation has...
What About “Whataboutism.”
Vladimir Golstein Wikipedia – the most popular source of information for most people – boldly announces: “Whataboutism, also known as whataboutery, is a variant of the tu quoque logical...
WATCH: Sacha Baron Cohen is Wrong About Everything
Have you seen Sacha Baron Cohen’s latest character? He’s masquerading as a person who wants to preserve free speech by censoring free speech, and as usual his audience is...
Iran’s Hero Has Fallen, Leaving the World a More Dangerous Place
Andre Vltchek They say he came from a humble background, and worked himself up the ranks, becoming, as many believe, the second most powerful man in Iran. They say...
Disruptive Assassinations: Killing Qassem Soleimani
Binoy Kampmark On the surface, it made not one iota of sense. The murder of a foreign military leader on his way from Baghdad airport, his diplomatic status assured...
Capitalism and the Gut-Wrenching Hijack of India
Colin Todhunter In India, the ‘development’ paradigm is premised on moving farmers out of agriculture and into the cities to work in construction, manufacturing or the service sector, despite...
“I am France” – No one is calling this a revolution, but it is
David Studdert Five days ago, the 2nd of January, French strikers set a new record for consecutive days on strike: 29. This beats the 28 days registered in 1968....
The Searching Life and Enigmatic Death of Albert Camus
Edward Curtin Everyone wants the man who is still searching to have already reached his conclusions. A thousand voices are already telling him what he has found, and yet...
(Neo)Liberalism and its Discontents
Frank Lee FROM CLASSICAL LIBERALISM TO NEO-LIBERALISM The contemporary neo-liberal coalition consisting politically of a centre-left, centre, and centre-right – what we might call the neo-liberal blob – has...
