by Vaska It looks like the economic and political group whose interests the New York Times serves is getting scared that Hillary Clinton, its candidate for US presidency, might...

by Vaska The content below was originally uploaded on Facebook by Anna Blond on April 20. On April 23, Facebook blocked her for two weeks while she was posting...

by Vaska Here’s Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz on how Europe can return to a more sustainable economic path.  Stiglitz delivered this keynote speech at the European Dialogue 2016 conference ...

by Vaska Scanning my Facebook this morning, I came across a startling Pravda item someone had shared on my wall.   The reaction I had on seeing the posted headline...

by Vaska Facebook censored a popular, accredited and officially supported DONi Donbass International News Agency main Facebook site on Tuesday March 1.  The banning of DONi was done in...

by Vaska Peter Schmidt, an old-time Guardian reader and CIF commentator, has sent us this glimpse of the continuing suppression of criticism and genuine investigative news reporting by the...

Vaska Further proof of ties between the Turkish military and ISIS terrorists operating on the Syrian-Turkish border has been revealed in the Cumhuriyet newspaper, which published more transcripts of...

Starting last October, with the prospects of a true left coming to power in Greece itself crushed for now by the re-election of the Tsipras-led Syriza government, the former...

by Vaska As FortRuss reported on January 6, the Saudi Air Force has bombed a centre for the blind in the Yemeni capital Sana’a, leaving at least 3 dead....

by Vaska Pentagon’s most recent briefing and its figures on ISIL numbers in Iraq and Syria raise a lot of questions:  1.  Who is enabling the continuing influx of...

by Vaska What’s going on at DemocracyNow! for Amy Goodman to be interviewing a Saudi crown prince on the subject of combatting Daesh?   A Saudi crown prince born in...

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,...

by Vaska In the past month and a half or so, both the Guardian and the Observer have come under sustained criticism for their extraordinarily hostile (as well as...

by Vaska In “Pundits Thought Clinton Beat Sanders—but Did Viewers?” Gunar Olsen analyzes the mainstream and right-wing Internet-based media reporting on Tuesday’s Democratic presidential debate in the US. Olsen...

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...

by Vaska Four days ago, on September 24, we published an item about the use of multiple identities on The Guardian‘s CIF pages by people presenting avidly pro-Western, and...

by Vaska A quick scan of today’s major press outlets in the US, Britain and Israel reveals the Empire’s continuing attempt to conceal the full depth and extent of...

by Vaska In Ukraine, resistance to the Empire continues. Here’s the city of Zaporozhye mocking current Kiev authorities. The sign reads: “There is no power but from God.”

by Vaska Writing for New Eastern Outlook (September 8), Toni Cartalucci reports on a June 2015 Brookings Institute paper which lays out a US plan to invade and take...