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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...
Jess Phillips Emerges as Establishment Pick to Replace Corbyn
It seems The Times is willing to give column inches to any Labour MP willing to insult and undermine...
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...
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...
Anti-Capitalism is NOT Anti-Semitism
Austerity is a brutal crime against humanity. The rich get richer whilst the poor are starving. The 1% deserve...
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...
Crocodile Tears for Venezuela
On 26 February, Stephen Hickey, UK political coordinator at the United Nations, delivered a statement at the Security Council...
Beyond Reason
The Williamson case demonstrates only too clearly that anti-Semitism is no longer an issue that may be discussed in...
The Magic Socialist
So here it is, the announcement we’ve been waiting for … all aboard for another cruise on the new...
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...
Leavings
Tony Benn used to say that he grew more radical as he got older. As in many things,...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
The Sarin Storyteller
The problem for us “dissidents” – which is to say for the most part “pro-Russian dissidents” – is that...
“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...
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...
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,...
Mister Charlie Told Me So
Say what you will about the current zeitgeist, at least it’s often entertaining … albeit in a psychotic Charlie...
