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A Brief Non-Explainer on Why China’s Infrastructure Projects grow while the US Crumbles
by James Porteous A response to Why China Is Running Circles Around America at Truthdig.com Have you ever noticed that it is almost as though America cannot exist without...
WATCH: The Weaponization of Social Media
Now openly admitted, governments and militaries around the world employ armies of keyboard warriors to spread propaganda and disrupt their online opposition. Their goal? To shape public discourse around...
Mark Galeotti’s response to Putin’s plea for reason: lies & penis jokes
The Guardian produced two responses to Putin’s speech of March 1, in which he both unveiled far-reaching new Russia weapons systems and used this as a platform to (once...
Photo: Aleppo today
Ahmad Al-Issa in Twitter: To those who worry that East Ghouta might become 2nd Aleppo*, this is the liberated Aleppo. The central park (yesterday [Thursday March 1]) is alive...
Putin Warns of World War III
By Eduard Popov in Fort Russ: On March 1st, 2018, Russian President Vladimir Putin delivered his Address to the Federal Assembly (the upper and lower chambers of the Russian...
A minor cannibalism: A new “left” appeal for imperialist intervention in Syria
by Bill Van Auken, 2 March 2018, via WSWS On February 27, the New York Review of Books published an open letter signed by some 200 people, many of them identifying themselves...
Comment Set Free: "Feras Fayyad: 'I never thought as a film-maker that I would feel endangered’"
The Guardian bills this appallingly dishonest promo piece as “The director of the Oscar-nominated documentary Last Men in Aleppo speaks of ‘trauma and paranoia’ over the extreme lengths some...
WATCH: Vladimir Putin’s March 1 address to Russian Federal Assembly (with transcript)
The full video and text of Putin’s March 1 speech to the Federal Assembly. For those who want to skip straight to the text on Russia’s evolving weapon systems...
Putin’s message couldn’t be clearer: The West needs to stop provoking a war we don’t want & which no one can win
The western press has basically opted out of analysing this, so let’s do it for them. Why is Putin talking about the new generation of weapons? What does he...
South-East Asia Getting Killed by Logging and Mining
Text and Photos: Andre Vltchek, first published on New Eastern Outlook When an airplane is approaching Singapore Changi Airport, it makes the final approach either from the direction of...
The authoritarians who silence Syria questions
Jonathan Cook I am loath to draw more attention to the kind of idiocy that passes for informed comment nowadays from academics and mainstream journalists. Recently I lambasted Prof...
WATCH: Reality Check: No Sarin Gas Used by Assad in Syria?
Ben Swann looks at some of the less well known facts about the alleged sarin gas attacks
Deconstructing “The next War” section in The Economist
by Thomas Prentice How much should we let humans interfere with the functioning of machines and algorithms designed to kill people? The Economist, published a 16-page special section called...
Hotel Propaganda
by Anthony Black, September 8, 2014, via Canadian Dimension On the evening of April 6th 1994 a plane carrying the Hutu leaders of both Rwanda and Burundi was shot...
Why do self-styled “skeptics” believe in their own brand of miracles?
by Petra Liverani I find it such an interesting phenomenon that of all the self-styled skeptics I have corresponded with or whose opinions are aired online, every single one...
Who are the US, UK and France trying to protect in Eastern Ghouta?
Concern for civilians is just another charade in the Western powers’ effort to prolong the existence of terrorist groups as much as possible. We must ask the question which...
Lewis Carroll’s White Queen would have a career in the media today
“I can’t believe that!” said Alice. “Can’t you?” the Queen said in a pitying tone. “Try again: draw a long breath, and shut your eyes.” Alice laughed. “There’s no...
WATCH: Syrian delegate Bashar Jaafari at the UNSC after ceasefire resolution Feb 24
Dr Bashar Jaafari, Syrian representative at the UN, responding to the UNSC resolution calling for a ceasefire in Syria on February 24. His dignity, professionalism and intelligence may seem...
WATCH: Vladimir Pozner reminds parallel universe inhabitants of a few basic realities
We are posting this mostly uninteresting pseudo-debate purely for what happens in the first few moment. Vladimir Pozner, journalist, tells the anchor man and two other guests some important...
WATCH: 'Vladimir Putin’s speechless speech'
One of our readers dropped this in our inbox. It’s been a pretty bad week for the planet as a whole, so why not just kick back for a...
