January 2019
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A Planet in Crisis: The Heat’s on Us By Dahr Jamail
I’m standing atop Rush Hill on Alaska’s remote St. Paul Island. While only 665 feet high, it provides a 360-degree view of this tundra-covered, 13-mile-long, seven-mile-wide part of the Pribilof Islands. While the hood of my rain jacket flaps in the cold wind, I gaze in wonder at the silvery waters of the Bering Sea.… Continue reading
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The Internet is Facing a Catastrophe For Free Expression and Competition: You Could Tip The Balance By Cory Doctorow
The new EU Copyright Directive is progressing at an alarming rate. This week, the EU is asking its member-states to approve new negotiating positions for the final language. Once they get it, they’re planning to hold a final vote before pushing this drastic, radical new law into 28 countries and 500,000,000 people. Continue reading
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Europe on the Brink of Collapse? By Peter Koenig
The Empire’s European castle of vassals is crumbling. Right in front of our eyes. But Nobody seems to see it. The European Union (EU), the conglomerate of vassals – Trump calls them irrelevant, and he doesn’t care what they think about him, they deserve to be collapsing. They, the ‘vassalic’ EU, a group of 28… Continue reading
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Final Steps in Syria’s Successful Struggle for Peace and Sovereignty By Federico Pieraccini
The situation in Syria evolves daily and sees two situations very closely linked to each other, with the US withdrawal from Syria and the consequent expansionist ambitions of Erdogan in Syria and the Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) takeover in Idlib that frees the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and Russian aviation to liberate the de-escalation zone. Continue reading
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Rosa Luxembourg – A Documentary
16 January 2019 — Youtube Documentary written and directed by Margarethe von Trotta. Continue reading
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Talk of Western intervention in the Black Sea is pure fantasy By Pepe Escobar
Crimea is essential to Russia strategically and economically, but speculation over Ankara helping to boost the US presence in the Black Sea is far-fetched given Turkey’s energy deals with Moscow Continue reading
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Media Lens: Remembrance – The Dehumanised Human
It is clear even from their titles that corporate newspapers are objective, balanced and impartial. Or so we are to believe. Continue reading
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Grenfell Tower: Class action lawsuit in US against flammable cladding manufacturer By Paul Bond
The suit, first filed one month after the fire of June 14, 2017 by shareholder Michael Brave, accuses Arconic of defrauding shareholders over its supply of cladding panels at Grenfell Tower. Brave is seeking to recoup “significant” shareholder losses stemming from the company’s failure to disclose its use of “highly flammable” Reynobond PE cladding panels… Continue reading
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The Fall of Biafra. Landmark in Nigerian History By Adeyinka Makinde
January 15th is a significant date in Nigerian history. On that day in 1966, a group of middle-ranking army officers staged a mutiny which overthrew the civilian government that had ruled Nigeria since it had been granted independence from Britain in October 1960. It began a concatenation of violence which led to a 30-month civil… Continue reading
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Which war-torn city in a third-world country was this man starving to death in?
TruePublica Editor: I need not comment on the following social media post that was published on Christmas Eve. Tom Pride from Pride’s Purge asks the question: Which war-torn city in a third-world country was this man starving to death in? The answer – Birkenhead, England, Christmas Eve, 2018. Continue reading
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UK parliament votes down Prime Minister May’s Brexit deal By Robert Stevens and Chris Marsden
May was defeated by a majority of 230, with 432 MPs against the deal and just 202 for in the biggest vote against a sitting prime minister in history. Continue reading
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French worker sentenced to six months’ jail over Facebook call for demonstrations By Will Morrow
In a series of actions this past week, the government of French President Emmanuel Macron has intensified police-state repression aimed at crushing “yellow vest” protests against social inequality. Continue reading
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UK Brexit Vote Reflects a Deep Crisis in Capitalism (Pt 1/2)
Had the British been presented with the option, people might choose a socialist Britain over a capitalist EU, but they are not given that choice, say Prof. Leo Panitch of York University and Jon Lansman of the British Labour Party’s National Executive Committee Continue reading
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Putin Asks And Trump Delivers – Here Is A List Of All The Good Things Trump Did For Russia
When one adds up all those issues one can only find that Trump cares more about Russia, than about the U.S. and its NATO allies. Only with Trump being under Putin’s influence, knowingly or unwittingly, could he end up doing Russia so many favors. NOT. Continue reading
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Risking Total Annihilation for the Sake of Profit – with Wilkerson and Jay (3/3)
Larry Wilkerson says the US government is raising the danger of nuclear war by spending more than a trillion dollars to upgrade the American nuclear arsenal, with no real objective other than money making – with host Paul Jay (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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It’s a Gas… Germany Outraged by US Colonial Arrogance By Finian Cunningham
This time the outspoken US ambassador in Berlin may have gone too far to be ignored. The German government has denounced as a “provocation” letters that the American envoy sent to companies involved in the Nord Stream 2 project warning them of possible US sanctions. Continue reading
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The Memo That Helped Kill a Half Million People in Syria By Daniel LAZARE
A memo sent to Hillary Clinton that WikiLeaks made public in 2016 has not gotten the attention it deserves. Now is the time. After President Donald Trump tweeted that he was pulling American troops out of Syria, Clinton joined his vociferous critics who want more war in Syria. Continue reading
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A village under occupation By Seth Herald
For the residents of Issawiyeh, a Palestinian village of some 20,000, surveillance, military raids and building demolitions are a daily reality. The village has seen its lands gradually disappear. Before Israel occupied the area in 1967, the village included some 12,500 dunams (1 dunam = 1,000 square meters) of land. Continue reading
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Was Timber Sycamore The Program That Created ISIS? By Brandon Turbeville
Despite the repeated demonstrations of the fact that the United States and other Western nations have armed, supported, and funded terrorists in Syria from the beginning of the crisis in 2011 as well as long before that crisis had taken shape, official pronouncements admitting to funding those terrorists made by Western governments and reported by… Continue reading
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The US Institute of Peace… Promotes Endless Syrian War By Tony Cartalucci
An “independent national institute founded by Congress and dedicated to the proposition that a world without violent conflict is possible,” would be the last place you would expect to find calls for continued war. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 