September 2018
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Corbyn and trade unions block deselection of right-wing MPs By Chris Marsden
Monday saw delegates to the British Labour Party conference approve changes to leadership contest rules and the selection process for MPs that represented another capitulation to the right-wing by Jeremy Corbyn and his nominal backers. Continue reading
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MI5’s anti-Corbyn campaign and the slandering of Michael Foot By Chris Marsden
On September 19, one of Corbyn’s key advisers, Andrew Murray, wrote in the New Statesman, asking, “Is the ‘deep state’ trying to undermine Corbyn?” Murray, a leading figure in the Stop the War Coalition and former member of the Communist Party of Britain, was responding to a Daily Mail report that he had been denied… Continue reading
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Guardian newspaper condemned for publishing “deliberate lies” about Julian Assange By James Cogan
On September 21, the Guardian newspaper published claims, based on unnamed sources, that Ecuador, Russia and WikiLeaks had conspired to smuggle Julian Assange out of the Ecuadorian embassy in London and transport him to “another country”—most likely Russia. Continue reading
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US Vows to “Overthrow” Iran as Terrorists Target Iranians
A terrorist attack on a military parade targeting civilians and military personnel alike left at least 29 dead and up to 70 more wounded in Iran’s southwest region of Ahvaz. At the same time, in New York City, US political figures including US President Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudolph Giuliani attended and expressed open support for… Continue reading
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As Koreas Make Peace, Will Trump End the War?
At their third summit, the leaders of North and South Korea made new progress in their historic effort to bring peace to the Peninsula. But for North Korea to denuclearize, is the US prepared to formally end the Korean War, and withdraw US forces? We speak to Col. Lawrence Wilkerson Continue reading
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A world on borrowed time Dr Andrew Glikson
Acting as the lungs of the biosphere, over tens of millions of years the atmosphere developed an oxygen-rich carbon-low composition, allowing the flourishing of mammals. The anthropogenic release to the atmosphere to date of more than 600 Gigaton of carbon (GtC) is reversing this trend, threatening to return the Earth to conditions which preceded the… Continue reading
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Don’t Share This! EU’s New Copyright Law Could Kill the Free Internet By Neil Clark
It’s basically a battle between billionaires Axel Springer SE and Google. But it is ordinary internet users who will fall victim to the EU’s new copyright law, which urgently needs modification. Continue reading
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Russia will establish an unofficial no-fly zone over Syria
Today Defense Minster Shoigu announced measures which went far beyond what I had hoped for. Continue reading
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Preventing Palestine: A Must Read History of Failed Peace-Making By James J. Zogby
Seth Anziska’s Preventing Palestine: A Political History From Camp David to Oslo is a deeply insightful and profoundly disturbing book that traces the tortuous path of Middle East peace-making during the past four decades. It was quite painful to read. Continue reading
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The Highest Degree Of Certainty: The New Evidence In The Downing Of Flight MH17
On Sept. 17 the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation held a briefing for members of the press, to present documented new evidence that the Ukrainian armed forces helped to bring down the Malaysian airliner that was flying over the Donbass in July 2014. Continue reading
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North and South Korea Steer Toward Peace Despite Heavy US Foot on the Brakes By Elliott Gabriel
“We had lived together for five thousand years but apart for just 70 years. Here, at this place today, I propose we move forward toward the big picture of peace in which the past 70-year-long hostility can be eradicated and we can become one again.” — South Korean President Moon Jae-in North Korean leader Kim… Continue reading
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UK Begged Trump not To Declassify Russia Docs; Cited ‘Grave Concerns’ Over Steele Involvement By Tyler DURDEN
The British government “expressed grave concerns” to the US government over the declassification and release of material related to the Trump-Russia investigation, according to the New York Times. President Trump ordered a wide swath of materials “immediately” declassified “without redaction” on Monday, only to change his mind later in the week by allowing the DOJ… Continue reading
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Russia Beefs Up Syria’s Air Defenses – Tells “Hotheads” To Cool Down By Moon of Alabama
The Russian Minister of Defense today announced some of the measures to be taken in Syria in response to last weeks destruction of its electronic warfare plane with 15 airmen on board. Yesterday the Russian MoD held Israel responsible for the incident. Continue reading
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Tensions Grow as China, Russia and Iran Lead the Way Towards a New Multipolar World Order By Federico PIERACCINI
Military and economic tensions are increasing due to the ramped up warlike stance of the US establishment. The impossibility of halting the shifting world order in favour of prolonging the unipolar moment has left the US deep state reaching for any available weapon at hand, taking no heed of the dangers and consequences of such… Continue reading
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Leaked Footage of rehearsal for staged chemical attack, false flag, White Helmets
The Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) has released a leaked footage of a rehearsal of the White Helmets for the chemical weapons provocation filming. The video describes allegedly a dress rehearsal of the ‘rescue workers’ immediately before the staging of the chemical attack false flag. Continue reading
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Flight MH17, Ukraine and the Civil War By Prof. Kees van der Pijl
On the margins of D-Day celebrations in Normandy in June 2014, Poroshenko agreed with Putin to start talks on a ceasefire, for which a Russian emissary arrived in Kiev on the 8th. On 24 June the Russian Federation Council revoked the authority granted to Putin in March to deploy Russian troops in Ukraine. Continue reading
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Macron impeachment mooted as more French ministers resign By Francis Dubois
Two months after the Stalinist General Confederation of Labor (CGT) called an end to strikes against French President Emmanuel Macron’s rail privatization plan, ministers are deserting the government. The cabinet and Macron’s party, The Republic on the March (LRM), are disintegrating and powerful sections of the bourgeoisie are openly debating mechanisms to remove Macron and… Continue reading
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Russia Challenges the Findings of the International Commission on MH-17
The Russian Authorities continue to challenge the version that Flight MH-17 was brought to the ground by an air-ground missile. They declassified information contradicting the conclusions of the Dutch Commission of Inquiry Into the Crash. Continue reading
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The Anti-Empire Report #160 By William Blum
20 September 2018 — Anti-Empire Report William Blum takes on the Washington Post again, in the person of columnist Max Boot, formerly of the Wall Street Journal Dear Mr. Boot, You write: “Every administration since Franklin D. Roosevelt’s has tried to improve relations with Moscow.” I stopped. Frozen. Can the man be serious? Yes, he Continue reading
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Syria News Links 22 September 2018
22 September 2018 — William Bowles France not seeking to isolate Russia, hopes for cooperation — top diplomat http://tass.com/world/1022693 Conservative Rationality, War and Refugees, and Trump’s Spending Priorities https://dissidentvoice.org/2018/09/conservative-rationality-war-and-refugees-and-trumps-spending-priorities/ Continue reading
The New Dark Age 