April 2017
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David Ignatius’ 15 Years of Running Spin for Saudi Regime
Last week, in “A Young Prince Is Reimagining Saudi Arabia. Can He Make His Vision Come True?,” Washington Post foreign affairs columnist David Ignatius (4/20/17) wrote what read like a press release for the Saudi regime. What’s more, he’s written the same article several times before. For almost 15 years, Ignatius has been breathlessly updating… Continue reading
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Trump’s Nuclear Obsession, Threat of Nuclear War against North Korea
The production of nuclear weapons constitutes a multi-billion dollar bonanza for the Military-Industrial Complex. “Scientific opinion” on contract to the Pentagon “confirm” that the B61-11 and B61-12 tactical nuclear weapons are “peace-making” bombs “harmless to the surrounding civilian population because the explosion is underground”. Continue reading
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‘1 Percent of Taxpayers Receive More Than the Bottom 80 Percent’
Jeremie Greer: “When you think about what’s driving inequality, I would say a federal system that is subsidizing the income and expenses and wealth at the high end, at the expense of not investing at the low end, is really exacerbating that divide.” Continue reading
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Israel Supports the Islamic State (ISIS)
27 April 2017 — Global Research Turkey’s Kurdish Agenda By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, April 27, 2017 Any doubts that Turkey’s involvement in the conflict against Islamic State is purely symbolic were dispelled by a latest round of air strikes against Kurdish positions in northeast Syria and Iraq’s Sinjar region, killing at Continue reading
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ICH Headlines 28 April 2017
28 April 2017 — Information Clearing House The Rise of the Generals By Patrick Buchanan Where do we think this demonization of Putin and ostracism of Russia is going to lead? Continue reading
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ICH Headlines 27 April 2017
27 April 2017 — Information Clearing House New Spin of North Korea-Syria ‘Axis of Evil’ Points to US War By Finian Cunningham Demonize, dehumanize, destroy. That’s the logic being throttled by the Trump administration toward both North Korea and Syria. Continue reading
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Media: At Reuters, ‘Not Refuting’ Is the Same as ‘Seeing’
“I am not refuting that”? How does that translate into “General…Sees Russia Sending Weapons to Taliban”? If NASA tells Reuters that they can’t refute speculation that there might be life on Mars, will Reuters run a story headlined “NASA Sees Life on Mars”? That would be a scoop! Continue reading
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Media: NYT’s ‘Impossible to Verify’ North Korea Nuke Claim Spreads Unchecked by Media
Buoyed by a total of 18 speculative verb forms—five “mays,” eight “woulds” and five “coulds”—New York Times reporters David E. Sanger and William J. Broad (4/24/17) painted a dire picture of a Trump administration forced to react to the growing and impending doom of North Korea nuclear weapons. Continue reading
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Islamophobia, Trumps War and the French Elections
26 April 2017 — Global Research Finance Capital and Neo-Fascism: The French Elections Mirror the Crises of Western States By Abayomi Azikiwe, April 26, 2017 A runoff between National Front leader Marine Le Pen and the 39-year-old banker and former Minister of Finance Emmanuel Macron’s En Marche (Onwards) is slated for May 7. These two candidates represent the dominant Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for 26 April 2017
26 April 2017 — Black Agenda Report Obama’s New Job: Guardian of Official Lies by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Having spent eight years telling lies about who the U.S. was fighting in its so-called “War on Terror” (secular governments) and who it was allied with (jihadists), ex-president Obama must now ensure that these lies Continue reading
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Bechtel Corporation and Iran By Gaither Stewart
Iran’s Islamic Revolution in 1979 resulted in the overthrow of the US-supported Pahlavi dynasty at that time under Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi. The Iranian Revolution was a violent and widely popular overthrow of a ferocious US-inspired regime installed following the CIA-organized coup d’état of the democratically elected government led by Premier Mohammad Mossadegh on August… Continue reading
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Media Lens: ‘An Impeachable Offence’ – Professor Postol and Syria
It is hard to believe that just three weeks ago the entire corporate media was in uproar over Syria; specifically, about the need to ‘do something’ in response to an alleged chemical weapons attack in Khan Shaykhun, Idlib, Syria, on April 4. Guardian commentator George Monbiot summed up the corporate media zeitgeist: Continue reading
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Housmans Books May 2017 Newsletter
26 April 2017 — Housmans NEWS 1. London Radical Bookfair 2017 & DIY Cultures 2017 2. New Feminist Sci-fi Book Club at Housmans Continue reading
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NSA: Agustin Edwards: A Declassified Obituary
26 April 2017 — National Security Archive Declassified CIA, White House Documents Reveal Collaboration between Chilean Media Mogul and Highest Level of Nixon Administration Kissinger Set up Secret Meetings for Edwards with Nixon and CIA Director Richard Helms Documents Record Edwards Covert Coup Plotting to Overthrow Allende in Chile National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book Continue reading
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US Destabilization Plots, Trump on Wikileaks
25 April 2017 — Global Research Destabilization Plots Against Syria and Venezuela By Hugo Turner, April 24, 2017 Trump is massively expanding every dirty war and destabilization campaign the Empire is involved in and doubtless in future months we will learn of countries now peaceful being thrown into chaos as a Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 25 April 2017 (06/17)
25 April 2017 — Statewatch Also available as a pdf file: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2017/apr/email-apr.pdf ANALYSIS & BRIEFING http://www.statewatch.org/analyses.htm 1. Hindering humanitarianism: Commission not to ensure protection for those supporting sans-papiers 2. UK-EU: Guide to the Brexit Negotiations (EU Law Analysis, link) by Professor Steve Peers: Continue reading
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ICH Headlines 23 April 2017
23 April 2017 — Information Clearing House Kremlin Advisor Reveals ‘Cure For US Aggression’ By Sergey Konkov The only way to stop the United States’ aggression is to get rid of dollar addiction, a Kremlin advisor said on Friday. Continue reading
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France’s Presidential Elections: Selected Stories
23 April 2017 — Global Research In line with the first round of the 2017 French Presidential Elections, take a look at the articles below for some issues concerning France’s future and potential threats on the day of the elections. The Main Issue in the French Presidential Election: National Sovereignty and the Future of France Continue reading
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ICH Headlines 22 April 2017
22 April 2017 — Information Clearing House Why Does North Korea Want Nukes? By Paul Atwood Under no circumstances could any westerner reasonably expect, that the North Korean regime would simply submit to any ultimatums by the US. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 