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Radiation Spikes at Fukishima, Worldwide Impacts, “Longest Running, Continuous Industrial Disaster in History” By Live on Earth, March 18 2017

Almost six years after a tsunami caused a meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, the facility’s operator, Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco) faces overwhelming problems to clean up the site. Tepco now reports radiation in reactor 2 that would

Propaganda, Fake News, and Media Lies: The Diabolical Business of Global Public Relations Firms By Peter Phillips, March 18 2017

The expansion of  public relations and propaganda (PRP) firms inside news systems in the world today has resulted in a deliberate form of news management. Maintenance of continuous news shows requires a constant and ever-entertaining supply of stimulating events and

US Admits Strike on ‘Al-Qaeda meeting’ in Syria Amid reports of deadly Mosque Attack Nearby By RT News, March 18 2017

Dozens of worshipers have reportedly been killed in an airstrike on a mosque in Syria’s Aleppo province. While the Pentagon only admitted to striking terrorists several miles away in Idlib, some reports suggest US missile debris were recovered from the

Fukushima: “Worst Industrial Cataclysm in World History”, Nuclear Engineer Arnie Gundersen By Arnie Gundersen, March 17 2017

Arnie Gundersen, former nuclear engineer, Mar 11, 2017: “The scientific impact of the triple meltdown at Fukushima Daiichi is an ongoing disaster that was never envisioned by the engineers who created and designed these atomic reactors and countries

Selected Articles: Trump’s Trillion Dollar Infrastructure Scam, Impacts of Vaccines: Autism and Alzheimer’s, Rwanda: Kagame’s Economic Mirage By Global Research News, March 16 2017

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Trump’s One Trillion Dollar Infrastructure Boondoggle. Handing Over Public Assets to Private Corporations

By Mike Whitney, March 16 2017

Donald Trump’s $1 trillion infrastructure plan is not an infrastructure plan and it won’t put $1 trillion of fiscal stimulus

The Whole POINT of the Internet of Things Is So “Big Brother” Can Spy On You By Washington's Blog, March 16 2017
International Banks Targeted for Prosecution in South Africa By Abayomi Azikiwe, March 16 2017

Republic of South Africa President Jacob Zuma has leveled sharp attacks on the financial industry inside the country accusing banks of treating the population unfairly.

During the course of his response to a debate surrounding the State of the Nation …

Stop Protecting the Criminality of the Global Pesticides Industry By Colin Todhunter, March 16 2017

The agrichemicals industry wallows like an overblown hog in a cesspool of corruption. With its snout firmly embedded in the trough of corporate profit to the detriment of all else, it is most likely responsible for more death and disease

The History of Free Speech in Australia By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, March 16 2017

Monday’s discussion on Australia’s Q&A program, an open forum supposedly designed to bring voices to an open stage of feted experts and pundits, turned on a few confusing points on free speech. The discussion demonstrated a sharp divorce from those

Derogation of the Rights of Forest Communities Worldwide By Forest Peoples Programme, March 16 2017

The Indonesian government must address the human rights violations in Long Isun, Indonesia – a global gathering has declared.

Delegates from Africa, Asia and Latin America heard first-hand testimonies of the growing harm facing forest communities around the world. From

The Kagans Are Back; Wars to Follow By Robert Parry, March 16 2017

The Kagan family, America’s neoconservative aristocracy, has reemerged having recovered from the letdown over not gaining its expected influence from the election of Hillary Clinton and from its loss of official power at the start of the Trump presidency.

Trump’s One Trillion Dollar Infrastructure Boondoggle. Handing Over Public Assets to Private Corporations By Mike Whitney, March 16 2017

We are going to fix our inner cities and rebuild our highways, bridges, tunnels, airports, schools, hospitals…. And we will put millions of our people to work as we rebuild it. — President Donald Trump

Donald Trump’s $1 trillion infrastructure …

Kagame’s Economic Mirage in Rwanda By Ann Garrison and David Himbara, March 16 2017

The tiny East African nation of Rwanda has played a unique and prominent role in U.S. political ideation since the 1994 massacres known as the Rwandan Genocide. The West’s so-called “failure to intervene in Rwanda” — and the Holocaust —

UN Committee of Inquiry (COI) on Syria Ignores Atrocities Committed by US Supported Terrorists By Stephen Lendman, March 16 2017

The COI is an imperial tool, formed in September 2011 to wrongfully blame Syria for human rights abuses, downplaying atrocities committed by US-supported terrorists.

It lacks credibility, Syria’s UN envoy Bashar al-Jaafari earlier, saying it’s “deliberately blowing things out of …

Revolutions Are Bloody, But So Is Doing Nothing By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, March 16 2017

Graeme MacQueen, a university professor in Canada, calls attention to the American left’s inability to exercise immagination with regard to the reports of the Warren Commission and the 9/11 Commission. A collection of individuals and publications, somehow regarded as

Impending Danger: Today’s “Super-Fuzed”, Super-Powerful US Thermonuclear Weapons Directed against Russia. “How is This Going to End?” (Putin) By Stephen Lendman, March 16 2017

Today’s thermonuclear weapons are monstrously more powerful than the 15 kiloton Little Boy and 21 Kiloton Fat Man nukes used to destroy Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

An article by nuclear experts Hans Kristensen and Matthew McKinsie, together with ballistic missiles expert …

Diplomatic Remedies for THAAD Missile Madness: The US, China and the Two Koreas By Prof. Mel Gurtov, March 16 2017

This detailed article assesses the geopolitical implications for war and peace in Northeast Asia of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense antimissile system that the US seeks to install in South Korea at a time of deep tensions in Northeast

Poll: Twice as Many Americans Support Obamacare as Support Trumpcare By Eric Zuesse, March 16 2017

On March 7th, U.S. President Trump said of the House Republicans’ proposed healthcare legislation: “I am proud to support the replacement plan released by the House of Representatives.” (He meant replacement of Obamacare.) That’s the Paul Ryan plan, the plan

Third Time’s The Charm – The Neocons Want Another “Sunni Insurgency” By Moon of Alabama, March 16 2017

When the U.S. was confronted with an insurgency in Iraq it did not find fault with own behavior but identified Syria and Iran as the culprits. It decided to attack them too. As Seymour Hersh reported in 2007:

To undermine

A Soft Coup, or Preserving Our Democracy? By Philip Giraldi, March 16 2017

Something’s happening here, what it is ain’t exactly clear.

We Americans have long regarded coups as undesirable political turmoil afflicting nations in Africa, Asia and Latin America in which governments are changed by force rather than through the ballot box.

Faking It: How the Media Manipulates the World into War By James Corbett, March 16 2017
An examination of the history of how media has been used to whip the nation into wartime frenzy, dehumanize the supposed enemies, and manipulate the public into believing in causes for war that, decades later, were admitted to be completely fictitious.
The Democrats Anti-Russia Campaign Falls Apart By Moon of Alabama, March 16 2017

A while ago, Matt Tabbi in Rolling Stone warned: Why the Russia Story Is a Minefield for Democrats and the Media:

If we engage in Times-style gilding of every lily the leakers throw our way, and in doing

Corporate Media Exposed For Reporting Syria Misinformation. Canadian Journalist Eva Bartlett By Brandon Turbeville, March 16 2017

Ever since having utterly destroyed a smug mainstream journalist at a UN Summit over corporate media’s claims that they had sources inside East Aleppo, hospital bombings, and other “atrocities” committed by the Assad government, Eva Bartlett has been the subject

Protecting The Terrorists? US Forces Evacuate ISIS-Daesh Commanders By Fars News Agency, March 16 2017

The Arabic language al-Hadath news website reported that several US military helicopters landed on kilometer 10 of Deir Ezzur-Hasaka road and evacuated a number of ISIL commanders from the region.

“After the helicopter landed, several US marines took 10 ISIL

US-backed South Sudan Regime Organizing Genocidal Crimes By Thomas Gaist, March 16 2017

The South Sudan civil war, which erupted in December 2013, is assuming an increasingly genocidal character, according to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR). In the course of the war, both the US-backed government led by the Sudan

Washington Says Russia’s Condemnation of Damascus Bomb Attacks is Unfair to Al Qaeda Suicide Bombers By Russia Insider, March 16 2017

The West’s response to the deadly twin bomb attacks in Damascus on Saturday continues to shock even the most hardened cynics.

In what can only be described as an act of extremely good timing, Washington managed to distance itself from …

The Ryan-Trump Healthcare Act: Some Economic Consequences By Dr. Jack Rasmus, March 16 2017

While Republicans on the Right and the Far Right wrangle over whether to repeal the Obamacare Affordable Care Act, or just revise it, the Ryan proposal does both. How can that be? Revise and yet repeal?

The repeal is every …

Who is Behind Wikileaks? By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, March 16 2017
There is more than meets the eye
Selected Articles: Trumpcare: Dead on Arrival, North Korea: The People Want Peace, Banking Secret That Destroys Economy By Global Research News, March 15 2017
Crisis of America's Healthcare System

Nightmarish Trumpcare. It Benefits the Super-rich at the Expense of Affordable Healthcare

By Stephen Lendman, March 15 2017

According to the Economic Policy Institute, “99% of Americans…win if the GOP health plan fails.” It benefits business and super-rich elites

“Trumpcare” Dead on Arrival: Can We Please Now Try Single Payer? By Ellen Brown, March 15 2017

The Canadian plan also helps Canadians live longer and healthier than Americans. . . . We need, as a nation, to reexamine the single-payer plan, as many individual states are doing.  — Donald Trump, The America We Deserve (2000)

The …

The Republican Healthcare Bill Is Very Free-Market, Libertarian By Eric Zuesse, March 15 2017

The Republican House proposed healthcare legislation is a substantially more free-market approach to health care than exists in any industrialized nation. It would greatly reduce regulation of health care in America, and also considerably increase the choices that consumers would

The Murky World of Deradicalisation By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, March 15 2017

It has attracted money and the implementation of programs, another standard diversionary tactic common in many societies.  It is all touted as a good bit of social engineering, a form of anger management by other means.  The basis of that

Assange Claims Hillary, Intel Officials “Quietly Pushing a Pence Takeover” By Zero Hedge, March 15 2017

Over the weekend we noted chatter that some saw Mike Pence as “the Deep State’s insurance policy,” and now, judging by tweets from Wikileaks’ Julian Assange, that may well be the Clinton/Intelligence Officials plan…

US Constitutional Rights. Federal Courts Say Foreigners, Not US Citizens, Are Entitled To Due Process By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, March 15 2017

The US Constitution applies to US citizens, and the amendments known as the Bill of Rights guarantee due process as a protection of US citizens’ civil liberties. That’s the theory but not the practice.

Trump’s travel ban applies to non-US

When ‘Disinformation’ Is Truth. Democrats and Liberals in Bed with the Neocons By Robert Parry, March 15 2017

Democrats and liberals have climbed into bed with the neocons to push the “Russia-did-it” conspiracy theory as a way to “get Trump,” but this New McCarthyism has grave dangers, writes Robert Parry.

The anti-Russian McCarthyism that has spread out from …

US Sends Drones, Assassination Squad to South Korea. Massive “War Games” Directed against DPRK Underway By Peter Symonds, March 15 2017

The Trump administration has further exacerbated the extremely tense standoff on the Korean Peninsula by dispatching attack drones to South Korea and sending special forces units to participate in massive war games already underway. The military build-up takes place as

The Empire Should Be Placed on Suicide Watch By The Saker, March 15 2017

In all the political drama taking place in the US as a result of the attempted color revolution against Trump, the bigger picture sometimes gets forgotten. And yet, this bigger picture is quite amazing, because if we look at

Military Escalation: Why Trump’s Syria ‘Surge’ Will Fail By Rep. Ron Paul, March 15 2017

Last week President Trump significantly escalated the US military presence in Syria, sending some 400 Marines to the ISIS-controlled Raqqa, and several dozen Army Rangers to the contested area around Manbij. According to press reports he will also station some

Amazing Women Scientists We Never Knew By Joyce Chediac, March 15 2017

Did you know that “dark matter,” a discovery which transformed physics and astronomy, was discovered by a woman named Vera Rubin? Or that someone named Jemma Redmond invented a way to use a 3-D printer to make living tissue for

Nightmarish Trumpcare. It Benefits the Super-rich at the Expense of Affordable Healthcare By Stephen Lendman, March 15 2017

According to the Economic Policy Institute, “99% of Americans…win if the GOP health plan fails.”

It benefits business and super-rich elites at the expense of affordable healthcare for everyone – a fundamental human right.

According to Congressional Budget Office (CBO) …

North Korea: The Grand Deception Revealed. The People of the DPRK Want Peace By Christopher Black, March 15 2017

In 2003 I had, along with some American lawyers, members of the National Lawyers Guild, the good fortune to be able to travel to North Korea, that is the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea, in order to experience first hand

Monsanto Isn’t Feeding the World—It’s Killing Our Children By Katherine Paul, March 15 2017

“How could we have ever believed that it is a good idea to grow our food with poisons?” – Dr. Jane Goodall

Two new reports published in recent weeks add to the already large and convincing body of evidence, accumulated …

Video: Power Struggle in Aleppo Province, Confrontation of Pro-Turkish and Syrian Government Forces, Unpublicized Russian-US Cooperation By South Front, March 15 2017

Clashes between the Syrian army and pro-Turkish forces were reported in Tadef, south of al-Bab on March 12. The Sultan Murad Division (consists of Turkmens) released a statement that 3 Syrian army soldiers had been captured by the Free Syrian

NATO Weapons to Al Qaeda Near Damascus, Seized by Government Forces By Arabi Souri, March 15 2017

NATO weapons (Made in the UK) in possession of terrorists from al-Qaeda group were found and seized by a Syrian Arab Army unit in Damascus Countryside.

The first truck loaded with weapons, described as the smaller one, had a full …

US Troops to Iraq and Syria: More “Middle East Madness” as Trump Prepares to March By Eric Margolis, March 15 2017

We are now moving rapidly into stage II of Levantine Madness as the US boosts its intervention in the war-torn Mideast.

Five thousand US troops are back in Iraq to bolster the shattered nation’s puppet regime that is propped up …

The Banking Secret, Which Makes the Fatcats Richer, While Destroying the Real Economy By Washington's Blog, March 15 2017

Private Banks – Not the Government or Central Banks – Create 97 Percent of All Money

Who creates money?

Most people assume that money is created by governments … or perhaps central banks.

In reality – as noted by the …

Is the Vault 7 Source a Whistleblower? By Jesselyn Radack, March 15 2017

It is the leakiest of times in the Executive Branch. Last week, Wikileaks published a massive and, by all accounts genuine, trove of documents revealing that the CIA has been stockpiling, and lost control of, hacking tools it uses against

Brexit Ping Pong. Britain’s EU Withdrawal Bill By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, March 15 2017

The administrative ping pong of Brexit continues, an exercise that merely prolongs both pain and uncertainty. Confused, parliamentarians await the next twist before the inevitable surrender.  The last round of votes touched on two House of Lords amendments directed at

Exposing the Real Deep State: Unraveling the “Trump Vs Deep State” Narrative By Tony Cartalucci, March 15 2017

Many both within and beyond America’s borders labor under the delusion that US policy is determined by the nation’s elected representatives amid a careful balancing act between the judicial, legislative, and executive branches of government. In reality, the inner workings

Canada’s Labour Movement in Crisis By Prof. Sam Gindin and Herman Rosenfeld, March 15 2017

A sign of the tragic disarray of the Canadian labour movement is the extent to which its misadventures keep piling up. As the turmoil within the union representing the Ontario government’s unionized employees (Ontario Public Service Employees Union – OPSEU)

US Delta Force, SEAL Team 6 Prepare To “Take Out Kim Jong-Un”, Practice Tactical North Korea “Infiltration” By Zero Hedge, March 15 2017

On March 1, the WSJ reported that the options contemplated by the White House in response to recent North Korean acts, include “the possibility of both military force and regime change to counter the country’s nuclear-weapons threat.” The review came

Video: Syrian SAA Forces And Russian Aerospace Against ISIS-Daesh Terrorists in Palmyra Countryside By South Front, March 15 2017

The Syrian Army and the National Defense Forces (NDF), backed by the Russian Aerospace Forces, have resized a power station located south of the ancient city of Palmyra from ISIS terrorists. Then the army and the NDF further advanced against

Selected Articles: Gladio: Crimes of US Empire, Israel: Criminalizing Free Speech, Ukraine: 2.5 Million Refugees in Russia By Global Research News, March 14 2017

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The “Deep State” and the Unspoken Crimes of the U.S. Empire, Operation Gladio

By Gary Weglarz, March 14 2017

The key institutions of Western societies have lost their credibility.  They fail to merit either the respect or loyalty of

Harvard’s Fake Guide to Fake News Sites. America’s 21st Century “Index Librorum Prohibitorum” By Stephen Lendman, March 14 2017
The Index Librorum Prohibitorum was a list of publications deemed heretical, anti-clerical or lascivious, and banned by the Catholic Church. Harvard published a list of hundreds of sites it calls “biased,” “conspiratorial, “unreliable” “fake,” ...
The American Media Hide From The Truth, “Servants of the Police State” By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, March 14 2017

The CIA created and accumulated from other sources a huge array of malware and cyber attack capability capable of stealing information from any individual, any government, any corporation, any intelligence agency and either leaving no trace or leaving a “fingerprint”

“Stand for the Truth”: Destruction of WTC Towers, A Government Researcher Speaks Out By Peter Ketcham, March 14 2017

Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth announce the release of “Stand for the Truth,” a half-hour interview with former NIST employee Peter Michael Ketcham.

In this poignant and incisive piece, Mr. Ketcham tells his story of discovering that

Obama’s Ukrainian Coup Triggered the Influx of 2.5 Million Ukrainian Refugees into Russia By Eric Zuesse, March 14 2017
 On Tuesday, March 7th, Russia’s top parliamentarian dealing with the Ukrainian refugee influx into Russia — dealing, that is, with the people who have fled Ukraine as a result of U.S. President Barack Obama’s 2014 coup overthrowing Ukraine’s democratically elected
Criminalizing Free Expression in Israel By Stephen Lendman, March 14 2017

In February, Association for Civil Rights in Israel executive director Sharon Abraham-Weiss blasted Netanyahu for “lashing out against the media,” saying it’s “an almost regular occurrence,” a matter “of genuine concern.”

He’s waging war on free expression and the rule …

The “Deep State” and the Unspoken Crimes of the U.S. Empire, Operation Gladio By Gary Weglarz, March 14 2017

The key institutions of Western societies have lost their credibility.  They fail to merit either the respect or loyalty of the domestic populations they purport to serve. 

Testing the validity of this assertion requires examination of Western institutions from a

Imminent Starvation Resulting from US Led Wars: UN Officials Warn of Worst Famine Crisis Since World War II By Patrick Martin, March 14 2017

More than 20 million people face imminent starvation in four countries, United Nations officials warned over the weekend, the largest humanitarian crisis since the end of World War II. All four countries—Yemen, Somalia, South Sudan, and Nigeria—are wracked by civil

Letter to My Friend in Damascus. The Recently Announced American Invasion into Your Country By Barbara Nimri Aziz, March 14 2017

I am afraid to ask you you’re feelings about the recently announced American invasion into your country. In our talks these past months, we’ve spoken only about hardships: the increasing scarcity of electricity, water and food shortages, an absence

Stronger U.S. Economic Growth? Over My Dead Body, Says Janet Yellen By Mike Whitney, March 14 2017

The U.S. economy is weak. Very weak. But the Federal Reserve is planning to raise interest rates anyway. Why?

Here’s what’s going on:  According to the Atlanta Fed the US economy is expected to grow at a respectable 2.8 percent

Is the US Preparing for War Against North Korea? By Peter Symonds, March 14 2017

A dangerous confrontation is rapidly emerging on the Korean Peninsula between the United States and North Korea, with the potential to plunge North East Asia and the rest of the world into a catastrophic conflict between nuclear-armed powers.

Amid a …

The Victims of US War Crimes Must Pay “War Reparations”: Cambodia Irate Over US Demand To Repay $500 Million “War Debt” By Arno Maierbrugger, March 14 2017

Cambodian officials and commentators reacted angrily over the recurring demand by the US government through its ambassador in Phnom Penh to repay what Washington calls “war debt” granted to the US-backed Khmer Republic of General Lon Nol which existed between

Selected Articles: North Korea Threatens America?, Fukushima: Prospects for Humanity, Greece: Economic Fascism By Global Research News, March 13 2017
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North Korea Threatens America. They’re Coming, They’re Going to Blow Us Up

By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, March 13 2017

Trump believes that Kim Jong-un is crazy. Take him out. The U.S. media concurs: the DPRK is a threat to

The Heartbreaking Legacy of Fukushima Daiichi: Radiation Continues to Bleed into the Pacific Ocean By Arnie Gundersen, March 13 2017

During last winter (2016), I spent most of February and early March in Japan working with and speaking to citizens, refugees, community leaders, elected officials, engineers, doctors, and scientists.  At their request, I taught scientists and citizen scientists how to

The Deep State, Donald Trump and Us By John Kiriakou, March 13 2017

The New York Times said this week that President Trump’s insistence that former president Barack Obama tapped his phone and that the CIA and FBI are leaking information to embarrass him and his administration is evidence that Trump believes

Turkey’s Erdogan Wants Northern Syria and Iraq Annexed By Stephen Lendman, March 13 2017

His aim is longstanding. In December 2015, heavily armed Turkish forces invaded Iraq, an act of aggression, occupying territory near Mosul, on the phony pretext of combating ISIS he supports.

His real aim is seizing the area’s valued oil fields,

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Russia, Ukraine, and the International Court of Justice (ICJ): Opening Arguments at The Hague By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, March 13 2017

Matters have been far from plain sailing for the parties in the Ukrainian conflict, and Kiev was determined to remind international audiences about matters in taking Russia to the International Court of Justice.

This action is one of several fronts …

Trump’s Presidency Is Already Doomed By Eric Zuesse, March 13 2017

If President Donald Trump doesn’t get an Obamacare replacement bill passed into law, then he’s not going to get anything significant done in domestic policy, because he had made this goal the centerpiece of his campaign. But it won’t happen;

John Pilger: On the Dangers of Nuclear War By John Pilger, March 13 2017

On Saturday, March 11, I took part in a Q&A held at the Riverside Theatre Parramatta, in Sydney Australia on the dangers of nuclear war and of continuing to provoke Russia and China.

Washington Rejects Diplomacy with DPRK. Is Trump Contemplating Korean War 2.0? Madness By Stephen Lendman, March 13 2017

Truman’s war never ended. An uneasy armistice persists. The heavily fortified 2.5 mile Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) separates North and South. Occasional incidents occur.

America needs enemies to justify bloated military spending. Pyongyang is America’s longstanding Asian punching bag.

It’s wanted …

North Korea and the THAAD Missile System: Potential Gateway to Military Escalation and Global Warfare By Caleb T. Maupin, March 13 2017

Imagine if over two thousand Chinese troops were stationed in Mexico.

Imagine that alongside these troops were F-16 fighter aircraft and A-10 bomber jets.

Imagine that in addition, the Mexican army had purchased a huge stockpile of Aegis Destroyers and

Insurgency, Counter-insurgency and Terrorism in Pakistan By Nauman Sadiq, March 13 2017

In Pakistan, there are three distinct categories of militants: the Afghan-centric Pashtun militants; the Kashmir-centric Punjabi militants; and the transnational terrorists, like al-Qaeda.

Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), which is mainly comprised of Pashtun militants, carries out bombings against Pakistan’s state …

Depression-Level Unemployment in America. Phony Labor Department Jobs Reports By Stephen Lendman, March 12 2017

Monthly Labor Department jobs reports are phony. Paul Craig Roberts calls them “a bad joke,” saying America’s economy is a “house of cards.” A day of reckoning awaits.

Job numbers are inflated, manufactured out of thin air, partly based on …

A Flawed UN Investigation on Syria, “Based on Account by Pro-rebel Syrian “White Helmets” That was Full of Contradictions” By Gareth Porter, March 12 2017

The March 1 report by the United Nations’ “Independent International Commission of Inquiry” asserted that the bloody attack on a humanitarian aid convoy west of Aleppo City on Sept. 19, 2016, was an airstrike by Syrian government planes. But an

Malaysia and the Question of North Korea. A US Led War against North Korea Would Affect the Entire Asia-Pacific Region By Dr. Chandra Muzaffar, March 12 2017

A US led war against North Korea would affect the entire Asia Pacific  region. It is crucial that ASEAN countries take a firm stance against Washington’s first strike missile threats against the DPRK.

As outlined by Chandra Muzaffar, Malaysia

Fukushima Radiation, What Prospects for Humanity By Michael Welch and Dr. Helen Caldicott, March 12 2017

Do not go to Japan. Do not under any circumstances take your children to Japan, because you don’t know what you’re eating and where the food is sourced…

And the Japanese are trying now to export their radioactive food

South Sudan’s Total Collapse Could Lead to the Destabilization of Central and Eastern Africa By Andrew Korybko, March 12 2017

The Failed State Belt

The second-last African region under Hybrid War study is the Failed State Belt of South Sudan and the Central African Republic (CAR), which together form a black hole of chaos in the North-Central part of the

Syria, Yemen, Iraq,..: Greater US Aggression Under Trump Coming? By Stephen Lendman, March 12 2017

Nearly straight away in office, Trump proved he’s the latest in a long line of US warrior presidents.

He’s continuing naked aggression in multiple theaters, upping the stakes in Syria and Yemen, increasing numbers of US combat troops in both