May 2017
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Media Lens: A Response To George Monbiot’s ‘Disavowal’
Guardian columnist George Monbiot has responded to our recent media alert on the alleged gas attack in Khan Sheikhoun, Idlib, Syria, on April 4: ‘Here’s a response to the latest attempt by @medialens to dismiss the mounting evidence on the authorship of the #KhanSheikhoun attack’ This is a very serious misrepresentation of what we have… Continue reading
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ICH Headlines 3 May 2017
3 May 2017 — Information Clearing House Is North Korea a Diversion for a US-Jordan Invasion of Syria? By Mike Whitney The pretext for the invasion will be to fight ISIS, but the real goal is to seize the eastern part of the country Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for 3 May 2017
3 May 2017 — Black Agenda Report The Challenge in Jackson, Mississippi: To Govern or to Transform by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon The political organization of Jackson’s first Mayor Lumumba was divided. Some wanted to embed themselves in Mississippi’s black political class, while others aimed for a far reaching transformation of the local… Continue reading
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The Green ‘Nobel’
Six brave people from around the world were awarded the most prestigious environmental award in the world last week — The Goldman Environmental Prize (aka. the ‘Green Nobel’). The award recognises the ordinary people like you and me who do extraordinary things to stand up to corporate power. People like Rodrigue and Prafulla who risked… Continue reading
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NSA: Chiquita Papers: Uncertainty Fueled Staff Concerns about Payments to Guerrillas and Paramilitaries
Chiquita’s Colombia-based staff questioned the company’s payments to illegal armed groups, and asked whether Chiquita had gone beyond extortion and was directly funding the activities of leftist guerrillas and right-wing paramilitary groups, even while top company executives became “comfortable” with the idea. Continue reading
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ICH Headlines 2 May 2017
2 May 2017 — Information Clearing House Reign of Idiots By Chris Hedges There is a familiar checklist for extinction. We are ticking off every item on it. Continue reading
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US-NATO Attacks against Syria Geared Towards “Regime Change”
2 May 2017 — Global Research Selected Articles: The Real Defenders of Democracy: Syria and the Struggle against the International Despotism of Wall Street By Stephen Gowans, May 02, 2017 A more sophisticated view holds that there exists in Syria an indigenous Islamist movement which—though rejecting democracy as a man-made ideology and seeking rule by the Quran… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Radio for Week of April 24, 2017
1 May 2017 — Black Agenda Report Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford Imperialism or Humanity? Black America Must Choose Ever since the demise of mass movement politics, “the Black Misleadership Class has had a free hand to take the most backward positions on the State and violence and war,” said Ajamu Baraka, the Green Party’s… Continue reading
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What Trump Has Accomplished in 100 Days
1 May 2017 — Global Research “Trump continues dirty business as usual, serving wealth, power and privilege exclusively at the expense of most others – while waging endless war on humanity at home and abroad.” (Stephen Lendman) “Trump has broken his campaign promises, surrounding himself with Wall Street insiders and intensifying Obama’s belligerent and militaristic foreign… Continue reading
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ICH Headlines 30 April 2017
30 April 2017 — Information Clearing House “If You Take East-Syria, I’ll Take That Yemeni Port” By Moon Of Alabama The red lights must be flashing at CENTCOM, the Pentagon and the National Security Council. Continue reading
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Media: 100 Days of Media Hoping for a New, Improved Trump
Nearly 100 days into the Trump presidency, corporate media are still struggling to reckon with the man that occupies the White House. An administration so proudly reckless in its actions and so brazenly detached from the truth has routinely overwhelmed political reporters whose accountability muscles have atrophied. And from cable news panels to newspaper op-ed… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 