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Is Globalization Really Fueling Populism?
Is Globalization Really Fueling Populism? BRUSSELS – On both sides of the Atlantic, populism of the left and the right is on the rise. Its most visible standard-bearer in the United States is Donald Trump, the Republican Party’s presumptive presidential nominee. In Europe, there are many strands – from Spain’s leftist Podemos party to France’s right-wing […]
When They Killed JFK They Killed America
When They Killed JFK They Killed America In the JFK administration I was a White House Fellow. In those days it was a much larger program than the small insider program it later became. President Kennedy’s intention was to involve many young Americans in government in order to keep idealism alive as a counter to […]
If Russia Had ‘Freed’ Canada
If Russia Had ‘Freed’ Canada Special Report: The U.S. government defined events in Ukraine as a “pro-democracy” revolution battling “Russian aggression” — at least as far as the world’s mainstream media was concerned. But what if the script were flipped, asks Joe Lauria. As the United States plans to move thousands of NATO troops to Russia’s […]
Ripe for Regime Change
Ripe for Regime Change Russia Today reports: “The Prosecutor General’s Office has ruled…the National Democratic Institute, chaired by a former Secretary of State (Albright,) poses a threat to Russian security and constitutional order. It proposed including this NGO on the list of undesirable organizations. According to NDI’s website the group operated in Russia directly since […]
A Dire Future
A Dire Future Do you remember all the hopes Americans had for Obama when we elected him to his first term? Painful memories. He betrayed the voters on every one of his promises. There was no change, except for the worst as Obama went on to become one of the most vicious war criminals in […]
Somnolent Europe, Russia, and China
Somnolent Europe, Russia, and China Can the world wake up? On September 19, 2000, going on 16 years ago, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard of the London Telegraphreported: “Declassified American government documents show that the US intelligence community ran a campaign in the Fifties and Sixties to build momentum for a united Europe. It funded and directed the European […]
America’s Biggest of All Big Lies (I)
ERIC ZUESSE | 05.05.2016 | WORLD America’s Biggest of All Big Lies (I) On April 26th, Reuters headlined from Romania, «‘We’re Not Here to Provoke,’ Say US Pilots on Putin’s Doorstep», and gave as an example: «‘We’re not here to provoke anybody, we’re here to work with our allies,’ says Dan Barina, a 26-year-old pilot on his first trip to a […]
Russia to form 3 new divisions to counter NATO buildup
Russia to form 3 new divisions to counter NATO buildup Russia is to deploy two new divisions in the west and one in the south to counterbalance NATO’s increased military presence near Russian borders, Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu announced. “The Defense Ministry is taking a number of measures to respond to the NATO military buildup […]
The Great Western Retreat
The Great Western Retreat Of all French soldiers currently engaged in military operations, half of them are deployed inside France. And half of those are assigned to protect 717 Jewish schools. This massive deployment of armed forces in our own cities is a departure from history. It is a moral disarmament, before a military one. […]
Saudi Foreign Minister Repeats Warning To US Over Sept 11 Law
Saudi Foreign Minister Repeats Warning To US Over Sept 11 Law The biggest financial and geopolitical story from mid-April was Saudi Arabia’s threat that should the US pass a bipartisan law which would take away immunity from foreign governments in cases arising from a “terrorist attack that kills an American on American soil” and specifically could hold […]
Seymour Hersh Says Hillary Approved Sending Libya’s Sarin to Syrian Rebels
Seymour Hersh Says Hillary Approved Sending Libya’s Sarin to Syrian Rebels The great investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, in two previous articles in the London Review of Books («Whose Sarin?» and «The Red Line and the Rat Line») has reported that the Obama Administration falsely blamed the government of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad for the sarin gas attack that Obama was […]
Why Saudi Arabia Will Not Win The Oil Price War
Why Saudi Arabia Will Not Win The Oil Price War Crude oil prices continued to surprise on Tuesday, with the U.S. benchmark adding another 4 percent to $44.60 a barrel. West Texas Intermediate is now up 65 percent since hitting 13-year lows below $27 a barrel February 11. It’s a performance only bettered by the […]
Seymour Hersh – Saudi Government Paid Pakistan to Hold Osama bin Laden to Prevent U.S. Interrogation
Seymour Hersh – Saudi Government Paid Pakistan to Hold Osama bin Laden to Prevent U.S. Interrogation In the aftermath of the most signifiant geopolitical event of my lifetime, the attacks of September 11,2001, the U.S. government proceeded to concoct a fairytale for public consumption in order to advance imperial ambitions overseas and a implement a domestic surveillance […]
One More Casualty Of The 9/11 Farce – The Petrodollar
One More Casualty Of The 9/11 Farce – The Petrodollar It’s been about 15 years now since passenger airliners struck the World Trade Center towers on 9/11, and we are still suffering the consequences of that day, though perhaps not in the ways many Americans might believe. The 9/11 attacks were billed by the Bush […]
