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Why Calling the US a ‘Democracy’ Is Both False & Dangerous

It’s false because it is definitely untrue, and that’s not merely because America has a higher percentage of its...

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Jess Phillips Emerges as Establishment Pick to Replace Corbyn

Kit Knightly

It seems The Times is willing to give column inches to any Labour MP willing to insult and undermine...

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Douma “Chemical Attack”: Still Waiting for an Apology

As in so many of Australia’s military forays around the world, the legal basis for the Syria involvement is...

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The Orientalism of Western Russophobia

Last year marked the 40th anniversary of the publication of Edward W. Said’s pioneering book, Orientalism, as well as...

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Anti-Capitalism is NOT Anti-Semitism

Kit Knightly

Austerity is a brutal crime against humanity. The rich get richer whilst the poor are starving. The 1% deserve...

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The Skripal Case: One Year On

Dear Assistant Commissioner Basu, It is now a year since the events in Salisbury that shocked the nation, and indeed...

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Crocodile Tears for Venezuela

On 26 February, Stephen Hickey, UK political coordinator at the United Nations, delivered a statement at the Security Council...

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Beyond Reason

The Williamson case demonstrates only too clearly that anti-Semitism is no longer an issue that may be discussed in...

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The Magic Socialist

So here it is, the announcement we’ve been waiting for … all aboard for another cruise on the new...

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Venezuela: An Open Letter to the UN Secretary General

The most noble task of the United Nations is to create the conditions conducive to local, regional and international...

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Leavings

Tony Benn used to say that he grew more radical as he got older. As in many things,...

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How America’s Dictatorship Works

This is how America’s dictatorship works. This is not America’s exceptionalism: it is America’s ordinariness. America’s Founders had wanted...

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Hands Off Venezuela, Canada and US Go Home!

What is happening to Venezuela is a coup d'état and it has nothing to do with democracy, human rights,...

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10 reasons the Gilets Jaunes are the real deal

Ontological security, everybody needs it, but right now it’s in short supply especially in big metropolitan cities. No wonder...

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Oil, Agriculture and Imperialism: Averting the Fast-Track to Armageddon?

US global hegemony depends on Washington maintaining the dollar’s leading role. Engaging in petrodollar recycling and treasury-bond ‘super-imperialism’ are...

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The Sarin Storyteller

The problem for us “dissidents” – which is to say for the most part “pro-Russian dissidents” – is that...

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“New Knowledge” and the same old same old

Kit Knightly

Most of us in the UK-based alternate media are familiar with the Integrity Initiative by now. A disinformation campaign...

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The CIA Then and Now: Old Wine in New Bottles

The Nazis had a name for their propaganda and mind-control operations: weltanschauungskrieg – “world view warfare.” As good...

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Venezuela: a study in opinion manufacture

Today’s Observer runs an editorial on Why Venezuela needs consensus, not conflict. It opens with the image shown above,...

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Mister Charlie Told Me So

Say what you will about the current zeitgeist, at least it’s often entertaining … albeit in a psychotic Charlie...

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