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I was sickened to hear and watch the events occurring in France. Part of that was for the immediate families, friends and neighbours of those so needlessly killed. Another part was the fear factor, not fear of terror or for …
Labor unrest and Washington’s threats involving participation in AGOA poses challenges for ANC government
Members of the National Education and Health Care Workers Union (NEHAWU), an affiliate of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), are defying an interdict …
Washington and its French vassal have refined how they conduct their false flag operations. With the Charlie Hebdo operation, they knew to immediately set the story in stone in order to avoid any questions from the print and TV media …
On this Monday morning, the CNN network is scrolling features about a “global manhunt” for those said to have been involved in the Paris attacks on Friday. Attackers are “at large”. The imaginary of global terror feasts yet again on …
Attacks in Paris turn entire populations into suspects within imperialist states
A gathering of African leaders and European Union (EU) member-states in Malta has resulted in a proposed financial package of nearly $US4 billion which will ostensibly be utilized to …
Although President Barack Obama said he opposes “endless war” and “America’s combat mission in Afghanistan may be over,” he announced that the 9,800 US troops presently there will remain. Obama had previously stated that he would cut the US force …
Nick Buxton introduces the theme of an upcoming London talk on 25 November sponsored by Global Justice Now that will launch a new book, The Secure and the Dispossessed -How the Military and Corporations are shaping a climate-changed world
There …
Award-winning author and Professor of Economics Michel Chossudovsky
will be speaking at Beit Zatoun Cultural Centre in Toronto.
This event will also launch Prof. Chossudovsky’s latest book: The Globalization of War: America’s Long War against Humanity
Who is Behind
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NATO Article 4 calls for members to “consult together whenever, in the opinion of any of them, the territorial integrity, political independence, or security of any” is threatened.
Article 5 considers an armed attack (real or otherwise) against one or …
By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, November 16 2015
Are the Paris terrorist attacks being used as
The SAA, the National Defense Forces (NDF) and the Palestine Liberation Army (PLA) made several advances in the northern of the Dara’a province after making another push to reenter the town of Sheikh Miskeen on Saturday. According to the field …
While global demand for the world’s most popular metal – aluminium – continues to rise, it is critical that the aluminium industry address its environmental and social impacts, particularly in indigenous peoples’ territories, according to new report published today by …
If the U.S. President were not a mythical position but a serious job, the job interview would include asking the candidates their basic plans of action. This would start with, “What will you encourage Congress to spend a couple of
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Image: Dr. Chandra Muzaffar
There has been a massive outpouring of sympathy for the victims of the dastardly, heinous massacre in Paris on 13 November 2015. Once again, with the help of the media, the whole of the human family …
Key points:
- Farmland fund investing in Brazil is managed by TIAA-CREF of New York City
- Farm acquisitions tied to Brazilian businessman accused of violent land grabbing and involvement in money laundering scheme
- Farms acquired in Brazil by way of a
All of the available polling that has been done by Western polling firms in Syria has indicated strongly that the current President of Syria, Bashar al-Assad, would easily win any free and fair election in that country. In fact when …
President Vladimir Putin says he’s shared Russian intelligence data on Islamic State financing with his G20 colleagues: the terrorists appear to be financed from 40 countries, including some G20 member states.
During the summit, “I provided examples based on …
The atrocities in Paris, killing more than 120 people, have brought forth the usual condemnations against terrorism and expressions of sympathy for the victims, but the larger question is whether this latest shock will finally force Western leaders to address …
The Syrian peace talks in Vienna, over the weekend, produced an agreement between all parties, and it constitutes a major defeat for the United States, because the result is entirely in accord with the longstanding Russian position, which the U.S. …
How do you continue to push GM crops on a population that has overwhelmingly voted against them in poll after poll? You start a campaign similar to the one the tobacco industry began in the 1920’s with the help of …
The G-20 summit of world political leaders being held in Turkey to discuss the economic issues impacting on the world economy has been turned into a council of war. The major imperialist powers are moving rapidly to escalate their military …
A number of French deputies and politicians called on the French government to alter its foreign policy and correct its course immediately and reconsider its relations with Syria following the recent terrorist attacks in Paris.
Deputy Jacques Myard said that …
Damascus – President Bashar al-Assad received on Saturday a French delegation, including a number of parliamentarians, intellectuals, and media men, headed by member of the French National Assembly Thierry Mariani.
President al-Assad affirmed that the terrorist attacks which targeted Paris …
Are the Paris terrorist attacks being used as a pretext and justification by France to intervene militarily in Syria in violation of international law.
According to French President François Hollande, the Paris terrorist attack was “prepared, organized and planned from …
Another terrorist attack in France, and another opportunity for moral signaling on social media and more self-righteous bloviating for the media operatives at CNN. But before everyone gets ahead of themselves and dives head first into the pre-fabricated media narratives …
In recent months, U.S. and South Korean military officials have signed agreements that heighten the risk of conflict on the Korean Peninsula. In June, the two sides established a new operations plan named OPLAN 5015. For the most part, details …
On Saturday morning, the Syrian Arab Army’s 105th Brigade of the Republican Guard – in coordination with the National Defense Forces (NDF) of Damascus City and the Palestine Liberation Army (PLA) – continued their large-scale offensive in the East Ghouta …
France is at war! – Exclaimed President Hollande several times in each of his three what appeared like scripted speeches he gave within 12 hours after the attack. He knew the names of the attackers and where they were from, …
The only aircraft carrier in the French Navy’s fleet, the Charles de Gaulle, will leave for the Persian Gulf on November 18, to join the fight against Islamic State in the region, Paris has confirmed.
“The naval group will leave
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We are bringing to the attention of our readers four important events which preceded the Paris attacks.
1. The French media had already predicted a terrorist attack more than a month before the actual occurrence.
2. The head of France’s …
French Security Left Blind During November 13 Paris Terror Attacks
By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, November 15 2015
I have received a report from European security that there was a massive cyber attack on French systems 48 hours prior
I have received a report from European security that there was a massive cyber attack on French systems 48 hours prior to and during the Paris attacks.
Amongst other things, the attack took down the French mobile data network and …
Patrick Pelloux revealed on national radio on Saturday that a “multi-site” emergency exercise was held in Paris on the same day as the Paris attacks on November 13.
[This exercise pertains to an emergency scenario of a terrorist attack. It …
A Spanish court has issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other senior Israeli officials for their role in the 2010 attack on the Freedom Flotilla heading to Gaza, local media reported on Friday.
Euro-Mid Observer for …
Finally, events have converged to mobilize our new leaders—young Americans. Who are students but the very women and men who will lead this country spiritually, economically, politically? We press them into college to imbibe progressive ideals, to hone their communication …
The White House correspondent for French television network Canal+, Laura Haim, reported an interesting tidbit during a live report with MSNBC’s Brian Williams Friday evening.
Haim stated that Central Intelligence Agency director, John O. Brennan, recently met with his counterpart, …
“This is not my victory, this is your victory.” This sentence uttered by the elated Trudeau on the election night is not a compliment to the millions of Canadians who voted strategically to bring about change but a call for …
Israel murders, brutalizes, mass imprisons and tortures Palestinians daily – ignored by Western and Israeli media, blaming victims for state-sponsored high crimes.
Parisians justifiably mourn their dead. Worldwide sympathy supports their family members and an aggrieved nation.
Palestinians suffer isolated …
The UAF is continuing its rotation and heavy weapons withdrawal from the front line in anticipation of the winter. Thus the UAF “lost” a T-64B tank after the truck towing the tank-bearing flatbed trailer broke down. The tank sat in …
Imagine that you despised your brother-in-law and wanted to kill him. But you didn’t have the guts to do it yourself so you hired a hit-man to do the job for you.
Would you still be guilty of murder?
You’re …
President Obama has the constitutional power to shut down the prison there and return Guantanamo to Cuba.
Obama has yet to fulfill the promise he made in his January 22, 2009 executive order to shutter Guantanamo “no later than one …
We, the West, overthrew Saddam by violence. We overthrew Gadafy by violence. We are trying to overthrow Assad by violence. Harsh regimes all — but far less draconian than our Saudi allies, and other tyrannies around the world. What has …
An article in the Australian publication New Matilda gets to the real point about last night’s attacks in Paris – one that no one wants to talk about. What westerners feel right now is a powerful and very selective outrage …
Yesterday night things changed in an instant in Paris. The available evidence suggest that the assaults were carried out by a professional killer group who used live bombs among other weapons. Today’s post by Pepe Escobar on his Facebook page…
The Paris Terrorist Attacks, “9/11 French-Style”, “Le 11 septembre à la française”
By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, November 14 2015
Within minutes following the attacks, France’s media went into overdrive. News commentators and intelligence analysts on network TV stated with
We’ve heard this one before, but this time they are doubling down on this all-too familiar set piece.
Details are emerging after last night’s horrific events in Paris, and one particular item of investigation is all too familiar.
AFP, …
A huge fire has broken out at the vast ‘Jungle’ refugee camp near the French port of Calais, just hours after a string of bloody attacks struck Paris, leaving over 100 dead. The Calais deputy mayor told RT that the …
This article first published in May 2015 is of significance in relation to the Paris terror attacks.
Did France’s new surveillance laws adopted in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo terror attacks set the stage for the enactment by President …
On November 13, a series of terror attacks in the heart of Paris left at least 153 dead and paralyzed the French capital with fear. 200 people were wounded. From 8 to 10 extremists dead following the attack.
The attacks …
The human rights and Palestine solidarity organisation BDS South Africa is greatly shocked and saddened by the horrific attacks in Paris and Beirut. The attacks have shaken not just France and Lebanon, but the whole world.
BDS South Africa have …
Far-right, former IDF colonel, racist MK Moti Yogev wants family members of Palestinians accused of attacking Jews (true or false) placed in internment camps.
Will death camp recommendations follow? He claims punishing families will deter their children from allegedly harming …
Multiple likely well-planned Friday night attacks in Paris had a disturbing aroma to them – including France’s knee-jerk police state reaction. Here’s what happened.
At least seven apparently well-coordinated attacks occurred, gunmen with automatic weapons and suicide belts killing over …
Netanyahu sounds out Obama on recognising annexation of Syrian territory as test drill promises energy independence
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took advantage of a private meeting this week with Barack Obama – their first in 13 months – to …
Ukraine asks the United Nations to send its peacekeepers to Donbass. “Ukraine has moral grounds to count on aid from the United Nations in such a difficult period of time,” Leonid Golopatyuk, the head of the main department of military …
The decision by the Knesset comes the same day as an EU requirement to label goods made in the occupied territories.
The Israeli Knesset is one step closer to approving a bill prohibiting activists in the boycott, divestment and sanctions …
“Why is Canada transferring Russian or Iraqi knock-offs of Russian machine guns with silencers to somewhere in Iraq from outside Iraq? It makes you wonder…Why weren’t they using Canadian-made automatic weapons? They’re using Russian-made ones! Is that so that …
Reports indicate an unprecedented terrorist attack has unfolded in France, with over 150 dead, many more injured and reports still trickling in regarding the full-scale of the violence. The BBC in its report, “Paris attacks: Bataclan and other assaults …
Paris is once more the victim of a criminal terrorist attack resulting in more than 140 deaths. Our thoughts are with families of the victims.
To fully comprehend these tragic events, we bring to the attention of our readers our …
This article first published in May 2013 documents France’s role in supporting terrorist formations in Syria.
The UK Foreign secretary William Hague, and his French counterpart Lauren Fabius, are leading an isolated charge within the EU to lift a supposed …
US Warplanes Avoid Bombing ISIS Held Syrian Oil Fields
By Stephen Lendman, November 13 2015
They provide a key source of ISIS income, millions of dollars through an illegal pipeline to Turkey where it’s sold, according to Turkish journalist
Washington has new job openings according to the Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter.
If you are willing to fight ISIS with U.S. supplied weapons, Uncle Sam wants you. U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter told ABC news that Washington was willing …
As of October 2015, American consumers owe $8.17 trillion in mortgages, $900 billion in credit cards, and $1.19 trillion in student loans. Home mortgages, credit cards, and student loans occupy the most of the consumer credit market.
The consumer credit
Throughout four-and-a-half years of conflict, Russia has gone all-out to resolve it diplomatically – in stark contrast to Washington, wanting endless war continued, no matter the devastating human toll.
Obama bears full responsibility for horrific carnage and mass displacement, using …
The US-led coalition’s reluctance to bomb Islamic State-controlled oil deposits in Syria has raised eyebrows, according to prominent Turkish journalist Alptekin Dursunoglu.
They provide a key source of ISIS income, millions of dollars through an illegal pipeline to Turkey where it’s sold, according to Turkish journalist Alptekin Dursunoglu, Sputnik News reported.
America’s bombing campaign avoided striking ISIS-held Syrian oil fields so far. …
AP reports today:
…Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen is stressing the need to review the unconventional monetary policies that central banks around the world deployed in response to the 2008 global financial crisis.
She said Thursday that the post-crisis period
The austerity imposed on the Portuguese people by the One Percent has resulted in the election of a coalition government of socialists, communists, and a “left bloc.” In the 20th century, socialism and the fear of communism humanized Europe, but …
The emergence of ISIL and terrorist fundamentalism throughout Syria and the Middle East can be traced directly to the decision of Bush and Blair to accede to the demands from Sharon and Netanyahu for America and Britain to illegally attack …
Britain’s Daily Mail reported it, saying this unmatched state-of-the-art system NATO calls the SA-21 ‘Growler’ was deployed at Syria’s coastal Latakia airbase.
It’s a formidable defensive system, able to strike targets up to 400 km away at altitudes up to …
Thousands of Palestinians protested Thursday following the funeral in Hebron for 28-year-old Abdullah Azzam Shalaldah, shot to death by undercover Israeli gunmen who carried out an assault on the local al-Ahli Hospital to abduct his wounded cousin, Azzam Ezzat Shalaldah.…
International media has been actively discussing the recent publication of the British edition of Mirror Online featuring shocking footage of Islamic State (ISIL) militants gunning down a total of 200 children, with their hands tied behind their backs.
It should …
Interesting stuff today. A major Russian TV channel just aired a report about Putin meeting with his top military commanders. I don’t have the time to translate what Putin said word for word, but basically he said that the USA …
German Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière declared this week that refugees arriving on the German border will be deported back to the first European Union country they entered, in a reversal of policies that have been in place since August.…
The Kremlin has confirmed “some secret data” was accidentally leaked when Russian TV stations broadcast material apparently showing blueprints from a nuclear torpedo, designed to be used against enemy coastal installations.
During President Vladimir Putin’s meeting with military officials in …
Despite the common misconception that Thailand is one of Southeast Asia’s staunchest US allies – the steady erosion of US-Thai relations has been underway for years. Cold War concessions Thailand made to the US during the Vietnam War have ingrained …
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