Suzie Halewood The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia indictment of Julian Assange is a curious document.  By the end of it you can’t help...

Karen Hunt “Children are the vessels into which adults pour their poison.” Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children In The Silver Chair, book 6 of CS Lewis’s magnificent The Chronicles of...

If we are about to see the sudden death and/or replacement of the President of Tanzania, he will not be the first African head of state to suffer such...

Philip Roddis China leads the race for 5G leadership, a fact not only deeply alarming to Washington and Wall Street but with dire implications for a Europe left in...

Philip Roddis Of course the people don’t want war. That is understood … But after all it is the leaders who determine the policy and it is a simple...

Grigory Trofimchuk Despite the statements of the US President D. Trump on the need for an early withdrawal of the US military from Afghanistan, the interest of the Pentagon,...

The neocon dogma pushed onto liberals by never-Trump Republicans did its job. Partisan liberals are parroting the line of the CIA. The attempt to sabotage talks with the Taliban...

While debate rages on whether the statues of colonial plunderers should be tossed into rivers or otherwise removed as blots on civilised landscapes – and as we progressives virtue-signal...

Nino Pagliccia Let’s put the U.S. government on the side for a moment. We know about its long-standing goal of regime change. We all know that President Trump has...

Cynthia Chung “Hell is empty and all the devils are here” William Shakespeare (The Tempest Act I, Scene 2) War has always depended on a reliable system to spread...

Cynthia Chung There is a kind of character in thy life, That to the observer doth thy history, fully unfold.” William Shakespeare Once again we find ourselves in a...

Bill Martin Preface for this moment: The aim of my series of articles that began in March 2016 is not journalism, but instead to try to understand something that...

Catte Black The dust is settling somewhat over the latest and strangest act of imperial hubris in the Middle East, and a few things are becoming clearer – though...

Binoy Kampmark The attack on the world’s largest oil processing facility at Abqaiq in Saudi Arabia southwest of Aramco’s headquarters in Dhahran had a few predictable responses.  Given that...

Binoy Kampmark “Every time the president, or Pompeo, or anyone in the [Trump] administration came up with an idea, they had to face Dr No.” Cliff Kupchan, Chairman of...

The use of propaganda and censorship is more frequently associated with totalitarian, corrupt and/or despotic regimes, not our purported democracies in the West. Yet the history of how western...

Keith Brooks How come we’re not at war with Venezuela? They have all that oil”. Donald Trump I was in Caracas Venezuela on April 30th, the day of the...

Eric Zuesse On June 26th, U.S. President Donald Trump told Fox Business News that, as the Washington Post immediately headlined it, “War with Iran Would Not Involve Ground Troops...

Tony Kevin It is now clear that the US has manufactured a false case against Iran for the two-tanker sabotage incident in the Gulf of Oman on 13 June....

In 2006, to mark the 30th anniversary of Harold Wilson's retirement, the BBC released "The Plot Against Harold Wilson". It details how, throughout Wilson leadership, MI5 and the CIA...