TAIZ, YEMEN — Beyond the devastation it has caused on the back of tens of thousands of airstrikes, a crippling blockade and the intentional targeting of civilian infrastructure, the Saudi-led coalition supported by the United States has sparked an outbreak of disease and epidemics in Yemen in a...
In his 2007 classic “Deer Hunting With Jesus: Dispatches from America’s Class War”—a book that, in the age of Donald Trump, is more relevant than ever—Joe Bageant makes an observation that cuts to the nub of the matter. America, he says, isn’t composed of some great middle class; it is an...
Stealing the best producers, telling your kids memes and burning down the news + this day in history w/the Max Headroom broadcast signal intrusion and our song of the day by Luna on your Morning Monarchy for November 22, 2019.
If you really think of it, there’s nothing new about trade wars, as they would be used time and again against those governments that other powers want to undermine. However, not unlike with regular wars, such strategies may result in totally unexpected results. Moreover, those counter-...
By Laurent Guyénot • Unz Review • November 22, 2019 I first heard of the so-called “Umbrella Man” from a commenter to my unz.com article “Did Israel Kill the Kennedys?” (thanks again). It is one of the most puzzling pieces in the JFK assassination file. An intriguing introduction to it is this...
The second season of the big budget series Jack Ryan has just debuted across multiple platforms. Described as “the huge hit that Amazon has been hoping for,” the series follows the story of an eponymous CIA agent as he attempts to overthrow ruthless Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Reyes. Reyes, we...
Social media is full of memes making fun of PSD’s candidate, Viorica Dancila. Indeed, she has committed a great many blunders – her casual use of cacophonies, in particular, is by now legendary – just like her 180 degree turn on the Romanian Deep State. Dancila was saying that a Deep...
By Edward Curtin | November 22, 2019 There is a vast literature on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, who died on a November 22nd Friday like this in 1963. I have contributed my small share to such writing in an effort to tell the truth, honor him, and emphasize its profound...
As political theatre goes, this one takes the biscuit – but not for its compelling drama and anticipation of justice. Rather, this one is pure Vaudeville pantomime.
In EP 302 of the SUNDAY WIRE radio show, host Patrick Henningsen speaks with author and political analyst, George Szamuely,...
While the impeachment inquiry keeps chugging along in the House, there is also always Congress' regular, less glamorous but important work to get done. Wednesday, for example, California Congressman Mark DeSaulnier introduced a resolution to consider H.R. 1309, a bill to "direct the...
By Jacob G. Hornberger | FFF | November 22, 2019 Fifty-six years ago today, President John F. Kennedy was shot dead on the streets of Dallas, Texas. The official story is that a lone nut named Lee Harvey Oswald, without any motive, committed the assassination. During the past several decades,...
#epstein #impeachment #extinctionrebellion The boiler room gathers to discuss the b00mer soap opera of Trump Impeachmints, the collapse of Prince Andrew and more madness in the diet world and new cults being formed each day. Alternate Current Radio Presents: BOILER ROOM –...
The “OK Boomer” meme has exploded. Although I understand the concerns of those who use it (I am a 23-year-old Gen-Zer after all), I choose not to use the phrase. Here are three reasons why.
Political and social upheavals are happening across the globe, and in particular in South America. One of the largest to date has been the unprecedented public awakening in Chile.
In EP 302 of the SUNDAY WIRE radio show, host Patrick Henningsen speaks with author and filmmaker Andre...
Facing increased resistance to its rule, the new “transition” government of Jeanine Añez in Bolivia has begun to purge and censor potential threats to its authority, including in the media. TeleSUR, an international media network that began as a collaboration between left-wing Latin American...
I am writing from Bolivia just days after witnessing the November 19 military massacre at the Senkata gas plant in the indigenous city of El Alto, and the tear-gassing of a peaceful funeral procession on November 21 to commemorate the dead. These are examples, unfortunately, of the modus...
Le néocolonialisme est un système de domination économique et culturelle sur les anciennes colonies.
Bien que le Niger soit l'un des plus importants producteurs d'uranium au monde, il figure dans les derniers de la planète en matière de développement humain (source ONU). L'oignon...
Le néocolonialisme est un système de domination économique et culturelle sur les anciennes colonies.
Bien que le Niger soit l'un des plus importants producteurs d'uranium au monde, il figure dans les derniers de la planète en matière de développement humain (source ONU). L'oignon...
Sputnik – November 22, 2019 Mauritian Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth has branded Britain an illegal colonial occupier after the country failed to meet a UN deadline to hand over an overseas territory to Mauritius, a former British colony in the Indian Ocean, BBC reported. The country claims it...
Germany Did Not Start World War II
Paul Craig Roberts
This is the second installment of Ron Unz’s long report on the emergent truth about World War II. (http://www.unz.com/runz/american-pravda-understanding-world-war-ii/) Unz has a facility for summarizing vast works of...
[audio mp3="http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/qfc046.mp3"][/audio] In this first edition of the new, bite-sized weekly edition of Questions For Corbett, Rick asks if The WWI Conspiracy is available on DVD yet.
Under the program, the US Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve Bank issued billions of dollars in highly favorable loans to 177 companies, many were well-connected insiders, that agreed to buy bonds that banks were struggling to offload, including college and auto loans.
The Israeli election process, like a bad soap opera, has been going on for many months now with no end in sight, and precisely like a poorly made soap opera, the squabbling, blaming, threatening, scare tactics and mudslinging have lead to nothing.
The Boss
Israeli Prime Minister...
I am writing from Bolivia just days after witnessing the November 19 military massacre at the Senkata gas plant in the indigenous city of El Alto, and the tear-gassing of a peaceful funeral procession on November 21 to commemorate the dead. These are examples, unfortunately, of the modus...
By Lucas Koerner | Venezuelanalysis | November 21, 2019 Senior Colombian diplomats discussed strategies for regime change in Venezuela in a leaked audio published by Colombian news site Publimetro on Wednesday. Speaking in a Washington DC cafe, Colombian Foreign Minister Claudia Blum and...
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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
British writers on peace and war
Women writers on peace and war
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Jane Wilde
From The Dawn
“Each bears a symbol, glorious in its meaning,
Holy as the music of the crown’d...
[Prefatory Note: What follows is a slightly modified interview conducted by Daniel Falcone on the theme of ‘The Renewal of Violence—Gaza/Israel’ in Jacobin, Nov. 2019. This latest cycle of transborder violence initiated by a targeted assassination of a well-known military commander in Islamic...
“We are next to none in our love for humanity. Far from having any malice against any individual, we hold human life sacred beyond words. We are neither perpetrators of dastardly outrages, nor, therefore, a disgrace to the country […]” This was the statement by Bhagat Singh and B K Dutta in the...
BC stands for NEO’s Banned Classic. This article was originally published by our journal on 30.11.17. For some reason, this article is missing from Google search results. Since this article remains pretty relevant to those...
To get the most out of reading Meditations, do as Aurelius did: Examine your reactions to your day-to-day experiences.
L'abandon de l'idée de Frexit par le Rassemblement national, et son recentrage sur ses thèmes identitaires traditionnels, pourrait-il décomplexer la gauche sur la question européenne ? Une politique de rupture avec l'UE est-elle forcément incompatible avec la tradition internationaliste de la...
L'abandon de l'idée de Frexit par le Rassemblement national, et son recentrage sur ses thèmes identitaires traditionnels, pourrait-il décomplexer la gauche sur la question européenne ? Une politique de rupture avec l'UE est-elle forcément incompatible avec la tradition internationaliste de la...
“A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.”
― Alexander Solzhenitsyn
In EP 302 of the SUNDAY WIRE radio show, host Patrick Henningsen gives an ‘Ode to Uncle Joe’… Joe Stalin that is. Last week saw one of the most abominable moments in the history of American...
Yesterday, NPR’s podcast Marketplace released a new episode titled How Chinese censorship changed “Top Gun” (and the rest of Hollywood)....
There is a vast literature on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, who died on a November 22nd Friday like this in 1963. I have contributed my small share to such writing in an effort to tell the truth, honor him, and emphasize its profound importance in understanding the history of...
VIB falsely claims that individual academic supporters for de-regulation of gene editing represent their entire institutes
As 21WIRE has reported in previously, the indiscriminate shelling of residential areas in Aleppo by US-backed Al-Qaeda militants has intensified in recent weeks.
As the Syrian Arab Army and its allies move ahead towards the liberation of Al-Qaeda’s last remaining stronghold in the Idlib...
The Green New Deal resolution-- (H.Res.109) is not a bill that funds anything or specifically passes any legislation; it's a resolution calling for "the creation of a Green New Deal with the goals of..."
• achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions;
• establishing...
Patrick COCKBURN
The alleged bid by the British government and army to close down investigations into torture and murder in Iraq and Afghanistan appears to be the latest aspect of a widespread desire in the UK to forget all about these failed wars. Joining the US-led invasion of Iraq in...
The Duran’s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss the reasons behind Sweden’s decision to close its rape investigation into Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.
Swedish prosecutors said that the evidence against him is not strong enough for an indictment,...
YADAM dévoile son premier clip intitulé YADAM dans lequel il dévoile son histoire et son exil, et annonce le EP Safeplace. Nous l'avions découvert dans ‘Nouvelle Star' où il a atteint la finale. Il se dévoile à nous avec le single “Yadam” écrit avec David Assaraf. Dans ce titre, YADAM évoque...
YADAM dévoile son premier clip intitulé YADAM dans lequel il dévoile son histoire et son exil, et annonce le EP Safeplace. Nous l'avions découvert dans ‘Nouvelle Star' où il a atteint la finale. Il se dévoile à nous avec le single “Yadam” écrit avec David Assaraf. Dans ce titre, YADAM évoque...
New review calls for controlled studies examining effects of equivalent organic and non-organic wholefood diets
“Man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life. And yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe….”
President Kennedy, 1961 Inaugural Address
Where China...
People in thousands joined in protests in Chile on Monday (November 18). It marked the first month of the most serious public protests against neo-liberal policies in recent time in Chile. The protests show the people’s distrust of the social agenda the government announced, and the...
Reasoning will never make a Man correct an ill Opinion, which by Reasoning he never acquired.
(Often rephrased as: “You cannot reason people out of something they were not reasoned into”).
– Jonathan Swift
This site has attracted a large stable of writers; by and large, most...
Why is the Hindu media, newspapers and news channels so gung-ho over All India Muslim Personal Law Board ( AIMPLB)-the prime most Muslim body in the nation, deciding to file Review in the judgement of Ramjamanbhumi/Babri Masjid, Ayodhya, Faizabad, UP case of Nov 9, in which the site where...
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