Audio Version New Feature! There’s currently an interesting example of the interplay of state and corporate power going on in the UK. It doesn’t seem like important news alongside...

Our current definition of "free speech" is outdated, no longer fit for purpose in the internet era, and potentially dangerous to democracy...according to a chorus of voices across the...

While the people of the western world occupy themselves wearing masks, pointing fingers and using so much hand sanitizer it literally kills them, the big world of Geo-Politics still...

Consider this a catch-all discussion thread on the UK General Election 2019. A few readers have been asking in email and in the comments why we aren’t running daily...

Austerity is a brutal crime against humanity. The rich get richer whilst the poor are starving. The 1% deserve to be held up to scrutiny, criticism and even prosecution....

Phil Butler, via NEO This afternoon I sat in dazed disbelief at a “news” story from Financial Times proclaiming Vladimir Putin’s “shift” to Africa. With a couple of centuries...

by Alexander Mercouris at the Duran It is becoming increasingly difficult for the British authorities and for the British media to deny that ‘due process‘ – ie. the well-established...

by Heiner Flassbeck Replacing the G7 or G8 by the G20 was actually a good idea. But as often happens, the way in which the change was realised destroyed...

A recent piece in the Financial Times called “ISIS inc” sets about trying to explain exactly how this ragtag group of a couple of thousand Wahhabis has somehow resisted...

by Roman Olearchyk via Russia Insider The article in the Financial Times which we reproduce below is remarkable. It completely contradicts the Western and Ukrainian media picture of the...

“…Greeks choose poverty, let them have their way,” said the Financial Times two days ago, with admirably Scrooge-like indifference to human suffering and a willingness to reverse truth in...