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The Collapse of Western Democracy

by Paul Craig Roberts Democracy no longer exists in the West. In the US powerful private interest groups, such as the military-security complex, Wall Street, the Israel Lobby, agribusiness...

Obama’s “Humanitarian” Bombing Campaign “Against” the Islamic State (ISIS)

by Prof. Michael Chossudovsky, for Global Research Almost 2 years ago, August 8, 2014, Obama launched a bombing campaign against Syria and Iraq, in defiance of international law. The...

Infamous "July /17/18" vid of BUK in Zugres actually filmed July 5?

A group of investigators calling themselves "MH17 Inquiry" have just released a video that claims the famous "July17/18" video shot in the town of Zuhres, in Donbass, showing a...

Obama Administration Approved Gulf Fracking During Deepwater Horizon Disaster

by Mike Ludwig, for Truth-Out Hydraulic fracturing (or “fracking”) technology has been widely used to maximize oil-and-gas production in the Gulf of Mexico in recent years, and the government...

The Militarization of the US Goes Beyond Police Departments: Report

by TeleSurTV Nonmilitary federal agencies have spent almost US$1.5 billion on guns, ammunition, and military-style equipment. A new report by a taxpayer watchdog group reveals that the growing militarization...

Two views on Brexit

We present here two widely divergent perspectives on the meaning and the prospects opened up by Brexit, both originally published by Defend Democracy. The starkness of the contrast –...

Crowd-funded propaganda? Ummm…no thanks

“The last few days have been seismic and historic for Britain, the greatest political crisis since the second world war with reverberations felt around the world,” wrote Guardian editor-in-chief...

Guardian sinks into gutter on Corbyn – again

by Jonathan Cook This is way beyond a face-palm moment. Jeremy Corbyn today launched a review into the Labour party’s supposed “anti-semitism crisis” – in fact, a crisis entirely...

How the EU pushed France to 'reforms' of labour law

by Corporate Europe Observatory The current struggle in France over labour law reforms is not just between the Government and trade unions – a European battle is waged. The...

Trading Places: Neocons and Cockroaches

by Robert Parry at Consortium News Neocons want a new Cold War – all the better to pick the U.S. taxpayers’ pockets – but this reckless talk and war...

Blaming Putin after BREXIT

“Brexit is a win for Putin,” announced Michael McFaul, a former U.S. ambassador to Russia. Writing in The Washington Post, McFaul said: “Putin, of course, did not cause the...

UNCOUNTED: The True Story of the California Primary

When Hillary Clinton claimed victory in California, a staggering 40% of the total ballots had not been counted. Why? because they were “provisional.” What does a “provisional ballot” mean?...

Putin is Weaponizing Popularity: Newsweek is not Amused

by Mark Chapman, a.k.a. Kremlin Stooge “The mind, placed before any kind of difficulty, can find an ideal outlet in the absurd. Accommodation to the absurd readmits adults to...

West rules FYROM as a protectorate

by George Tzaferis, via Defend Democracy ELECTIONS WILL TAKE PLACE WHENEVER AND HOWEVER WE CHOOSE A year ago, at a closed-doors meeting between the USA and EU officials and...

Female politicians (sometimes) receive more abuse than male counterparts, apart from when they don’t…

Kit Knightly The Guardian have tried their hand at statistical analysis again – after resounding failures the last two times, you have to at least salute their determination. As...

NATO and ‘News’ Media Pump for WW III

by Eric Zuesse (updated and expanded from his article at strategic-culture.org) Introduction America’s announcement that Russia has committed ‘aggression’ against America, is an announcement that America is at war...

Did the UK Independent actually say democracy isn't working?

By Catte Yes. It did. or at least it published a WaPo piece (by “Emily Badger”), which says exactly that, albeit in slightly more MiniTrue wording. “Brexit reminds us...

Life in a Modern-day Debt Colony: The Truth about Greece

by Michael Nevradakis, via 99GetSmart In May, likely for the first time in the post-war history of the Western world, a national parliament willingly ceded what remained of its...

Finland: tough choices to make after the Brexit

by Editeur After the UK vote in favor of the Brexit,  panic seems to emerge on the Finnish economic playing field: according to YLE, on the first day of...

Brexit and the Diseased Liberal Mind

by Jonathan Cook The enraged liberal reaction to the Brexit vote is in full flood. The anger is pathological – and helps to shed light on why a majority...