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Attack on RT Is Another Step Towards Sovietization of American Media
Attack on RT Is Another Step Towards Sovietization of American Media This week the US Department of Justice Criminal Division forced the Russian-funded television network RT (formerly Russia Today) to register as a “foreign agent” under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA). Failure to comply would have risked arrest of RT’s management and seizure of […]
America’s Righteous Russia-gate Censorship
America’s Righteous Russia-gate Censorship Exclusive: Arriving behind the anti-Trump “resistance” and the Russia-gate “scandal” is a troubling readiness to silence dissent in the U.S., shutting down information that challenges Official Narratives, writes Robert Parry. A stark difference between today’s Washington and when I was here as a young Associated Press correspondent in the late 1970s […]
Who Gets to Push the Nuclear Button?
Who Gets to Push the Nuclear Button? William Binney is the former National Security Agency (NSA) official who created NSA’s mass surveillance program for digital information. He says that if the Russian government had conspired with Trump, hacked the Democratic National Committee’s computer, or in any way influenced the outcome of the last US presidential […]
Trump’s Saudi Scheme Unravels
Trump’s Saudi Scheme Unravels President Trump and his son-in-law bet that the young Saudi crown prince could execute a plan to reshape the Mideast, but the scheme quickly unraveled revealing a dangerous amateur hour, writes ex-British diplomat Alastair Crooke. Aaron Miller and Richard Sokolsky, writing in Foreign Policy, suggest “that Mohammed bin Salman’s most notable […]
Why Everyone Should Do What WikiLeaks Did
Why Everyone Should Do What WikiLeaks Did By far the best thing about the WikiLeaks-Don Jr. controversy has been watching the talking heads on CNN and MSNBC who spent a year and a half priming everyone for President Hillary now saying, “Ha! WikiLeaks claims they’re a legitimate news organization, and yet here they are, advancing […]
Another False Flag Terror ADMISSION: Snipers In the Ukraine “Protests”
Another False Flag Terror ADMISSION: Snipers In the Ukraine “Protests” Snipers Fired At BOTH Police and Protesters In Ukraine Remember the protests in Ukraine which led to the old leader being replaced? If you’ll recall, the ruthless slaughter of people by snipers was the event which turned world opinion against the Ukrainian Prime Minister, and resulted in […]
The Pandora’s Box of the Digital Age
The Pandora’s Box of the Digital Age In the past year alone, a series of hacks and ransomware attacks by hostile governments and other malign actors have raised alarms about a major threat to global stability. Unfortunately, many governments are responding by developing still more cyber weapons, on the mistaken assumption that offense is the […]
NATO: a Dangerous Paper Tiger
NATO: a Dangerous Paper Tiger The Chinese have a genius for pithy expressions and few are more packed with meaning, while immediately understandable, than “paper tiger”. NATO is one, but paper tigers that overestimate their powers can be dangerous. Some Russians are concerned that there are today more hostile troops at the Russian border than […]
Stumbling Blindly into Cold War Two
Stumbling Blindly into Cold War Two As the U.S. and its Western allies lurch into a new and dangerous confrontation with Russia, the different sides don’t even have a thorough understanding of the history behind the tensions, warns Alice Slater. NATO’s recent provocative decision to build up its military forces across Europe — by sending […]
Saudis and Trump: Gambling Bigly
Saudis and Trump: Gambling Bigly “My grandfather rode a camel, my father rode a camel, I drive a Mercedes, my son drives a Land Rover, his son will drive a Land Rover, but his son will ride a camel.” – Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum, first Prime Minister of United Arab Emirates Try this simple mental […]
Oil Prices Could Double If Middle East Conflict Escalates
Oil Prices Could Double If Middle East Conflict Escalates Barrel traders recently pushed the price of West Texas Intermediate (WTI) oil above $US 55; the first time in over two years. Scarcity doesn’t really justify the upward price movement. There isn’t a shortage of oil in the world. But there could be, in the worst […]
Is Trudeau Ready for a Middle East war?
Is Trudeau Ready for a Middle East war? The world is now at the mercy of a coalition of three of the most dangerous autocrats on the planet: Donald Trump, Benjamin Netanyahu and Saudi Arabia’s new absolute ruler Mohammad bin Salman a name that will become increasingly familiar as the months go by. These three […]
Russia Names The 9 US News Outlets It Will Retaliate Against
Russia Names The 9 US News Outlets It Will Retaliate Against After hinting that retaliation was imminent, Russian lawmakers in the Duma – Russia’s lower house of Parliament – have approved a law that would require nine US news outlets to be labeled “foreign agents” in response to Washington’s decision to require Russia Today to […]
McCarthyism Redux: Attacks on the Russian Media
McCarthyism Redux: Attacks on the Russian Media Photo by Mike Maguire | CC BY 2.0 “We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember that we are not fearful men, not […]
Flirting With War in North Korea
Flirting With War in North Korea Photo by Stefan Krasowski | CC BY 2.0 The most surprising part about Donald Trump’s Wednesday speech, directed at the North Korean regime via Tokyo, is that more people of a certain type weren’t gushing over it. After all, if sending cruise missiles at Syria makes a man presidential, […]
