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Luke Harding’s: A Very Heavily Discounted Book

by TUTISICECREAM The unexceptional account of a discredited inquiry The Guardian’s Book of the Day [here today gone tomorrow?] masquerading as a “True Crime” story, is an attempt to...

When "fundamentally" = "not"

by Black Catte Jill Abramson, the latest EMT wheeled out to provide life support for Clinton’s clinically dead reputation, is telling us via the Guardian (where else?) that “this...

There's a 'Special Place in Hell' for Madeleine Albright

by Kurt Nimmo, via Russia Insider Albright helped facilitate NATO’s illegal bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999 Back in February, the former Secretary of State under Bill Clinton said “there’s...

Videos: Syrian army and allies recapturing Palmyra from ISIS

Palmyra Citadel under control of the SAA + allies today (25/03/2016) (MGreen)  

BRICS Under Attack: The Empire Strikes Back In Brazil

by Eric Draitser, MintpressNews Despite all the fancy anti-corruption rhetoric, the assault on President Rousseff’s leftist government is the result of a coordinated campaign by business interests tied to...

Reporting (or Not) the Ties Between US-Armed Syrian Rebels and Al Qaeda's Affiliate

by Gareth Porter, FAIR A crucial problem in news media coverage of the Syrian civil war has been how to characterize the relationship between the so-called “moderate” opposition forces...

Is Putin Weaponising Stupidity?

from The BlogMire, via Russia Insider For some time I’ve been trying to develop an all-encompassing theory to account for the behaviour of Western leaders and the media over...

Soros-Obama-Merkel-Erdogan Win Control of Europe

by Eric Zuesse On Friday, March 18th, a combined effort by George Soros, Barack Obama, Angela Merkel, and Tayyip Erdogan, has arranged to get the EU to abandon previously...

How Obama and Congressional Republicans Intend to Pass TPP Into Law — After the November Elections

by Eric Zuesse Back on 10 December 2015, the head of the U.S. Senate, the pro-Obama-trade-deals Republican Mitch McConnell, said that Obama shouldn’t try to pass his TPP or...

Another Way ‘Democracy’ Is Rigged in America

by Eric Zuesse Did you know that if a given political party already has an incumbent in a particular political post, it’s standard practice in the United States for...

Time To Halt The Great Public Asset Boot Sale — and Create Social Wealth Funds

by Stewart Lansley, reposted from Social Europe Britain’s public assets are now the subject of a giant boot sale. The great rolling privatisation juggernaut not only includes the £4bn...

Elizabeth Warren's Silence

by Brad Benson Last night Senator Elizabeth Warren weighed in very critically on the Donald Trump Candidacy, calling it “ugly and dangerous” and imploring, “decent people everywhere…to say No...

America’s Laughable ‘News’ Media

by Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org As of Friday March 4th, democracy ended in Turkey, but you’d hardly have known it by reading the international ‘news’ at the major...

The Saker: Putin withdrawing from Syria because he won

An Antonov transport plane at the Russian Khmeimim base in Syria’s Latakia province. The Saker analyses the Russian military pullout from Syria: […] It is way too early right...

"Shakespeare Loved Refugees"

by Kit In one of the more bizarre incidents of agenda pushing that I can recall – even by recent Guardian standards – William Shakespeare has been enlisted to...

Are Both Trump and Sanders Falling for a Dirty Trick from Clinton?

by Eric Zuesse On Saturday, I provided a transcript of a remarkable allegation by a gifted private investigator who has a background not only as a crackerjack reporter about political dirty...

Impressions from a Sanders Rally

by Brad Benson The “Bern” is due to fall, fail and fade unless he makes serious changes to his campaign right now.  I say this with no joy, since...

US-backed Syrian rebels attacked & looted by Al-Qaeda affiliate

On March 11 anti-Assad demonstration were held in rebel-held Idlib in Syria, initially mixing flags both of the so called Free Syrian Army moderate rebels and of the terrorist...

Analysis: Russians pack their troubles into their grocery baskets – Putin gains, Medvedev loses, US war aim fails

Russian fighter jets fly over Moscow. Photo Alexander Vilf/Sputnik John Helmer, “the longest continuously serving foreign correspondent in Russia”, writes from Moscow in his blog Dances with Bears: It...

Sanders Campaign gets Sparks and Sparkle

by Bryan Hemming On February 12th this year Dan Froomkin, the influential Washington Editor of the Intercept, used an article slamming Hillary Clinton’s slavish adherence the doctrines of Henry...