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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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
“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...
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...
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,...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Iron Ladies and Golden Dreams
Steven Keith It was Margaret Thatcher who as Prime Minister was the principal driving force behind the expansion of...
Four Little Words
It was Sir John Templeton, the American-born British investor, banker, fund manager, and philanthropist, who sardonically observed that in...
