October 9, 2018
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Future of Western Democracy Being Played Out in Brazil By Pepe Escobar
9 October, 2018 — Consortium News Stripped to its essence, the Brazilian presidential elections represent a direct clash between democracy and an early 21st Century neofascism, indeed between civilization and barbarism, writes Pepe Escobar. By Pepe Escobar in Paris Special to Consortium News Nothing less than the future of politics across the West – and Continue reading
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Selected Articles: 2018 Brazil Elections. Coup Against Democracy
9 October 2018 — Global Research News MST Open Letter on Brazil Election By MST – Landless Workers Movement of Brazil, October 08, 2018 This election is very special because it can mean the victory or defeat of the coup against democracy started in 2014, which continued with the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff, extended into the illegitimate Continue reading
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International relations: the calm before the storm? By Thierry Meyssan
All international problems are currently suspended, awaiting the results of the US mid-term elections. The partisans of the old international order are gambling on a change of majority in Congress and a rapid destitution of President Trump. If the man in the White House holds fast, the protagonists of the war against Syria will have… Continue reading
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French government on verge of collapse after interior minister resigns By Alex Lantier
Since the resignation on October 3 of Interior Minister Gérard Collomb, one of the first supporters of Emmanuel Macron and his Republic on the March (LRM) party, the French government is on the verge of collapse. On Monday, top LRM officials announced the preparation of a major cabinet reshuffle, and even potentially the resignation of… Continue reading
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How the Tentacles of the US Military Are Strangling the Planet By Prof. Vijay Prashad
In June this year in Itoman, a city in Okinawa prefecture, Japan, a 14-year-old girl named Rinko Sagara read out of a poem based on her great-grandmother’s experience of World War II. Rinko’s great-grandmother reminded her of the cruelty of war. She had seen her friends shot in front of her. It was ugly. Continue reading
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Breaking the Silence about Israel’s occupation of Hebron
Ido Even-Paz switched on his body camera as his tour group decamped from the bus in Hebron. The former Israeli soldier wanted to document any trouble we might encounter in this, the largest Palestinian city in the occupied West Bank. It was not Hebron’s Palestinian residents who concerned him. He was worried about Israelis –… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 