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Iron Ladies and Golden Dreams

Steven Keith It was Margaret Thatcher who as Prime Minister was the principal driving force behind the expansion of...

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Four Little Words

It was Sir John Templeton, the American-born British investor, banker, fund manager, and philanthropist, who sardonically observed that in...

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Leavings

Tony Benn used to say that he grew more radical as he got older. As in many things,...

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Goebbels is alive and well…in Amerika

Philip A. Farruggio Peter Longerich’s 2015 biography Goebbels instructs well how history can and does repeat itself. Like many...

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More than Cognitive Dissonance

James O’Neill The dilemmas in Canberra go beyond the respective roles of the American alliance and the China trade....

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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...

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Winston Churchill: Close, But No Cigar

David Lindsay Never forget that Piers Morgan was one of extremely few mainstream media figures to see through the...

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Privatization is at the Core of Fascism

Privatizations are increasingly fashionable, such as in Greece, Ukraine, the U.S., and UK — and privatizations are a central...

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We Need a Martin Luther King Day of Truth

As Martin Luther King’s birthday is celebrated with a national holiday, his death day disappears down the memory hole....

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NATO Expansion: What Gorbachev Heard

by the George Washington University’s National Security Archive, December 12, 2017 Declassified documents show security assurances against NATO expansion...

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The Dallaire Genocide Fax: A Fabrication

by Christopher Black, April 8 2018, via The Rwandan I first wrote this in 2005 and it was published...

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War Criminals at Large

It is a common misconception that democracies do not start wars of aggression or carry out terrorist attacks. The...

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Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” at 175

Catte This is an updated version of our 2017 article to mark the 175th anniversary of A Christmas Carol...

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JFK 55 years on: Casting Light on 9/11 & Other 21st Century Crimes

Fifty-five years ago, on November 22, 1963, John F. Kennedy was assassinated. Although there has been a great deal...

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World War I: An Illustrated Guide to Propaganda

Terje Maloy These stories are not unique cases from a remote war. The same methods are constantly rinsed and...

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Armistice Day & the Resurrection of the Old Lie

In a profoundly dishonest society, the shared grief of World War I is one of the few things we...

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Upside Down Mark Twain

Mark Twain AKA Samuel Clemens ( 1835-1910) best known for his literary works like Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn,...

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NATO’s Nazi Beginnings

by Robert S. Rodvik, 21 June 2012, VoltaireNet Who gave NATO the right to rule the world? This author...

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The Milagro of Oscar Romero’s Sainthood

Lately when you read the news about the Catholic Church, it’s really bad. But on...

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The #MeToo campaign versus the presumption of innocence

Eric London, World Socialist Website In the US, the Democratic Party and its celebrity and media allies, through the...

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