Why the British said no to Europe
by John Pilger The majority vote by Britons to leave the European Union was an act of raw democracy. Millions of ordinary people refused to be bullied, intimidated and...
British Troops Enter Syria and Libya to Ensure That War Outlives ISIS
by Dan Glazebrook, via CounterPunch The Normandy landings, launched 72 years ago this week, saw the opening of a second front against the Nazis in Europe by the US...
Hillary Clinton’s Project For A New American Century
by Dan Wright Here we go again. Earlier this year, some were surprised to see Project For The New American Century (PNAC) co-founder and longtime DC fixture Robert Kagan...
War Criminal Blair Warmongers for Ground Invasion of Syria and Iraq
from New Eastern Outlook In an ideal world, Tony Blair would have been tried for war crimes years ago, and most probably would be over a decade into a...
Open Letter: A Russian Warning
from Club Orlov We, the undersigned, are Russians living and working in the USA. We have been watching with increasing anxiety as the current US and NATO policies have...
President Obama: The Race for the Imperial Legacy
by James Petras, via 99GetSmart Introduction President Obama is racing forward to establish his imperial legacy throughout Russia, Asia and Latin America. In the last two years he has accelerated the buildup...
Freedland: "I, for one, welcome our Corporate American Overlords"
American lawmakers are a global force for good, one for which we should all be grateful…according to the Guardian. Too often, according to Jonathan Freedland, the term “self-appointed global...
Trump the “Fascist”: Backdoor Backing of a Political Psychopath Named Hillary Clinton
by James Petras, via 99GetSmart From left to right a raucous chorus has emerged to denounce Republican Presidential primary frontrunner Donald Trump as a ‘fascist’. They cite his campaign promises to...
The War Prayer – Mark Twain
by Bryan Hemming As a child, Mark Twain was one of my favourite authors. Each day I would eagerly await the end of afternoon classes when our teacher would...
The 21st Century: An Era Of Fraud
In the last years of the 20th century fraud entered US foreign policy in a new way. On false pretenses Washington dismantled Yugoslavia and Serbia in order to...
Western Hegemony Versus Russian Sanity
by Mark Taliano One of the unstated goals of imperial warfare is to make hapless civilians pay a price for having the temerity to be born in a targeted...
Some questions for the Pentagon
by Vaska Pentagon’s most recent briefing and its figures on ISIL numbers in Iraq and Syria raise a lot of questions: 1. Who is enabling the continuing influx of...
America’s Now-Aggressive War Against Russia
by Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org America’s aristocracy is determined to take over Russia. Ever since the end of the Soviet Union and of its communism, the Cold...
VIDEO: Iraqi infantry recapturing Ramadi from ISIS
Iraq – Ramadi – Part 1- The Iraqi army infantry taking buildings in the hands of ISIS – 30 December 2015 Moments of the last battles of the Iraqi...
War Fraud: The Great Lies Behind Imperial Warfare in the 21st Century
The “War On Terror” and “The War On Drugs” are both fraudulent, and they are both related. In a classic example of “reverse projection", the "War on Terror” is...
Canada’s Band-Aid solution to refugees
by Mark Taliano, originally published here Canada is currently branding itself in terms of humanitarianism, and the concrete gesture of accepting Syrian refugees – of which families, women, children,...
Breaking: Iraqi soldiers fighting ISIS killed in US airstrike – Iraq MP (3 updates, w/video)
A US airstrike in Iraq. Update 1: AP reports: Iraq says coalition air strike kills or wounds 10 soldiers Update 2: The Wall Street Journal reports: BAGHDAD—An airstrike by...
Iraq wants review or annulment of security agreement with US
A Russian attack helicopter at the service of the Iraqi army. RT reports: “The Iraqi parliament’s Security and Defense Committee has called for a review and cancellation of the...
But Ankara, we got a (huge) problem
by Pepe Escobar Originally published as What’s Erdogan’s Game in Syria and Turkey, December 7, 2015 The — predictable — reaction across the West over the Russian Defense Ministry’s...
The Bizarre Explanation For Why The U.S. Has Avoided Bombing ISIS Oil Wells
by Michael Snyder from The Economic Collapse Why hasn’t the U.S. bombed the oil wells that ISIS controls into oblivion by now? Would you believe that it is because...
