The facile and indiscriminate use of the term fascism has led to a widespread misunderstanding and misuse of its meaning. Asked to define fascism, most people would respond in terms such as dictatorship, anti-Semitism, mass hysteria, efficient propaganda machine, psychopathic leader, and the like.

Smearing Russia: The Privilege of Exclusive Blame, Russian Athletics and the Anti-Doping Sports Establishment

By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, June 18 2016

First published by Global Research in November 2015. Of significance in relation to the IAAF’s recent decision to ban Russia from the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro When the International Olympic Committee gets judgmental about a country, we…

Children’s Rights: The “UN List of Shame” a Sham

By Stephen Lendman, June 19 2016

The UN’s annual List of Shame is supposed to blacklist countries and groups “engage(d) in the recruitment and use of children, sexual violence against children, the killing and maiming of children, attacks on schools and/or hospitals and attacks or threats…

BREXIT vs. GREXIT – The True Face of Europe

By Peter Koenig, June 19 2016

With every day, the true face of Europe mirrors ever so clearer the abject inhumane colonial power that raped and usurped Asia, Africa and South America for hundreds of years, as so well depicted in numerous articles and essays by…

Fidel Castro and Cuba’s “Battle for Ideas”, For Peace and Justice

By Susan Babbitt, June 20 2016

Some suggest more abstract “theoretical” questions are a luxury. There is no time, given global crises, for such ivory tower work. Yet no less a revolutionary than Fidel Castro said that people suffer because of concepts. He made the point…

Crimeans Recount Their Experiences Following the US Sponsored Coup, When the West Took Ukraine

By Eric Zuesse, June 20 2016

This news-report consists of a compilation of accounts that Crimeans have given to human rights groups or directly posted to the internet, regarding their experiences when the freely elected President of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych, who had received 75% of the…