US Media Control: the backstory
by Eric Zuesse The show aired on September 5th, and interviewed their contracted expert KT McFarland. Watch the clip here. TRANSCRIPT, starting at 4:45: Interviewer: The other place that...
In Syria, Putin Calls Obama’s Bluff, Joins War Against ISIS
by Eric Zuesse According to German Economic News (September 1st, based on reports from ynetnews and others), Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has apparently decided to establish in Syria a...
Bernie Sanders versus Obama & the Clintons: The Big Difference
Today OffGuardian explores what Bernie Sanders represents to different Americans. For some he is a brave defender of forgotten principles, or at least a best alternative. For others he’s...
George Soros: fake progressive, friend of nazis
Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org OffG POV: It’s curious the way the same media that become tearful with outrage over Vladimir Putin’s alleged and so far entirely unsubstantiated...
Meet the ‘Moderates’ the U.S. Is Supporting in Syria: They’re al-Qaeda
byEric Zuesse, as originally published by Strategic-Culture.org Increasing evidence is coming in that the groups the U.S. is trying to install into power in Syria are actually contending groups...
Putin Giving Up on Assad, Says Erdogan
by Eric Zuesse Turkey’s President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, was asked by an interviewer last week: On the question of Syria, have you seen changes in the attitude of Russian...
U.S. Tries to Stir Ethnic Division in Crimea – but fails thus far
by Eric Zuesse On Saturday, August 1st, Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko (who now acknowledges that his government is illegitimate and that his predecessor Viktor Yanukovych was overthrown in a...
A brief history of Guatemalan genocide
By Eric Zuesse, as originally published at strategic-culture.org. On 8 July 2015, in a pervasively ignored but historically very important news event (briefly mentioned by the BBC), the only...
Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Implies EU Membership Might Be Impossible
by Eric Zuesse Ukraine’s Euro-Integration website headlined on July 25th, “Klimkin: ‘If Ukraine Won’t Be an EU Member Within 5 Years, We Won’t Ever’,” and reported that, “Foreign Minister...
Agency to Enslave Greeks Is Established
by Eric Zuesse Late on Thursday, July 16th, German Economic News headlined “Greece: Debt Restructuring Through the Back Door” and reported that: The majority of Greece’s national debt is...
Thousands of Refugees Flee Northward from Greece
Translated by Eric Zuesse, from German Economic News The precarious situation in Greece means that thousands of refugees are making their way to northern Europe. There, the reaction is...
Journalists’ Complicity in Hiding Those Guilty for MH17
by Eric Zuesse Robert Parry headlined on July 9th, “MH-17 Case Slips into Propaganda Fog,” and he wrote: Many investigative journalists, including myself, have been rebuffed in repeated efforts...
MH17: an example of Wikipedia as propaganda
.On 15 August 2007, the BBC headlined “Wikipedia Shows CIA Page Edits,” and Jonathan Fildes reported that, “An online tool that claims to reveal the identity of organizations that...
Even Poroshenko Says Overthrow of Yanukovych Was a Coup
Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko requests the supreme court of Ukraine to declare that his predecessor, Viktor Yanukovych, was overthrown by an illegal operation; in other words, that the post-Yanukovych...
German Banker: Russian Sanctions are destroying Europe
"...People who are focused not only on Western ‘quality media’ are amazed at those media hiding the aggression of Kiev and the discriminatory laws implemented by the Government in...
Secretary of State John Kerry v. His Subordinate Victoria Nuland, Regarding Ukraine
by Eric Zuesse U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, on May 12th, responding to Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko’s assertions that Ukraine will retake Crimea and will conquer Donbass: “I...
UN Lawyer Calls TTP & TTIP ‘a dystopian future in which corporations and not democratically elected governments call the shots’
by Eric Zuesse The Obama-proposed international-trade deals, if passed into law, will lead to “a dystopian future in which corporations and not democratically elected governments call the shots,” says...
Libertarians’ Civil War Over Ukraine
by Eric Zuesse On the one hand, Andrei Illarionov of the Koch Brothers’ libertarian Cato Institute says that the first among “the crimes that have been committed or are...
NATO Increasingly Surrounds the ‘Russian Threat’
by Eric Zuesse On Saturday, April 18th, the Commander of the U.S. Army in Europe, Ben Hodges, told Britain’s Telegraph that “There is a Russian threat,” and that “The...
Poroshenko Tries to Stop His Side’s Ceasefire Violations
by Eric Zuesse According to Donetsk People’s Republic Defense Minister Eduard Basurin, speaking Saturday April 11th, the recently reported ceasefire violations by the Ukrainian government’s side are violations by the Ukrainian...
