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In Syria, Putin Calls Obama’s Bluff, Joins War Against ISIS

by Eric Zuesse According to German Economic News (September 1st, based on reports from ynetnews and others), Russia’s President...

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VIDEO: Tony Benn speech on the aims of Thatcherite policies

The late Tony Benn speaks out about the real aims of the banking industry, debt slavery, and the policies...

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MH17 One Year On: What Really Happened and Why

Last month marked the one year anniversary of the downing of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 – an incident that...

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The Secret Agenda Behind the Venezuela-Guyana Conflict

by Eva Golinger, via Counter Punch It all began in 1835 when the British Empire sent a German-born naturalist...

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Bernie Sanders functions as a political ‘sheepdog’

Today OffGuardian explores what Bernie Sanders represents to different Americans. For some he is a brave defender of forgotten...

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People’s Assembly: “Academy bill is an attack on democracy”

Written for The People’s Assembly by the Anti Academies Alliance. Michael Gove, his replacement Nicky Morgan and Labour’s Andrew...

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Propaganda, Intelligence and MH-17

By Ray McGovern at Consortium News Propaganda is the life-blood of life-destroying wars, and the U.S. government has reached...

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The Plague of American Authoritarianism

Historical conjunctures produce different forms of authoritarianism, though they all share a hatred for democracy, dissent, and human rights....

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Matisyahu in Spain and the BDS Inquisition

by Joshua Tartakovsky The decision to pressure a music festival in Spain to disinvite American-Jewish singer Matisyahu does smack...

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George Soros: fake progressive, friend of nazis

Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org OffG POV: It’s curious the way the same media that become tearful with...

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Boyle: New Pentagon War Manual Reduces Us To “Level of Nazis”

by Sherwood Ross The Pentagon’s new Law of War Manual(LOWM) sanctioning nuclear attacks and the killing of civilians, “reads...

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Nuland’s Plan For The Balkans (And How It Can Dramatically Backfire) – Part I

By Andrew Koribko (originally published by The Saker on July 20, 2015) US regime change expert and architect of...

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VIDEO: Make Mine Freedom—1940s Propaganda Film

by Nathaniel Downes (first published on Addicting Info) The 1948 propaganda cartoon film “Make Mine Freedom” viewed almost 70...

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The philosopher of surveillance

by Peter Maas at the Intercept ARE YOU THE SOCRATES of the National Security Agency? That was the question...

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Ukraine fails to secure debt write-off at US talks – RT

Ukraine’s Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk and Finance Minister Natalia Yaresko in Kiev (Reuters) by Systematic RT reports: Ukraine failed...

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Neo-Nazi summer camp in Ukraine

Photo © vk.com/tabir.azovec by Systematic A group belonging to the Ukranian Azovets summer camp on the Vkontakte social network...

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Noam Chomsky: “What exactly is the threat of Iran?”

The renowned US Foreign Policy critic says there was no need for a deal with Iran. He discusses this...

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It’s up to Europe, really

by Vaska For the past two years, the European Leadership Network (ELN) has been issuing a steady stream of...

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“Illegal and immoral act of aggression”

by Vaska In its latest retrospective piece on Iraq and the US policy in the Arab world, Truthout cites...

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Putin Giving Up on Assad, Says Erdogan

by Eric Zuesse Turkey’s President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, was asked by an interviewer last week: On the question of...

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