During the Republican primary, Donald Trump “destroyed” Jeb Bush, who had entered the race as the frontrunner, by constantly ridiculing the former Florida governor and his “low energy.” But he did not destroy the continuity of the Bush Dynasty, with …

The Russian ambassador was killed in Ankara on the evening of Dec. 19 .  The killer, a 22-year-old Turkish graduate of the police academy who had been fired in July after being deemed untrustworthy, fired 11 bullets into the ambassador’s …

Poor Palestine – the major Palestinian players, Fatah and Hamas have degraded and set back the liberation movement by crawling with begging bowls to self-interested, absolutely not Palestine-interested, Arab states, and furthermore both are fickle beggars switching loyalties to conform …

December 20 will go down in history as a memorable day to turn the tide of Syria’s conflict. Russia, Turkey and Iran adopted a declaration on the immediate steps to promote the settlement of the Syria’s crisis.

The three countries …

The good news is that Aleppo has been successfully liberated. About 100,000 civilians have been freed from their …

The so-called “Syrian Democratic Forces” (the Kurdish People’s Protection Units – YPG – and some Arab units) have seized about 60 villages in the Syrian province of Raqqah.

On December 20, Kurdish forces seized areas left by ISIS northwest of …

“All of the early warning signals for mass atrocities in South Sudan are there,” a special commission to South Sudan reported at a UN Human Rights Council meeting December 14.

The five-year-old nation remains in turmoil despite the nominal end …

At a speech given to the Calgary Chamber of Commerce, Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he intends to work withPresident-elect Donald Trump to approve the northern leg of TransCanada‘s Keystone XL pipeline.

The speech comes as Trump …

The United States Army War College published a document this month outlining US plans for waging total war in major metropolitan cities around the world.

The 163-page report, “Military Contingencies In Megacities and Sub-Megacities,” is written by two military …

The mainstream U.S. news has supplied a consistent narrative regarding Syria that treats the “rebels” as the good guys and the “regime forces” as the bad guys, but it has never been that clear-cut, as Dennis J Bernstein reports.

It’s …

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon serves US imperial interests – on the wrong side of Obama’s war on Syria from its outset.

Last September, US-supported terrorists attacked a humanitarian convoy for Aleppo, destroying at least 18 trucks, along with killing and wounding …

In the morning on December 21, intense clashes between ISIS and Turkey-led forces resumed in the area of al-Bab. Pro-Turkey militant groups and the Turkish army, supported by the Turkish Air Force, attacked the town hospital and seized the Aqeel …

The Jabhat Fatah al-Sham organization (formerly the al-Nusra Front) claimed to be responsible for Monday’s murder of Russian Ambassador Andrey Karlov’s in Ankara. The terrorist group claimed responsibility via a letter which appeared on the Internet. The letter was written …

The New York Times laments today that international negotiations about the situation in Syria now continue without any U.S. participation in an article entitled Russia, Iran and Turkey Meet for Syria Talks, Excluding U.S.

“Russia, Iran and Turkey met in …

The hard-nosed neo-cons were certainly showing little interest in linking arguments, examining evidence, or even considering elementary logic in the aftermath of the Berlin truck attack near the Gedächtniskirche.  With the bodies fresh in the morgue, former US ambassador to …

The Liberation of Aleppo: A Regional Turning Point. Setback for US-Led Aggression

By Prof. Tim Anderson, December 21 2016

The Future Combat System gives way to Mobile Protected Firepower

On October 12, 1999, then acting Head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Eric Shinseki, outlined his vision of the future of the U.S. Army when he stated that …

Almost half of Americans do not agree with the U.S. intelligence community’s assessment that the Russian government was behind cyberattacks on the Democratic Party and Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign in 2016, according to a new Morning Consult/POLITICO survey.

When asked …

Today the Russian Ambassador in Turkey was slaughtered by a terrorist at an art gallery in Ankara.  Although one man pulled the trigger, it is unlikely he would have succeeded with the assassination without a network of support.   A Turkish …

They had to kill him to prolong the life of apartheid. Nelson Mandela

Commemorating birthdays in the aftermath of a person’s death tends to be a false exercise. At best, it reminds us about an era that will have, almost …

Overview

The rise of economic inequality is one of the most hotly debated issues today in the United States and indeed in the world. Yet economists and policymakers alike face important limitations when trying to measure and understand the rise …

Reacting to the news from Prime Minister Trudeau’s office that Canadian Arctic waters are now indefinitely off-limits to new oil and gas licenses, Jessica Wilson, head of Greenpeace Canada’s Arctic campaign, said:

Today’s announcement is a groundbreaking step for the

Discount ISIS claiming responsibility. Germany along with America, other NATO nations and Middle East partners (Saudi Arabia, Qatar Turkey) support the ISIS-Daesh terrorist group. A

Amply documented, the Western military alliance are the State sponsors of both Al Qaeda and …

First published by Inter Press Service and Global Research in September 2014

While the United States, United Kingdom and NATO are pushing for war with Russia, it behoves people and their governments around the world to take a clear stand …

This open letter to the US Congress  signed by several prominent scientists and Nobel Laureates was first published by Global Research in February 2007

February 1, 2007

United States Congress
Washington, DC

Dear Member of Congress:

As physicists, members of …

Christine Lagarde, head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), on Monday was found guilty of “negligence” for approving a massive government payout to business tycoon Bernard Tapie during her tenure as French finance minister.

“This should help calm all that …

African Electoral Politics, Instability and the Burgeoning Economic Crisis

By Abayomi Azikiwe, December 20 2016

Tillamook County, Oregon — Seaborne cesium 134, the so-called “fingerprint of Fukushima,” has been detected on US shores for the first time researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) said this month.

WHOI is a crowd-funded science seawater sampling …

If the 2016 presidential campaign was a national disgrace, the reaction of the losers is an even more disgraceful spectacle.  It seems that the political machine backing Hillary Clinton can’t stand losing an election.

And why is that?

Because they …

All across the continent the continuing dependency on trade with the Western states has resulted in another round of uncertainty

Recent national elections in the West African state of Ghana were heavily influenced by the growing crisis in various economies …

President Obama admitted in his press conference on Friday that his government hasn’t released any evidence yet of Russian interference in the election, but he said some would be coming.

That’s proof that an uncritical press has already printed stories …

As pointed out yesterday, a recent tweet series by Club des Cordeliers made some interesting observation about the #StandWithAleppo propaganda campaign:

The “Stand with Aleppo” campaign in the U.S. was started and is propelled by a Democratic party operative who

IMF operations make loan-sharking look respectable by comparison, debt-entrapping nations, obligating them to take new loans to service old ones.

The scheme assures rising indebtedness and structural adjustment harshness, including:

• privatization of state enterprises at fire sale prices;
• mass layoffs;

The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) has secured control of Aleppo city after more than 4 years of fighting in what is Syria’s most strategically important city, second to the capital Damascus. Western media has chosen to explain this victory to …

It’s all over but the postmortems. The campaign to dump Trump fizzled. The only surprise was Hillary losing five elector votes.

Commenting on why he rejected her, Hawaii Democrat elector said “(t)hey can call me faithless, but the point is …

Trump Winning Electoral College Vote, Propaganda Campaign Portraying Him as an Instrument of Moscow has Failed

By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, December 19 2016

Summary of the tragic events so far, in which Russia’s envoy to Turkey, Andrey Karlov, has been shot dead in Ankara by a gunman in an assassination apparently linked to Moscow’s role in Syria’s civil war. Here are key facts …

Unsubstantiated stories have been planted throughout the presstitute media by anonymous CIA officials that Donald Trump’s electoral victory was the result of Russian intervention. This absurd claim has now been elevated to the even more absurd claim that Putin himself …

There is an astounding double standard being applied to the US presidential election result.

A few weeks ago the corporate media were appalled that Donald Trump demurred on whether he would accept the vote if it went against him. It …

Congressional Republicans quietly closed a year-long investigation into Flint, Michigan’s crisis over lead in its drinking water, faulting both state officials and the Environmental Protection Agency for contamination that has affected nearly 100,000 residents.

In letters to fellow Republicans, the …

Allegations of US-support for pseudo-Islamist terrorists around the world often fall on deaf ears and are dismissed as the mad ramblings of conspiracy theorists.

According to numerous scholars, including Noam Chomsky, Michel Chossudovsky, and many others, the United States has …

Washington will more than double its number of its troops in Iraq as part of the US’ plans for a post-IS vision, a senior Baghdad minister told The New Arab.

US policy makers plan an “indefinite” military presence in Iraq …

While most of us don’t trust journalists, many of us are still under the illusion that we have a free and independent press.

The truth is we don’t.

Here’s five reasons why we should be very sceptical of the …

Government buses en route to evacuate the sick and injured from two government-held villages in the province of Idlib were burned by the so-called “moderate opposition” on December 18.

The villages of Foah and Kefraya are encircled by a coalition …

Update (Dec 19, 0:00 EST):

• The culprits of the bus burning were “rebels” from Ahrar al-Sham and Jund al Aqsa. Both are favorites of the CIA and Turkey and in Idleb governate aligned with and under the military command of

Alexander Nahum Sack (Moscow 1890 – New York 1955), a Russian lawyer who taught in Saint Petersburg then in Paris, is considered to be one of the founders of the doctrine of odious debt. The doctrine, based on a series …

Government forces are preparing to take control of a key region near the Syrian capital, Damascus.

The Syrian army and its allies are going to launch a fresh military operation to force Jaish al-Islam militant group to surrender their strongholds …

As President Barack Obama vows that the United States will take “action” in response to the allegations that Russia interfered with the November election, the U.S. army has started to bring tanks back to a Cold War site in the …

Virtually every current headline unequivocally shows how US Empire and its Ministry of Propaganda are lying to the American people. Those in power have been so exposed by alt-media in 2016 that they are growing more desperate by the day. …

Afghanistan is the main supplier of opioids and heroin to the US, according to UN sources, Afghanistan produces approximately  90 percent of the World’s supply of opium destined to the illegal heroin and opioid markets.

It’s a multibillion dollar industry. …

Of potential significance to the US Election process, Israeli news Ynet reports in an article entitled “Israeli Mossad Chief And Security Delegation Meet With Trump Team” that the Director of the Mossad, Yossi Cohen, (image left) “clandestinely visited the …

The 538 members of the US Electoral College are casting their votes Monday in 50 state capitals. All indications are that, with a handful of exceptions, the Electoral College vote will follow the results of the voting on November 8, …

On Monday, electors from each state meet to choose the next president and vice president. They alone decide. Voters have no say.

Virtually always they pick the ticket winning their state’s popular vote. Never in US history did more than …

As Official Washington’s latest “group think” solidifies into certainty – that Russia used hacked Democratic emails to help elect Donald Trump – something entirely different may be afoot: a months-long effort by elements of the U.S. intelligence community to determine …

The Electoral College of 538 members will meet behind closed doors on December 19 in each of the Fifty States, to cast their ballots. There is no national meeting of the Electoral College. 

Under federal law, “each elector must sign …

The republic was founded “in strict secrecy,” Benjamin Franklin explained. When asked “what have we got, a republic or a monarchy,” he responded “(a) republic, if you can keep it.”

Today he’d say a coup to destroy it is underway …

Army generals unsurprisingly have tended to be remembered best for feats concocted on the battlefield when managing formations of soldiers pitted against similar opposition in an international or a civil war.

But the changing nature of military conflict since the …

The ACLU believes one photo depicts “the body of Muhamad Husain Kadir, an Iraqi farmer, shot dead at point-blank range by an American soldier while handcuffed.”

Next month, the U.S. government will return to court again to prevent the release …

This report tells the history of the process of fragmentation imposed on Palestinian rural land in the West Bank through a case study of three villages in the Nablus District – ‘Azmut, Deir al-Hatab and Salem. What these communities have …

A report published by The Century Foundation (TCF), a US-based policy think tank, helps shed light on the inner workings of the small northern city of Idlib, Syria.

Idlib is to the US State Department-listed foreign terrorist organization Jabhat …

Historical developments over several decades reveal the two-party complicity in the total war strategy. 

This is the second public meeting that we have held in less than a week on the character of the imperialist system and the role of …

“If this would’ve occurred anywhere else outside the United States, and a country would’ve said “Yes, we have private companies. They secretly program these computers and we don’t have any paper in them, so we can’t recount”  they would have …

While Christmas celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ on 25 December, that date was probably originally chosen due to the winter solstice on the ancient Roman calendar or because of one of the various other ancient seasonal festivals and celebrations …

Despite conflicting accounts about who leaked the Democratic emails, the frenzy over an alleged Russian role is driving the U.S. deeper into a costly and dangerous New Cold War, writes Robert Parry.

The rising hysteria about Russia is best understood …

Following a hearing on 24 November 2016 the First-tier Tribunal (General Regulatory Chamber) has dismissed my appeal against the decision of the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) to uphold the BBC’s rejection of my Freedom of Information request for material relating …

As SF predicted, the Syrian army, Hezbollah and the National Defense Forces (NDF) launched an offensive operation against ISIS in the province of Homs.

Government forces attacked ISIS terrorists near the Tyas Airbase and retook the Tyas crossroads and the …

I try my best to be an informed about what is, and has happened, in Syria.  When I watch mainstream media’s coverage I am horrified at their “Fake News”. For example, Lester Holt of NBC nightly news recently referred to …

The note ban hit poor people the hardest.

Victims of sea erosion living in a camp in Valiyathura School tell their plight.

For these people who already lost their homes due to sea erosion the note ban was a double …

The East African Community is perhaps the most economically promising bloc of states in the entire continent, though it’s a grouping that most people don’t know anything about. Up until South Sudan’s accession in spring 2016, it was comprised …

This article by Moon of Alabama is not a conspiracy theory:

The “Elite” Coup Of 2016 against US President-Elect Trump?

By Moon of Alabama, December 16, 2016

Read it carefully. Check out the links. 

The article is a documented …

Muslim Press: What’s your take on the US hacking claims? Do you think Russia was behind the election of Donald Trump?

Peter Koenig: As a first off, I can say with deep conviction that Russia has nothing to do with …

DAMASCUS – According to two reports coming out of Aleppo today, at least 14 US Coalition military officers were captured this morning in an East Aleppo bunker by Syrian Special Forces.

This story was quietly leaked by Voltaire.net, who …

San Francisco, Calif. — December 12, 2016 was a historic day, marking the first time that a U.S. court heard argument related to the actions of senior Bush-era officials who were responsible for the planning and waging of the Iraq …