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The Sauds’ Impunity

by Eric Zuesse No matter how bad the fundamentalist Sunni-Islamic Saud royal family are, America’s government still supports them...

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America Is Being Destroyed By Problems That Are Unaddressed

by Paul Craig Roberts One hundred years ago European civilization, as it had been known, was ending its life...

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A Sultanate of Kitsch: The Gezi Park Protests, Islamic Revival and Ottoman Nostalgia

by Can Erimtan, New Eastern Outlook The world is now taking notice of Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party...

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Just Ideas Will Triumph or Disaster Will Triumph

by Fidel Castro Ruz, 1 September 2014 Translated by Joshua Tartakovsky The world hasn’t had a respite from war...

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Reformed, Disciplined and Humiliated UNESCO

by Andre Vltchek, First appeared in New Eastern Outlook, November 20, 2015 Lately, the cabinet of Japan’s Prime Minister,...

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Horrid Carcass of Indonesia – 50 Years After the Coup

by Andre Vltchek Last year, I stopped travelling to Indonesia. I simply did… I just could not bear being...

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Huxley to Orwell: contrasting dystopias

When George Orwell published his seminal work, Nineteen Eighty-Four, he asked his publishers to send a copy to Aldous...

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70 years after the world’s first real taste of US “exceptionalism”

August 6 1945 the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Approximately 70,000...

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Why Americans believe bombing Hiroshima was necessary

by Gary G. Kohls MD August 6, 2015, is the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, a...

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World War 2: a just war?

by Ian Sinclair at the New Left Project Though I’ve forgotten an awful lot of my university education, one...

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“Modern art was CIA ‘weapon'”

by BlackCatte The article below was first published in the Independent, in 1995. It makes the surprising and rather...

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The Lincoln controversy…

The150th anniversary of the death of Abraham Lincoln and the end of hostilities in the American Civil War, has...

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Remembering the Paris Commune

This week marks the 144th anniversary of "La Semaine Sanglante" - the final and bloody suppression of the revolutionary...

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VIDEO: Happy 100th Anniversary, Poison Gas! The dark legacy of Bayer

As the world marks the passing of the 100th anniversary of the use of poison gas on the battlefield,...

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