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The Decline of the US Does Not Mean Plain Sailing for China By Tom Clifford, November 18 2020

Who lost China? The question, first asked when Mao’s dictum about power coming from the barrel of a gun proved pertinent and Truman was in the White House, is being asked again with renewed vigor. Some in the West believed

Civil Disobedience Is the Solution for this COVID-19 Madness By Cheryl K. Chumley, November 18 2020

Scott Atlas, the medical professional who’s been tasked under President Donald Trump to help decide best coronavirus practices and policies, called for citizens, particularly in Michigan, particularly in tyrannically-governed Michigan, to “rise up” and fight unconstitutional crackdowns from overreaching,

India and ASEAN to Create a “Belt and Road Alternative”? By Dmitry Bokarev, November 18 2020
Syrian Foreign Minister Muallem Was a Multipolar Visionary By Andrew Korybko, November 18 2020

Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem passed away earlier this week, but his multipolar vision will be remembered forever. The Arab Republic’s top diplomat previously served as his country’s Ambassador to the US from 1990-1999 prior to becoming Assistant Foreign Minister

COVID Offices and the Religion of Remote Work By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, November 18 2020

Masks can prove liberating.  The hidden face affords security.  Obnoxious authority breathes better and with greater assurance, hiding in comfort.  Behind the material, confidence finds a home.  While tens of millions of jobs have been lost to the novel coronavirus

US Election 2020: The Moment of Truth Approaches By Stephen Lendman, November 18 2020

Joe Biden is not and never will be US president-elect legitimately.

Clear evidence shows significant election fraud in key swing states — favoring Biden/Harris over Trump.

If all US Election 2020 votes were tabulated accurately, Trump would carry key swing …

The Effects of Technology on Society By Prof. Ruel F. Pepa, November 18 2020

Judging the effects of something on a state of affairs requires a standard scale characterized by a spectrum that separates two opposite axiological points: the positive and the negative. The context of the present issue brings us to the question,

Video: Silent Retreat of Neo-Ottoman Forces from Syria By South Front, November 18 2020

In October and the first half of November, the war in Syria remained in a relatively calm phase, which was not marked by any active military actions of the sides involved in the conflict. Nonetheless, this period demonstrated several trends

Trump’s New Pentagon – Divisive Duo Will Frustrate Doves and Hawks Alike By Andrew Corbley, November 18 2020

After last week’s firing of various Pentagon officials including Sec. of Defense Mark Esper, the Undersecretaries of Intelligence and Policy, and Chief of Staff to the Sec of Defense, Democrats and Republicans, eager to get back to a status

Why COVID-19 Testing Is a Tragic Waste By Dr. Joseph Mercola, November 18 2020

From the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the clarion call has been to test, test and test some more. However, right from the start, serious questions arose about the tests being used to diagnose this infection, and questions have only

Jan Myrdal, the Eternal Rebel, Dies at 93 By Mike Powers, November 18 2020

“Even as many cultural figures in Sweden after his death were quick to witness to his importance, they pissed on his memory by pointing out the many issues they disagreed with him. Their problem was often that they never read

Meet the Filthy Rich War Hawks that Make up Biden’s New Foreign Policy Team By Alan MacLeod, November 18 2020

“I expect the prevailing direction of U.S. foreign policy over these last decades to continue: more lawless bombing and killing multiple countries under the cover of “limited engagement,” – Biden Biographer Branko Marcetic 

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After triumphing in a bitterly …

Crisis, What Crisis? Hypocrisy and Public Health in the UK By Rosemary Mason and Colin Todhunter, November 18 2020

On 12 March 2020, British PM Boris Johnson, referring to COVID-19, informed the public:

“We’ve all got to be clear; this is the worst public health crisis for a generation.”

Since that time, we have seen lockdowns, on ongoing

Cuban Medical Teams for 2021 Nobel Peace Prize By Council of Canadians, November 18 2020

At the June 2020 Annual Meeting, Council of Canadians’ members voted to endorse and promote a Canadian nominating process for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize to go the Henry Reeve medical teams from Cuba for their international work in the

“I Am Greta” Isn’t About Climate Change. It’s About the Elusiveness of Sanity in an Insane World By Jonathan Cook, November 18 2020

Erich Fromm, the renowned German-Jewish social psychologist who was forced to flee his homeland in the early 1930s as the Nazis came to power, offered a disturbing insight later in life on the relationship between society and the individual.

In …

How Can the Belt and Road Better Protect Biodiversity? By Xia Zhijian, November 18 2020
Japan, Australia, and the Rejigging of Asia-Pacific Alliances By Gavan McCormack, November 18 2020
Israel’s Power Is Unlimited By Philip Giraldi, November 18 2020

Even though there was virtually no debate on foreign policy during the recent presidential campaign, there has been considerable discussion of what President Joe Biden’s national security team might look like. The general consensus is that the top levels

An Invitation: Seeking Truth in a Country of Lies By Edward Curtin, November 18 2020

In lieu of writing reviews of their own books – with the exception of Walt Whitman, who did that with Leaves of Grass – writers often write introductions or prefaces. The purpose of such introductions is to give the prospective

The “Use of the Armed Forces” in America under a National Emergency. Repeal of the Posse Comitatus Act. By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, November 18 2020
Unrestricted & Arbitrary Powers conferred to the President & Vice President
The Media Sabotage of Hydroxychloroquine Use for COVID-19: Doctors Worldwide Protest the Disaster By Elizabeth Woodworth, November 17 2020

Introduction

A dangerous, life-threatening sequence of events has unfolded since The Lancet’s fraudulent[i] hydroxychlorquine (HCQ) article appeared May 22, followed by headlines demonizing this ancient anti-malarial drug – aka quinine, aka chloroquine, and known to antiquity as the “sacred bark”.[ii]

Japan Militarizes and Worries Russia and China By Lucas Leiroz de Almeida, November 17 2020
Albania’s Attempts to Refocus Kosovo War Crime Tribunal onto Serbia Will Not Work By Paul Antonopoulos, November 17 2020

Kosovo Albanians via their allies in Tirana are once again attempting to antagonize Serbia, this time through the Self-Determination Movements initiative. The Movement is trying to push through the Albanian Parliament a declaration condemning the so-called “Serbian genocide in Kosovo.”

Oxford University’s Ties to Nuclear Weapons Industry Revealed By Ben Jacob, November 17 2020

Freedom of Information requests submitted by Cherwell have revealed that Oxford University accepted at least £726,706 from the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE), the designer and producer of the UK’s nuclear warheads, during the years 2017-19 alone.

The majority of this …

Will Biden Listen to the Science? By Rep. Ron Paul, November 17 2020

Former Vice President Joe Biden has not been officially declared the winner of the 2020 presidential election, but that has not stopped him from forming a coronavirus task force. The task force is composed of supporters of increased government control.

How the U.S. Military Buys Location Data from Ordinary Apps By Joseph Cox, November 17 2020

A Muslim prayer app with over 98 million downloads is one of the apps connected to a wide-ranging supply chain that sends ordinary people’s personal data to brokers, contractors, and the military.

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The U.S. military is buying the granular …

Trump Administration Rushes to Auction Off Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Drilling Rights Before Biden Inauguration By Brett Wilkins, November 17 2020

In what critics are calling a parting gift to the fossil fuel industry, the Trump administration on Tuesday will ask oil and gas companies to choose which areas of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska—which is the sacred homeland

Video: Russia’s Diplomatic Intervention and the Armenia-Azerbaijan War. Russia’s Military Presence in Armenia By South Front, November 17 2020

Results of the Nagorno-Karabakh war continue shaping the balance of power of the South Caucasus. The ceasefire regime established as a result of the Russian diplomatic intervention and the deployment of the Russian peacekeeping force in the region nears the

US Not Part of World’s Largest Ever Trade Deal By Stephen Lendman, November 17 2020

Drafted in 2015, the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) was signed in 2016, involving a dozen nations, including the US before Trump pulled in 2017.

It’s now the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) among seven Asian nations — …

Hollywood’s ‘Songbird’: “Puts the Scare” in People during a “Pandemic” By Timothy Alexander Guzman, November 17 2020

Hollywood knows how to put the scare in people. Songbird, a new film produced by Michael Bay and directed by Adam Mason exploits the Covid-19 pandemic which complements the mainstream-media’s (MSM) fear campaign among its audience. Last month, The

Russia’s Red Sea Base in Sudan Is a Recalibration of Its Intra-Ummah Balancing Act By Andrew Korybko, November 17 2020

Russia’s draft deal to open up a Red Sea naval base in Sudan amounts to a strategic recalibration of its careful “balancing” act between the GCC and Turkey after moving more closely to the latter following the end of the

Huck Finn, To Kill a Mockingbird, Other Classic Books Banned in California Schools for “Racism” By Matt Agorist, November 17 2020

When Gutenberg introduced the printing press in 1440, the world had no idea that things were about to drastically change. Prior to the release and production of the printing press, books were incredibly expensive, rare, mostly written in Latin, and

Video: German Lawyer Sues the World Over Coronavirus By Reiner Fuellmich and Patrick Bet-David, November 17 2020

Patrick Bet-David has a virtual sit down with consumer protection trial lawyer Reiner Fuellmich to talk about the Coronavirus and his work on the German Corona investigation committee.

Dr Reiner Fuellmich is one of four members of the German Corona

Video: The COVID Cult. “The Greatest Public Health Fiasco in World History” By Thomas E. Woods, Jr., November 17 2020

This is the greatest public health fiasco in the history of the world, and the media has distorted it so badly, that much of the general public is celebrating villains and hissing at heroes. And, even — perversely enough —

Jammu and Kashmir: Implications for Regional and Global Peace By Robert Fantina, November 17 2020

The current situation in India’s  illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJ&K) is not without current, tragic precedent. Bringing non-native Kashmiris into the territory, and since April, two million non-natives have been approved to do so, with the goal of eliminating

Will Biden Seek to De-escalate Tensions with China and Russia? By Shane Quinn, November 17 2020

A crucial advantage that China enjoys over its Western rivals, principally the United States, is the country’s rebuffing of neoliberalism. Under its present leadership, Beijing’s influence over corporations and private power has increased substantially.

By contrast to America, almost all …

Don’t Call the Cops. Especially if Your Loved Ones Are Old, Disabled or Have Special Needs By John W. Whitehead, November 17 2020

“Anyone who cares for someone with a developmental disability, as well as for disabled people themselves [lives] every day in fear that their behavior will be misconstrued as suspicious, intoxicated or hostile by law enforcement.”—Steve Silberman, The New York Times

Video: Are We Being Told the Truth About COVID-19? By Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi, November 17 2020

Professor Bhakdi is a Thai-German specialist in microbiology and co-author of Corona, False Alarm?: Facts and Figures.

According to Prof. Bhakdi, “this virus is no more deadly than a seasonal flu and for people under 70, it is even less …

Arab American Attitudes Towards Their Heritage and the Middle East By James J. Zogby, November 17 2020

Any discussion of Arab Americans must consider, at the outset, both the deep diversity as well as the shared attitudes and concerns that exist within the community. As is the case with most ethnic groups, Arab Americans are not a

RCEP Hops on the New Silk Roads By Pepe Escobar, November 17 2020

This article was originally published on Asia Times.

Ho Chi Minh, in his eternal abode, will be savoring it with a heavenly smirk. Vietnam was the – virtual – host as the 10 Asean nations, plus China, Japan,

Lithuania and Poland Are Challenging Russian and Belarusian Energy Structures in the Baltics By Paul Antonopoulos, November 17 2020

Both Lithuania and Poland are attempting to challenge Russian and Belarusian energy dominance in the Baltics. Although Poland is trying to wean itself off Russian energy reliance, Lithuania is acting far more aggressively by attempting to force Latvia to follow

The Imperative to Achieve National Improved Medicare for All By Margaret Flowers, November 17 2020

Health care will be a major issue early in the new Biden/Harris administration. Unemployment is still high with over a million people applying for unemployment benefits last week and 42.6% of working age people without a job.

In the United …

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Global Research: Independent Media Under Attack By The Global Research Team, November 16 2020

Independent media is under attack, the search engines want to squeeze us out. At the same time a witch-hunt is being waged in the mainstream media against independent journalists, renowned academics, and scientists. Despite the wide variety of topics covered …

Even a Military-Enforced Quarantine Can’t Stop the Virus, Study Reveals By Jeffrey A. Tucker, November 16 2020

The New England Journal of Medicine has published a study that goes to the heart of the issue of lockdowns. The question has always been whether and to what extent a lockdown, however extreme, is capable of suppressing the virus.

America’s Social Credit System Is Worse than China’s By Gregory Hood, November 16 2020
Are We Being Watched? By Prof. Ruel F. Pepa, November 16 2020

This question could have both positive and negative implications. It is positive, on the one hand, if taken in the context of security and protection as in a situation where one is in a particularly unfamiliar place at an unholy

Dispel the “Magical Belief in Authority”. Confront The Greed For Power and Violence. Strengthen Community Feelings By Dr. Rudolf Hänsel, November 16 2020

According to the findings of the human sciences of anthropology, sociology and psychology, human beings have a healthy mind and natural powers of judgement by nature. This common sense works empirically, i.e. it makes concrete judgements based on everyday life

India and US Signed a Game-changer Defence Deal, Amid the Rise of What Could be a New Bipolarity By Uriel Araujo, November 16 2020
New Trade Zone in Asia-Pacific Could Ensure Chinese Global Leadership By Lucas Leiroz de Almeida, November 16 2020
UK Health Study Found 26,000 “Extra” Non-COVID Deaths at Home Amid Lockdowns By Zero Hedge, November 16 2020

BBC recently reported some shocking statistics regarding UK health, but which will perhaps come as no surprise to those critics who warned that far-reaching national lockdowns would cause other unseen adverse effects:

Compared with normal years, there have been

The Kashmir Dispute: Pakistan Accuses India of Being a State Sponsor of Terrorism By Andrew Korybko, November 16 2020

Pakistan released a detailed dossier during a press conference on Saturday  making the case that India is a state sponsor of terrorism whose intelligence services have weaponized this phenomenon as part of the proxy war that they’re fighting with respect

15 Asian Nations Sign Huge China-backed RCEP Trade Pact, The US is Excluded By The Economic Times, November 16 2020

Fifteen Asia-Pacific economies formed the world’s largest free trade bloc on Sunday, a China-backed deal that excludes the United States, which had left a rival Asia-Pacific grouping under President Donald Trump.

The signing of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) …

Voter Fraud Is All Over America. Voter Fraud in Texas By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, November 16 2020

The Vote Fraud is all over America, it leaps out in huge quantities and the NY Times denies the obvious. The Fraud is Overwhelming. It is so massive it is suffocating.

Here is the reported arrest of Biden campaign official

EU Extends Sanctions on Venezuela Until November 2021 By Telesur, November 16 2020

The European Union (EU) Thursday announced it is prolonging restrictive sanctions against Venezuela for one year, until November 14, 2021.

These sanctions include the weapon and equipment blockade that may be used in Venezuela and the prohibition of 36 high-ranking …

Groups Critical of Israel to be Branded ‘Antisemitic’ Under Pompeo Plan: Report By Middle East Eye, November 16 2020

The US State Department is expected to announce plans to create a new governmental process that would officially designate some groups, including NGOs and human rights organisations, as antisemitic.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has reportedly decided to establish the …

Canadian Military Wants to Establish New Organization to Use Propaganda, Other Techniques to Influence Canadians By David Pugliese, November 16 2020

The Canadian Forces wants to establish a new organization that will use propaganda and other techniques to try to influence the attitudes, beliefs and behaviours of Canadians, according to documents obtained by this newspaper.

The plan comes on the heels

Joe Biden’s Love Affair with the CIA By Daniel Boguslaw, November 16 2020

This article was originally published in October 2019.

When it comes to villainous bureaucrats, it’s hard to assign a ranking for the most sinister aura, cumulative harm wrought on humanity, and general unpleasantness wrapped up in one. But Ronald Reagan’s

The Return of the Obama ‘Adults’ in a Joe Biden Administration Is Likely to Spell Ruin for America By Scott Ritter, November 16 2020

The US establishment, and the world, has spent the last four years trying to adapt to the disruptive policies of a childish president. Now the Democrats’ ‘adult’ leadership team will return. Watch out, folks.

To those watching the drama unfolding

US Coup d’Etat? Joe Biden “President-Selected” Not Elected. Evidence of Systemic Fraud By Stephen Lendman, November 16 2020

If Biden/Harris succeed Trump on January 20, they’ll be president and vice president-selected, not elected.

That’s the disturbing reality of Election 2020.

Illegitimate by systemic fraud, it wasn’t the first, and surely not the last, time that losers of US …

Richard Falk: A Citizen Pilgrim in Search of Justice and Peace Turns 90 By Jan Oberg, November 16 2020

At TFF, we are blessed by having a number of peace and future scholars, world-leading in their professions, who have followed world events over many decades and continue to be committed to world order change and public education.

I say …

Biden State Media Appointee Advocated Using Propaganda Against Americans and ‘Rethinking’ First Amendment By Ben Norton, November 16 2020

The head of the Joe Biden transition team for the US Agency for Global Media, Richard Stengel, has branded himself the “chief propagandist,” urged the government to use propaganda against its “own population,” and called to “rethink” the First Amendment.

Biden’s Pentagon Transition Team Members Funded by the Arms Industry By Dave DeCamp, November 16 2020

On Tuesday, Joe Biden released a list of transition teams for the various departments in his future White House. The Pentagon transition team for Biden consists of 23 people, many of whom hail from hawkish think tanks.

The team is …

COVID-19: Politicisation, “Corruption,” and Suppression of Science. The British Medical Journal By Kamran Abbasi, November 16 2020

Politicians and governments are suppressing science. They do so in the public interest, they say, to accelerate availability of diagnostics and treatments. They do so to support innovation, to bring products to market at unprecedented speed. Both of these reasons

Trump Administration Invites Oil Industry to Desecrate Sacred Arctic Refuge By Earth Justice, November 16 2020

Amid a global public-health crisis and with oil prices at extreme lows, the lame duck Trump administration is expected to issue a “request for nominations” as early as Monday, asking oil companies to identify their preferences on areas in the

Pakistani PM Khan Says He Is Under Pressure to Recognize Israel By Anadolu Agency, November 16 2020

Pakistan’s prime minister said he has been under “pressure” to recognize Israel. However, Islamabad will never recognize the “Zionist” state until a just settlement is reached for the decadeslong Palestinian issue.

In an interview with a local broadcaster aired on …

A Dedicated Obsession: Washington’s Continuing Iran Sanctions Regime By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, November 16 2020

One dogma that is likely to persist in US foreign policy during a Biden presidency will be the sanctions regime adopted towards Iran.  Every messianic state craves clearly scripted enemies, and the demonology about the Islamic Republic is not going

In Praise of Herbert Marcuse. The Scientific Study of Capitalism By Megan Sherman, November 15 2020

Criticised by orthodox Marxists for being a “pseudo-left” agitator, Herbert Marcuse was nonetheless committed to a scientific study of the material conditions of industrial capitalism.

Herbert Marcuse’s theoretical development was rooted in his analysis of the relationship between civilisation and …

China’s U.S. Funded Think Tanks and Research Institutions. Interference in China’s Internal Affairs? By Global Times, November 15 2020

While US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo calls for vigilance over think tanks he believes are “tainted by the machinations” of foreign governments, he turns blind eye to the fact that the US is the world’s worst when it comes

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American Power and World Order By Megan Sherman, November 15 2020

US imperialism seeks to enforce obedience to its objectives domestically and throughout the world by war, sanctions and policing opinion.

American wars hide behind the fraudulent concept of liberal interventionism, a bogus philosophy that justifies and rationalises the brutal subjugation

US Election 2020: Illegitimate by Systemic Fraud By Stephen Lendman, November 15 2020

Election fraud has been part of the US political landscape since the republic’s early days — at the federal, state and local levels.

There’s nothing legitimate about a political process that excludes the popular will.

Power brokers decide who wins …

“Biggest Monster Rebounds!” COVID “Pandemic” Has Triggered a Global Hunger and Population Displacement. UN Report By Carla Stea, November 15 2020

On November 10, 2020, UN Report:  International Organization of Migration – World Food Program Find Global Hunger and Population Displacement Could Surge as People on the Move and Those Relying on Dwindling Remittances  Seek Work to Support Their Families. 

The

Towards A New Stage in Cuba-U.S. Relations? By Germán Gorraiz López, November 15 2020

Donald Trump made it the leitmotif of his presidency to eliminate all vestige of the Obamani legacy. Thus, after the attempt to end Obamacare, the announcement of the revision of the NAFTA Treaty and the withdrawal of the United States

Libya May Lose Again: Agreements Aren’t Worth the Paper They’re Written On By J. Michael Springmann, November 15 2020

The Past. In the not too distant past, the warring factions in Libya (the Government of National Accord, GNA, and the Libyan National Army, LNA) concluded an armistice. The negotiations, stretching from the August 2020 ceasefire to the October 2020

Elephants in the Room: Why Do America and Britain Commit War Crimes? Neoliberalism and Predatory Capitalism By Rod Driver, November 15 2020

“I spent 33 years…being a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. I helped make Mexico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the

Making Sense of the Oriental Mindframe By Prof. Ruel F. Pepa, November 15 2020
US – UK Intelligence Agencies Declare Cyber War on Independent Media By Whitney Webb, November 14 2020

British and American state intelligence agencies are “weaponizing truth” to quash vaccine hesitancy as both nations prepare for mass inoculations, in a recently announced “cyber war” to be commanded by AI-powered arbiters of truth against information sources that challenge official

“The Hidden System of Finance”, National Security Waivers and The Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) By Mark Skidmore, November 14 2020

The purpose of this report is to offer a clear explanation of how two financial reporting exemptions has de facto created a hidden system of finance that runs parallel to the official financial system that facilitates and governs interactions between

The “Most Secure” Election in US History? Despite Mounting Evidence of Brazen Fraud in Key Swing States By Stephen Lendman, November 14 2020

In cahoots with forces running the US, establishment media feed Americans a daily diet of managed news misinformation and disinformation rubbish.

The only way to be informed about major issues affecting our lives, welfare, and futures is by following independent …

Remembering “The Never Ending War” During the Time “We Should Never Forget” By Michael Welch, Richard Sanders, and Dr. Jacques R. Pauwels, November 14 2020

“As I talked to him, I could not but think of Joan of Arc. He is distinctly a mystic. Hewel was telling me that the German people, many of them, begin to feel that he was a mission from God,

Propaganda during World War I: An Illustrated Account By Terje Maloy, November 14 2020
These stories are not unique cases from a remote war. The same methods are constantly rinsed and repeated, the mentality in our ruling elites is the same, and the risk of a major conflict is as great today as in 1914.