Pepe Escobar [Click on map to enlarge] It's a classic case of calm before the storm. The AfPak chapter of Obama's brand new OCO ("Overseas Contingency Operations"), formerly GWOT ("global war on terror") does not imply only a surge in the Pashtun… more »
Sherwood Ross If President-elect Barack Obama is reassuring the intelligence community “that his complaints are with the Bush administration, not them,” as AP’s Pamela Hess reported January 10th, his campaign slogan “change we… more »
Eric Walberg Bringing the threat of war to Russia’s borders is having wide-ranging repercussions. As Russian troops marched to celebrate the victory over Nazi Germany 8 May, NATO troops — 1,300 of them from 10 member countries and six “partners” — were… more »
We’ve Lit a Fire, Now We Need to Fan It, A Populist Health Care Rebellion is Brewing
May 13th, 2009
Kevin Zeese Last week when I was one of the Baucus Eight, so-named because eight of us were arrested before Sen. Baucus, I hopped others would join us. Yesterday, they did. And, the single payer movement grew stronger. Before the hearing I joined nearly… more »
Khalid Amayreh in occupied East Jerusalem "The Pope’s visit to occupied Palestine is unlike any other visit. This is the land where 61 years ago Europe implanted Israel, superimposing it right on top of another people and enabling the children of the… more »
Stephen Lendman This is the fourth in a series of articles on Ellen Brown's superb 2007 book titled "Web of Debt," now updated in a December 2008 third edition. It tells "the shocking truth about our money system, (how it) trapped us in debt, and how we… more »
The Man Who Knew Too Much? A Convenient Suicide in a Libyan Prison
May 13th, 2009
Benjamin Davis Little noted thusfar by the newspapers of record in the United States, Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, the al-Qaeda operative tortured for the United States by the Egyptian secret police, died in a Libyan prison this past weekend of what has been… more »
Record Number of Innocent New Yorkers Stopped, Interrogated by NYPD
May 12th, 2009
from Jennifer Carnig The NYPD stopped and interrogated more innocent people during the first three months of 2009 than during any three-month period since the Department began collecting data on its troubling stop-and-frisk program. Police made more… more »
How Much Was Fox Paid to Shill Bush's War Crime in Iraq?
May 12th, 2009
Len Hart The Fox network conspired with Bush's criminal regime to profit from the US plunder of Iraq. Fox was and will continue to be Bush's 'propaganda ministry' for as long as there is money to be made depicting dead Iraqis who had nothing whatsoever… more »
Stephen Lendman This is the third in a series of articles on Ellen Brown's superb 2007 book titled "Web of Debt," now updated in a December 2008 third edition. It tells "the shocking truth about our money system, (how it) trapped us in debt, and how we… more »
University of Virginia President Jim Ryan exiting Pavilion VI is confronted by students protesting his decision to break up an anti-war demonstration, Thursday, May 9, 2024. By David Swanson I’m old enough to remember a video of a New York Times…
by Tracy Turner Plastic has been in use for over a century. It was first created in the mid-19th century, with the invention of celluloid in 1869, and it is considered the first actual plastic. The widespread commercial production of plastics began in…
Employees from the World Central Kitchen were killed in an Israeli air strike on their vehicles in the central Gaza Strip. (Majdi Fathi / NurPhoto via Getty Images) JAMES BAMFORD Because it isn’t so much the bombs that kill but the list that puts…
Dr. Vladislav B. Sotirovic Southern Serbia’s autonomous province of Kosovo and Metochia (KosMet) has been subject to a gradual, but permanent change in its demographic content during the time of Titoslavia (Socialist Yugoslavia, 1945−1991). Three…
By David Swanson Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty declares that NATO members will assist another member if attacked by “taking action as it deems necessary, including the use of armed force.” But the UN Charter does not say anywhere that warmaking…
By Tracy Turner The Legacy of Unit 8200 - When browsing Yandex Images, looking for artistic renderings of Zionism, it is expected to see either an Octopus strangling the Earth or an Octopus strangling the Rotunda Dome in Washington, D.C. The legacy of…
David Swanson I fervently hope, dear reader, that you do not agree that every person in Israel deserves to die. But I know some of you do, and I hope to suggest a better way of looking at it. I know that you’re even more unlikely to agree with me that…
From the very pan-global perspective, the best-known geopolitical thesis is of the British Mackinder – “Heartland Thesis”. According to the thesis, the Asian “Heartland” is a pivotal area of global geopolitics. Who controls this area provides a chief…
Dr. Vladislav B. Sotirovic At least from the very academic viewpoint, war is a condition of armed conflict between at least two sides (but, in fact, states). There are, historically, several types of warfare as conventional warfare, civil war, lightning…
By: Brett Redmayne-Titley. “… we see the brutal repression that we have not seen in the [US] universities...The truth is that this unprecedented brutal repression...expresses at state of panic for the western system in general.”- Bashar al-Assad. As…
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