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...

by Thierry Meyssan (translation by Pete Kimberley) The Kumanavo affair On the 9th of May, 2015, the Macedonian police launched a dawn operation to arrest an armed group which...

by Vaska While Christopher Black questions the real nature of the May 19th attack on the Russian Embassy in Damascus, Petr Lvov, writing for New Eastern Outlook, summarizes and...

By Binoy Kampmark The language never reflects the actual conduct. Deploying weapons to a region in greater numbers is not seen as provocative, even if placing such items in...

by Systematic Fort Russ’s J. Hawk reviews Russian commentator Alex Leshy’s opinion piece The sources of US aggressiveness lie in the EU: Leshy makes a compelling argument that the...

Once in a while a book appears that forces us to rethink the previous cognitive patterns. To use the celebrated phrase from Thomas S. Kuhn’s influential, The Structure of...

byTeleSur The U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Roberta Jacobson was not pleased by the reactions of Latin American countries to the U.S. stance on Venezuela,...

Yuri Romanenko expressed his aggressive thoughts during a discussion at Harvard, but his US partners did not support him Fairly well-known Ukrainian journalist and political analyst Yuri Romanenko, head...

Czech President Milos Zeman issued a sharp retort to the US ambassadors’ criticism of Zeman’s plans to attend the 9 May Victory Parade in Moscow. In an interview for...

By El-Murid, Russia Iran has something to be proud of and something to celebrate: it preserved the right to develop its peaceful nuclear program, albeit under 10 years of...

In case anyone doubts the exquisitely-refined sense of timing and symbolism of the Empire’s war machine, this insight from Adam Johnson, at AlterNet, may help ease the doubt. Emphasis...

by Kanya Bennett, Legislative Counsel, ACLU Washington Legislative Office Here’s a statistic for you: It’s been 31 days since the release of the White House Task Force on 21st...

The double standards of the US State Department knows no bounds… Jen is psaking again about the legitimacy and illegitimacy of various heads of state. Difficult for anyone to...

Catte Part 1 of our “ISIS” series. Part 2 can be seen here ISIS. Murky, masked, terrifying Bad Guys. Islamic hardliners, doing unspeakably ghastly things in faraway sandy places....

They enthusiastically, even gaily, blew up another country, only to blame the rescue personnel for not showing up fast enough. By Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow, the Cato Institute, via...

… Interviewer: You wrote, I think in 1997, in your book about The Grand Chessboard … this same phrase which I wrote down about Russia with Ukraine is an...

Or be deemed a terrorist By Jana Winter and Cora Currier, The Intercept Fidgeting, whistling, sweaty palms. Add one point each. Arrogance, a cold penetrating stare, and rigid posture,...

It looks as if Minsk2 is in a lot of trouble, due to what Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov describes as a “glaring breach of the first steps...

by ANDREW LEVINE in COUNTERPUNCH Suddenly last summer, Vladimir Putin, formerly once a decent enough Russian leader (with a few unsettling quirks), turned into a malevolent, almost demonic, force....

Libya’s Humanitarian Catastrophe | The Nation. “It looks like a gradual descent into the abyss,” says Hanan Salah, the Libya researcher for Human Rights Watch. “I’m hoping that there...