By Gearóid Ó Colmáin | American Herald Tribune | April 27, 2016 Since the re-election on the 20th of March of President Denis Sassou-Nguesso for a controversial third term, the government of the Republic of Congo has been criticised by the international community for its alleged bombing of ‘civilian neighborhoods’, following post-election terrorist attacks in […]
RT | April 22, 2016 A former CIA officer, now residing in Portugal, faces extradition to Italy after her alleged involvement in the kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric, Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, otherwise known as Abu Omar, in Milan 13 years ago, The Washington Post reported. An Italian court convicted Sabrina De Sousa, 60, in […]
RT | April 22, 2016 Former detainees tortured by the CIA at the agency’s notorious black sites are suing the psychologists hired to help design the controversial enhanced interrogation program, accusing them of enabling “war crimes” and “human experimentation.” The psychologists, James Elmer Mitchell and John “Bruce” Jessen, will appear in federal court in Spokane, […]
By James DiEugenio | Consortium News | April 22, 2016 In the mid-1960s, amid growing skepticism about the Warren Commission’s lone-gunman findings on John F. Kennedy’s assassination, there was a struggle inside CBS News about whether to allow the critics a fair public hearing at the then-dominant news network. Some CBS producers pushed for a debate […]
By Gearóid Ó Colmáin | American Herald Tribune | April 17, 2016 In his novel ‘Journey to the end of the night’ Louis-Ferdinand Céline provocatively described the soldiers who had died in the First World War as ‘idiots’. The French writer was referring to the fact the soldiers had given their lives for a cause that was […]
Sputnik | April 14, 2016 The Syrian ceasefire is hanging in the balance, former Republican congressman Ron Paul and political analyst Daniel McAdams note in their Liberty Report; however, Washington continues to push ahead with its military program aimed at training and arming the so-called Syrian rebels. To complicate matters further, there is enough evidence that the moderates have repeatedly […]
By Jonathan Marshall | Consortium News | April 13, 2016 “[Russia] is conducting an intensive propaganda campaign directed primarily against the US and is employing coordinated psychological, political and economic measures . . . The ultimate object of this campaign is not merely to undermine the prestige of the US and the effectiveness of its […]
Press TV – April 13, 2016 The United States and its regional allies have prepared plans to supply more-powerful weapons to militants fighting the Syrian government, amid concerns that a landmark ceasefire is threatening to fall apart. US officials said the so-called Plan B is aimed at providing vetted “moderate” militant units with weapons system […]
Coercive Engineered Migration: Zionism’s War on Europe (Part 11 of an 11 Part Series) By Gearóid Ó Colmáin | Dissident Voice | April 11, 2016 During the 1920s General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Josef Stalin formulated what he considered to be the essential contribution of Lenin to Marxist political economy. […]
teleSUR – March 31, 2016 As the possibility of a new threat against democracy looms over Brazil in the form of an unlawful impeachment against leftist President Dilma Rousseff, Brazilians remember a coup that kicked off a brutal 20-year-long military dictatorship. Similar military coups would follow in Bolivia, Chile, Uruguay, and Argentina. Together with the […]
