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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
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,...
NATO’s Nazi Beginnings
by Robert S. Rodvik, 21 June 2012, VoltaireNet Who gave NATO the right to rule the world? This author...
The Milagro of Oscar Romero’s Sainthood
Lately when you read the news about the Catholic Church, it’s really bad. But on...
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...
MS Estonia – 24 Years On
Terje Maloy Just after midnight on September 28th, 1994, the passenger ferry MS Estonia sank in the Baltic Sea. It was...
Why I join the ILP
by George Orwell We’re republishing Orwell’s 1938 piece here for its continuing relevance in our times. First published by...
