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New York Times Perpetuates the Myth About US Fighting ISIS By Stephen Lendman, October 20 2015

Times articles, commentaries and editorials feature all propaganda all the time, managed news misinformation and Big Lies, suppressing hard truths on issues mattering most – especially on war and peace.

It notoriously supports US imperial lawlessness, in lockstep with every

Fukushima Fallout: Throwing Radioactive Caution to the Wind – and Sea By Cynthia McKinney, October 20 2015

Image: An aerial view shows No. 4 (front L), No. 3 (front R), No. 2 (rear L) and No. 1 reactor buildings at Kansai Electric Power Co.’s Takahama nuclear power plant in Takahama town, Fukui prefecture, in this photo taken

Selected Articles: Political and Economic Fraud Exposed By Global Research News, October 20 2015

By Keith Jones, October 20 2015

The Liberal Party, which has long been Canadian big business’s preferred party of national government, will be returning to power for the first time

South African Coal Miners Reach Settlement to End Strike By Abayomi Azikiwe, October 20 2015

An agreement between the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and several coal sector firms has resulted in the end of a strike involving thousands of employees which lasted over a week.

Mining companies including Anglo, Glencore and Exxaro Resources Ltd. …

Whatever Happened to Sex By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, October 20 2015

Western civilization is in collapse. Every public and private institution in every western country, with the sole exception of Iceland, is corrupt. Government at every level is corrupt. The courts and judicial systems are corrupt. Justice is nonexistent. The financial

Global Peace and Security: Waging “War on Terrorism” in the Middle East Even as We “Embody Terrorism” By Mahboob A. Khawaja, October 20 2015

 We are waging war on terrorism even as we embody terrorism. No wonder we seem sometimes to be at war with ourselves, and have been for most of the 21st century….. No American under 12 has Lived in a Country

Privatization of the US Prison System By Global Research News, October 20 2015

Note: This article was originally published in 2014.

The following infographic shows us how profitable the US prison industry is. “Between 1980 and 1994, profits went up from $392 million to $1.31 billion” dollars. As reported in The Prison Industry

World Bank Report Challenges Notions of Declining Poverty in Africa By Abayomi Azikiwe, October 20 2015

Despite the reports for the last several years that significant declines in poverty have taken place in sub-Saharan Africa, a recently-released World Bank study indicates that despite “growth” the actual number of people living in poverty on the continent has

Jerusalem Chaos Is a Warning of Things to Come By Jonathan Cook, October 20 2015

Among Palestinians and Israelis, the recent upsurge in violence has been variously described as the children’s, lone-wolf, Jerusalem and smartphone intifadas. Each describes a distinguishing feature of this round of clashes.

The steady erosion of Fatah and Hamas’ authority during …

‘Caught on Camera’: Extrajudicial Killings of Palestinians By Annie Robbins, October 20 2015

Image: Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor press conference in Geneva. October 16,2015

A new report summarizing Israel’s Arbitrary Killings and its System of Structural Violence was released by the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor at a press conference in Geneva on Friday.

Off-grid Living Punished Like a Crime as Colorado County Criminalizes Self-reliance By Daniel Barker, October 20 2015

There was a time in America — and not so long ago — when there was no “grid,” at least for those who lived outside of urban centers. To live self-sufficiently in rural areas was the rule, rather than the

Chicago Police ‘Disappeared’ Over 7,000 People to Notorious Homan Square By Nadia Prupis, October 20 2015

Police in Chicago kidnapped and imprisoned more than 7,000 people between 2004 and 2015 at the secret interrogation warehouse now known publicly as Homan Square, according to new reporting by the Guardian.

Nearly 6,000 of the disappeared were black, which …

Canada’s Liberals Sweep to Power on Phony Anti-austerity Vow By Keith Jones, October 20 2015

The Liberal Party, which has long been Canadian big business’s preferred party of national government, will be returning to power for the first time in a decade after winning a sweeping victory in yesterday’s federal election.

Little more than four …

Elections 2015. Voter Suppression in Canada By Michael Welch and Prof Michael Keefer, October 19 2015

If for eight years this group has flouted other equally precious rules of the democratic game, aren’t we rash to assume that this same group will see a transparent, fair election as sacrosanct?…History and current events around the world

Tony Blair’s “Deal In Blood” with George W. Bush To Attack Iraq One Year Before the March 2003 Invasion. By Felicity Arbuthnot, October 19 2015

Mislead: “to give false or misleading information to” (Collins Dictionary.)

In what The Mail on Sunday (1) has described as a “bombshell White House memo”, leaked classified correspondence from then Secretary of State General Colin Powell to President George W.

Selected Articles: From Widespread Social, Political, and Economic Chaos to a New Multipolar World Order? By Global Research News, October 19 2015

russia_us_fistsThe Fall Of The Unipower

By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts and F. William Engdahl, October 19 2015

The distinguished and knowledgeable international commentator William Engdahl, in a superb statement, has expressed the view I gave you that Russian President

34,000 Pesticides and 600 Chemicals Later: US Food Supply is Suffering By Christina Sarich, October 19 2015

More than 34,000 pesticides derived from about 600 basic ingredients are currently registered for use in the United States by the EPA. Industrial agriculture (meaning about 75% of all land used in the U.S. to grow food or raise animals)

Harper’s Canada Is in a Crisis of Epic Proportions: It Is Critical to Vote Him Out of Office Today By Pamela Palmater, October 19 2015

It is critical to vote Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his ruling Conservative Party out of office on Monday. Canada is in a crisis of epic proportions and if Canadians don’t take action soon, the damage could soon be irreversible.

Quantitative Easing Was a Bust; Let’s Try Higher Wages Instead By Mike Whitney, October 19 2015

Why is the economy still in the doldrums after 6 years of zero rates and three rounds of Quantitative Easing?

It’s because consumers aren’t consuming and there’s too much debt. You see, despite the Fed’s wacko theories about pumping liquidity

US Military Chief Pledges Increased Support as Israel Steps Up Attacks on Palestinians By Jean Shaoul, October 19 2015

General Joseph Dunford, the chairman of the US joint chiefs of staff, flew to Tel Aviv Sunday to discuss a 10-year military aid package worth some $3.7 billion a year. The pledge of increased American military support came in the

Syrian Quagmire Baffles Democrats. “No New Ideas for Peace other than More War” By William Boardman, October 19 2015

Democrats have no new ideas for peace other than more war. 

None of the Democratic candidates in the October 13 debate had anything very useful to say about ending the carnage in Syria and the rest of the Middle East.

Using Refugees: Angela Merkel’s “Turkish Gambit” By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, October 19 2015

The frontline in Europe’s refugee movement is shifting.  In some cases, there is more of the same: the Hungarian approach entailing closures, followed by a brief easing and more closures. Closing the border with Croatia saw an inevitable movement towards

Public Services Under Attack through TTIP and CETA Atlantic Trade Deals By Corporate Europe Observatory, October 19 2015

EU trade deals with Canada and the US could endanger citizens’ rights to basic services like water and health, as negotiators are doing the work of some of the EU’s most powerful corporate lobby groups in pushing an aggressive market

Canadian Students Reject Liberal Party Leader Justin Trudeau’s Attack on Palestine Activism, Free Speech By Ali Abunimah, October 19 2015

Note: Article originally published in March 2015

Canadian Liberal Party leader Justin Trudeau digs for votes by attacking students who support Palestinian rights. (Adam Scotti/Flickr)

A vote on divestment taking place today [March 15] at Montreal’s McGill University …

Smoking Gun Emails: Bush and Blair Secretly Plotted War on Iraq in March 2002 By Global Research News, October 19 2015

Revealed by the British media are the details “of the ‘deal in blood’ forged between George W. Bush and Tony Blair over the Iraq War.” 

The meetings took place in  Crawford, Texas a year prior to the onslaught of the

Moderate Extremism and Extremist Moderation By Dr. T. P. Wilkinson, October 19 2015

On 16 July 1964, at the San Francisco Republican Convention—where Ms Clinton began her career of political opportunism—Senator Barry Goldwater accepted his nomination for the presidency by declaring:

I would remind you that extremism in the defence of liberty is

Rampaging State-Sponsored Israeli Settlers. Daily Acts of Violence against Palestinians By Stephen Lendman, October 19 2015

Israeli settlements are permitted to freely terrorize defenseless Palestinians including young children, committing daily acts of violence and vandalism, at times cold-blooded murder with impunity.

Israeli authorities do nothing to stop them, de facto encouragement to rampage freely, often protected …

Libya: From Africa’s Wealthiest Democracy under Gaddafi, to US-NATO Sponsored Terrorist Haven By Garikai Chengu, October 19 2015

October 20, marks the four-year anniversary of the US-backed assassination of Libya’s former leader, Muammar Gaddafi, and the decline into chaos of one of Africa’s greatest nations.

In 1967 Colonel Gaddafi inherited one of the poorest nations in Africa; by

Obama’s Proposed Atlantic TTIP Trade Deal with Europe. “Public Services Under Attack” By Eric Zuesse, October 19 2015

A new analysis of the Obama-proposed TTIP ‘trade’ treaty, which the U.S. would have with Europe, finds that it was initiated and shaped by large international corporations, which will, also according to the only independent economic analysis that has thus

Farcical Egyptian Parliamentary Elections Underway By Stephen Lendman, October 19 2015

Legitimate opposition parties are banned from participating in Egypt’s first parliamentary elections since junta authority seized power by coup d’etat – complicit with Washington in ousting President Mohamed Morsi, now imprisoned on trumped up charges.

Strongman ruler Abdel Fattah al-Sisi …

Obama Rejects “Cooperation” with Putin on Syria: Washington’s War on Terror is A Fabrication, Zero ISIS Targets Destroyed… By Stephen Lendman, October 19 2015

Washington so-called war on ISIS is a complete fabrication. Russia’s is the real thing. Its effectiveness is why Obama won’t cooperate with Putin – even though both leaders claim they share the same goal.

In over a year of daily …

The Fall Of The Unipower By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts and F. William Engdahl, October 19 2015

The distinguished and knowledgeable international commentator William Engdahl, in a superb statement, has expressed the view I gave you that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s speech on September 28 at the 70th anniversary of the United Nations changed the balance

Media Disinformation: The Imaginary Cuban Troops in Syria By Matt Peppe, October 19 2015

Fair-and-balanced Fox News reported on Wednesday that “Cuban military operatives reportedly have been spotted in Syria, where sources believe they are advising President Bashar al-Assad’s soldiers and may be preparing to man Russian-made tanks to aid Damascus in fighting rebel

Quagmires and Permanent Occupations: Obama’s Afghan Reversal By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, October 19 2015

If the invaders lost the war in Afghanistan with the presence of hundreds of thousands of troops, their hopes of reversing the tide with five thousand troops are also misguided. Taliban statement, Voice of Jihad, Oct 16, 2015

However anything …

UN Peacekeepers to Protect World Heritage Sites in Syria and Iraq from ISIS Attacks By RT, October 19 2015

UNESCO has approved Italy’s proposal to send UN peacekeepers to protect heritage sites around the world from various threats, primarily from terrorist attacks and destruction by militants.

“UNESCO has said yes to the Cultural Blue Helmets,” Italian culture minister, Dario …

Another “Conspiracy Theory” Becomes Fact: The Great Oil Market Collapse Is All About Crushing Russian Control Over Syria By Zero Hedge, October 18 2015

This incisive article by Tyler Durden was first published by Zero Hedge in February 2015

While the markets are still debating whether the price of oil is more impacted by the excess pumping of crude here, or the lack of

Washington Persecutes America’s Greatest Patriots By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, October 18 2015

John Kiriakou is an American patriot who informed us of the criminal behavior of illegal and immoral US “cloak and dagger” operations that were bringing dishonor to our country. His reward was to be called a “traitor” by the idiot

Serbian Sanctions Against Russia Would Be Political ‘Suicide’ By Sputnik, October 18 2015

If Belgrade joins the EU in its policy of anti-Russian sanctions, it would mean that Serbia has lost its independence and turned into a colony, said Sandra Raskovic-Ivic, the president of the Democratic Party of Serbia.

The government of Serbia …
Cuba: End The Blockade Immediately! By Dr. Chandra Muzaffar, October 18 2015

A Resolution on “ending the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States of America against Cuba” will once again be presented to the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on 27 October 2015.

There is a special significance

America’s War against the “Islamic State” (ISIS) is Over: US-led Warplanes Attack Power Plant in Aleppo By Hazem Sabbagh, October 18 2015

 In blatant violation of international law, warplanes of the US-led alliance violated Syrian airspace and attacked a power plant that feeds Aleppo city, causing a blackout in the city.

A military source told SANA that warplanes of the Washington alliance …

US Asia-Pacific Hegemony vs. A Rising China By Tony Cartalucci, October 18 2015

The complexity and history behind the current tensions in Asia Pacific are belied by simplistic narratives underpinned by superficial nationalism. China’s portrayal across the Western media as a regional “bully” versus its victims across Southeast Asia is dividing the general

Selected Articles: Demystifying the Fabricated Media Reports on Saudi Arabia, Israel, Russia, MH17 and Vietnam By Global Research News, October 18 2015

Saudi-Arabia-and-US-flagsThe Saudi Dynasty, Key U.S. Ally, Tops the World in Barbarism

By Eric Zuesse, October 18 2015

The richest person in the world isn’t anyone in the Forbes list, which excludes calculations for any heads-of-state, but is instead King

Vietnam: From National Liberation to Trans-Pacific Vassal (1975-2015) By Prof. James Petras, October 18 2015
In 1975, Vietnam successfully ended one of the longest and bloodiest anti-colonial wars in world-history – defeating the US, Forty years later, Vietnam signed off on the TPP neocolonial trade deal.
The Destruction of Serbia’s Cultural Heritage: Twitter Campaign #NoKosovoUnesco launched By Inserbia, October 18 2015

Serbian users of Twitter Social Network launched a counter campaign on the initiative of the self-proclaimed Kosovo’s admission to UNESCO, placing a series of photographs and documents that testify the destruction of Serbian cultural heritage in Kosovo and Metohija.

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Fabricated Media Reports About Russia’s Syria Air Campaign against ISIS By Stephen Lendman, October 18 2015

Two weeks of Russian airstrikes against ISIS and other terrorist targets already had a devastating impact on their operations, turning the tide of battle so far, enabling Syrian ground forces to recapture lost territory.

They’re on the move, advancing, taking …

Israeli Arbitrary Killings and Brutalities Caught On Camera. Euro-Med Monitor Report By Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor, October 18 2015

A new report, “ Israel’s Arbitrary Killings and its System of Structural Violence,” was released by the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor in a press conference in Geneva.

The report summarizes the results of Euro-Med’s investigations into recent Israeli human rights …

Israel’s “Blood Diamonds”: When a Diamond is Forever . . . on Your Conscience By Sean Clinton, October 18 2015

The last thing anyone wants when they buy a diamond to wear with pride and confidence as a symbol of love and commitment is for it to be tarnished by association with bloodshed and violence.

It’s no wonder then that …

Videos Challenge Israeli Police Account of Shootings Directed against Palestinians By Jonathan Cook, October 18 2015

Israel accused of blocking investigations as films suggest security forces quick on trigger with Palestinian suspects 

It has been called the “smartphone intifada”. After a sharp escalation in violence between Palestinians and Israelis in recent weeks, shocking scenes

One Year After Canada’s October 22nd Shootings: We Need a Public Inquiry By Prof. Graeme MacQueen, October 18 2015

On the evening of October 22, 2014 I found myself in Toronto sitting alone in a restaurant watching a CNN news broadcast playing on a huge TV in the restaurant’s main room. The Ottawa shootings of the day were front

The Saudi Dynasty, Key U.S. Ally, Tops the World in Barbarism By Eric Zuesse, October 18 2015

The richest person in the world isn’t anyone in the Forbes list, which excludes calculations for any heads-of-state, but is instead King Salman of Saudi Arabia, whose net worth is in the trillions of dollars. He virtually owns the Saudi

What Does the Imperial Mafia Really Want? By William Blum, October 17 2015

Note: Article originally published on our website in 2003

Which is the more remarkable — that the United States can openly announce to the world its determination to invade a sovereign nation and overthrow its government in the absence of

€3bn, Visa Deal and EU Access Talks if Turkey Stops Refugee Flow to Europe By RT, October 17 2015

The EU and Turkey have agreed on an “action plan” that might give Ankara up to €3 billion ($3.4bn) in aid, visa privileges and new talks on Turkey-EU membership in return for its help in stemming the flow of refugees

The Real Causes of the Catastrophic Crisis in Greece and the “Left” By Takis Fotopoulos, October 17 2015

Note: Article originally published in 2014.

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Selected Articles: Ethnic Cleansing and Zionist Supremacy in Israel By Global Research News, October 17 2015

Israeli soldier gestures in front of Palestinian protesters during demonstration marking Land Day near HebronIsrael’s Friday Bloodbath. Washington absolves Israel of Blame

By Stephen Lendman, October 17 2015

Israel is more killing machine than nation – a ruthless Arab-hating monster. On Friday, it continued murdering Palestinians in cold blood, another five lethally shot,

“Humanitarian Lies”: Evidence Proves US Afghan Hospital Attack Was Deliberate By Stephen Lendman, October 17 2015
Pentagon officials knew it was a hospital, yet attacked it anyway – multiple times for over an hour, killing 24 doctors, other medical staff and patients, injuring 37 others.
Israel, the Media, and the Anatomy of a Sick Society By Eric Draitser, October 17 2015

The video of 13 year old Palestinian Ahmed Manasrah bleeding to death on the pavement of an East Jerusalem neighborhood has been described as “shocking,” “disturbing,” and “painful to watch.” The callous verbal abuse and insults from Israelis watching the

US Rejects Afghan Hospital Bombing Investigation, Instead Smashes into Hospital Destroying Evidence By Robert Barsocchini, October 17 2015

After changing its story many times, the US now admits that it intentionally threw bombs, for more than an hour, at the now famous Doctors Without Borders hospital, proving accurate the assessment of DWB staffer Meinie Nicolai, who said the

NATO’s “Humanitarian Intervention” in Libya: A Premeditated Geostrategic Operation By Steven MacMillan, October 17 2015

As certain NATO powers are exploiting the recent flood of refugees from the Middle East and Africa to push for more military action in Syria, it is essential to further illustrate the deceptive and nefarious nature of a previous war

Hate-Mongering Israeli Rabbis Call Killing Palestinians “a Religious Duty” By Stephen Lendman, October 17 2015

Zionist  rabbi Meir Kahane is the founder of the Arab-hating Jewish Defense League (JDL). Israel banned it in 1988, calling it a “threat to national security.”

Even the Islamophobic Anti-Defamation League (ADL) said its membership includes only “thugs and hooligans” …

“Crimes of Silence” in Australia against Refugees and Asylum Seekers By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, October 17 2015

Institutionalised brutality is a rather easy thing to replicate. It begins with a selected language, and ends up justifying monstrous conduct. It pardons behaviour, and it condemns victims. The global debate on refugees is characterised by its distinct lack of

US End Game in Syria is Just the Beginning for A Wider Regional War? By Tony Cartalucci, October 17 2015

The Syrian conflict is profoundly misrepresented across the entirety of the Western press.

To call it a civil war is a gross mischaracterization. The entire conflict was engineered and fueled from beyond Syria’s borders. And while there are a significant

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US-led Bombing Raids Target Syrian Civilians in an Area which has “Never been in the Hands of ISIS” By ITAR-TASS, October 17 2015

This territory has never been in the hands of the Islamic State, deputy chief of the Russian General Staff Andrey Kartapolov points out

Traces of airstrikes against household buildings have been found at the Syria-Jordan border, where Russian warplanes have …

ISIS Fighters Could Gain “Legal” Entry into EU, Thanks to Europe’s New Schengen Visa Deal for Turkey By 21st Century Wire, October 17 2015

It doesn’t get any more backward than this. Potentially, this is the dumbest move yet by bureaucrats in Brussels.

Turkey is set to pick up a few big sweeteners from Brussels if it ‘tries’ to stop refugee flow into Europe

Israel’s Friday Bloodbath. Washington absolves Israel of Blame By Stephen Lendman, October 17 2015

Israel is more killing machine than nation – a ruthless Arab-hating monster. On Friday, it continued murdering Palestinians in cold blood, another five lethally shot, the death toll now at 38 since October 1 alone, around 2,000 others injured, 300

“Je Suis CIA” By Larry Chin, October 16 2015
Since 9/11, the imperial playbook has consisted of time-tested tactic: the false flag operation. Carry out or facilitate a spectacular atrocity. Blame it on the enemy of choice. Issue a lie-infested official narrative, and have the corporate media repeat the lie. Rile up militant crowds, stoke the hatred, wage war with the public stamp of approval.
From Energy War to Currency War: America’s Attack on the Russian Ruble By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, October 16 2015
A multi-spectrum war is being waged against Moscow by Washington. This insidious agenda is not limited to military deployments, covert operations and geopolitics, it also includes the manipulation of financial markets, war propaganda, social media, etc.
Selected Articles: Enough With the Media Disinformation on MH-17, ISIS, TPP, and Israel By Global Research News, October 16 2015

MH17-wreakageThe New York Times Plays Games with MH-17 Tragedy

By Robert Parry, October 16 2015

In its single-minded propaganda campaign against Russia, The New York Times has no interest in irony, but if it had, it might note that …

Two Recent Developments Bring Fresh Concerns Over Genetically Modified Crops By Christina Sarich, October 16 2015

Could it be that premier scientific journals are finally conveying the truth about GMOs? In a relatively recent exploration of ‘ubiquitous’ GMOs that have taken over our food supply, the New England Journal of Medicine tackles 2 new concerns over

Deaths and Mutations Spike around Fukushima; No Safety Threshold for Radioactive Cesium Exposure By David Gutierrez, October 16 2015

Plants in the area around Fukushima, Japan are widely contaminated with radioactive cesium, which is producing mutation and death in local butterflies, according to a study conducted by researchers from the University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa and published in the

Coverup of the 2012 “Benghazi Incident”: The Disaster may have involved Competing Factions within the US Intelligence Community” By Adeyinka Makinde, October 16 2015

US Congressman Trey Gowdy recently invited the American media to ask questions about the Benghazi incident which led to the death of the United States ambassador to Libya, J. Christopher Stevens back in 2012. Gowdy is apparently Donald Trump’s choice

Australia Says US-Led Coalition Needs No Russian Help in Fighting ISIL By Sputnik, October 16 2015

The US-led coalition requires no assistance from Russian jets in striking Islamic State (ISIL) positions in Syria, Australia’s Ambassador to Russia Paul Myler said.

“The US-led coalition does not need Russian planes to strike Daesh [ISIL] targets if we found

America’s War on Syria: Russia’s Fantasy “Stray Missiles” versus America’s Real Ones. By Felicity Arbuthnot, October 16 2015
Washington’s vast disinformation machine is finally out of control, seriously awry, or desperate. "Any time bombs are used to target innocent civilians it is an act of terrorism."- Barack Obama, 15th February 2013.
The New York Times Plays Games with MH-17 Tragedy By Robert Parry, October 16 2015

In its single-minded propaganda campaign against Russia, The New York Times has no interest in irony, but if it had, it might note that some of the most important advances made by the Dutch Safety Board’s report on the shoot-down

Calls for Netanyahu to Resign: an Anachronist who Obstructs Peace By Anthony Bellchambers, October 16 2015

Israel’s hard­line Prime Minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, is now politically isolated as he brings ordinary Israelis into personal danger by having refused to negotiate a peace agreement with the Palestinians and by having incited violence by continuing illegal settlements on Palestinian

Solidarity with the Palestinian Popular Resistance! Boycott Israel now! By Socialist Project, October 16 2015

Whether the current phase of Israel’s intensified repression and Palestinian popular resistance will evolve into a full-fledged intifada or not, one thing is already evident – a new generation of Palestinians is marching on the footsteps of previous generations, rising

Obama Extends Unending US War in Afghanistan By Bill Van Auken, October 16 2015

President Barack Obama Thursday publicly rescinded his previously declared proposal for drawing down the US military force occupying Afghanistan and adopted a plan dictated by the Pentagon to keep the remaining 10,000 troops in place, likely beyond the end of

“Defending Henry Kissinger” By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, October 16 2015

One of the most lamentable features of international relations courses remains the continued, and looming presence, not merely of Henry Kissinger the statesman but Henry Kissinger the theorist.  Whatever one may think of old Heinz, he shaped geopolitics and counselled

European Council Backs US Imperial Policy on Syria By Stephen Lendman, October 16 2015

EU heads of state comprise the European Council (EC), Donald Tusk its current president since December 2014.

Political and military developments in Syria were discussed at the EC’s October 15 meeting, among other pressing issues, EU leaders ignoring Obama’s war, …

The Politics of the Angry Man: Stephen Harper’s Canada By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, October 16 2015

“He brought to Ottowa an oilman’s attitude to climate change and a sheriff’s approach to law and order.” – The Economist on Stephen Harper, Oct 17, 2015

Everything about Canada’s long time serving Prime Minister is supposedly counterintuitive to the

Secret TPP Trade Agreement Leaked: Full Text of Intellectual Property Rights Chapter By Global Research News, October 16 2015

“This is the highly sought after secret ‘final’ agreed version of the TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) Chapter on Intellectual Property Rights. There is still a finishing ‘legal scrub’ of the document meant to occur, but there are to be no more