This Week in the New Normal #61
Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the...
On the Edge of a Nuclear Abyss
Edward Curtin Two days after Russia attacked Ukraine and the day before Vladimir Putin put Russia on nuclear alert, I wrote a little article whose first sentence was: Not wanting to...
How conspiracy theorizing may soon get you labelled a ‘Domestic Terrorist’
Matthew Ehret If you are starting to feel like forces controlling the governments of the west are out to get you, then it is likely that you are either...
Mass Psychosis and The Church of Humanitarian Interventionism
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...
US Hypocrisy's Face at the UN – Samantha Power
by William Boardman atReader Supported News What is so remarkable and troubling about the presentation we’ve heard today is that what Russia really wants from the U.N. is credit....
NATO’s War On Russia: The Winds Howl Before The Storm
by Christopher Black, via New Eastern Outlook, October 3, 2016 A few weeks ago I wrote, “I have been a defence lawyer most of my working life and am...
Syria – Conflicting Reports, Dubious Witnesses Challenge Convoy Attack Case
from Moon of Alabama The Washington Post tries an “explainer” piece to reconstruct the recent attack on an aid convoy in Urum al-Kubra, west of Aleppo. The sources are...
Syrian Ceasefire failed, what now?
By Aram Mirzaei from The Saker The “Ceasefire” One week ago I and many other analysts predicted that the ceasefire agreement brokered by the US and Russia last week...
Samantha Power, Henry Kissinger & Imperial Delusions
by Daniel Kovalik, via Delphi Initiative Quite revealingly, the self-proclaimed crusader against genocide, Samantha Power, was awarded the 2016 Henry A. Kissinger Prize in Berlin. That Power would be...
How Kiev Silenced Ukraine’s Biggest Opposition Newspaper
A two pronged campaign of heavy-handed harrassment, obstruction, demonization and intimidation by government and radicals stretching over 15 months couldn't silence the paper or its chief editor, Igor Guzhva,...
