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How Chrystia Freeland Organized Donald Trump’s Coup in Venezuela
Eric Zuesse On Monday, February 5th, Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland announced that the 14 countries of the Lima...
Getting Out of Afghanistan, Staying Out of Venezuela
David Lindsay As it was always going to do, the war in Afghanistan is culminating in the victory of...
“New Knowledge” and the same old same old
Most of us in the UK-based alternate media are familiar with the Integrity Initiative by now. A disinformation campaign...
Goodbye ‘Freedom and Democracy’ – Hello ‘Rules-based International Order’
Paul Carline The banner and the clarion call of western countries, and their own asserted legitimation – especially when...
Conflict is Inevitable
Eddison Flame If you’re anything like me, you’ve been absolutely apoplectic this past week watching the United States orchestrate...
Venezuela? The bad guys are on Wall St.
Philip Roddis With Washington talking up a military coup (Democrats for once in no hurry to berate Trump on...
The Gilet Jaune and ‘France Profonde’
On the 12th December The Guardian published an article entitled ‘If you want to understand the Gilets Jaunes you...
Mobilize and defend Venezuela
It is new and it is not new, but it is tremendously wicked and deadly – the latest type...
Selling Integrity
David Macilwain Ever since Dud and Pete put a price on “Integrity” in their Welsh music teacher sketch of...
Over 70 Experts Call for US to Stop Interfering in Venezuela
via Venezuelan Analysis, 24 January 2019 Noam Chomsky, Alfred de Zayas, Sujatha Fernandes, Boots Riley, John Pilger, Vijay Prashad and many...
Brexit: Who will speak for us?
David Lindsay It gives me no pleasure to say this, but it is clearly the case. No Deal is...
Open Thread: US Backs anti-Maduro Coup in Venezuela
In a move that many of us saw coming, the US has backed efforts to force Nicolas Maduro from...
Fighting Poverty with a Hate Map?
Eve Mykytyn The name, ‘The Southern Poverty Law Center’ (SPLC) is misleading. The SPLC does little to alleviate poverty,...
“Conspiracy theories” believed by “significant minority”
A revealing observation is contained in a recent UK government report UK FOREIGN POLICY IN A SHIFTING WORLD ORDER...
Main Street, Brexitland
Tony Sutton People in England’s northern towns and cities are scared. Their fears stoked by xenophobic right-wing media, they...
Breast cancer, feminism & Israeli warplanes
Philip Roddis I’m critical of identity politics both in its passive form, as theory-lite substitute for class analyses of...
Disbelief, Magic Realism and Doublethink Alive and Well in 2018
James O’Neill In the Lyrical Ballads, a collection of essays and poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge,...
Discuss: Brexit deal vote looms
Tonight, any time now, the UK Parliament will vote on whether or not accept Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit...
From Baghdad to Finland and All Across the World: What’s the US Up To?
We are publishing here two articles on this subject from Helsinki Times, dated December 29, 2018 and January 1,...
The War on Populism
Remember when the War on Terror ended and the War on Populism began? That’s OK, no one else does. It...