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The Art of Doublespeak: Bellingcat and Mind Control

Edward Curtin In the 1920s, the influential American intellectual Walter Lippman argued that the average person was incapable of...

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Armenian genocide resolution reaffirms the ‘g-word’ is a tool for US interests

Max Parry Last month, the US House of Representatives voted in an overwhelming bipartisan majority to officially recognize the...

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Green Fields of France

OffGuardian has covered the first World War at length. We have a category for it. We have deconstructed the...

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American Conspiracies & Cover-ups

Douglas Cirignano In today’s world, the phrase “conspiracy theory” is pejorative and has a negative connotation. To many people,...

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WATCH: Days of Judgement: Salem Witch Trials

The salem witch Trials stand as a warning that justice can always be miscarried, when authorities become determined to...

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No, Srebrenica did not ‘inspire’ Christchurch

Max Parry Earlier this month, popular ‘progressive’ news website The Intercept published an article entitled “From El Paso to...

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The Great Fire of London – Cui Bono?

It is now 353 years since the Great Fire of London, a fire that caused the destruction of 436...

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Postmodernism: The Ideological Embellishment of Neoliberalism

Robert Pfaller interviewed by Kamran Baradaran, via ILNA The ruling ideology since the fall of the Berlin Wall, or...

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Lunar Narratives: Landing on the Moon, Politics and the Cold War

Binoy Kampmark Anniversaries are occasions to distort records. The intoxicated recounting of the past faces a record in need...

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The Fall and Rise of Racket Capitalism

Frank Lee Delving back into the history of Economic Thought[1] perhaps the most important contributions were made by the...

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The great antisemitism witchhunt: McCarthyism redux

John Wight This article was first published on March 1st of this year, however, it is given fresh relevance...

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Tian’anmen – 30 years of sanctimony and cant

I generally describe Western attitudes to China as “a great big bag of arrogance, stuffed to the brim with...

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“Who Will Testify to Kosovo Tribunal?”

Justice Info Net Former Swiss prosecutor Dick Marty this week spoke publicly for the first time in years about...

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Orientalism and the Myth of Independence

Shahzada Rahim In the nineteenth century more half of the world was colonized by the European imperial powers and...

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Globalization North and South: The Road to Nowhere.

Frank Lee ‘We must sell more to strangers yearly than we consume of theirs in value’ Thomas Mun, 1571-1641,...

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Debunking Myths of ‘Red-Brown’ Alliances

Max Parry Recently, a certain political concept has been resurrected that warrants interrogation. The notion of a ‘red-brown’ alliance...

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Jackie and Me: A Brooklyn Thing

Philip Farruggio We have memories, like flashes of lightning from afar- now we see them, now we don’t. Yet,...

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Defence of European Empires Was Original NATO Goal

by Yves Engler, March 30, 2019 The first installment  in this series discussed how NATO was set up partly...

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The Divine Right of Dark-hearted Despots

This essay was in part, inspired by — and written in memory of — William Blum (1932-2018). Blum was...

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Captain Cook’s “Discovery” 250 Years On

Hugh O’Neill CAPTAIN COOK Abridged from a lecture by Professor Bernard Smith (1916-2011) The evil that men do lives...

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