by Eric Zuesse The first big battle of the Trump transition into the White House is occurring over the fundamental issue that had caused the Establishment to repudiate Donald...

US Senator John McCain on a “secret” visit to Syria in 2013 to meet the armed opposition to the Assad government Daniel McAdams writes in The Ron Paul Institute:...

by W Stephen Gilbert Auden called the 1930s “a low dishonest decade”. I think we can all agree to call 2016 a low dishonest year, perhaps the lowest, most...

by Marko Marjanovic at Checkpoint Asia Early in the election campaign Donald Trump was saying how he is going to scale down the pricey global US empire of bases,...

Afshin Rattansi goes underground on the US election results. Author and documentary filmmaker John Pilger tells us what has been revealed by Trump winning the US election, plus what...

by Thomas S. Harrington, via Common Dreams I would love to share, my liberal friend, in your sense of incredulity about the election of Donald Trump to the presidency...

Derick Waller News 5 tweeted: As promised, Sam Wang from the Princeton Election Consortium just ate a bug after wrongly predicting Clinton had a 99% chance of winning  

Hysteria. Fainting. Screaming. Pseudo-Leftists happy to support Obama’s imperialism and domestic tyranny, beating their chests and seeking counselling for PTSD because democracy happened. “Mass” riots of thousands (or is...

Eric Zuesse See this screen-shot taken at 1:30 in the afternoon on November 9th, after Trump’s win. They pretend Trump’s win is a victory for bigots, instead of a...

In the wake of the shocking result of the presidential election, we take a look at the some key questions left up in the air. How will the world...

by Eric Zuesse CNN explained well “5 surprising lessons from Trump’s astonishing win”, and the historic crushing failure of traditional Presidential-year American politics, but it really boils down to...

by GH Eliason The purpose of “Inform and Influence Operations” is not to provide a perspective, opinion, or lay out a policy. It is defined as the ability to...

Amid claims of silent coup and counter-coup, this years “October Surprise” has yet to fully play out. Neither – with lasts weekends reopening of the 'Servergate' saga that has...

by Eric Zuesse On November 1st, The Intercept headlined  “Here’s the problem with the story connecting Russia to Donald Trump’s email server”, and the reporting team of Sam Biddle, Lee...

The big story concerning the last presidential debate is, according to the mainstream media, the fact that Trump said that he might not accept the results of the presidential...

Eric Zuesse This news-report will be short but important: One major-Party U.S. Presidential candidate is so gross that his answer when the radio host Howard Stern said the individual’s...

by Eric Zuesse As the U.S. hurtles toward nuclear war with Russia over Syria and Crimea, Jon Huntsman, the head of NATO’s lobbying organization the Atlantic Council, urged on October 7th that...

by Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org In order to overcome the partisanship on both sides of this U.S. Presidential contest, the corruption of both of the candidates needs...

by Marco Perin Mrs. Clinton musters foreign support in a desperate attempt the regain her lead. In face of her squeezing rating in the US presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton...

Yesterday, the USA committed what is - essentially - an act of war against the legitimate government of Syria. The official position is that, due to...