Those Magical, Fantastical Russians vs. U.S. Empire
Glen Ford in Black Agenda Report: “This induced ‘state of emergency’ is designed to prepare the American public, politically and psychologically, to maintain the momentum of the U.S. imperial...
Catalan Independence and Media Hypocrisy
Kit Knightly 1.3 million people marched in the streets of Barcelona on the 11th of November. They were protesting the arrest of Catalonian MPs and other officials. The charges?...
VIDEO: Echoes of WWI: China, the US, and the Next "Great" War
In the early 20th century, the world’s dominant superpower looked warily on the rise of a competitor to its supremacy. The machinations of the British to contain the rise...
The End of the Cold War and Shakespeare’s Macbeth
by Vladimir Golstein It is naïve to think that Macbeth is only about some “vaulting” and murderous ambition. Macbeth does not acquire the throne with the intention of controlling...
Chris Hedges: The End of Empire
Chris Hedges in TruthDig: The American empire is coming to an end. The U.S. economy is being drained by wars in the Middle East and vast military expansion around...
The 6th mass extinction is a product of capitalism — not population growth
by Barnaby Philips via RCG Every particular mode of production has its own special laws of population, which are historically valid within that particular sphere. An abstract law of...
The Rohingya Psyops: Waging Covert War on Myanmar
The United Nations has accused the Government of Myanmar of committing ‘genocide’ against the Rohingya Muslim minority in the country’s troubled Rakhine State. In recent weeks the crisis in...
Is Sri Lanka being used by big powers to make the Indian Ocean another South China Sea?
by Lasanda Kurukulasuriya, September 17, 2017, via Defend Democracy Press The Indian Ocean Conference (IOC) organised by the India Foundation and held at the Sri Lankan Prime Minister’s official...
Terror Incognita: 'Demistifying' the Fog of War
by Sean Stinson, August 28, 2017 “The Muslim terrorist apparatus was created by US intelligence as a political weapon” – National security adviser to the Carter administration, Zbigniew Brzezinski “The...
Pepe Escobar: And the winners in the post-Daesh era are… (updated)
Syrians walk past Aleppo’s citadel as life returns to normal after the expulsion of Jihadi terrorist groups by the Syrian army and its allies Russia and Iran. Photo from...
The Real Reason Washington is Worried about North Korea
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un arrives for the opening ceremony of a newly built residential complex in Pyongyang on April 13 [2017]. Photo: Reuters By Stephen Gowans in...
North Korea: Headlines full of "Fire and Fury" Signifying Nothing
In truly perverse fashion, the newspapers have all suddenly remembered that Nuclear war is possible, and that it's probably not a good idea. This is all built on the...
Multipolar World Arrives: Russia, China Face Down US Bully
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin (L) shakes hands with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping during the 2016 Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum held in Lima, Peru. Photo Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters...
Sauron Rules in Washington
by Paul Craig Roberts “The problem is that the world has listened to Americans for far too bloody long.” Dr. Julian Osborne, from the 2000 film version of Nevil...
The Rogue State that is the United States of America
from New Antarctica As one more US aircraft carrier steams off to confront the North Koreans and threaten nuclear war once again , it is timely to recall that...
Afghanistan – ‘Small’ Western Propaganda Lies, Huge Impact
by Andre Vltchek Ask anyone on the streets of Kabul about the revolutions that have in recent years transformed huge parts of Latin America, and the chances are you’ll...
History might not repeat itself…But it Rhymes
In his masterpiece, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon identified the irreversible tendencies that gave rise to the end of the Roman...
This week the issue is not Trump. It is ourselves.
by John Pilger On the day President Trump is inaugurated, thousands of writers in the United States will express their indignation. “In order for us to heal and move...
President Duterte of the Philippines for Dummies
When Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez ascended to power in 1999, almost no one in the West, in Asia and even in most of the Latin American countries knew much...
Red-Baiting, Putin-Scaremongering Democrats Are Now Suddenly Worried About Offending China
by Caitlin Johnstone, via Newslogue It’s weird to see Democrats suddenly freaking out about diplomacy when they’ve spent the last five months screaming that we need to attack the...
