by Pepe Escobar, via Strategic Culture Amidst an astonishing, relentless, wide-ranging purge that shows no signs of abating, with 60,000 – and counting – civil servants, academics, judges, prosecutors,...

Eric Zuesse On Friday July 15th, as the national newsmedia were either on vacation or preparing for the opening of the Trump National Convention on Monday the 18th, the...

from The Saker When I first heard that a coup was in progress in Turkey my first thought was that it was the USA’s way to punish Erdogan for...

by Charles W. (Chas) Freeman, Jr., via LobeLog I’m here to talk about the end of the American empire. But before I do I want to note that one...

by Eric Zuesse The issues that were discussed at this year’s NATO Summit were mainly preparations for a possible war against Russia. The two-day Summit in Warsaw Poland ended...

The Chilcot Report was released On Wednesday, and a hard copy can be yours for just £767 (though I would suggest reading it free online here), and while there...

by Prof. Michael Chossudovsky, for Global Research Almost 2 years ago, August 8, 2014, Obama launched a bombing campaign against Syria and Iraq, in defiance of international law. The...

by Robert Parry at Consortium News Neocons want a new Cold War – all the better to pick the U.S. taxpayers’ pockets – but this reckless talk and war...

by John Pilger The majority vote by Britons to leave the European Union was an act of raw democracy. Millions of ordinary people refused to be bullied, intimidated and...

by Dan Glazebrook, via CounterPunch The Normandy landings, launched 72 years ago this week, saw the opening of a second front against the Nazis in Europe by the US...

by Dan Wright Here we go again. Earlier this year, some were surprised to see Project For The New American Century (PNAC) co-founder and longtime DC fixture Robert Kagan...

from New Eastern Outlook In an ideal world, Tony Blair would have been tried for war crimes years ago, and most probably would be over a decade into a...

from Club Orlov We, the undersigned, are Russians living and working in the USA. We have been watching with increasing anxiety as the current US and NATO policies have...

by Eric Zuesse On May 18th, two top people at NATO, one being its current Secretary General — the very top person — laid out in preliminary form the case...

Still from the video below. Video put together by Steve Ezzeddine, Hands Off Syria! and drawing from the investigative reporting on ‪#‎WhiteHelmets‬ by activist/writer Vanessa Beeley. Read more about...

Dear MSF International President Dr. Joanne Liu -- Your organization is well regarded and influential. I appreciate that many good people work for and support MSF/Doctors Without Borders. ...

Still from the video below. Al Masdar News reports: A video released by the Abkhazian Network News Agency (ANNA) shows Islamist rebels’ violent assault against government-held areas of Aleppo...

The “Observer view” wants Obama to “knock heads together” and sort out the Syria crisis. The anonymous editorial is not just a government issued press release, and you are...

by James Petras, via 99GetSmart Introduction President Obama is racing forward to establish his imperial legacy throughout Russia, Asia and Latin America. In the last two years he has accelerated the buildup...

War has been raging in Syria for five years, causing millions to leave the country. This is the story of some who’ve stayed.