The War in Afghanistan: The real ‘Crime of the Century’ behind the Opioid Crisis
Max Parry Editor’s Note – This article was written, and submitted to us, before the Taliban’s take-over of Kabul. In May, the HBO television network aired a new two-part...
Old Normal vs New: From 1980s Neoliberalism to the ‘Great Reset’
Colin Todhunter Sold under the pretence of a quest for optimising well-being and ‘happiness’, capitalism thrives on the exploitation of peoples and the environment. What really matters is the...
The Everything Bubble, Fictitious Capital and Coronavirus
Frank Lee The years since the 1970s are unprecedented in terms of their volatility in the price of commodities, currencies, real estate and stocks. There have been 4 waves...
New National Security Advisor Shows Dangerous is the New Normal
Eric Zuesse Robert O’Brien is a respected authority on international relations and now replaces John Bolton as U.S. President Donald Trump’s National Security Advisor. He is a neoconservative who...
The Divine Right of Dark-hearted Despots
This essay was in part, inspired by — and written in memory of — William Blum (1932-2018). Blum was a comrade-in-arms, and himself one of the great keyboard warriors...
WATCH: Crashes of Convenience – KAL 007
Episode 187 of The Corbett Report explores Korean Airline disaster that could have triggered World War III On September 1, 1983, Korean Airlines Flight 007 was shot down by...
Neoliberalism and its Discontents
Frank Lee Pure economics is not a theory of real-world economics, of actually-existing capitalism, but of an imaginary capitalism.” Samir Amin, The Liberal Virus (2004) According to orthodox economic...
War Criminals at Large
It is a common misconception that democracies do not start wars of aggression or carry out terrorist attacks. The historical facts for the period from 1945 to today show...
WATCH: Who Are These Russians And Why Do We Hate Them?
In his film, Regis Tremblay examines the history of US-Russian relations, talks to ordinary Russian people, deconstructs propaganda and attempts to answer the question – Who are these Russians?...
Economics: Class War by Another Name
Frank Lee The terrible case which … socialists are able to make out against the present economic order of society demands a full consideration of all means by which...
Conspiracies Are Not All Theoretical
Alison Broinowski Before the 2016 election, candidate Donald Trump told voters he would ‘find out who really knocked down the World Trade Center.’ His promise may turn out to...
Americans Are Only Now Beginning to Learn that We Live in a Dictatorship
by Eric Zuesse first published at StrategicCulture.org The first time it became clear to me that I live in a dictatorship was in 2014 when reading, prior to its...
JFK at 100: The War on Our Heroes Part 2
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,...
Why Trump rolled over on Russia
by Philip Roddis, from Steel City Scribblings Trump’s cave in on rapprochement with Putin shows the hollowness and shallow worldview of this inept narcissist. More importantly, it shows an...
Celebrating the Birth of the NHS
Today is the 69th anniversary of "The Appointed Day". On July 5th 1948, the Labour government under Prime Minister Clement Attlee, launched their revolutionary National Health Service. In the...
JFK at 100: The War on Our Heroes Part 1
If the bullets hadn't flown, John Fitzgerald Kennedy might have been one hundred years old today. Granted, it's not likely, put definitely possible. If the parade route hadn't been...
How US Flooded the World with Psyops
by Robert Parry, from Consortium News Special Report: The mainstream U.S. media obsesses over Russian “propaganda” yet the U.S. government created a “psyops” bureaucracy three decades ago to flood...
