December 4, 2018
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US Sabotages UN Attempt at Yemen Ceasefire, as Opposition to War Grows in Congress
The Trump administration claimed it would seek a ceasefire in Yemen in 30 days, but the US blocked a UN Security Council resolution submitted by Britain. Colonel Larry Wilkerson discusses Congress’ historic vote on a War Powers Resolution bill to force a military withdrawal (inc.transcript). Continue reading
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Les Gilets Jaunes – A Bright Yellow Sign of Distress By Diana Johnstone
Every automobile in France is supposed to be equipped with a yellow vest. This is so that in case of accident or breakdown on a highway, the driver can put it on to ensure visibility and avoid getting run over. So the idea of wearing your yellow vest to demonstrate against unpopular government measures caught… Continue reading
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How To Avoid A New War In Europe By Vladimir Kozin
There is a rather embarrassing negative perspective for maintaining rational military strategic parity between Russia and USA and Russia and NATO as a whole in the coming decades due to future tremendous expenditures of the USA for modernizing strategic and tactical nuclear forces that will require $ U.S. 1,2-1,7 trillion during next three decades for… Continue reading
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Emmanuel Macron: The Little Emperor and Humpty-Dumpty By Deena Stryker
After less than two years, France’s youngest President, Emanuel Macron, has become the de facto leader of Europe but the object of violence at home. Continue reading
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Yellow Vests By Richard Greeman
Ignored by Macron, distorted by the media, courted by the Right, snubbed by the Left, the self-organized mass movement known as the Yellow Vests is seriously challenging the political and economic order in France. Continue reading
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Ukraine: US-installed Fascist Tyranny in Europe’s Heartland By Stephen Lendman
Ukraine matters. It’s territory is Europe’s largest after Russia’s. It borders seven countries in Europe’s heartland – Belarus, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Russia. Continue reading
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How the West eats its children By Thierry Meyssan
For Thierry Meyssan, by taking to the streets, the French have become the first Western population to take personal risks to oppose financial globalisation. Although they do not realise it, and still imagine that their problems are exclusively national, their enemy is the same force that crushed the region of the African Great Lakes and… Continue reading