Selected Articles: TPP, Media Disinformation, UN General Assembly, US Military Budget
As 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.”
The 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.
Russian 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.
Putin and Obama’s UN Showdown Helps Expose How Washington Supports and Protects The Islamic State (ISIS)
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.
The 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.”