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The 2001 Anthrax Deception

Antony C. Black If the notion that, ‘truth always lies 180 degrees opposite to the direction pointed by the...

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REVIEW: Israel, a Beachhead…

Philip Roddis This book is a timely response to three groups: Those yet to grasp that Israel in its...

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REVIEW: American Exceptionalism and American Innocence

David William Pear Roberto Sirvent and Danny Haiphong have explored the albatross of myths, legends, lies and damn lies...

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REVIEW: Revolution in the Red States

Tony Sutton If you’re one of those sophisticated urbanites who still believe Donald Trump was elected to the US...

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REVIEW: Generations apart – high hopes and stolen dreams

>There was a time, in the not-so-distant past, when the English fishing town of Grimsby proudly lived up to...

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Answering the Mysterious Call of An Artist’s Spiritual Vocation

Edward Curtin Friend, hope for the Guest while you are alive.” Kabir, To Be a Slave of Intensity Strange...

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“Only little people pay taxes.”

The Wheel of History Turns To understand the present, we must understand the past, and possibly the future direction...

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The CIA Takeover of America in the 1960s is the Story of Our Times

A Quasi-Review of A Lie Too Big To Fail: The Real History of the Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy...

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BOOK REVIEW: ‘Gaza’ by Norman G Finklestein

o, the ultimate question is, do Palestinians have the right to symbolically resist slow death punctuated by periodic massacres,...

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Why has CounterPunch spiked Andre Vltchek’s ‘Lies of the Empire’?

Ramin Mazaheri I first started reading Andre Vltchek on the website CounterPunch, which is a truly great leftist website…...

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A Taxing Question: Re-reading Piketty

This book by Thomas Piketty was first published in 2014 and became an instant best seller. It had taken...

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REVIEW: David Ray Griffin, The American Trajectory – Divine or Demonic?

by David Lorimer     The American Trajectory – Divine or Demonic David Ray Griffin Clarity Press Inc, 2018,...

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The EU: From Social-Democratic Dream to Neoliberal Nightmare

Frank Lee Reviews The Left Case Against the EU by Costas Lapavitsas Britain, in the shape of Conservative Prime...

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And That’s The Way It Is

The Essential U.S. Journalism Books of 2018 James McEnteer Two very different reporters dig deep beneath the mainstream media...

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BOOK REVIEW: Injustice – The Story of the Holy Land Foundation Five

Vacy Vlazna Survive prison I must, for when I come out I would hold no grudges, or hate, or...

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Against the Stream

So, when did the Trente Glorieuses (1945-1975) end, and the great counter-reformation begin exactly? Some would argue when...

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The Quiet Imperialism

Frank Lee reviews Beyond US Hegemony by Egyptian economist Samir Amin, who died earlier this year. This work was...

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REVIEW: High Magick By Damien Echols

Hope K If I were to pick one word to sum up Damien Echols’ new book, High Magick: A Guide...

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Review: Unprecedented Crime

The unprecedented crime Peter Carter and Elizabeth Woodworth refer to in the title is that of willfully causing global...

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Book Review: Propaganda Blitz – How Corporate Media Distort Reality

We’ve heard a good deal of late about Western democracy, and I for one don’t knock it. I think...

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