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Russia Readies Fuel Deliveries To Athens, Will Support Greek “Economic Revival”
Russia Readies Fuel Deliveries To Athens, Will Support Greek “Economic Revival” Russia and Greece have a “special relationship of spiritual kinship and religious and historical affinity,” Vladimir Putin said yesterday, following the BRICS summit in Ulfa. Over the course of the unfolding crisis in Greece, Athens has at various times gone out of its way to remind Angela […]
Journalists’ Complicity in Hiding Those Guilty for MH17
Journalists’ Complicity in Hiding Those Guilty for MH17 Robert Parry headlined on July 9th, “MH-17 Case Slips into Propaganda Fog,” and he wrote: “Many investigative journalists, including myself, have been rebuffed in repeated efforts to get verifiable proof about the case or even informational briefings.” His phrase “have been rebuffed” was linked to a July 3rd article by nsnbc’s […]
MH-17 Case Slips into Propaganda Fog
MH-17 Case Slips into Propaganda Fog Exclusive: Almost a year ago, Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine killing 298 people. Yet, instead of a transparent investigation seeking justice, the case became a propaganda game of finger-pointing, with the CIA withholding key evidence all the better to blame Russia, reports Robert Parry. The Dutch […]
Russia, Ukraine and U.S. Hegemony
Russia, Ukraine and U.S. Hegemony The following is an edited version of a talk by the author as part of a panel at a public forum in Toronto on June 12, 2015. The forum was sponsored by the Centre for Social Justice and Socialist Project. You can view the talk here on ‘Left Streamed’. The Ukraine/Russia […]
Wikipedia as Propaganda Not History — MH17 as An Example
Wikipedia as Propaganda Not History — MH17 as An Example Wikipedia articles are more propaganda than they are historical accounts. And, often, their cited sources are misleading, or even false. On 15 August 2007, the BBC headlined “Wikipedia Shows CIA Page Edits,” and Jonathan Fildes reported that, “An online tool that claims to reveal the identity of […]
Welcome to Blackswansville
Welcome to Blackswansville While the folks clogging the US tattoo parlors may not have noticed, things are beginning to look a little World War one-ish out there. Except the current blossoming world conflict is being fought not with massed troops and tanks but with interest rates and repayment schedules. Germany now dawdles in reply to […]
The Tragedy of Harper’s Canada
The Tragedy of Harper’s Canada Tilting Toward Totalitarianism “This abuse of executive power is tilting toward totalitarian government and away from the foundations of democracy and the rule of law on which this country was founded.” -Errol Mendes, Professor of constitutional and international law (University of Ottawa) The current Conservative government of Prime Minister Stephen […]
Ukraine Halts Russian Gas Purchases After Price Talks Fail
Ukraine Halts Russian Gas Purchases After Price Talks Fail It has been a bad day for deals and deadlines all around: first Greece is about to enter July without a bailout program and in default to the IMF with the ECB about to yank its ELA support or at least cut ELA haircuts; also the […]
16 Facts About The Tremendous Financial Devastation That We Are Seeing All Over The World
16 Facts About The Tremendous Financial Devastation That We Are Seeing All Over The World As we enter the second half of 2015, financial panic has gripped most of the globe. Stock prices are crashing in China, in Europe and in the United States. Greece is on the verge of a historic default, and now Puerto Rico […]
Paul Craig Roberts Warns Greek Government May Be Assassinated In This Crisis If They Pivot East To Stop World War III
Paul Craig Roberts Warns Greek Government May Be Assassinated In This Crisis If They Pivot East To Stop World War III With people around the world worried about the escalating crisis in Greece and conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine, today former U.S. Treasury official, Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, warned King World News that the […]
Top German Politician Blasts Nuland & Carter: “F##k US Imperialism”
Top German Politician Blasts Nuland & Carter: “F##k US Imperialism” With intra-Europe relations hitting a new all-time low; and, having already been busted spying on Merkel, Obama got caught with his hand in Hollande’s cookie jar this week, the following exultation from one of Germany’s top politicians will hardly help Washington-Brussells relations. As Russia Insider notes, Oskar […]
America as Dangerous Flailing Beast
America as Dangerous Flailing Beast Despite pretty talk about “democracy” and “human rights,” U.S. leaders have become the world’s chief purveyors of chaos and death – from Vietnam through Iraq, Libya, Syria, Ukraine and many other unfortunate nations, a dangerous dilemma addressed by John Chuckman. When I think of America’s place in the world today, […]
NATO Conducts Rehearsal For Ukraine Siege: Mapping All NATO Drills Near Russia Since 2014
NATO Conducts Rehearsal For Ukraine Siege: Mapping All NATO Drills Near Russia Since 2014 In the fictional country of Botnia, “Birdman”, the rebel leader, lives in a ramshackle shed in the woods while his separatist troops fight to destabilize a NATO-friendly country from the also fictional town of Alpha, a make-believe rebel stronghold. Fortunately for […]
IMF Violates IMF Rules, to Continue Ukraine Bailouts
IMF Violates IMF Rules, to Continue Ukraine Bailouts The IMF, whose bailout operations are absorbed by the taxpayers in the member countries whenever a particular bailed-out nation defaults, announced on Friday, June 19th, that it will “continue to support Ukraine through its Lending-into-Arrears Policy even in the event that a negotiated agreement with creditors in line with […]
