David Penner Ask any American liberal aged sixty-five and older what they think about Franco, Mussolini, or Hitler and they will vehemently denounce these men as tyrants, murderers, and...

We’ve heard a good deal of late about Western democracy, and I for one don’t knock it. I think it an excellent idea, but wouldn’t it require an informed...

Philip Roddis from Steel City Scribblings Matthew d’Ancona, in yesterday’s Guardian, is concerned about the threat to democracy from fake news. He wants to see ‘social media giants’ …...

Murders of trade unionists and social leaders, paramilitary activity, coca production...If we only paid attention to the mainstream media we would not get the idea that these problems are...

In the first half of this article, published on JFK's centenary, I discussed the general degradation of the intellectual and moral character of figurehead politicians,...

Just hours after the alleged terrorist attack on a St Petersburg metro station, a BBC news reporter stated (see the video above): Well, there have been demonstrations – political...

On November 23, 1963, the day after John F. Kennedy's assassination, Fidel Castro gave a talk on Cuban radio and television.[1] He pulled together, as well as he could...

Nick Cohen's latest column is headlined: Farage meets Assange in a shameless illiberal alliance, but might more properly be entitled "Why I drink more than I...

By Petra Liverani Gatekeeping is the term used to describe the process of deciding which information will go forward and which will not. It is to be expected that...

There happen to be a lot of people around who spend an hour on the internet and think they know a lot physics, but it doesn’t work like that....

by Michael Nevradakis, via 99GetSmart In May, likely for the first time in the post-war history of the Western world, a national parliament willingly ceded what remained of its...

by Andre Vltchek, Counterpunch Philosophers have been muzzled by the Western global regime; most of great modern philosophy concealed from the masses. What has been left of it, allowed...

At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass., Abby Martin interviews world-renowned philosopher and linguist Professor Noam Chomsky Prof. Chomsky comments on the presidential primary “extravaganza,” the movement...

The renowned US Foreign Policy critic says there was no need for a deal with Iran. He discusses this with Antonio Mora.

From Laos to the Middle East, a roundup of Times stories that piqued the interest of the esteemed scholar