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British and French forces decide to intervene to save besieged city
by Terje M London, December 5,1864 Yesterday, an obviously emotional British foreign minister declared that a coalition of concerned...
No Pasaran, Commandante Fidel!
by Andre Vltchek Many years ago, Fidel declared: “Men do not shape destiny. Destiny produces the man for the...
Meet Lee Harvey Oswald, Sheep-Dipped Patsy
As part of our short season marking the anniversary of JFK’s assassination, we present this episode of the Corbett...
The Ukrainians as “Imagined Community” Nation
by Prof. Vladislav B. Sotirovic Ukraine is an East European territory which was originally a western part of the...
WATCH: Gunpowder, Treason & Plot
Was the “gunpowder plot” exactly what you will read about in the history books, an ad hoc conspiracy by...
Hurrah for the Blackshirts!
by Bryan Hemming It Can’t Happen Here On the morning of April 9th 1940 mum’s cousin, Bjørg, got out...
The 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact & Imperialist Propaganda
In it's unscientific, unhistorical effort to equate Communism with Nazism, the bourgeois propaganda presents the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact as a...
The Fake New Cold War & The Fake Old Cold War
Jeremy Corbyn is merely stating the obvious. No, of course we would not go to war with Russia. For...
The Real Boris Yeltsin: Democratic Reformer Or Brutal Dictator?
by Dr Paul Kindlon at Russia Insider This week marks the 25th anniversary of the “August coup” that brought...
The CIA’s Involvement in Indonesia and the Assassinations of JFK and Dag Hammarskjold
The truth about Indonesian history and the United States involvement in its ongoing tragedy is little known in the...
Three Horrendous Anti-Indigenous Laws
by First Peoples Worldwide, 2013, via Cultural Survival Much of the discrimination that Indigenous Peoples face is societal and...
24 years since Izetbegović paramilitaries massacred retreating JNA troops in Tuzla
by Grey Carter, May 15, 2013 Today marks [24] years since the ambush on a convoy of soldiers of...
American war of Independence: who fired the shots heard round the world?
On April 19, 1775 the shot(s) heard round the world began the American War of Independence. But who fired...
The art of storytelling in times of war
There are numerous similar stories which have had little or no root in reality. But they have lingered still,...
The Return of the Brutal Savage and the Science for War
by Stephen Corry, via CounterPunch The last few years have seen an alarming increase in claims that tribal peoples...
Mercantilism: Six centuries of vilifying the poor
by David Spencer, originally posted here As far as routes to national economic prosperity are concerned the idea that...
The rape of East Timor: "Sounds like fun"
Secret documents found in the Australian National Archives provide a glimpse of how one of the greatest crimes of...
NATO's Full-Spectrum War against Yugoslavia: Demonization of Serbs Was Key
by Edward S. Herman, reposted from sott.net Many well-qualified observers of the Bosnia wars were appalled at the biased...
The War Prayer – Mark Twain
by Bryan Hemming As a child, Mark Twain was one of my favourite authors. Each day I would eagerly...
The Sauds’ Impunity
by Eric Zuesse No matter how bad the fundamentalist Sunni-Islamic Saud royal family are, America’s government still supports them...
