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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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
“Modern art was CIA ‘weapon'”
by BlackCatte The article below was first published in the Independent, in 1995. It makes the surprising and rather...
The Lincoln controversy…
The150th anniversary of the death of Abraham Lincoln and the end of hostilities in the American Civil War, has...
Remembering the Paris Commune
This week marks the 144th anniversary of "La Semaine Sanglante" - the final and bloody suppression of the revolutionary...
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,...
