The Russian minority in the Baltics live under ‘apartheid’ states
Max Parry It has been nearly three decades since the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Despite Russia’s reemergence on the world stage as a respected power after market-oriented ‘reforms’...
UPDATED: Skripal Case: Gaping Holes in New Narrative
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) named their suspects in the poisoning of Sergei Skripal et al. today. The two men - named as Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov -...
Trump Deathwatch
The latest "Trump Deathwatch" began on Tuesday, August 21, 2018. It began in a courtroom in Alexandria, Virginia, when Paul Manafort, sleazebag beltway operator and former chairman of Trump's...
Russia Squelches Trump’s New Plan to Invade Syria
Eric Zuesse On Friday, August 31st, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov announced that Russia has handed to the OPCW (Organization for Prohibition of Chemical Weapons), and to the U.N.,...
So DID the Guardian back war on Iraq?
Philip Roddis If I and a hundred likeminded others devoted ourselves 24/7 to rebutting the drivel above and below the line in the Guardian, we couldn’t make a dent....
Bombing Bridges – questioning Australia’s role in the war on Syria.
David Macilwain As I wrote recently, in an article intended for publication on the Australian blog “Pearls and Irritations, but finally published by 21st Century Wire, the apparent retreat...
Caspian Sea Agreement Symptomatic of Wider Geopolitical Changes
James O’Neill On 12 August 2018 the five littoral states to the Caspian Sea (Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia and Turkmenistan) signed an historic agreement governing the use of the...
False Western Narratives Have Caused a Real Russia-West Split
Tony Kevin We have a situation now in which two major world governments, UK and Russia, both nuclear powers and permanent members of the UNSC, are upholding entirely opposed...
Book Review – “Revolutionary Optimism, Western Nihilism”
David William Pear How can I write a review of Andre Vltchek’s new book Revolutionary Optimism, Western Nihilism? I am damned if I do, and damned if I don’t....
The West has Performed a “Philosophical Coup” Against the Left
It has been happening for quite some time, but no one has been paying much attention: Western academia, mainstream media, and the most visible propagandists, were trying to convince...
Why the Neocons Hate Russia (even more than they hate everyone else)
Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org Neoconservatism started in 1953 with Henry “Scoop” Jackson, the Democratic Party U.S. Senator from the state of Washington (1953-1983), who became known as a...
America’s latest witch-hunt
The current Maria Butina indictment in the US reminds one of Voltaire’s famous saying: "I disapprove of what you say, but I will...
New Zealand – The ebb & flow of History
Hugh O’Neill There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound...
No, Carole Cadwalladr, THIS is what war looks like…
Carole Cadwalladr has been applying her fingertips to her keyboard again. This is usually bad news for anybody offended by giant leaps of logic or insufferable smugness, but it’s...
Donald Trump – Despised by Europe, Despises Europe
Andre Vltchek Why is Europe full of hate for Donald Trump? Is it, perhaps, because millions could soon die in yet another of the senseless and horrible wars unleashed...
“Democratic Institutions?” – 10 Lessons from history that will destroy your trust in the CIA
In the hysterical wake of the Trump-Putin Summit in Helsinki, President Donald Trump was roundly criticised in the media for taking the side of a "hostile state" over his
Trump’s Treasonous Traitor Summit or: How Liberals Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the New McCarthyism
So it appears America and democracy have miraculously survived the dreaded Trump-Putin summit … or Trump’s meeting with his Russian handler, as the neoliberal ruling classes and their mouthpieces...
Helsinki Summit: Trump and Putin Respond to Mueller Indictments
Eric Zuesse In the July 16th joint press conference between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, the question arose of U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s recent...
Open Thread: Trump-Putin Summit and Mounting Hysteria
Yesterday, Trump and Putin met for a summit in Helsinki. The resulting hysteria, all throughout the mainstream media and in the minds of neocon and (self-described) "liberals" alike.
Just to...
Ukraine’s anti-Roma pogroms ignored as Russia blamed for far right resurgence
Max Parry Last month, former U.S. Secretary of State and 2016 Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton during a lecture at Trinity College Dublin made remarks condemning Russian President Vladimir...
