by Vaska For the past two years, the European Leadership Network (ELN) has been issuing a steady stream of extremely biased, NATO-propaganda papers by credentialed academics willing to make...

by Vaska In its latest retrospective piece on Iraq and the US policy in the Arab world, Truthout cites Ray McGovern, a former CIA analyst with 27 years in...

As progressives in Europe and the rest of the world watch in dismay the odious spectacle of a German-led EU spitefully destroying the "fiscal sovereignty" of the...

by Vaska After a month of innuendos, false leaks and accusations in the press concerning what went on at the April 24 Riga Eurogroup meeting, using his own blog...

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 Vaska Thursday, May 21, clashes took place in downtown Kiev, where crowds protesting the soaring cost of private loans and the economic crisis Ukraine’s been plunged into since...

by Vaska Dismissing the suggestion of an unnamed European official cited by the Suddeutsche Zeitung that Greece’s current loan program is to be rolled over into the fall, with...

by Vaska Ukrainian Armed Forces (UAF) resumed shelling the Donetsk Airport area the evening of May 18, continuing the barrage through the night of May 18-19. The first salvos...

by Vaska According to a Princeton University study, public opinion has “near-zero” impact on U.S. law. One thing that does have an influence? Money. Nearly every issue [Americans] face as a nation is caught in the grip...

by Vaska As the Council of Canadians reports today, Elizabeth May, leader of Canada’s Green Party, and MP Don Davis, the New Democratic Party’s trade critic, have joined the...

by Vaska Jim Naureckas’ latest analysis of the U.S. corporate media commentary following Labour’s loss in last week’s elections in the UK shows how the American corporate press is...

by Vaska Two German citizens, tired of propaganda in the German media, have decided to visit the “peninsula of terror”. They were to start their bike tour on May...

by Vaska As Hunternews reports, according to Izvestia, plans are under way to give a distinctly pro-fascist, anti-Russian slant to the teaching of history in Ukraine. The country’s Ministry...

by Vaska The venerable Guardian carries a new in-depth article on IS and its recruiting work – this time in Russia. It does so under the headline How Isis...

by Vaska Al Jazeera reports that, in what amounts to acts of war crime, Israeli soldiers were instructed to shoot civilians in Gaza last summer: The 237-page report by...

by Vaska Here are the main points Anatoly Karlin, writing in “The Maidan Retroactively Criminalizes Itself,” makes on the repression which masquerades as freedom in the new, Empire-backed Ukraine:...

by Vaska According to the latest from FarsNews, “US Secretary of State John Kerry is asking Iran to help facilitate Yemen peace talks. Interestingly, Iran has been the one...

by Vaska During an emergency closed-door Security Council session on Yemen held on May 1, the U.S. blocked a resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire necessary to address the...

by Vaska In reaction to Kiev’s continuing failure to control Ukrainian neo-Nazi militias and Rada’s refusal to engage in any meaningful discussions which could lead to a decentralized, federal...

by Vaska Unreported by our so-called free press, the Ukrainian forces continue to violate Minsk-2 ceasefire agreement. The latest violation took place in the town of Gorlovka last night....