August 2018
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Slavoj Zizek: Who has the right to bring the public bad news?
When WikiLeaks exploded onto the scene a decade ago, it briefly seemed like the internet could create a truly open society. Since then, Big Brother has fought back. Continue reading
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Yet Another Appeal for “Green” Capitalism, Annotated By Stan Cox
The Guardian recently published an opinion piece by its economics editor Larry Elliott, in which he argued that capitalism can rescue civilization from the global climate emergency. Here are excerpts, with Stan Cox interrupting. Continue reading
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Banning Absurd Racist Alex Jones Threatens Us All
Digital media owners are silencing the left; now it’s Alex Jones’ turn to be silenced. How do we define the public commons when it’s all privately owned? Continue reading
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Global Breaking News on GMOs and Pesticides 23 August 2018
23 August 2018 — Sustainable Pulse Editors’ picks General Mills Faces Class Action Lawsuit over Cheerios Glyphosate Cover Up General Mills is facing a potentially damaging class action lawsuit in the U.S. after a florida woman accused it of engaging in deceptive business practices, by not alerting the public that their Cheerios and Honey Nut Continue reading
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Waging War by Other Means: Selected Articles
22 August 2018 — Global Research News Shifting Alliances? India’s Purchase of Russia’s S400 Air Defense System. America’s Response By Andrew Korybko, August 22, 2018 Unlike how it’s being popularly reported, India didn’t exactly “defy” the US by going forward with the planned signing of an S-400 deal with Russia later this year, but is partially obeying Continue reading
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The Anti-Semitism Campaign Against Corbyn Leaves out Palestinians
Palestinian scholar Ghada Karmi explains that in defending himself from accusations of anti-Semitism, both Jeremy Corbyn – the head of the British Labour Party – and the opposition to him are reneging on their responsibility towards Palestinians Continue reading
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Winning for the bees in 2018
SumOfUs members really are saving the bees: this year you’ve helped win historic bans on bee-killing pesticides in Europe and Canada. And you’ve convinced major retailers in North America and Australia to start ditching toxic neonicotinoid pesticides. Continue reading
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A World Full of Discord: Selected Articles
21 August 2018 — Global Research News A ‘Regime’ Is a Government at Odds with the US Empire By Gregory Shupak, August 21, 2018 In the aftermath of the assassination attempt against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, an article in the Miami Herald (8/5/18) reported that “a clandestine group formed by Venezuelan military members opposed to the regime of Nicolás Maduro claimed Continue reading
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Alleged Chlorine Attacks in Syria 2014-18
The alleged chemical attack in Douma on 7 April 2018 led to a missile attack on Syria by the US, France and UK. This briefing note summarizes the results of further investigations of the Douma incident and explains relevant scientific issues. This note also examines the processes by which OPCW Fact-Finding Missions and the UN/OPCW… Continue reading
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In detaining Peter Beinart, Israel has declared it no longer represents millions of Jews overseas By Jonathan Cook
Academics, lawyers, human rights groups, opponents of the occupation and boycott supporters are facing ever-more difficult interrogations when landing in Israel Continue reading
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New Information Reveals How Israel Covered-Up the Killing of Four Boys in Gaza
Shir Hever discusses the Intercept report, revealing that the Israeli military used an armed drone to kill four children playing football and injure four others. The Israeli investigation of the killing is exposed as a sham Inc. transcript) Continue reading
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U.S. Nuclear War Plan Option Sought Destruction of China and Soviet Union as “Viable” Societies
Washington, D.C., August 15, 2018 – U.S. nuclear war plans during the Johnson administration included the option of a retaliatory strike against nuclear, conventional military, and urban-industrial targets with the purpose of removing the Soviet Union “from the category of a major industrial power” and destroying it as a “viable” society. Continue reading
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Africa’s pioneering Marxist political economist By Patrick Bond
Samir Amin’s celebrated life was amongst the most trying, but also rewarding, of his generation’s left intelligentsia. Following Amin’s death in Paris on Sunday, his political courage and professional fearlessness are two traits now recognised as exceedingly rare. Alongside extraordinary contributions to applied political-economic theory beginning 60 years ago, Amin’s unabashed Third Worldist advocacy was… Continue reading
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Is the Saudi War on Yemen a Proxy War by the US? Selected Articles
15 August 2018 — Global Research News US Provided “Intelligence” and Bomb Used in Massacre of Yemeni Schoolchildren By Whitney Webb, August 15, 2018 The involvement of U.S. military intelligence in “fine-tuning” the targets of coalition airstrikes is likely the main factor explaining why the U.S. government has refused to condemn the strike and has refused Continue reading
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The Anti-Empire Report #159 By William Blum – Published August 17th, 2018
18 August 2018 — Anti-Empire Report The mind of the mass media: Email exchange between myself and a leading Washington Post foreign policy reporter: July 18, 2018 Dear Mr. Birnbaum, You write Trump “made no mention of Russia’s adventures in Ukraine”. Well, neither he nor Putin nor you made any mention of America’s adventures in Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 17 August 2018: Black Male Youth Feel Threatened; Opposing Warmongering is Defending US Workers; US Wages Economic War Against Venezuela
17 August 2018 — Black Agenda Report New Study Reveals Old Fact: Black Male Youth Feel Threatened – Glen Ford , BAR executive editor Every study that measures the enhanced anxiety of Black tweens that find themselves on a strange corner, is an indictment of the white men at the top of the capitalist pyramid. Continue reading
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Facebook vanishes Venezuela-based left-leaning news network again
Telesur English, a multi-state-funded Latin American news network, says that Facebook has removed its page for the second time this year “without any specific reason being provided.” Continue reading
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Excessive U.S. sanctions could push Iran “over the brink”: UAE official to U.S. in 1995
U.S. allies from Europe and the Persian Gulf warned the Clinton administration that it would be “very dangerous” and “pose risks for the entire region” if Iran were isolated from the international community through overly burdensome sanctions, according to declassified cables posted today by the nongovernmental National Security Archive at George Washington University. Continue reading
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Monsanto Loses Landmark Roundup Cancer Trial, Set to Pay USD 289 Million in Damages
Monsanto has lost a landmark cancer trial in San Francisco and has been ordered by the Judge to pay over USD 289 Million in total damages to the former school groundskeeper Dewayne Johnson, a California father who has non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, which was caused by Monsanto’s glyphosate-based weedkiller Roundup. Continue reading
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Gina Haspel CIA Torture Cables Declassified
Haspel described extended sessions of physical violence and waterboarding; CIA cables detail contract psychologists Mitchell and Jessen working for Haspel Continue reading
The New Dark Age 