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Canada vs. Venezuela: Have the Koch Brothers Captured Canada’s Left?
Canada vs. Venezuela: Have the Koch Brothers Captured Canada’s Left? Photo by Eden, Janine and Jim | CC BY 2.0 With a U.S.-backed military coup or invasion in Venezuela looking ever more likely, Canada’s progressive leftists are pushing for the federal New Democratic Party (NDP) to abandon its “reactionary” foreign policy position on that country. […]
Dutch Lies Over Putin’s ‘Aggression’ Expose NATO War Agenda
Dutch Lies Over Putin’s ‘Aggression’ Expose NATO War Agenda Netherlands Prime Minister Mark Rutte was this week forced to bear a parliamentary vote of no confidence after his foreign minister finally came clean over a dangerous lie he has been telling for two years concerning Russian President Vladimir Putin. Halbe Zijlstra quit in shame on […]
Regime Change Fails: Is A Military Coup or Invasion of Venezuela Next?
Regime Change Fails: Is A Military Coup or Invasion of Venezuela Next? The U.S. has employed all of its regime change tools in Venezuela and although so far they have failed, there is still a chance that a military attack is in store, warn Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers. Several signals point to a possible military […]
Saudi Arabia, Russia Ink 3 Huge Energy Deals
Saudi Arabia, Russia Ink 3 Huge Energy Deals Saudi Arabia hits bullseye, IPO and LNG deals cements geopolitical cooperation Russia Hidden by the fog of the ongoing oil market volatility and the Turkish adventures in Syria, OPEC leader Saudi Arabia has been cementing its geopolitical position for years. In Riyadh meetings this week between Saudi […]
The Lies and the Narrative
The Lies and the Narrative Frank Larson Chrysler reflection, 42nd Street near 5th Ave, New York 1950sUpdate: Dutch Foreign Minister Halbe Zijlstra resigned at 5pm local time, before the parliamentary debate could take place. But that still leaves Rutte in place with his own version of “when it gets serious, you have to lie”. There […]
Garbage In, Garbage Out: Tech Journalism, Fake News and the Russia Threat Narrative
Garbage In, Garbage Out: Tech Journalism, Fake News and the Russia Threat Narrative “At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question … Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness.” George Orwell, 1945, ‘The Freedom of […]
Budget Woes Sign of a Dysfunctional Empire
Budget Woes Sign of a Dysfunctional Empire The bloated military budget is justified on the assumption that the United States can and should police the entire world, but this approach is fundamentally unsustainable, warns Jonathan Marshall. President Donald Trump’s latest $4.4 trillion budget proposal calls for boosting military spending by nearly $200 billion over the […]
Russian Fighters Killed In Clash With US-Led Coalition Forces In Syria
Russian Fighters Killed In Clash With US-Led Coalition Forces In Syria With the calm of global capital markets shattered in the past two weeks, the ongoing military conflict in the Middle East has taken an understandable back seat to monetary matters. And yet, tensions involving Syria, Iran and Israel continue to escalate, most notably with […]
Turkish Warships Block Cypriot Drilling Rig In Dispute Over Mediterranean Gas Field
Turkish Warships Block Cypriot Drilling Rig In Dispute Over Mediterranean Gas Field Amid escalating tensions between Cyprus and Turkey in the Mediterranean Sea, the two countries could be headed towards a resource war. On Monday, the Cypriot government released a report according to which Turkish warships continue to heavily restrict one of its deepwater drilling […]
Dutch Official Admits Lying About Meeting With Putin: Is Fake News Used by Russia or About Russia?
Photo: Alexander Utkin/AFP/Getty Images Dutch Official Admits Lying About Meeting With Putin: Is Fake News Used by Russia or About Russia? EVERY EMPIRE NEEDS a scary external threat, led by a singular menacing villain, to justify its massive military expenditures, consolidation of authoritarian powers, and endless wars. For the five decades after the end of […]
The Expanding Threat from Washington’s Nuclear Weapons
The Expanding Threat from Washington’s Nuclear Weapons On February 3 the Washington Post observed that “the United States can deliver a strike anywhere in the world in 30 minutes with astounding accuracy” and questioned the need for “a new generation of low-yield nuclear weapons,” quoting the commander of the strategic force, General John Hyten, as saying “I’m very comfortable today with […]
Russia In the Crosshairs
Russia In the Crosshairs Defending the latest round of US/Israeli aggression against Syria, US State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert struck a Hitlerian note when she blamed Syria and Iran for an act of overt Israeli aggression, saying “The United States . . . strongly supports Israel’s sovereign right to defend itself,” and when she lied […]
Peace: The One Thing the US Warmongers Do Not Want
Peace: The One Thing the US Warmongers Do Not Want Vice President Mike Pence made fools of the US at the South Korea Olympics. Kim Jong Un’s sister stole the show. For a welcome change of pace, a thaw between North and South Korea is taking place. Unfortunately, the US wants no part of it […]
Israel “Preparing For War In North”, Boosts Air Defenses; Warns Iran
Israel “Preparing For War In North”, Boosts Air Defenses; Warns Iran One day after the most “significant escalation” in tensions between Israel and Syria/Iran, when an Israeli F-16 was shot down over the Golan Heights after it attacked a Syrian base which allegedly launched a drone into Israeli airspace, Israel appears to be “preparing for […]
U.S. Intelligence Crisis Poses a Threat to the World
U.S. Intelligence Crisis Poses a Threat to the World Privatized and politicized intelligence is undermining the mission of providing unbiased information to both high-level decision makers and the American public, explains George Eliason in this first of a three-part series. Back in 1991, during the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the general consensus of the […]
