US realises it can bomb ISIS oil convoys after all
From the NYT ISTANBUL — Intensifying pressure on the Islamic State, United States warplanes for the first time attacked hundreds of trucks on Monday that the extremist group has...
Iraq Rebuffs Washington, Rejecting US Ground Troops
by Vaska Baghdad has not asked — and does not need — United States ground troops to assist it in its fight against Islamic State in Iraq, Saad Haithi,...
Horrid Carcass of Indonesia – 50 Years After the Coup
by Andre Vltchek Last year, I stopped travelling to Indonesia. I simply did… I just could not bear being there, anymore. It was making me unwell. I felt psychologically...
US “Repeatedly and Precisely” Bombs Afghan Hospital
by Vaska Three days ago, during the night of October 2-3, and although it had the precise co-ordinates for the Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz, US-led NATO forces...
They do it in moderation
by Bryan Hemming After a few years of not being able to distinguish ‘moderate rebels’ from extreme terrorists in Syria to the point of funding, arming and training members...
Guardian Demonstrates Modern Obsession with Narrative over Reality
Sometime in the last two years a strange patern of behaviour has repeated and repeated and repeated in the mainstream media. It's possible it has been going on longer...
No Brains in Washington
by Paul Craig Roberts Washington’s IQ follows the Fed’s interest rate — it is negative. Washington is a black hole into which all sanity is sucked out of government...
60% of Americans Want a New Political Party
by Eric Zuesse A Gallup poll issued on September 25 is headlined “Majority in U.S. Maintain Need for Third Major Party,” and it opens: “A majority of Americans, 60%, say a...
U.S. to Station New Nuclear Weapons in Germany Against Russia
by Eric Zuesse Germany’s ZDF public television network headlines on Tuesday September 22nd, “New U.S. Atomic Weapons to Be Stationed in Germany,” and reports that the U.S. will bring into Germany...
Mosaic of facts
from RT Can you tell truth from lies in mass media? RTD’s Miguel Francis-Santiago delves deep to try to understand the intricacies of information war. He meets media experts...
The Secret Agenda Behind the Venezuela-Guyana Conflict
by Eva Golinger, via Counter Punch It all began in 1835 when the British Empire sent a German-born naturalist and explorer to conduct geographical research in the South American...
Boyle: New Pentagon War Manual Reduces Us To “Level of Nazis”
by Sherwood Ross The Pentagon’s new Law of War Manual(LOWM) sanctioning nuclear attacks and the killing of civilians, “reads like it was written by Hitler’s Ministry of War,” says...
Nuland’s Plan For The Balkans (And How It Can Dramatically Backfire) – Part I
By Andrew Koribko (originally published by The Saker on July 20, 2015) US regime change expert and architect of regional destabilization, Victoria Nuland, recently paid a visit to the...
ISIS in Afghanistan: Proxy War Against Iran and China
The nature of the war in Afghanistan has shifted dramatically in recent months. While the US and NATO continue to be actively involved in the country – their strategic...
Putin Giving Up on Assad, Says Erdogan
by Eric Zuesse Turkey’s President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, was asked by an interviewer last week: On the question of Syria, have you seen changes in the attitude of Russian...
The MH17 Pilot’s Corpse: More on the Cover-Up. Even His Family Was Blocked from It. Here’s Why.
It might be the decisive piece of evidence proving who and what and how and why the MH17 Malaysian airliner over the conflict zone in Ukraine on 17 July...
70 years after the world’s first real taste of US “exceptionalism”
August 6 1945 the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Approximately 70,000 people died immediately from the blast and resultant fire...
Obama’s “Safe Zone” in Syria intended to turn it into new Libya
by Shamus Cooke The road to war is paved with a thousand lies. A fresh fib was tossed on the lie-cluttered warpath to Syria, when it was announced that...
MH-17: Is the Truth Out There? Or has the US confined the real story to the X-Files?
by Jonathan Barrett Please note this is an opinion piece and not an opinion piece masquerading as a news report. You will find plenty of those in the mainstream...
America’s Founding Principles Are in Danger of Corruption
by Gary Hart, former United States Senator, via time.com Welcome to the age of vanity politics and campaigns-for-hire. What would our founders make of this nightmare? Four qualities have...
