The New Dark Age

19 November 2016 — ICH

The Russian Navy Is Back
By Eric Margolis

Washington just hates it when the Russians dare do what the US has been doing since World War II: conduct gunboat diplomacy.

China ‘Marco Polo’ Xi Jinping Starts Jockeying in Post-Obama World
By Pepe Escobar

Obama, is in Germany passing the caretaker “leader of the free world” baton to a deer-caught-in-the-headlights Angela Merkel.

America’s Spiral Into Permanent War Seems More Foolish Than Ever
By Conn Hallinan

“Our policies, meant to extirpate our enemies, have strengthened and perpetuated them.”

Installing a Torture Fan at CIA
By Ray McGovern

Trump was serious when he said he would support “waterboarding and much worse.” –

Trump’s Pick for CIA Director, Could Take the Agency Back to its Darkest Days
By Jennifer Williams

Trump has tapped Republican Rep. Mike Pompeo to head the CIA, putting a hawkish lawmaker who favors brutally interrogating detainees like waterboarding and “rectal feeding”

The Election: Of Hate, Grief, and a New Story
By Charles Eisenstein

It is time to stop feeding hate.

What to Do About ‘Fake News’
By Robert Parry

A kind of Ministry of Truth has been set up by Google, tackling “fake news”