March 22, 2014
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Crimea River, Obama’s Ukrainian Blunder By Mike Whitney
Here’s something you won’t read in the mainstream media: Ukraine’s fake revolution is over. It ended when Russian Intelligence agents uncovered a plan by coup plotters to destabilize the Crimea using the same strategy they’d used in Kiev, that is, seizing government buildings, inciting violence, and spreading terror. The discovery, which included “hacked” e mails,… Continue reading
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Israeli embassy pressured Amnesty to cancel launch of ‘apartheid’ book By Phil Weiss and Alex Kane
Ben White recently published a new edition of the book, Israeli Apartheid: A Beginner’s Guide. The title was launched in the UK last night. But the Israeli embassy tried to scuttle the event. Continue reading
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Why the Jimmy Mubenga trial matters. By ex-Chief Inspector of Prisons By David Ramsbotham
On Thursday the Crown Prosecution Service announced that three former G4S guards, Stuart Tribelnig, Terry Hughes and Colin Kaler, would stand trial for the manslaughter of Jimmy Mubenga on a BA plane in October 2010. Long before Mubenga’s death, Lord Ramsbotham was among those who warned repeatedly that Home Office contractors used dangerous methods of… Continue reading
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‘Colonialism, apartheid and ethnic cleansing’: UN rapporteur on Palestine blasts Israel
The UN Special Rapporteur on occupied Palestine accused Israeli authorities of conducting colonialist policies that constitute forms of apartheid and ethnic cleansing in the occupied territories in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Continue reading
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Phyllis Clarke Memorial Lecture: The Systemic Crisis of Financialization
Costas Lapavitsas teaches economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He has done research in the political economy of money and finance, the Japanese economy, the history of economic thought, economic history, and the contemporary world economy. Continue reading
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Ukraine: America’s Strategic Error By Vladimir Yevseyev
The international community is entering a period of global instability. The unipolar world that emerged after the collapse of the Soviet Union has receded into the past. Obviously, this would have happened a little later, but the U.S. has significantly accelerated the international processes when it interfered in the internal affairs of Ukraine rather rudely. Continue reading
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When Will Americans Come to Their Senses? By Diana Johnstone
Five years ago, I wrote a paper for a Belgrade conference commemorating the tenth anniversary of the start of the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia. In that paper I stressed that the disintegration of Yugoslavia had been used as an experimental laboratory to perfect various techniques that would subsequently be used in so-called “color revolutions” or… Continue reading
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Nationwide outcry killed a proposal to privatize Madrid’s hospitals. By Ana Martinez
Spanish unions and citizens have won a decisive victory in the battle for public healthcare. Continue reading
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Can Washington Overthrow Three Governments at the Same Time? By Thierry Meyssan
The power of a state is measured by its ability to defend itself and to attack on one or more fronts. In this context, Washington is trying for the first time to show it can overthrow three governments simultaneously: Syria, Ukraine and Venezuela. If it succeeds, no government would be henceforth able to resist it. Continue reading
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Obama’s Imaginary Foreign Policy ‘Caution’ By Peter Hart
Given that elite media consider Sen. John McCain’s foreign policy opinions worthy of serious attention, it’s not surprising that the critique of Obama from the right–that he hasn’t used, or threatened to use, military force often enough–is considered the rational basis for a news article. Continue reading
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The new Cold War “shield” By Manlio Dinucci
Washington is making hay of its defeat in Ukraine: it is getting the Europeans to cut themselves off economically from Russia and is already imposing on them the expansion of its missile coverage. While the Western media focus on NATO’s narrative of events (the so-called “military annexation” of Crimea), the Alliance is noiselessly deploying its… Continue reading
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The new Gladio in Ukraine By Manlio Dinucci
Looking back to the coup in Kiev and the information provided in our columns during the course of the events, Manlio Dinucci describes a decades-old device used by the United States and NATO as it appears today: a new “Gladio,” that is to say a secret military structure capable of manipulating political facts. Continue reading
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Syria’s Recent Victories Betray Last Year’s WMD Lies By Tony Cartalucci
Since the beginning of 2013, Syrian troops had begun an irreversible push to take back territory overrun by foreign-backed militants, including along Syria’s borders with Lebanon and Jordan. Today, cities long lost to these militants once again have the Syrian flag waving above them, their people liberated, and the deadly toll of occupation finally being… Continue reading
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West’s antiquated unipolar world collides with the East’s vision of a multipolar future By Tony Cartalucci
For years the West has been cultivating a proxy political machine inside of Ukraine for the purpose of peeling the nation away from its historical and socioeconomic ties to Russia. The deep relationship between Western corporate-financier interests on Wall Street and in London and the opposition in Ukraine are best summarized in PR Weeks “Analysis:… Continue reading
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Once again, Australia is stealing its Indigenous children By John Pilger
The tape is searing. There is the voice of an infant screaming as he is wrenched from his mother, who pleads, “There is nothing wrong with my baby. Why are you doing this to us? I would’ve been hung years ago, wouldn’t I? Because [as an Australian Aborigine] you’re guilty before you’re found innocent.” The… Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 15-22 March 2014: Venezuela / Ukraine-Russia / Russia-Caribbean / Crimea / Finance /
22 March 2014 — Strategic Culture Foundation Information Terrorism 22.03.2014 | 00:00 | Nil NIKANDROV Press and TV offer imagination striking reports: buses and cars burning, barricades and people in masks throwing stones and Molotov cocktails at police and snipers taking their aims. This time it’s not Ukraine but fashionable city areas in Venezuela. Western media presented Continue reading
The New Dark Age 