By Jacob Levich | CounterPunch | February 14, 2020 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the celebrity who moonlights as my Congressional representative, has repeatedly claimed to speak for “ordinary people,” but she refuses listen to them, even if they are constituents. In late November, shortly after the US-backed military coup that unseated the legitimate president of Bolivia, I […]
The UN couldn’t help Haiti recover from an earthquake. But it’s gonna rescue the planet. This graphic accompanies the UNESCO editorial. Read it online here; download it here By Donna Laframboise | Big Picture News | February 19, 2020 UNESCO is supposed to be about cultural preservation. Toward the end of last year, its in-house […]
‘We weren’t keeping inventory’ By Nebojsa Malic | RT | February 20, 2020 US weapons worth some $715 million dollars were warehoused poorly and soldiers handling them did not keep receipts or records, so it’s impossible to tell how many, if any, ended up in wrong hands, the Pentagon says. Supply units in Kuwait and elsewhere […]
The British military has several specialised propaganda and information warfare units, the largest of which is the Berkshire-based 77th Brigade Press TV – February 19, 2020 The extent of the British government’s involvement in sophisticated propaganda campaigns in Syria appears to have been under-estimated. In an exclusive report, the London-based Middle East Eye (MEE – […]
By Robert Bridge | Strategic Culture Foundation | February 19, 2020 Rhodes Scholar. Afghan vet. Mayor. An impressive resume, to be sure, but to have made the fantastic leap from local politics to the doorstep of the Oval Office – at the age of just 38 – seems altogether impossible without some serious behind-the-scenes connections. […]
Sputnik – February 18, 2020 Leaked papers pertaining to the finalised JIT investigation that the source has bona fide reason to believe are authentic do not corroborate the study’s findings. They cite witness testimonies as well as a number of discrepancies in the probe that suggest the Boeing was downed by an air-to-air missile, rather […]
MEMO | February 18, 2020 A Tel Aviv court ordered Facebook Inc to unblock the private account of a worker at Israeli surveillance company NSO Group, and similar rulings are expected for other employees in the coming days, an NSO spokeswoman said on Tuesday. A group of NSO employees filed suit against Facebook in November, saying the social media giant had unfairly blocked their private accounts when it sued NSO in October. Facebook-owned messaging service WhatsApp accused the Israeli firm of […]
By Michael Pile | Quadrant | February 18, 2020 Have you ever wondered how to play the Climate Game, or game the climate? If so, look no further than a remote research station on the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, a submarine-shaped office tower on Geneva’s Avenue de la Paix and an international media […]
By Helen Buyniski | RT | February 17, 2020 The same issues that led to the Democratic debacle in Iowa earlier this month are poised to make next week’s vote in Nevada equally hellish – yet party leaders seem unwilling to connect the dots or recognize the problem. Early voters in Nevada have already faced […]
By Helen Buyniski | Helen of DesTroy | February 16, 2020 Over half a billion people visit Wikipedia every day. The site enjoys top billing in Google search results, and has all the trappings of a reliable source. It’s an encyclopedia, after all – like Britannica, it’s expected to have accurate, trustworthy, unbiased information. But […]
