Did the FBI Sabotage Trump’s Foreign Policy?
Renée Parsons We now know that, before Donald Trump’s inauguration on January 20, 2017, the FBI had the ouster of Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, the President’s National Security Adviser,...
US Military Spending: TRILLIONS of Dollars Unaccounted For
Eric Zuesse This article from 21 July 2017 is here updated and expanded to the present; and the dead links in it have been replaced by functional (this time,...
Did Laura Kuenssberg Commit Massive Breach of Electoral Ethics?
The BBC may have just unwittingly revealed – or even committed – a huge breach of electoral rules. Giving a report via her phone this afternoon, the BBC’s political...
Quo Vadis, Lebanon?
Andre Vltchek Good bye, Lebanon, metaphorically and truly. Good bye to a country which, many believe, actually has already ceased to exist. For five long years I have been...
Corporate Mammon: Amazon and the Seattle Council Elections
Binoy Kampmark An enduring US political tradition was in evidence in Seattle recently. Amazon had decided that the city council elections would be too important to leave alone. Seattle...
Beirut is Burning
Andre Vltchek Tires are burning, smoke is rising towards the sky. It is October, the 18th day of the month, the capital city of Lebanon, in the past known...
At the Feet of Mammon…
Philip Farruggio
Why is Hong Kong losing out to mainland China?
Hong Kong is losing to Mainland China. Its poverty rates are high, it suffers from corruption and savage capitalism. It is now the most expensive city on earth. People...
The Politicization of American Justice
Renee Parsons The American criminal justice system has long been a sharp painful thorn in the nation’s consciousness as if to remind us of a major flaw in the...
Grenfell – Two Years On
The Cynic The tragedy of the Grenfell Tower blaze affects every person in the country, not just those living in tower blocks. Many of the safety issues potentially reach...
The Force that is Ending Freedom
Every empire is a dictatorship. No nation can be a democracy that’s either heading an empire, or a vassal-state of one. Obviously, in order to be a vassal-state within...
AIPAC and the Federal Election Commission
Renee Parsons Reviewing AIPAC’s history since its 1963 creation reveals a consistently well organized campaign of manipulation and evasion of the US election law as one necessary ingredient to...
The Big Picture
Eddison Flame There is a trend that seems to have been going on in the world for a pretty long time now. Rulers in the world have been actively...
Jeremy Hunt and his war against ‘fake news’
Kevin Smith INTRODUCTION I thought it would be helpful to explain my general perspective on the media and the endless warmongering by our governments. One of my observations about...
The People vs Artificial Intelligence
In the fertile Arkansas Delta lies a small town called Cash. Its name is an Anglicized version of a nearby river, Cache, which in French means “hidden.” A cache...
Three Point Failure: The Guardian’s racist campaign against “dirty Russian money”
Kit Knightly Since the initial press hysteria over the Skripal case, the major political parties of the UK have been clambering over each other in an effort to scale...
America is one-dollar-one-vote, not one-person-one vote
Eric Zuesse The only comprehensive and scientific study which has ever been done of whether the U.S. is a democracy or instead a dictatorship, was published in 2014. It...
All Pretence is Over in Persecution of Assange
by Craig Murray, February 14, 2018 The “judge” who dismissed Assange’s case yesterday was “Lady Arbuthnot of Edrom”, wife to Tory peer, former Tory junior Defence Minister and government...
Protests Planned Nationwide as Vote on FCC's 'Catastrophic' Plan to Kill Net Neutrality Looms
by Jake Johnson, from CommonDreams.org With the FCC set to vote on chairman Ajit Pai’s plan to kill neutrality in just over a week, a diverse coalition — ranging...
Greece has become the EU’s third protectorate
by Jan Zielonka, August 14, 2015, OpenDemocracy The EU looks increasingly like an empire, having just created its third protectorate in the Balkans. Greece will effectively be run by...
