October 2016
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ICH Highlights 8 October 2016
8 October 2016 — ICH Pentagon Begins Low-Intensity, Stealth War in Syria By Mike Whitney Freedom and justice were never part of the West’s agenda. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for October 6, 2016: CBC Report Card, Ignoring Angela Davis
7 October 2016 — Black Agenda Report CBC Report Card 2016: Why the Congressional Black Caucus Can’t Lead Black America by Glen Ford with Patrice Johnson for CBC Monitor The 41 full-voting Black Democratic members of the U.S. House scored higher than last year on the new CBC Monitor Report Card, but that’s mostly because Continue reading
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Ritzy staff strike for a living wage for the fifth time!
Now they’re on strike again, after the company (Picturehouse, owned by Cineworld) refused to negotiate over their claim including the London Living Wage. What’s more, their colleagues at Hackney Picturehouse have just voted to join their strike, adding recognition for their union BECTU to their demands. Continue reading
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NSA: Bombing of Cuban Jetliner 40 Years Later
On the 40th anniversary of the first and only mid-air bombing of a civilian airliner in the Western Hemisphere, the National Security Archive today called on the Obama Administration to declassify all remaining intelligence records on Luis Posada Carriles to shed light on his activities, provide historical evidence for his victims, and make a gesture… Continue reading
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Syria Propaganda – The Death Rattle of the Corporate Media By Simon Wood
As corporate media rhetoric against the current priority targets – Russia and Syria – is ramped up to extreme levels, a battle is raging within the only remaining global space for freedom of thought and expression: the internet – social media. Two warring, diametrically opposed realities vie for supremacy over the perceptions of the world’s… Continue reading
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NYT Declares Snowden a Thief–and Journalism a Crime
The problem with all this talk about the “theft” and “stealing” of secrets is that while Snowden, one of the most prominent whistleblowers of the modern era, has indeed been charged by the federal government with theft—along with two violations of the Espionage Act—he’s been convicted of no crime. Continue reading
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Cheerleaders For US Aggression: Pushing The World Towards The Nuclear Brink By Colin Todhunter
As the US and its client states and terror groups keep pushing to destroy Syria, I’m reposting this piece from last year. Washington seems increasingly hellbent on direct conflict with Russia. Continue reading
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Video: ‘Neutral’ First Aid Responders in Syria Promoting Regime Change
Journalist Max Blumenthal shares his latest investigation into the public relations firm Syria Campaign and the USAID-backed White Helmets, both of which are calling for a no-fly zone in Syria Continue reading
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U.S. Studying Military and other Options on Syria -State Dept: Selected Articles
5 October 2016 — ICH U.S. Studying Military and other Options on Syria -State Dept By Reuters The United States is “looking at a range of options,” either working with other countries or alone. –http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article45607.htm Continue reading
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Barbarism in Words and Deeds. Barbarism of U.S. Imperial Wars is Unmatched By Global Research News: Selected Articles
4 October 2016 — Global Research Barbarism in Words and Deeds. Barbarism of U.S. Imperial Wars is Unmatched Continue reading
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FAKE NEWS And FALSE FLAG: Pentagon Paid $540mn For FAKE ‘Al Qaeda’ Videos By Crofton Black and Abigail Fielding-Smith
The Pentagon gave a controversial UK PR firm over half a billion dollars to run a top secret propaganda programme in Iraq, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism can reveal. Bell Pottinger’s output included short TV segments made in the style of Arabic news networks and fake insurgent videos which could be used to track the… Continue reading
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Syria News Roundup 3-4 October 2016
4 October 2016 — ICH Barbarism in Words and Deeds By James Petras Accusing Syrian soldiers of ‘barbarism’ was Ambassador Power’s cynical way of dehumanizing the young victims of an earlier and deliberate US war crime. Continue reading
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U.S. “Military Aid” to Al Qaeda, ISIS-Daesh: Pentagon Uses Illicit Arms Trafficking to Channel Enormous Shipments of Light Weapons into Syria By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
While the US relies on its Middle East allies to undertake shady transactions in a buoyant (illicit) market for light weapons, a significant part of these weapons shipments is nonetheless directly commissioned by the US government. Continue reading
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The US, France and Britain Scrap United Nations Diplomacy, Embrace Terrorism against the People of Syria… By Felicity Arbuthnot
When Vitaly Churkin, Russia’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations (“We the people of the United Nations, determined to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war …”) rose to speak at the UN to address Syria’s ongoing tragedy, on Sunday 25th September, US Ambassador to the UN, Samantha Power, François Delattre, Permanent Representative for… Continue reading
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Media Lens: The Great Libya War Fraud
The smearing of Corbyn fits well with the similarly uniform propaganda campaign taking the ‘threat’ of Iraqi ‘WMD’ seriously in 2002 and 2003. Then, also, the entire corporate media system assailed the public with a long litany of fraudulent claims. And then there was Libya. Continue reading
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The Anti-Empire Report #145 By William Blum
2 October 2016 — Anti-Empire Report Cold War, today, tomorrow, every day till the end of the world. “Russia suspected of election scheme. U.S. probes plan to sow voter distrust.” That’s the Washington Post page-one lead headline of September 6. Think about it. The election that Americans are suffering through, cringing in embarrassment, making them Continue reading
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COLDTYPE Issue 125 October 2016 – is now on line
2 October 2016 — Coldtype Continue reading
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Is renewable energy really environmentally friendly? By Robin Delobel
Renewable energies have a heavy environmental impact when the total production chain is taken into account – particularly, the stage of mining the metals needed in the production of these forms of energy. Renewable energy sources are often advocated for their low CO2 emissions at point of use, but the overall product lifecycle is often… Continue reading
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Big Papers Want Foreign Companies, Not War Crime Victims, to Sue US
The New York Times, Washington Post and USA Today are saying that exposing American military and intelligence personnel to foreign liability is per se bad—a nativism so casual and matter-of-fact one might hardly notice it until circumstances force them to explicitly state it. No account is taken of the 7 billion non-Americans or their rights.… Continue reading
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Unilateral U.S. nuclear pullback in 1991 matched by rapid Soviet cuts
The unilateral nuclear withdrawals announced by President George H.W. Bush 25 years ago this week drew an eager response from Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev to produce what experts call “the most spontaneous and dramatic reversal” ever of the nuclear arms race, according to newly declassified documents from Soviet and U.S. files posted today by the… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 