September 2018
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Idlib: Al Qaeda’s Last Stand By Tony Cartalucci
The United States has raised tensions further amid Syria’s ongoing conflict. It has issued a threat in the form of a “warning” against Damascus against retaking the northern region of Idlib. More specifically, the US has accused Damascus of preparing chemical weapon attacks as part of its alleged strategy to retake the territory. Continue reading
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USA: ‘Voters Have to Remain Vigilant to Make Sure They Are on the List’
Janine Jackson interviewed John Powers about voter suppression for the August 31, 2018, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. Continue reading
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Prisoners Strike Across America & Canada to End Penal Enslavement
Prisoners Across US & Canada go on hunger and work strike to protest no wages/low wages, end of solitary confinement, for education programs & an end to mass incarceration Continue reading
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Welcome to the new home of the old InI
7 September 2018 — William Bowles I suppose I should have had an official announcement about the move — from the hosting company I’ve been using since 2003 — and the move to this WordPress-hosted site, so this will have to be it. But the site went ‘live’ today with the rerouting of the domain, Continue reading
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medConfidential Bulletin, 7th September 2018
7 September 2018 — medConfidential Once more, a big thank you to everyone who confirmed to us receipt of the letter about the ‘conversion’ of your Type-2 objection to the National Data Opt-out. We are also grateful to those who shared the letter of apology for the appalling TTP error that led to 150,000 patients’ opt-outs Continue reading
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Skripals – The Mystery Deepens By Craig Murray
The Metropolitan Police state that Boshirov and Petrov did not arrive in Salisbury until 11.48 on the day of the poisoning. That means that they could not have applied a nerve agent to the Skripals’ doorknob before noon at the earliest. But there has never been any indication that the Skripals returned to their home… Continue reading
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Adolph Hitler is “The Torchbearer of Democracy” according to Chairman of Ukraine’s Parliament By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
The Kiev regime which is integrated by Nazi elements is supported by the US and its allies. Parubiy has been given red carpet treatment by Western governments. He is casually portrayed as a right wing politician rather than an avowed neo-Nazi. Continue reading
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UK “identifies” Russian agents in attempted Skripal assassination By Robert Stevens
The UK government and media have doubled down on their anti-Russian campaign following Wednesday’s announcement by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) that two men have been named as suspects in the poisoning of former Russian/British double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia. The police released passport photos and CCTV images of two men in… Continue reading
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Britain Should Be in the Dock Over Skripal Saga, Not Russia
The latest announcement by British authorities of two named Russian suspects in connection with the alleged poison assassination of a former Russian spy and his daughter is more absurd drama in a long-running tawdry saga. No verifiable evidence is ever presented, just more lurid innuendo and more refusal by the British authorities to abide by… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for Thursday September 6, 2018: Re-Installing the Russians as the Enemy; John McCain. Trump Derangement & False Black Consciousness
6 September 2018 — Black Agenda Report Trump Protects Al Qaeda, “The Resistance” Applauds, Cursing “Russians” – Glen Ford , BAR executive editor The “Russians” had to be reinstalled as the “enemy” after Obama made his alliance with Islamist jihad. Trump has now signed on as Protector of the Idlib Caliphate. Continue reading
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Et tu Labour? By John Andrews
The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) is an organisation supposedly committed to not forgetting the infamous extermination of Jews by the Nazis during World War Two. That is not unreasonable. However, what if remembering one horrendous holocaust from the past is paid for by forgetting, or ignoring, holocausts of the present? What if remembering one… Continue reading
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The Israel lobby’s non-stop attacks on Corbyn will backfire By Jonathan Cook
Back in the 1950s, the US intelligence community coined a term: “blowback”. It referred to the unintended consequences of a covert operation that ended up damaging one’s own cause. There are mounting indications that the intensifying campaign by the Israel lobby in the UK against Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of the parliamentary opposition, is starting… Continue reading
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Global Breaking News on GMOs and Pesticides 6 September 2018
6 September 2018 — Sustainable Pulse Editors’ picks Bayer Slashes Earnings Forecast over Rise in Roundup Cancer Cases Bayer has slashed its earnings forecast Wednesday due to, amongst other things, a growing global legal battle surrounding the carcinogenic weedkiller Roundup. The weaker earnings forecast adds to a number of challenges facing the German drugmaker as Continue reading
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Empire Journalism: Venezuela, the US and John McCain
To realise how incomplete and distorted is BBC News coverage, you only have to listen to the superb independent journalist Abby Martin, who has risked her life to report what the corporate media is not telling you about Venezuela. It is little wonder that, as she discusses, her important news programme, ‘Empire Files’, is currently… Continue reading
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BREAKING NEWS— British prosecutors siccing media dogs in support of Idlib intervention
For many months the Skripal affair—an obvious and cynical psyop—has been used by the Anglo-Americans to blacken the name of Russia. In this sordid operation the British ruling cliques, who have long abjectly integrated themselves into the US empire as sidekick imperialists, were happy to play point man to set and spring up the trap.… Continue reading
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The Strange Timestamp In The New Novichok ‘Evidence’ – UPDATED
Today, in a politically convenient moment, the British government released new information about the poisoning of the British spy Sergej Skripal, his daughter, and three other persons. It claims to have identified two men with Russian passports who arrived in London from Moscow on March 2, went to Salisbury on March 3 on a ‘reconnaissance’… Continue reading
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‘The FCC Chair Is Outright Lying to Reporters and Congress’
Just a few days ago, FCC chair Ajit Pai confirmed to a Senate committee what everyone and their mother suspected, that there was no such cyber attack, and he knew it. But he couldn’t tell Congress or the public the truth–that internal system failures caused the crash–Pai claimed, because he was bound to confidentiality by… Continue reading
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Reject the anti-Semitism slurs against Jeremy Corbyn! Drive out the Labour Party right wing! By Chris Marsden
Recent weeks have seen the acceleration of a campaign by the right-wing of the British Labour party to paint Jeremy Corbyn as an anti-Semite, in hopes of driving him from his position as leader of the party. In its scale and ferocity, these efforts have all the hallmarks of a destabilisation campaign involving MI5 in… Continue reading
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“Five Eyes” summit in Australia ramps up internet censorship By Mike Head
Despite the high-profile character of the 5 EYES gathering, the event received almost no publicity. Australian Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton hosted the summit. Leading the other delegations were US Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and UK Home Secretary Sajid Javid, along with Canada’s Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale and New Zealand Justice Minister Andrew… Continue reading
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NHS charging for overseas visitors – wrong on every level By Martin McKee
Regulations that deny visitors NHS care – except for certain infectious diseases and to relieve death pains – are riven with contradictions. And will hit some unexpected victims as well as the intended scapegoats. Continue reading