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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...
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...
Leavings
Tony Benn used to say that he grew more radical as he got older. As in many things,...
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...
More than Cognitive Dissonance
James O’Neill The dilemmas in Canberra go beyond the respective roles of the American alliance and the China trade....
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
War Criminals at Large
It is a common misconception that democracies do not start wars of aggression or carry out terrorist attacks. The...
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...
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...
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...
Armistice Day & the Resurrection of the Old Lie
Kit Knightly
In a profoundly dishonest society, the shared grief of World War I is one of the few things we...
Upside Down Mark Twain
Mark Twain AKA Samuel Clemens ( 1835-1910) best known for his literary works like Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn,...
