September 2018
-
Syria news Links 21 September 2018
21 September 2018 — Wlliam Bowles Russian, Norwegian officials discuss return of refugees to Syria http://tass.com/politics/1022664 Continue reading
-
The Spider’s Web: Britain’s Second Empire (Documentary)
At the demise of empire, City of London financial interests created a web of secrecy jurisdictions that captured wealth from across the globe and hid it in a web of offshore islands. Today, up to half of global offshore wealth is hidden in British jurisdictions and Britain and its dependencies are the largest global players… Continue reading
-
New York Times’ fraudulent “election plot” dossier escalates anti-Russia hysteria By Bill Van Auken
Replete with sinister looking graphics portraying Russian President Vladimir Putin as a villainous cyberage cyclops, the report purports to untangle “the threads of the most effective foreign campaign in history to disrupt and influence an American election.” The report could serve as a textbook example of CIA-directed misinformation posing as “in-depth” journalism. There is no… Continue reading
-
Britain Moves From Democracy to Authoritarian State in Pernicious Veil of Secrecy
First published September 2015. This article is now three years old. In that time, Britain has dramatically moved forward with its intentions to become the Western world’s foremost surveillance state. And whilst all attention is on Brexit – a recent disclosure in Australia revealed that Britain is to press ahead with forcing all technology companies… Continue reading
-
Black Agenda Report 20 September 2018: Who Benefits From Unity Behind Black Candidates; Bernie’s Got a Brand New Bag; African Heroes Leave Prison in Rwanda
20 September 2018 — Black Agenda Report Does Black Unity Behind Black Candidates Really Help Most Black People? – Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor Not really. The wall of black unity around Barack Obama freed him to embrace school privatiztion, to ignore foreclosures of hundreds of thousands of black families, to break promises Continue reading
-
The Skripal Affair – Another False Flag in NATO Litany to Criminalize Russia By Finian Cunningham
If we start from a premise which understands that Britain and its NATO allies are capable of mounting false flag events in Syria with chemical weapons, then it is entirely possible that British secret services carried out a similar propaganda stunt in England with regard to former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal. Continue reading
-
NYT Admits That Its “Mountain of Evidence” For Russian Collusion Is Smaller Than A Molehill By Moon of Alabama
The New York Times spends 10,000 words in some 199 paragraphs on the alleged ‘Russian influence’ in the U.S. election. The long piece is a repetition of unproven intelligence claims, spin around a few facts and lots of innuendo. Few readers will ever digest it in full. Continue reading
-
Guest Media Alert by John Pilger: ‘Hold the front page. The reporters are missing’
This is a slightly amended version of the foreword to the new Media Lens book, ‘Propaganda Blitz – How The Corporate Media Distort Reality’, published today by Pluto Press. Warm thanks to John Pilger for contributing this superb piece to our book. Continue reading
-
NSA: New – Cyber Glossary
Washington D.C., September 19, 2018 – The National Security Archive’s Cyber Vault today presents a new resource for the cybersecurity community, journalists, students, and the general public – a detailed glossary of terms. Continue reading
-
Syria News Links 19-20 September 2018
20 September 2018 — William Bowles The United States of America: The Real Reason Why They Are Never Winning Their Wars https://dissidentvoice.org/2018/09/the-united-states-of-america-the-real-reason-why-they-are-never-winning-their-wars/ Continue reading
-
Selected Articles: The Downing of Russian Aircraft Over Syria
19 September 2018 — Global Research News Video: Syrian Forces Accidentally Shot Down Russian IL-20 By South Front, September 18, 2018 In the evening of September 17, the Syrian province of Latakia came under a large-scale aerial attack, which targeted a power station as well as two facilities belonging to the Syrian military. There were also reports Continue reading
-
Palestinians suffer as Trump tears up rules-based order By Jonathan Cook
Washington’s decision to intensify swingeing aid cuts to the Palestinians – the latest targets include cancer patients and peace groups – reveals more than a simple determination to strong-arm the Palestinian leadership to the negotiating table. Continue reading
-
The West Hates Peace in Syria: From De-Escalation to Almost World War III in Just Two Hours By Federico PIERACCINI
On the 17th of September, an important meeting was held in Sochi between Erdogan and Putin to discuss Syria, in particular Idlib. A few hours after the agreement between the two leaders was reached, there was a French-Israeli strike on Syria’s coastal area of Latakia, causing the loss of a Russian Air Force Il-20 aircraft… Continue reading
-
Israel’s Failed Attempt to Start WWIII Is the Beginning of the End in Syria By Tom Luongo
There is one thing that Israel fears more than anything else in Syria. The loss of its ability to fly its F-16’s with impunity and hit whatever targets it wants claiming defensive measures to stop Iran, their existential enemy. Continue reading
-
Media Lens: Propaganda Blitz – A New Media Lens Book And An Urgent Appeal For Support
When we started Media Lens in 2001, our guiding aspiration was that independent, web-based activism would have a profoundly positive impact on public discourse. Continue reading
-
The Dutch Investigation into Flight MH17 and Kiev’s Veto By Prof. Kees van der Pijl
The Dutch government, soon to be given charge of the investigation, ruled out any dealings with the insurgency. After foreign secretary Timmermans at the UN called local volunteers ‘thugs’ on 21 July, falsely accused them of robbing the victims’ corpses, the option of negotiating with the insurgents was effectively closed. Although the Dutch government later… Continue reading
-
White Helmets keep conjuring up chemical weapons provocation in Idlib — diplomat
UNITED NATIONS, September 18. /TASS/. Militants entrenched in Syria and activists of the White Helmets grouping continue conjuring up a provocation in the Idlib zone of de-escalation, the Russian Ambassador to the UN, Vasily Nebenzya said on Tuesday at a meeting of the UN Security Council that discussed the situation in Syria. Continue reading
-
Syria News Links 19 September 2018
19 September 2018 — William Bowles Moscow blames downing of Russian plane near Syria on Israeli “provocation” http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/09/19/syri-s19.html In the Aftermath of Israeli Attack http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheGreanvillePost/~3/I6DSFPjQthw/ Continue reading
-
UK: Fresh novichok allegations used to escalate anti-Russia offensive By Thomas Scripps
While the facts remain obscured in the case of Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov and their alleged role in the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal, the political significance of the story is crystal clear. The novichok scandal is at the centre of the British government’s ratcheting up of diplomatic, economic and military tensions against… Continue reading
-
Labour’s John McDonnell embraces Blairite “new economy” plan By Laura Tiernan
Its authors present a damning picture of falling living standards, stagnating wages, a wealth divide between London and the regions, and 40 years of declining investment in the real economy while financial wealth and CEO pay has soared. However, the claims made that the plan marks a historic “paradigm shift” that would overturn decades of… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 