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The Salvadorian Elections and Beijing’s Rising Star in Central America
Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya - Global Research,
17 Feb 2014
The Salvadorian oligarchy has for all purposes operated as a comprador elite class, serving as local representatives or managers of foreign corporations, governments, and interests. In this case the Salvadorian oligarchy has acted collectively as a comprador elite class serving the elites of the United States.
→ read full articleSyria: “There are Terrorists from 83 Countries, Armed and Funded by Saudi Arabia”
Global Research News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
Syria Information Minister, Omran al-Zoubi said Saudi Arabia’s decision that Saudi citizens who fight in conflicts outside the Kingdom would face harsh punishment does not mean that the Kingdom will stop funding and arming terrorist groups.
→ read full articleShould David Cameron Be Prosecuted for Recruiting Brits to Fight in Al Qaeda Ranks in Syria?
Prof. Michel Chossudovsky - Global Research,
10 Feb 2014
A top British prosecutor has “warned that Britons who travel to join the Syrian conflict will face prosecution and potential life sentences on their return.” What she fails to address is that the British “freedom fighters” are being recruited with the full support of Prime Minister David Cameron in defiance of UK laws.
→ read full articleWho Owns the Federal Reserve?
Ellen Brown - Global Research,
10 Feb 2014
“Some people think that the Federal Reserve Banks are United States Government institutions. They are private monopolies which prey upon the people of these United States for the benefit of themselves and their foreign customers; foreign and domestic speculators and swindlers; and rich and predatory money lenders.”
– The Honorable Louis McFadden, Chairman of the House Banking and Currency Committee in the 1930s
“Big Brother Is Watching You”. Beyond Orwell’s Worst Nightmare
Marjorie Cohn - Global Research,
3 Feb 2014
“Big Brother is Watching You,” George Orwell wrote in his disturbing book 1984. But, as Mikko Hypponen points out, Orwell “was an optimist.” Orwell never could have imagined that the National Security Agency (NSA) would amass metadata on billions of our phone calls and 200 million of our text messages every day.
→ read full articleThe Barriers to Iranian–American Rapprochement: Israel and Saudi Arabia
Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya - Global Research,
3 Feb 2014
The Saudi-controlled media and its propagandists went into overdrive frantically deriding and lamenting Washington’s decision to engage Tehran in direct and public high-level diplomatic dialogue whereas Israeli leaders said that the agreement should be rescinded.
→ read full articleMedia Disinformation: What’s Really Going On in Ukraine?
Andy Dilks - Global Research,
3 Feb 2014
We should be wary of simplistic media narratives which seek to paint any conflict in black and white/good vs. evil terms, particularly when the “good guys” are being backed by the US government and her allies. All too often this amounts to little more than propaganda.
→ read full articleWhy the Washington Post’s New Ties to the CIA Are So Ominous
Norman Solomon - Global Research,
27 Jan 2014
Washington Post refuses to face up to a conflict of interest involving Jeff Bezos — who’s now the sole owner of the newspaper at the same time he remains Amazon’s CEO and main stakeholder. The Post is supposed to expose CIA secrets. But Amazon is under contract to keep them. Amazon has a new $600 million “cloud” computing deal with the CIA.
→ read full articleThe Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) vs. Syria’s “Moderate” Al Qaeda Terrorists
Prof. Michel Chossudovsky - Global Research,
27 Jan 2014
The Western media has tacitly acknowledged, faced with overwhelming evidence, that the opposition rebels have not only committed countless atrocities, they were also behind the chemical weapons attack of August 21. The evolving media narrative –which coincides in a timely fashion with the Geneva 2 Peace Conference– consists in distinguishing between two categories of Al Qaeda affiliated rebel organizations.
→ read full articleGenocide and Indigenous Rights: The Inuit People of Canada
John Bart Gerald - Global Research,
27 Jan 2014
In a territory where the suicide rate of Inuit is thirteen times the national average, young men commit suicide at 40 times the rate of those in southern Canada. This happens when a culture is being destroyed. Ongoing genocide warning.
→ read full articleVolgograd and the Conquest of Eurasia: Has the House of Saud Seen Its Stalingrad?
Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya - Global Research,
6 Jan 2014
The events in Volgograd are part of a much larger body of events and a multi-faceted struggle that has been going on for decades as part of a cold war after the Cold War—the post-Cold War cold war, if you please—that was a result of two predominately Eurocentric world wars.
→ read full articleSyria’s Hospitals Targeted by NATO-Backed Armed Groups
Prof. Tim Anderson - Global Research,
6 Jan 2014
Since 2011 NATO-backed armed groups have systematically attacked more than two thirds of Syria’s public hospitals, and have murdered, kidnapped or injured more than 300 health workers.
→ read full articleOligarchs, Demagogues and Mass Revolts … against Democracy
Prof. James Petras - Global Research,
30 Dec 2013
In ancient Rome, especially during the late Republic, oligarchs resorted to mob violence to block, intimidate, assassinate or drive from power the dominant faction in the Senate. While neither the ruling or opposing factions represented the interests of the plebeians, wage workers, small farmers or slaves, the use of the ‘mob’ against the elected Senate, the principle of representative government and the republican form of government laid the groundwork for the rise of authoritarian “Caesars” (military rulers) and the transformation of the Roman republic into an imperial state.
→ read full articleWashington’s New Islamic Front: Expanded U.S. Support to Al Qaeda Rebels in Syria
Prof Michel Chossudovsky - Global Research,
23 Dec 2013
What the US and its allies are establishing are new effective “direct channels” for increasing their support to their Al Qaeda foot soldiers, essentially using the new Islamic Front as a “Go Between”. This procedure is contemplated following the apparent demise of the Supreme Military Command of the FSA.
→ read full articleThe Washington Post and Amazon are “Doing Business with the CIA”
Norman Solomon - Global Research,
23 Dec 2013
News media should illuminate conflicts of interest, not embody them. But the owner of the Washington Post is now doing big business with the Central Intelligence Agency, while readers of the newspaper’s CIA coverage are left in the dark.
→ read full articleGlobal Poverty and Post-colonial “Development Agendas”: Ethiopia and the West
Paul O’Keeffe - Global Research,
16 Dec 2013
In excess of 35 million Ethiopians still live in abject poverty subsisting on less that $2 a day while a tiny fraction of the country’s 85 million people has become excessively rich. Journalists, academics and opposition figures are still jailed for speaking out against the regime, ethnic minorities such as the Oromo are discriminated against and forced off their lands, corruption and human rights abuses are still rife.
→ read full articleGMO, Additives, Contaminants and Pesticides. European “Food Safety” on Behalf of the Food and Drink Conglomerates
Colin Todhunter - Global Research,
9 Dec 2013
Our food in their hands: Whose interests does the European Food Safety Authority serve? It is an independent European agency funded by the EU budget but operates separately from the European Commission, European Parliament and EU Member States.
→ read full articleTribunal Issues Landmark Verdict against Israel for Genocide
Yoichi Shimatsu - Global Research,
9 Dec 2013
1 Dec 2013 – The landmark ruling against Israel for its genocide against the Palestinian people rendered by the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal is significant for several reasons.
→ read full articleUK Prime Minister Covers Up Crimes against Humanity – Lectures Sri Lanka on Crimes against Humanity
Felicity Arbuthnot - Global Research,
25 Nov 2013
“Hypocrisy, the most protected of vices.” Moliere (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, 1622-1673.) – As David Cameron was lecturing Sri Lanka on “transparency”, the Conservatives were removing: ‘ a decade of speeches from their website and from the main internet library– including one in which David Cameron claimed that being able to search the web would democratise politics by making “more information available to more people.” .
→ read full articleAmerica’s Chemical Weapons: Hypocrisy, Conspiracy and a Forgotten History
Felicity Arbuthnot - Global Research,
18 Nov 2013
Never mind Israel’s lethal stockpiles, for ever, seemingly, blind eye territory, as apparently is the United States 5,449 metric tons chemical weapons arsenal, which cannot be disposed of until at least 2021 due to the hazards involved. Compared to the might of the countries threatening its destruction, Syria is now, if not quite a sitting duck, certainly a lamer one and must be mindful of the fate of Libya, when pressured and Iraq when forced to disarm.
→ read full articleCorporate Profits Soar. The Super Wealthy Reinvent American Capitalism
Shamus Cooke - Global Research,
18 Nov 2013
As U.S. corporate profits soar to record highs, food stamps for the neediest were quietly cut. The politicians who are demanding endless cuts to social programs insist that the U.S. is broke, all the while conveniently ignoring the mountains of tax-free wealth piling up in the pockets of the super rich.
→ read full articleThe CIA is Leading Massive Arms Deliveries to Rebels in Syria, Saudi Arabia is Training Terrorists
Press TV - Global Research,
11 Nov 2013
“The Americans hold the key to these arms deliveries. Without them, they couldn’t happen. CIA agents lead convoys of arms deliveries joined by the Free Syrian Army and Jordanian secret services…” Georges Malbrunot of Le Figaro newspaper revealed how the CIA is leading massive arms deliveries to the terrorists in Syria.
→ read full articlePlanetary Weapons and Military Weather Modification: Chemtrails, Atmospheric Geoengineering and Environmental Warfare
Rady Ananda - Global Research,
11 Nov 2013
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change just published its Fifth Assessment Report and maintains its silence on military weather modification applications which continue to skew the data. “Extreme weather and climate events” are linked to climate change while no mention is made of government programs deliberately aimed at modifying the weather and inducing earthquakes, drought, rain, and tsunamis.
→ read full articleThe Origins and Evolution of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)
T Rajamoorthy - Global Research,
11 Nov 2013
THE free trade agreement being negotiated by the regional bloc known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) has provoked widespread opposition in the countries involved in its negotiation. Today the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) is rightly perceived and condemned as a US-led attempt to penetrate and dominate the economies of the region.
→ read full articleIsrael Buys the US Congress: Sabotaging the US-Iran Peace Negotiations
Prof. James Petras - Global Research,
4 Nov 2013
As the US and the 5 other countries attempt to negotiate with Iran , they face enormous obstacles overcoming Israel ’s power over the US Congress. Over past decades Israel ’s agents have bought the loyalties of the vast majority of Congress people, training them to recognize and obey the whistles, signals and script from the war mongers in Tel Aviv.
→ read full articleHaiti: World Vision’s Targeted Food Program Questioned – Food Aid is “More Negative than Positive”
Haiti Grassroots Watch - Global Research,
28 Oct 2013
A food distribution program aimed at expectant and new mothers and their babies may have increased the number of girls and women getting pregnant.
→ read full articlePatenting the Food Supply and the Monopolization of the Biosphere
Dr. Vandana Shiva and James Corbett - Global Research,
28 Oct 2013
As the world begins to digest the implications of intellectual property for online censorship, another IP issue threatens an even more fundamental part of our daily lives: our food supply.
→ read full articleFukushima Fraud and Corruption: Japanese Organized Crime Involved in Recruitment of “Specialized Personnel”
Prof Michel Chossudovsky - Global Research,
28 Oct 2013
The crisis in Japan has been described as “a nuclear war without a war”. In the words of renowned novelist Haruki Murakami: “This time no one dropped a bomb on us … We set the stage, we committed the crime with our own hands, we are destroying our own lands, and we are destroying our own lives.”
→ read full articleDoes America Have a “Licence to Kill”? US Drone War on Yemen Violates International Law
Global Research News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2013
These aerial attacks have occurred in almost every province of the country. In the past two years, the number of drone strikes has multiplied and the infrastructure required for these attacks have been expanded.
→ read full articleObscuring the Details: A Panoramic Look at America’s Case against Syria
Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya - Global Research,
14 Oct 2013
The US federal government and the various agencies, media organizations, individuals, foreign governments, non-governmental organizations, lobbies, forces, and other entities that are tied to it have done everything in their power to obscure the details involving the chemical attacks that took place in Syria on August 21, 2013.
→ read full articleHelen Keller, the Radical: A Great Mind and Inspiration for All Humanity
Andy Piascik - Global Research,
14 Oct 2013
Sullivan and her lover John Macy were both radicals and Keller learned a great deal from them. She indicted industrialism and capitalism as the main causes of disease, blindness and deafness included. She wrote extensively and traveled the world in solidarity with the oppressed.
→ read full articleSaudi Arabia Group behind Chemical Weapons Provocation in Syria: Source
Voice of Russia, RIA, Interfax - Global Research News,
7 Oct 2013
“Having analyzed this information, which was received from a whole range of sources, we are getting a picture that confirms that the criminal provocation in Eastern Ghouta was committed by a specialized group that was sent by Saudi Arabia from the territory of Jordan and acted under the cover of the Liva al-Islam group,” one of the sources said.
→ read full articleWas it a Psyop? Nairobi Mall Deceit Abets Israeli-Western Pipeline Wars to Oust Asian Rivals
Yoichi Shimatsu - Global Research,
7 Oct 2013
The gratuitous violence and spectacular overkill by a mysterious gang of supposed “terrorists” does nothing to further the aims of either Somali nationalism or sharia law, as espoused by the original Al-Shabaab movement, which seeks the withdrawal of Kenya forces from Somalia.
→ read full articleSyria: “The Army of Islam”; Saudi Arabia’s Greatest Export
Phil Greaves - Global Research,
7 Oct 2013
Recent developments regarding “rebel” groups inside Syria have shed further light on the ideologies and political aims of the militants waging war upon the Syrian state.
→ read full articleThe Future Is Local, the Future Is Organic
Colin Todhunter - Global Research,
30 Sep 2013
Well, at least it could be if we base our food production on an increasing body of evidence that indicates the harmful effects of petrochemical, corporate-controlled agriculture.
→ read full articleThe Ghouta Chemical Attacks: US-Backed False Flag? Killing Syrian Children to Justify a “Humanitarian” Military Intervention
Julie Lévesque and Prof Michel Chossudovsky - Global Research,
30 Sep 2013
To date, available evidence indicates that numerous children were killed by “opposition rebels”, their bodies manipulated and filmed with a view to blaming the Syrian government for the attacks, thus sparking outrage and galvanizing worldwide public opinion in favor of another bloody, imperial US-led war.
→ read full articleGenetically Modified Babies
Rady Ananda - Global Research,
30 Sep 2013
In October 2013, the US Food and Drug Administration will hold a two-day public meeting to discuss genetic modification within the human egg, which changes will be passed on generationally. The United Kingdom is also moving to allow GM babies.
→ read full articleLook With Your Own Eyes: The Videos of the Chemical Attacks in Syria Show Tampered Scenes
Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya - Global Research,
30 Sep 2013
The videos presented by the US Intelligence Community as evidence have staged scenes. Simple observations of the videos can verify this. This is exactly what a recent and modest study did.
→ read full articleThe BRICS “Independent Internet” Cable. In Defiance of the “US-Centric Internet”
Umberto Pascali - Global Research,
23 Sep 2013
The President of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, announces publicly the creation of a world internet system INDEPENDENT from the “US-centric internet”. Not many understand that Rousseff can take such a historic step because the alternative infrastructure, the BRICS cable from Vladivostock, Russia to Shantou, China to Chennai, India to Cape Town, South Africa to Fortaleza, Brazil, is being built and is in its final phase of implementation.
→ read full articleHow the Syrian Chemical Weapons Videos Were Staged
James Corbett, Mother Agnes Mariam, and Prof Michel Chossudovsky - Global Research,
23 Sep 2013
In the wake of the Syrian chemical weapons attack, shocking footage of the victims of that attack were widely circulated in an effort to raise the ire of the public and spur support for military intervention. Now, a new report on that footage finds troubling inconsistencies and manipulation with the video that calls the official narrative of the attack and its victims into question.
→ read full articleThe Chemical Attacks in East Ghouta Used to Justify a Military Intervention in Syria
Mother Agnes-Mariam of the Cross – Global Research,
23 Sep 2013
“From the moment when some families of abducted children contacted us to inform us that they recognized the children among those who are presented in the videos as victims of the Chemical Attacks of East Ghouta, we decided to examine the videos thoroughly…”
→ read full articleGay Rights in Russia and the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics
Michael Averko - Global Research,
23 Sep 2013
Since the enactment of Article 6.13.1, Russia has hosted two international sporting events (the World University Games and the IAAF World Championships), without any report of abuse against LGBT athletes or spectators. In comparison to these two sports events, the winter Olympics receives greater attention, thereby making it a more attractive event for advocacy promotion.
→ read full articleMoral Hypocrisy and U.S. Exceptionalism
Ajamu Baraka - Global Research,
16 Sep 2013
In his recent op-ed in the New York Times, Vladimir Putin raised hackles among the talking-heads across the U.S. when he questioned the wisdom of President Obama’s evocation of the narcissistic idea of “American exceptionalism.” After all, the exceptionalism of the U.S. has never been a subject for reasoned discussion or debate in the media or elsewhere.
→ read full articleWHO Refuses to Publish Report on Cancers and Birth Defects in Iraq Caused by Depleted Uranium Ammunition
Denis Halliday - Global Research,
16 Sep 2013
The World Health Organisation has categorically refused in defiance of its own mandate to share evidence uncovered in Iraq that US military use of Depleted Uranium and other weapons have not only killed many civilians, but continue to result in the birth of deformed babies.
→ read full articleHaiti “Reconstruction”: Luxury Hotels, Sweat Shops and Deregulation for the Foreign Corporate Elite
Julie Lévesque – Global Research,
19 Aug 2013
“The international community is so screwed up they’re letting Haitians run Haiti.” –Luigi R. Einaudi, US career diplomat, member of the Council on Foreign Relations and former Assistant Secretary General at the Organization of American States.
→ read full articleRise of Cancers and Birth Defects in Iraq: World Health Organization Refuses to Release Data
Mozhgan Savabieasfahani – Global Research,
5 Aug 2013
The back-breaking burden of cancers and birth defects continues to weigh heavily on the Iraqi people. The joint WHO and Iraqi Ministry of Health Report on cancers and birth defect in Iraq was originally due to be released in November 2012. It has been delayed repeatedly and now has no release date whatsoever.
→ read full articleThink Your Money Is Safe in an Insured Bank Account? Think Again.
Ellen Brown – Global Research,
15 Jul 2013
A trend to shift responsibility for bank losses onto blameless depositors lets banks gamble away your money.
→ read full articleSyria: The “Western Faces” Behind the Terror
Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich – Global Research,
1 Jul 2013
Perpetuating Adversaries to Kill Each Other Is a Time-Tested Tactic – As former Israeli Intelligence Chief Amos Yaldin told the Israel Policy Forum in February 2013: “And this military [Syrian], which is a huge threat to Israel, is now also weakening, disintegrating. We still have a risk of [Syria] becoming an Al-Qaida country, a Somalia-type country — but from military point of view this is less dangerous than the Syrian regular army.”
→ read full articleObama’s Humanitarianism as Window-Dressing for the US “Deep State” Agenda: The Case of Syria
Elizabeth Woodworth - Global Research,
24 Jun 2013
This essay examines the connections between the foreign intervention crisis in Syria, the vast NSA surveillance program that has recently been exposed, and the sequence of events that begin with NSA program changes in February, 2001 — six months before 9/11. The connections are illuminating.
→ read full articleBradley Manning: Prisoner of Conscience
Francis A. Boyle - Global Research,
10 Jun 2013
Where are the “good” Americans? Well, there are some good Americans. They are getting prosecuted for protesting against and resisting illegal U.S. military interventions and war crimes around the world.
→ read full articleThe Role of Turkey in the US-NATO-Israeli War on Syria
Cem Ertür - Global Research,
10 Jun 2013
When the U.S. and its allies launched the covert war on Syria in 2011, they were expecting that either Syria’s political establishment would collapse within a short duration or they would find a way to ignite an open war. As Syria’s leaders and people proved to be exceptionally resilient, increasingly more brutal means have been deployed to tear the country apart. Being at the forefront of this covert war in every respect, Turkey has been thoroughly complicit in monumental war crimes committed against the neighbouring people of Syria.
→ read full articleStudent Science Experiment Finds Plants Won’t Grow Near Wi-Fi Router
Global Research News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
The results were blatantly obvious — the cress seeds placed near the radiation emitter Wi-Fi router had not grown. Many of them were completely dead. While the cress seeds planted in the other room, away from the routers, thrived. The experiment earned the girls top honors in a regional science competition and the interest of scientists around the world.
→ read full article“The Monsanto Protection Plan”: Monsanto’s Deception Game on GMO in Europe
F. William Engdahl – Global Research,
10 Jun 2013
On May 31 [2013] world media headlines read similar to this from Reuters: “Monsanto backing away from GMO crops in Europe.” But this is what Monsanto says: ”Right now the media is flooded with reports that Monsanto has stopped the marketing of GMO seeds in Germany and the EU. That is not correct… We have a robust business selling high-quality, conventional corn, oilseed rape and vegetable seeds to our farmer customers in Europe.”
→ read full article“The True Story of the Bilderberg Group” And What They May Be Planning Now
Stephen Lendman – Global Research,
3 Jun 2013
A Review of Daniel Estulin’s Book – For over 14 years, Daniel Estulin has investigated and researched the Bilderberg Group’s far-reaching influence on business and finance, global politics, war and peace, and control of the world’s resources and its money.
→ read full articleUS Banks Post Record Profits
Nick Barrickman - Global Research,
3 Jun 2013
Profits for the US banking industry rose in the first quarter of 2013 to a record $40.3 billion, according to a report released on Wednesday [29 May 2013]. Profits surged by 15.8 percent. The quarterly profits top the previous record set more than six years ago, prior to the financial meltdown of 2008.
→ read full articleJune 6-9: Bilderberg Meeting behind Closed Doors. On the Agenda: Domestic Spying, Diffusing Social Protests, War on Syria and Iran
Stephen Lendman – Global Research,
3 Jun 2013
Its four-day meeting occurs annually. It’s a rite of spring. British political economist Will Hutton calls the group the “high priests of globalization.” Powerful movers and shakers have their own agenda. They plot strategy to exploit the world’s riches. They want them for themselves. They try to keep meeting dates, locations, and issues to be discussed secret. Word gets out.
→ read full articleLifting the Fake EU Arms Embargo: Weapons for Al Qaeda in Syria
Stephen Lendman - Global Research,
3 Jun 2013
On May 27 [2013], the so-called one-year EU arms embargo on Syria’s opposition ended. Officially it does so on June 1. EU nations agreed to end what never existed. Since Washington’s war on Syria began in early 2011, arms flowed freely. Western-enlisted death squads get them. At issue is replacing Assad with a subservient pro-Western puppet.
→ read full articleIsrael is Fighting a Regional War in Syria
Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya - Global Research,
3 Jun 2013
Not only have the US and its allies been trying to militarily buttress the retreating anti-government militias, but now they aim to create a new phase in the conflict where states start asserting leverage against Syria in place of the weakening anti-government forces. In other words, external pressure is being applied to replace the declining internal pressure.
→ read full articleAmerica is Losing its Covert Syria War: US Sponsored Al Nusra Rebels Defeated by Syrian Armed Forces
Prof Michel Chossudovsky – Global Research,
27 May 2013
Recent reports from the ground suggest that America and its allies are losing their covert war in support of the Al Nusra front. In recent weeks, the US sponsored Al Qaeda affiliated rebels have been decimated by the Syrian Armed Forces. A nationwide offensive has been launched with the support of Russia and Iran. The weapons supply routes of the rebels have been disrupted.
→ read full article“The Salvador Option for Syria”: US-NATO Sponsored Death Squads Integrate “Opposition Forces”
Prof Michel Chossudovsky – Global Research,
27 May 2013
Modelled on US covert ops in Central America, the Pentagon’s “Salvador Option for Iraq” initiated in 2004 was carried out under the helm of the US Ambassador to Iraq John Negroponte (2004-2005) together with Robert Stephen Ford, who was appointed US Ambassador to Syria in January 2011, less than two months before the beginning of the armed insurgency directed against the government of Bashar Al Assad.
→ read full articleThe Pink Tide in Latin America: An Alliance between Local Capital and Socialism?
Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya - Global Research,
27 May 2013
Many questions have arisen about what direction Latin America and the so-called “pink tide” will take since Hugo Chavez’s death and his successor Nicolas Maduro’s victory in the Venezuelan presidential elections against Henrique Capriles Radonski on April 14, 2013.
→ read full article“Cuban Democracy” versus “American Democracy”
Arnold August and Julie Lévesque – Global Research,
20 May 2013
Part I of an interview with Arnold August, author of ‘Cuba and Its Neighbours: Democracy in Motion.’ He is a political scientist an author, journalist and lecturer living in Canada. He is the author of ‘Democracy in Cuba and the 1997–98 Elections’ and has also contributed a chapter entitled “Socialism and Elections” for the volume ‘Cuban Socialism in a New Century: Adversity, Survival and Renewal.’
→ read full articleTen Years after Invasion, Iraq Continues to Import Oil Products
Global Research News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2013
Former Iraqi oil minister Issam al-Jalabi says that although Iraq is an oil-rich country, it still imports petroleum products from abroad to meet its needs 10 years after the US-led invasion of the country.
→ read full articleSyrian Forces Inflict Heavy Losses on US Sponsored Terrorists
Global Research News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2013
19 May 2013 – Reports from Syria suggest that the US sponsored Al Nusra mercenary force and affiliated formations have inflicted heavy losses in different part of the country. Press reports confirm that the rebel stronghold of Al Qusayr on the Northern border of Lebanon is now under the control of government forces.
→ read full articleGood-Bye Dubai? Bombing Iran’s Nuclear Facilities Would Leave the Entire Gulf States Region Virtually Uninhabitable
Wade Stone – Global Research,
20 May 2013
“In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.”― Friedrich Nietzsche. Every Spring and Summer, during a period of low pressure over the Persian Gulf, powerful winds known as the “shamals and sharqi,” sweep down from the north and north east into Saudi Arabia, whipping up ever more grains of sand as they head south and south west across the Arabian Desert.
→ read full articleCentral Banking with “Other People’s Gold”: A Multi-billion Treasure Trove in Lower Manhattan
Prof Michel Chossudovsky – Global Research,
13 May 2013
Germany is repatriating its gold reserves from the New York Federal Reserve, what has created a frenzy in the gold market. But that is just the tip of the iceberg. According to the NY Fed, there are 530,000 gold bars, with a combined weight of circa 6,700 metric tonnes stashed in the Fed’s Lower Manhattan vaults. But according to them, “We do not own the gold. We are mere custodians.”
→ read full articleBoston and Venezuela: Terrorism There and Here
Prof. James Petras – Global Research,
6 May 2013
Two major terrorists’ attacks took place almost simultaneously: in Boston, two alleged Chechen terrorists set off bombs during the annual Boston Marathon killing three people and injuring 170; in Venezuela, terrorist-supporters of defeated presidential candidate, Henrique Capriles, assassinated 8 and injured 70 supporters of victorious Socialist Party candidate Nicolas Maduro, in the course of firebombing 8 health clinics and several Party offices and homes.
→ read full articleThe Orwellian Warfare State of Carnage and Doublethink
Norman Solomon – Global Research,
22 Apr 2013
After the bombings that killed and maimed so horribly at the Boston Marathon, our country’s politics and mass media are awash in heartfelt compassion — and reflexive “doublethink,” which George Orwell described as willingness “to forget any fact that has become inconvenient.”
→ read full articleThe Cult of Killing and the Symbolic Order of Western Barbarism: How the Media Worships Violence and “Ritualized Atrocities”
Jean-Claude Paye and Tülay Umay – Global Research,
15 Apr 2013
The display of the lynching of Mouamar Gaddafi exposes our societies for what they are. It mesmerizes and dismantles our capacity to think and critically assess a historical process. By focusing public attention on what constitutes a “ritualized atrocity” these gruesome images confirm that the US Empire actually represents an unprecedented regression, a step backwards in the history of humanity.
→ read full articleWar Crimes and Crimes against Humanity: The Story of U.S. Exceptionalism in Iraq
Ajamu Baraka – Global Research,
1 Apr 2013
This month marks the tenth anniversary of the U.S. attack on Iraq, one of the most egregious expressions of naked power and imperial ambition since the Second World War. The attack defied both an outraged world opinion — expressed by global mass demonstrations — and the United Nations charter. It also marked a change from the previous veiled decorum of supposed adherence to international law that defined post-war international relations.
→ read full articleThe Privatization of War: Mercenaries, Private Military and Security Companies (PMSC)
Jose L. Gomez del Prado - Global Research,
11 Mar 2013
Private military and security companies (PMSC) are the modern reincarnation of a long lineage of private providers of physical force: corsairs, privateers and mercenaries. Mercenaries, which had practically disappeared during the XIXth and XXth centuries, reappeared in the 1960’s during the decolonization period operating mainly in Africa and Asia. Under the United Nations a convention was adopted which outlaws and criminalizes their activities. Additional Protocol I of the Geneva Conventions also contains a definition of mercenary.
→ read full articleNorth Korea or the United States: Who is a Threat to Global Security?
Prof Michel Chossudovsky – Global Research,
11 Mar 2013
North Korea lost thirty percent of its population as a result of US-led bombings in the 1950s. Most people in America consider North Korea as an inherently aggressive nation and a threat to global security. Media disinformation sustains North Korea as a “rogue state”. The history of the Korean War and its devastating consequences are rarely mentioned. America is portrayed as the victim rather than the aggressor.
→ read full articleThe Worldwide Network of US Military Bases
Jules Dufour – Global Research,
25 Feb 2013
The Global Deployment of US Military Personnel – The Worldwide control of humanity’s economic, social and political activities is under the helm of US corporate and military power. Underlying this process are various schemes of direct and indirect military intervention. These US sponsored strategies ultimately consist in a process of global subordination.
→ read full articleBradley Manning Incarcerated without a Trial: One Thousand Days Too Many
Margaret Flowers – Global Research,
25 Feb 2013
Think of that, count it off . . . 1,000 days; that is how long Bradley Manning has been incarcerated without a trial. Even though he has been incarcerated for nearly three years most Americans have no idea what he did, why he did it or how he has been mistreated coming from the commander-in-chief to the courtroom at Fort Meade.
→ read full articleGMO Agribusiness and the Destructive Nature of Global Capitalism
Colin Todhunter – Global Research,
25 Feb 2013
Capitalism is based on managing its inherent crises. It is also based on the need to maximise profit, beat down competitors, cut overheads and depress wages. With each new ‘fix’, with each technology, with each new pesticide, herbicide, GM innovation, we become further removed from working in harmony with nature. Capitalism doesn’t solve its problems, it just shifts them around. And part of the great con-trick is that it attempts to pass off its endless crises and failures as brilliant successes.
→ read full articleThe Real New World Order: Bankers Taking over the World
John Kozy – Global Research,
11 Feb 2013
Until 1950, wars were fought between armies supported by nation states, and a war ended when one army surrendered. But the real new world order has emerged–the world’s downtrodden against the West and its puppet, surrogate colonial governments, which the West cannot control, that military force cannot subdue, and that concessions cannot placate. It renders military power effete. All it can now accomplish is kill for killing’s sake. Pure barbarity is what the promise of Western Civilization has been reduced to.
→ read full article“The True Story of the Bilderberg Group” and What They May Be Planning Now
Stephen Lendman – Global Research,
4 Feb 2013
A Review of Daniel Estulin’s Book
→ read full articleWho Owns the Federal Reserve?
Ellen Brown – Global Research,
4 Feb 2013
“Some people think that the Federal Reserve Banks are United States Government institutions. They are private monopolies which prey upon the people of these United States for the benefit of themselves and their foreign customers; foreign and domestic speculators and swindlers; and rich and predatory money lenders.” – The Honorable Louis McFadden, Chairman of the House Banking and Currency Committee in the 1930s.
→ read full articleWho’s Faking It? Pentagon “Cyber-Warriors” Planting “False Information on Facebook”
Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich – Global Research,
28 Jan 2013
The Los Angeles Times published an alarming piece entitled “Cyber Corps program trains spies for the digital age”. The “cyber-warriors” who are headed for organizations such as the CIA, NSC, FBI, the Pentagon and so on, are trained [among other illegalities] to stalk, sneak tracking devices on cars and plant false information on Facebook. They also are taught to write computer viruses, hack digital networks, crack passwords, plant listening devices and mine data from broken cellphones and flash drives.
→ read full articleThe Lies of Democracy and the Language of Deceit
Colin Todhunter – Global Research,
21 Jan 2013
As a recent article has indicated, from mass bombing in Southeast Asia to employing death squads in South America, the US military and the CIA have been directly and indirectly responsible for an updated figure of an estimated ten million deaths. But it’s not called mass murder these days. Ironically, the US has hijacked the word ‘terror’ to justify its brand of tyranny through a war on terror.
→ read full articleBy Design: French Mali Invasion Spills into Algeria
Tony Cartalucci – Global Research,
21 Jan 2013
Al Qaeda is both a casus belli and mercenary force, deployed by the West against targeted nations. French operations seek to trigger armed conflict in Algeria as well as a possible Western military intervention there as well, with the Mali conflict serving as a pretense.
→ read full articleViolence: The American Way of Life
John Kozy – Global Research,
14 Jan 2013
The United States of America was conceived and nurtured by violence. Americans not only engage in violence, they are entertained by it. Killing takes place in America at an average of 87 times each day. Going to war in Afghanistan is less dangerous than living in Chicago.
→ read full articleThe Cancer Cash Cycle: The Causes of Cancer and Ill Health
Colin Todhunter – Global Research,
14 Jan 2013
Cancer is big business. Despite massive public screening campaigns and talk of cures, cancer rates continue to soar, and certain companies not only profit from making the chemicals that cause cancer but also from selling the drugs that treat it.
→ read full articleWashington’s Dilemma: The “Good Terrorists” versus the “Bad Terrorists”
Dr. Ismail Salami – Global Research,
31 Dec 2012
Terrorism is terrorism and it cannot be defined otherwise unless the interests of one party tilt the scale in disfavor of another and the dichotomization of the terrorists in Syria into good and bad by the West casts doubt on its claim on democracy.
→ read full articleWhen Propaganda Masquerades as News
Prof. James F. Tracy – Global Research,
26 Nov 2012
The week-long Israeli onslaught against largely defenseless Palestinians in Gaza that began on November 14 [2012] provides a basis for assessing how Western corporate media whitewash the war crimes of America’s foremost ally in the Middle East. There are three often intertwined techniques consciously applied to such news coverage.
→ read full articleThe JFK Assassination and the Lost Prospects for Peace
Prof. James F. Tracy - Global Research,
26 Nov 2012
Report From Iron Mountain: On The Possibility and Desirability of Peace is a uniquely important document worthy of careful reconsideration a half-century after JFK’s passing. It points to not only the rationales behind the military industrial complex and its overarching influence, but perhaps more importantly how a very real discussion concerning the nation’s priorities proceeded under Kennedy’s watch—a window of possibility that was violently shut on November 22, 1963.
→ read full articleGaza and the Politics of “Greater Israel”
Nile Bowie – Global Research,
19 Nov 2012
As rocket fire hits Tel Aviv for the first time since the Gulf War, the ongoing siege of Gaza must be seen as what it is – a premeditated component of Israeli expansionism. On November 14, 2012 IDF forces assassinated a prominent Hamas military commander, Ahmed Jabari, who was allegedly in possession of a draft copy of a permanent truce agreement with Israel. The agreement included mechanisms for maintaining the cease-fire in the case of future military exchanges between Israel and the Hamas-led political factions of the Gaza Strip.
→ read full articleFighting ‘Terrorism’ or Repressing Democracy? Britain’s System of Mass Surveillance
Dr. Paul Anderson – Global Research,
19 Nov 2012
The focus of critiques of authoritarianism today lies increasingly in the use by liberal governments of ‘exceptional’ powers. These are powers in which an imminent threat to national security is judged to be of such importance as to warrant the restriction of liberties and other socially repressive measures in order to protect national security. ‘Terrorism’ has offered a particularly salient source of justification for a level of social repression that would be intolerable in normal times.
→ read full articleRetributive Warfare: Mistaking Killing and Revenge for Justice
John Kozy – Global Research,
19 Nov 2012
Much is being written both for and against America’s use of drones to assassinate anti-American combatants. Pious platitudes, legalistic niceties, and sophistical rationalizations appear to be written by the guilty to convince themselves that they are not the people evil to the marrow that they are, and the dying and the dead couldn’t care less. To them, being killed by a bullet or a bomb fired from an AK-47 or a drone makes no difference whatsoever. Dead is dead. Death cannot be sanitized by pronouncements.
→ read full articleChemtrails. The Realities of Geoengineering and Weather Modification
Prof. James F. Tracy – Global Research,
12 Nov 2012
For over a decade military and private jet aircraft have been spraying our skies with what an admixture of aluminum, barium, strontium, and other dangerous heavy metals. Such substances distributed into the atmosphere as microscopic subparticulates eventually descend to earth where they are breathed by living things and absorbed by the soil and plant life. By drawing attention away from actually existing efforts of atmospheric experimentation and manipulation, such coordinated efforts are complicit in the impending environmental catastrophe they profess to be rallying against.
→ read full articleThe Nobel War Prize – Selected Articles
Julie Lévesque – Global Research,
22 Oct 2012
The Nobel Committee did it again. The essence of its highest award, the Nobel Peace Prize, has been perverted. It’s been turned into a propaganda tool, a form of institutionalized revisionism, for which war is upheld as a peaceful endeavour, creeping alongside power struggles called “humanitarian interventions” in a fantasy tale we call history.
→ read full articleThe Gandhian Movement of Empowerment: Revolutionary Acts at the Community Level
Colin Todhunter – Global Research,
8 Oct 2012
Leprosy: Empowering Some of India’s Most Disadvantaged
→ read full articleTop Nuclear Experts: Technology Doesn’t Yet Exist to Clean Up Fukushima
Washington’s Blog – Global Research,
8 Oct 2012
Containing Fukushima Is Beyond Current Technology – World-renowned physicist Michio Kaku said recently: It will take years to invent a new generation of robots able to withstand the radiation. (The radiation inside the reactors is too hot even for robots.)
→ read full articleFrom Persuasion to Coercion: PsychoPharma’s “Priesthood of the Mind”
Prof. James F. Tracy – Global Research,
8 Oct 2012
Since the 1950s psychotropic drugs comprise the psychiatric-pharmaceutical complex’s lucrative masterstroke of public relations and marketing. Heretofore the prevalence and use of such substances have been constructed in the public mind through a conditioned cultural obeisance toward professional expertise and its amplification in advertising and related promotional discourse.
→ read full articleThe Tender Tyranny of American Liberalism Redux
Prof. James F. Tracy – Global Research,
1 Oct 2012
Liberalism itself is a synthetic creation of the power structure, a humanitarian facade behind which the dirty work of policing the world can go on uninterrupted by idealistic spasms in the body politic.
→ read full articleDollar Hegemony in the Empire of the Damned
Colin Todhunter – Global Research,
1 Oct 2012
Many commentators and economists wonder if the US is able to turn its ailing economy around. The reality is that it is bankrupt. However, as long as the dollar remains the world currency, the US can continue to pay its bills by simply printing more money. But once the world no longer accepts the dollar as world reserve currency, the US will no longer be able to continue to pay its way or to fund its wars by relying on what would then be a relatively valueless paper currency.
→ read full articleThe China Japan Dispute Over Diaoyu Islands: Historical Analysis
Chandra Muzaffar – Global Research,
1 Oct 2012
It is not a coincidence that the Japanese Right has become more vocal— especially vis-a-vis China— at a time when the United States is seeking to re-assert its presence and its power in the Asia-Pacific region. Even on the Diaoyu dispute, the US government, while professing to remain neutral, has through the Pentagon made it clear that the Japan-US Security Treaty would come into force in the event of a military conflict between Japan and China.
→ read full articleFalse Flag Terror and Conspiracies of Silence
Prof. James F. Tracy – Global Research,
20 Aug 2012
The news media’s readiness to accept official pronouncements and failure to more vigorously analyze and question government authorities in the wake of “domestic terrorist” incidents contributes to the American public’s already acute case of collective historical amnesia, while it further rationalizes the twenty-first century police state and continued demise of civil society.
→ read full articleIsraeli-US Script: Divide Syria, Divide the Rest
Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya – Global Research,
20 Aug 2012
What is happening in Syria is a sign of things to come for the region. Regime change is not the sole goal of the US and its allies in Syria. Dividing the Syrian Arab Republic is the end goal of Washington in Syria. Britain’s Maplecroft, which specializes in consulting on strategic risk, has said that we are witnessing the balkanization of the Syrian state: “Kurds in the north, Druze in the southern hills, Alawites in the coastal northwestern mountainous region and the Sunni majority elsewhere.”
→ read full articleThe Syrian Intelligence War: A Tale of Two Security Headquarters
Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya – Global Research,
13 Aug 2012
Syria is currently the scene of a cold war between the US, NATO, Israel, and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) on one side and Russia, China, Iran, and the Resistance Bloc on the other hand. Amidst the fighting between the Syrian government and anti-government forces, an intense intelligence war has also been taking place.
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