White Privilege and the Racism Debate: A British East European point of view
In this country I am regarded as White and therefore, privileged – it seems. People in the streets and on television say that Whites should kneel and apologise. Really?...
The Sword of Damocles Over Western Europe
In Part 1, we left off in our story at the SIS-CIA overthrow of Iran’s Nationalist leader Mohammad Mosaddegh in 1953. At this point the Shah was able to...
To Understand Iran’s 150-Year Fight, Follow the Trail of Blood and Oil
What if I were to tell you that once there was a time when Iran and the U.S. had good relations and that the U.S. was in fact the...
REVIEW: Israel, a Beachhead…
Philip Roddis This book is a timely response to three groups: Those yet to grasp that Israel in its current form is an outrage comparable to apartheid South Africa;...
The Orientalism of Western Russophobia
Last year marked the 40th anniversary of the publication of Edward W. Said’s pioneering book, Orientalism, as well as fifteen years since the Palestinian-American intellectual’s passing. To bid farewell...
Crocodile Tears for Venezuela
On 26 February, Stephen Hickey, UK political coordinator at the United Nations, delivered a statement at the Security Council briefing on Venezuela that put the blame for the situation...
Winston Churchill: Close, But No Cigar
David Lindsay Never forget that Piers Morgan was one of extremely few mainstream media figures to see through the Iraq War lies from the start. And thanks to his...
Armistice Day & the Resurrection of the Old Lie
Kit Knightly
In a profoundly dishonest society, the shared grief of World War I is one of the few things we all know the truth of. One of the few things...
British Troops Enter Syria and Libya to Ensure That War Outlives ISIS
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...
