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Ultimate Weapon in Existential Struggle: Using the TPP for Hostile Takeover of Mexican Agriculture
Ultimate Weapon in Existential Struggle: Using the TPP for Hostile Takeover of Mexican Agriculture Resisting Monsanto, the world’s largest, most influential GMO giant, is an almost impossible task. The corporation boasts more back channels and revolving doors with national governments and regulators than just about any other company on the planet, not to mention a […]
How you were tricked into supporting the war in Syria
How you were tricked into supporting the war in Syria Washington, DC (TFC) – Those who don’t understand history are doomed to repeat it, those that do understand are doomed to watch in horror while everyone else repeats it. The run up to overthrowing President Assad of Syria was occurring before The Fifth Column existed. I covered it […]
The Saudi Connection to Terror
The Saudi Connection to Terror Exclusive: While Official Washington devotes much sound and fury to demands for a wider war in Syria and the need to turn away Syrian refugees, Democrats and Republicans dodge the tougher question: how to confront Saudi Arabia about its covert funding for Islamic State and Al Qaeda terrorists, writes Daniel Lazare. How does ISIS […]
The Left and Right Must Stop the Establishment’s Perpetual War Machine
The Left and Right Must Stop the Establishment’s Perpetual War Machine In the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, some of us tried to raise questions of U.S. foreign policy. I got my mic cut on O’Reilly’s show. Others got far worse — a friend basically felt he had to move out of his neighborhood he was […]
US, Canada, Ukraine reject UN resolution condemning glorification of Nazism; Moscow ‘bewildered’
US, Canada, Ukraine reject UN resolution condemning glorification of Nazism; Moscow ‘bewildered’ A woman covers her face as she and others perform a Fascist salute after attending a mass service outside the basilica in the Valle de los Caidos (Valley of the Fallen) near Madrid November 20, 2011. © Susana Vera / Reuters A UN […]
The Onion Predicted All Of This Back in 2003
The Onion Predicted All Of This Back in 2003 “George W. Bush may think that a war against Iraq is the solution to our problems, but the reality is, it will only serve to create far more,” read a 2003 article on The Onion a week after then-President George Bush launched the Iraq War. While a […]
Guile Replaces The Stick: Washington’s New Approach To Russia
Guile Replaces The Stick: Washington’s New Approach To Russia Washington has learned that threats and coercion do not work against Russia. All the threats have done is to build Putin’s public support to astronomical levels and to unify Russia against the West’s assault. This is a failed policy that Washington is abandoning as Washington sees […]
Verging on Plutocracy? Getting Real About the Unelected Dictatorship
Verging on Plutocracy? Getting Real About the Unelected Dictatorship In politics as in medicine, excessively mild remedies are typically based on overly placid diagnoses. Look, for example, at the highly esteemed Columbia University historian Eric Foner’s recent letter of congratulations and advice to Democratic Party presidential candidate Bernie Sanders in The Nation. As I have argued […]
Tangled Threads of US False Narratives
Tangled Threads of US False Narratives Exclusive: Official Washington’s many false narratives about Russia and Syria have gotten so tangled that they have become a danger to the struggle against Sunni terrorism and conceivably a threat to the future of the planet, a risk that Robert Parry explores. One way to view Official Washington is to envision […]
Ending Blowback Terrorism
Ending Blowback Terrorism NEW YORK – Terrorist attacks on civilians, whether the downing over Sinai of a Russian aircraft killing 224 civilian passengers, the horrific Paris massacre claiming 129 innocent lives, or the tragic bombing in Ankara that killed 102 peace activists, are crimes against humanity. Their perpetrators – in this case, the Islamic State […]
NATO is harbouring the Islamic State
NATO is harbouring the Islamic State Why France’s brave new war on ISIS is a sick joke, and an insult to the victims of the Paris attacks “We stand alongside Turkey in its efforts in protecting its national security and fighting against terrorism. France and Turkey are on the same side within the framework of […]
Outside Powers Must End Their Proxy Wars in Syria
Outside Powers Must End Their Proxy Wars in Syria A FRENCH NEWS CAMERAMAN burst into the bar of Beirut’s Commodore Hotel, where his colleagues gathered most evenings, on November 17, 1983. “At last,” he shouted, cupping both hands upward, “someone with balls!” French warplanes had just bombed the town of Baalbek, site of magnificent Roman ruins […]
The Greatest Racket of All Time
The Greatest Racket of All Time The Successes of the Global War on Terror One would think that the so-called “Global War on Terror”, which has been given fresh impetus by the Paris attacks, must be going swimmingly. What else could explain the great enthusiasm with which it is pursued? It may be recalled that […]
