August 2018
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Who is Pope Francis? Jorge Mario Bergoglio and Argentina’s “Dirty War” By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
The former Apostolic Nuncio to the U.S. Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò has intimated in an eleven page Testimony that Pope Francis was involved (from the outset of his papacy in March 2013) in the coverup of sex abuse allegations against former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick. Vigano says that Pope Francis should step down from the papacy. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for Thursday August 29, 2018: Mourning the Manufactured McCain, Blacks May Back Bernie in 2020, Prison Strike 2018
30 August 2018 — Black Agenda Report The Manufactured McCain: Lifting Up A Bloodstained Lying Venal Servant of Capitalist Empire – Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor John McCain was a bloodstained bribe taking, lying, war criminal and politician who constructed a myth of himself as outsider and war hero. Lifting him up justifies… Continue reading
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WaPo Uses Photo of John McCain Next to Nazi to Praise His ‘Human Rights’ Work
A Washington Post column (8/27/18 celebrating John McCain as a human rights “champion” was illustrated with a photo of him making common cause with a far-right, antisemitic Ukrainian politician. Continue reading
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Global Breaking News on GMOs and Pesticides 30 August 2018: Monsanto/Bayer/Agent Orange
30 August 2018 — Sustainable Pulse Editors’ picks Are Banned Drugs in Your Meat? Ketamine – a hallucinogenic party drug and experimental antidepressant. Phenylbutazone – an anti-inflammatory deemed too risky for human use. Chloramphenicol – a powerful antibiotic linked to potentially deadly anemia. All these drugs are prohibited in beef, poultry, and pork consumed in… Continue reading
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Climate Change — Too important to ignore!
We examine the evidence that such a threshold might exist and where it might be. If the threshold is crossed, the resulting trajectory would likely cause serious disruptions to ecosystems, society, and economies. Collective human action is required to steer the Earth System away from a potential threshold and stabilize it in a habitable interglacial-like… Continue reading
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Idlib Militants Receive Large Batch Of Poisonous Chemicals With Help From White Helmets: Russian Military
On August 28th, a large supply of poisonous chemicals was delivered to the militants in Syria’s Idlib with the assistance of the White Helmets group in order to stage a chemical weapon provocation and blame the Syrian government, according to Russia’s Ministry of Defense. Continue reading
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Doomed Prospects for Achievement of UN Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 By Carla Stea
Funds Squandered on Military-Industrial Complex Are Indispensable for Success Criminal UN Security Council Authorized Military Actions and Sanctions are Gross Violation of Sustainable Development Goals and Obliterate all Hope For Attainment of SDGs Continue reading
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British mainstream media downplays Britain’s role in the latest Yemeni killing
Today, the BBC reports that UN Group of Regional and International Eminent Experts on Yemen will present a report to the UN Human Rights Council next month. It says that the experts believe war crimes may have been committed by all parties to the conflict in Yemen. But the BBC failed to mention that the… Continue reading
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Leak From Censored Israel Lobby Film Exposes Anti-Palestinian Operatives
The first leaked excerpt of Al Jazeera’s censored film on the Israel Lobby in the U.S. claims to identify the funder behind the Canary Mission, an anonymous website devoted to smearing and silencing vocal supporters of Palestinian rights. We play a clip from the film and speak to Asa Winstanley of the Electronic Intifada, which… Continue reading
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White Helmets accompany large delivery of poisonous chemicals to militants in Syria – Russian MoD
A large supply of chemicals has been delivered to the militants in Syria’s Idlib with the assistance of the White Helmets aid group in order to stage a provocation and blame the Syrian government, Russia’s Defense Ministry said. Continue reading
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Imperialism and Its Accomplices: Selected Articles
27 August 2018 — Global Research News Imperialism and Its Accomplices: The Question of Dictatorship and Democracy at Home and Abroad By Prof. James Petras, August 27, 2018 One of the most striking world historic advances of western imperialism (in the US and the European Union) is the demise, disappearance and dissolution of large scale long-term anti-imperialist… Continue reading
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US Government Admits It’s Making Fake Social Media Accounts to Spread Propaganda in Cuba By: Ben Norton
the US government is doing exactly what it is accusing its enemies of: the US Office of Cuba Broadcasting is secretly creating fake social media accounts to inspire dissent and to spread right-wing pro-US, pro-capitalist propaganda in Cuba. Continue reading
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My relocated site near to completion
28 August 2018 For the past couple of weeks I’ve been busy relocating the contents of my original news/information site, ‘Investigating the new Imperialism‘, to this new platform and the process is now almost complete. The one decided advantage of the move is the sheer speed improvement when accessing posts! No more annoying time lag.… Continue reading
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China’s Response to Western Globalization: Selected Articles
25 August 2018 — — Global Research China’s Strategic Interests in Central America: El Salvador Breaks Off with Taiwan By Andrew Korybko, August 24, 2018 El Salvador’s decision to break off ties with Taipei and “defect” to Beijing obviously had a lot to do with the economic aid that China promised it, but the People’s Republic is embracing… Continue reading
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The Dirty Secret of the Korean War By Thomas Powell
The Korean War has been called “America’s forgotten war”. The heavily weaponized US Army was fought to a draw by Soviet-equipped North Korean and Chinese armies. For the very first time in its storied legacy of military campaigns dating back to American Independence, the US Army did not prevail in war. In its next colonial… Continue reading
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Is Israel’s hidden hand behind the attacks on Jeremy Corbyn? By Jonathan Cook
Has Israel been covertly fuelling claims of an “anti-Semitism crisis” purportedly plaguing Britain’s Labour Party since it elected a new leader, Jeremy Corbyn, three years ago? That question is raised by a new freedom of information request submitted this week by a group of Israeli lawyers, academics and human rights activists. Continue reading
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U.S. Prepares New Strikes On Government Facilities In Syria: Russian Military
Militants of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), aided by British intelligence, are preparing to stage a chemical attack in northern Syria that will be used as a pretext for a new missile strike by the U.S., the UK and France on facilities of the Damascus government, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov announced on August 25. Continue reading
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Ex-Obama Official: We Fueled the Syria War Rather Than Stopping It
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad bears criminal responsibility for the Syrian crisis, says Robert Malley, a former top White House official and now the CEO of the International Crisis Group. But once the US became part of the proxy war against Assad, Malley argues, “we were part of what fueled the conflict rather than stopped it.” Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 23 August 2018: Why the Blue Wave Missed Missouri, Longstanding Capitalist Lies, Truth or Dare with Brennan and Guliani
23 August 2018 — Black Agenda Report Why the Blue Wave Missed Missouri’s 1st CD – Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor Right wing political machines with the black church and nonprofit industrial complex at their core dominate Democratic politics in many black constituencies. That’s what stopped the blue wave. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 