Selected Articles: TPP, Media Disinformation, UN General Assembly, US Military Budget

stoptppbannerAs Secret Trade Talks Reveal Cracks, Demonstrators Aim Death Blows at TPP

By Deirdre Fulton, October 02 2015

As trade ministers from around the world continued meeting in Atlanta on Thursday for final-stretch negotiations on the corporate-friendly Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), civil society groups demonstrated on the streets in a final salvo against a deal they describe as “a wholesale auction of our rights, our freedoms, and our democracy to multinational corporations who put profits over people.”

ISISThe Anti-Russian Lying Machine in Action

By Stephen Lendman, October 02 2015

It never rests, now in high gear following Russia’s announced aerial campaign against ISIS in Syria, beginning on September 30. For the first time since WW II, Russian and US warplanes are bombing the same country – each for entirely different reasons.

ISISRussian Airstrikes in Syria Targeted “NATO Created Mercenaries”. Michel Chossudovsky

By Prof Michel Chossudovsky and Sputnik, October 02 2015

Russia started its air campaign against ISIL in Syria, following a request for assistance from Damascus in the fight against terrorism. Soon after the first Russian strikes in Syria some media outlets were quick to come up with reports claiming that the Moscow-led campaign already resulted in civilian deaths. 

By Joachim Hagopian, October 01 2015

This week’s annual United Nations General Assembly summit brought the rare occasion of Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin face-to-face attending the same momentous session. With Obama appearing peevish and sheepish, the Russian strongman took center stage targeting the US president’s failed policy and leadership in his crosshairs: Rather than bringing about reforms, an aggressive foreign interference has resulted in a brazen destruction of national institutions and life itself. Instead of the triumph of democracy and progress, we got violence, poverty and social disaster.

VIDEO: Money for Nothing: US Military Defense Industry Shows VulnerabilitiesThe Record U.S. Military Budget. Spiralling Growth of America’s War Economy

By Nicolas Davies, October 02 2015

To listen to the Republican candidates’ debate last week, one would think that President Obama had slashed the U.S. military budget and left our country defenseless. Nothing could be farther off the mark. There are real weaknesses in Obama’s foreign policy, but a lack of funding for weapons and war is not one of them. President Obama has in fact been responsible for the largest U.S. military budget since the Second World War, as is well documented in the U.S. Department of Defense’s annual “Green Book.”


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